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Archive - Mar 15, 2011

ACLU Asks for Review of Cuba Travel Ban

<p style="text-align: justify;">Daily Business Review. March 15, 2011. The American Civil Liberties Union of Florida has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review the constitutionality of a state law banning public universities from using any funds for research and travel to Cuba.The ACLU, representing the faculty of Florida International University and other professors, is appealing a ruling by the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which reversed a 2006 decision by U.S. District Judge Patricia Seitz in Miami declaring the law unconstitutional. Read More

Cuba ready to assist Japan

<p style="text-align: justify;">HAVANA, March 15 (RIA Novosti) 10:45 15/03/2011. Cuban authorities said they were ready to send a team of doctors and rescuers to assist in rescue efforts in earthquake-stricken Japan, Cuba's AIN news agency reported on Tuesday.Cuban Ambassador to Japan Jose Fernandez de Cossio also said all Cubans currently in Japan were ready to render any necessary aid. Read More

Cuban Central Province Increases Honey Production

<p style="text-align: justify;">2011.03.14 - 17:20:12 / radiorebelde.Honey Production.SANTA CLARA, Cuba. - By the end of February, apiarists from the central Cuban province of Villa Clara exceeded the amount of honey colleted last year, in that same period, by 76 tons. Read More

International Weightlifting tournament Starts in Cuba

<p style="text-align: justify;">2011.03.14 - 17:16:51 / radiorebelde.MATANZAS, Cuba. - The XXX international Manuel Suarez in Memoriam Weightlifting tournament begins today in the western Cuban city of Cardenas, located 130 kilometers east of Havana city. Read More

Cuban Chess Players Doing Great in Chess Tournament in Spain

<p style="text-align: justify;">2011.03.14 - 18:46:05 / radiorebelde.Cuban Chess Players Doing Great in Chess Tournament in Spain HAVANA, Cuba. - The Cuban chess players participating in the Honor Division of the Chess Tournament of Cataluña, Spain, achieved two triumphs and two draws.According to the website of the tournament, the Cuban Yuniesky Quesada –with the Barbera team– defeated host Orestes Rodríguez thus contributing to taking down the Barcelona CE team 8-2. Read More

Like oil and water in the gulf

<p style="text-align: justify;">By Sarah Stephens. March 14, 2011.As Cuba explores for oil in the Gulf of Mexico, the U.S. embargo could hurt both countries. Cooperation and engagement, however, could benefit American firms and protect the environment.Cuba and its foreign partners will begin exploring for oil this year in the Gulf of Mexico. Read More

Spain celebrates Latin American liberation with bicentenary films

<p style="text-align: justify;">Cinematic collaboration presents stories of the greatest colonial rebels to new generation of film-goers. Rory Carroll in Caracas. guardian.co.uk, Monday 14 March 2011 19.27 GMT. The story of José Artigas, the father of Uruguay's independence, is just one of the liberation sagas to be retold.Photograph: Germán Luongo/Libertadores. Read More

AP names reporters in Haiti and Cuba, expands Spanish translation staff

<p style="text-align: justify;">By The Associated Press, Monday, March 14. MEXICO CITY — The Associated Press has appointed Trenton Daniel, a former reporter for The Miami Herald, as its correspondent in Haiti, and has named Peter Orsi, an editor on its Latin America regional news desk, to its bureau in Havana. Read More

Cuba Just Got a Little More Libre

<p style="text-align: justify;">Monday, 14 Mar 2011. By: Kelley Holland. Currency Blogger, CNBC.com. Havana, Cuba. The Ministry of the Interior located in the Plaza de la Revolucion.Cuba has devalued its two types of peso by eight percent. Tourists, c'mon down! Read More

Cuban art exhibit at The von Liebig contains witty works by Eduardo Abela Torras

<p style="text-align: justify;">March 14th, 2011. Last Friday night, The von Liebig Art Center held a reception to mark the opening of its “Cuba on My Mind” exhibition. The exhibit celebrates Cuban and Cuban-American art and artists and consists of paintings, photography and mixed media pieces culled from public and private collections as well as a small number of works that are for sale.Eduardo Miguel Abela Torras is one of the artists who attended Friday night’s reception and the ribbon cutting ceremony the day before. Abela and his vivacious wife traveled from Havana to be part of the festivities.&nbsp; Read More