Reform On The Range: Cubans Heed The Call To Farm

<p style="text-align: justify;">September 21, 2010. Cuba has miles and miles of fertile, lush countryside where nothing is growing or grazing. After five decades of state-controlled agriculture, the country struggles to feed itself, forcing the government to import some 70 percent of the island's food. Read More

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U.S. lawmaker still hopes to relax Cuba policy

<p style="text-align: justify;">WASHINGTON | Mon Sep 20, 2010 3:13pm EDT.WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Advocates of easing restrictions on travel and trade with Cuba have not given up on legislation this year, the chairman of the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee said on Monday. Read More

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Why reconciliation succeeded with Viet Nam but is Failing with Cuba?

<p style="text-align: justify;">Twenty years passed between the end of the war in Vietnam and establishment of normal relations by President Bill Clinton. In the interim the U.S. maintained a unilateral economic embargo and sought fruitlessly to diplomatically isolate a country that had grievously wounded our pride and caused tens of thousands of war time casualties. Yet today we are Vietnam's largest export market, a major source of foreign investment and second only to China as a source of tourists. Presidents, prime ministers, secretaries of state and foreign ministers make regular warm visits to each other's capital. Read More

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New Plant of Therapeutic Monoclonal Antibodies to Begin Production Soon in Havana

<p style="text-align: justify;">HAVANA, Cuba, Sept 20 (acn) A new plant to produce therapeutic monoclonal antibodies will soon begin operations in Havana after a successful construction stage. Read More

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On the World Baseball Classic Previews

<p style="text-align: justify;">The capital player Rudy Reyes Erice became the preset 34 Cuban player to attend the next World Baseball Qualifying Competition to be held in Puerto Rico. The call is intended to reinforce the work of preparation in the terrain, especially around the shortstop. Those aspiring to integrate the Cuban team to this event, which will receive other 12 squads, returned to training this Friday. Read More

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Millennium Goals: In the Final Stretch

<p style="text-align: justify;">Leaders from 140 countries are arriving to New York since Saturday to give a decisive boost to fulfilling the Millennium Development Goals, set 10 years ago to be met by 2015. Advances until now and difficulties that threaten the achievement of those goals will be the main issue of the UN summit which meets here from Monday to Wednesday. Read More

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CHRONOLOGY: Road to reform in Cuba

<p style="text-align: justify;">Published September 20, 2010. HAVANA (Reuters) - The pace of economic reform is picking up in Communist Cuba with the announcement last week that 500,000 state jobs will be shifted to the private sector. Read More

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Cuba summons workers to explain coming layoffs

<p style="text-align: justify;">Monday September 20, 2010, 2:32 pm. HAVANA (AP) -- Cuba is calling workers across the island to special meetings so labor leaders can brief them on half a million government layoffs coming in the next six months and suggest ways that those fired can make a living. Read More

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BLOOMBERG: Cuba Fires Industries Min for Inefficiency, Failure to Lure Investment

<p style="text-align: justify;">Sep 20, 2010 8:58 AM PT. Cuban President Raul Castro replaced the island's minister of basic industries,citing mismanagement and a failure to attract investment. Read More

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Cuban FM Participates in Event to Commemorate Fidel Castro-Malcolm X Meeting in New York

<p style="text-align: justify;">HAVANA, Cuba, Sept 20 (acn) Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez participated on Sunday in an event to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the meeting between the leader of the Cuban Revolution Fidel Castro and US black civil rights activist Malcom X at the Theresa Hotel in New York. Read More

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