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Archive - Oct 8, 2011

Dissident Laura Pollan's health condition compromised

<p style="text-align: justify;">By Associated Press. October 8, 2011. HAVANA (AP) Associates of the founder of Cuba's Ladies in White dissident group say she has been hospitalized and is in serious but stable condition.Founder of Cuba's Ladies in White, Laura Pollan, hospitalized for acute respiratory problems. Read More

Leo Brouwer's music conquers US's audience

<p style="text-align: justify;">By: Jorge Petinaud Martinez.October 8. 2011. Havana, (PL). – In an exclusive interview to Prensa Latina, via e-mail, the director of Cuarteto de Cuerdas de La Habana, who also won a Cubadisco last year, for the Brouwer work for that format, said that the record astonished the United States. The United States specialized critic is delighted with the discovery of the Leo Brouwer, composer of quartet, assured the Cuban violin player Jorge Hernandez, winner of a 2010 Latino Grammy, during a trip from Philadelphia to New York. Read More

Cuba- Viet Nam's new programs include investment in the Asian nation

<p style="text-align: justify;">Sat, October 8, 2011. Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung receives Cuban Minister of Foreign Trade and Investment Rodrigo Malmierca Diaz.&nbsp; Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung requested Cuba to step up co-operation and investment in Vietnam while receiving Cuban Minister of Foreign Trade and Investment Rodrigo Malmierca Diaz in Hanoi on October 7. He asked Cuba to continue to create favourable conditions for Vietnamese firms to co-operate and invest in Cuba. Read More

Chavez invites oil countries to form part of a future int.organization

<p style="text-align: justify;">Caracas, Oct 8 (Prensa Latina) Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez, launched an invitation to create a new international organization, apart from the existing ones, that would bring together the countries considered oil giants. The president referred briefly to this issue this weekend, when he spoke in the act of registration of social organizations in the Great Patriotic Pole, held at Miraflores Palace, venue of the presidency of the Venezuelan State. Read More

Alarcon to be at the Sixth Regional Meeting of Solidarity with Cuba Forum

<p style="text-align: justify;">2011.10.07 - 12:59:37. radiorebelde.icrt.cu. HAVANA, Cuba.-The regional meeting is attended by representatives from 25 countries, according to ICAP’s president, who announced that the forum will ratify the demand for the freedom of Rene Gonzalez, Antonio Guerrero, Fernando Gonzalez, Gerardo Hernandez and Ramon Labañino, who were unfairly arrested and condemned for trying to prevent criminal plans against the Cuban people, organized from the US. Read More

SMS sent to Cuban mobiles is US Cyber Warfare

<p style="text-align: justify;">Havana, October 6 (KCNA) -- A U.S. federal institution in charge of radio broadcasting services will undertake the task, it said, adding that anti-Cuban radio broadcasting services are included.Prensa Latina of Cuba on Sunday exposed the U.S. plan for cyber warfare against cell phone users of Cuba. Read More

Baseball World Cup with four triumphant teams

<p style="text-align: justify;">Santiago de Veraguas, Panama, Oct 7 (Prensa Latina) The baseball teams of Canada, Panama, and the Netherlands in the competition group A, and also Cuba in group B, on Friday are already qualified for the second round of the 2011 IBAF World Cup, held in various cities of the country. Canadian, Dutch, and host baseball players head the competition group A with four wins and any defeat, while being virtually unassailable for the rest of the teams. Read More

Tampa-Holguín flights now possible with ABC Charters

<p style="text-align: justify;">The once-a-week flights will be leaving Tuesdays, in addition to a weekly Tampa-Havana flight the Miami-based company has been offering since September.ABC Charters will offer flights from Tampa to the eastern city of Holguín, company owner Tessie Aral told Cuba Standard. In July, Tampa International Airport received permission from U.S. Customs to offer charter flights to Havana. An estimated 140,000 Cuban Americans live within a two-hour drive from Tampa. Read More

Vietnam setting up two biogas facilities at Las Tunas eastern region of Cuba

<p style="text-align: justify;">The Hanoi-based Biogas Technology Center is setting up two midsize biogas generators in Cuba, official news agency ACN reported. Vietnam, which established a comprehensive infrastructure at home with 2 million micro-size and thousands of larger digesters, has provided Cuba with biogas know-how since 2003, and the two generators are part of a larger program, Duan Thi Hai, an engineer with the Vietnamese group told the conference. Vietnam has already donated at least four biogas generators in Las Tunas and Matanzas province, according to local newspaper Tiempo 21. Read More

Direct flights between Key West and Cuba approved

<p style="text-align: justify;">By Mary Beth Wilson. NBCMIAMI.com. 10/7/2011. Custom approves Key West to Cuba flights. Under a U.S. trade embargo, tourist travel to Cuba from the U.S. has been prohibited and direct flights were available only at Miami International Airport. But in March, following the easing of travel restrictions by President Barack Obama, customs officials began allowing direct flights for approved travelers from Tampa International Airport and Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood, and several others are following suit. Read More