Five Cuban National Ballet dancers decide to stay in Canada

<p style="text-align: justify;">By Victor Swoboda, Postmedia News March 1, 2011 12:02 PM. The Montreal Gazette — A principal dancer with the Cuban National Ballet, Elier Bourzac, is one of five company members who declined to return home with the troupe after its triumphant first appearance in Montreal last month. Read More

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Cuba and the United States, Will They Ever Be Friends?

<p style="text-align: justify;">League of Women Voters Host Speaker Thursday.Have you thought much about Cuba lately? Maybe you heard that sugar will no longer be subsidized in that country. But how much do you know about our close neighbor to the south? The League of Women Voters and the American Association of University Women are joining forces to bring Dr. Alberto Coll to Lake Forest at 7 p.m. Thursday at the Lake Forest-Lake Bluff Senior Center, 100 E. Old Mill Road. Read More

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Cuban coffee recovers after calamity

<p style="text-align: justify;">2/3/2011: The Cuban media has reported that their coffee industry is recovering after a tropical storm damaged crops in October last year. The country has announced a target of 6,700 tons of semi-processed coffee beans for 2011, having already harvested almost 2,700 tons in Santiago de Cuba – the country’s most productive coffee-producing area.The socialist nation – which loves its coffee as much as it does its cigars – suffered a major decline in its coffee output. Read More

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Creole choir of Cuba really hails from Haiti

<p style="text-align: justify;">AMY EDWARDS. 02 Mar, 2011 04:00 AM.The singers behind the Creole Choir of Cuba share more than beautiful voices, they share history.This vibrant 10-piece group, five men and five women, hail from Camagüey, Cuba’s third-largest city, but are originally from Haiti.They tell the stories of their Haitian ancestors who were brought to Cuba to work in slave-like conditions in the sugar and coffee plantations. Read More

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