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Archive - Mar 6, 2011

U.S. contractor found guilty in Cuba trial

<p style="text-align: justify;">Sat, Mar 5 2011. HAVANA, March 5 (Reuters) - U.S. aid contractor Alan Gross, accused of illegally supplying Internet gear to Cuban dissidents, was found guilty on Saturday of crimes against the state, Cuban television reported, and faces a possible 20-year sentence in a case likely to worsen U.S.-Cuba relations. Read More

Joint spill planning

<p style="text-align: justify;">Mar 7, 2011. As Cuba and The Bahamas develop their deepwater oil and natural gas potential, the possibility of an accidental oil spill demands proactive joint planning by both countries and the US in order to minimize or avoid such a disaster in a spirit of cooperation and not confrontation in order to protect our fragile shared marine environment.A model for such planning can be the MEXUS Plan signed by the US and Mexico in 1980 in response to the 1979 blowout of the Ixtoc I exploratory well and consequent spill in the Bay of Campeche. Read More

Cuba set to vaccinate 500,000 children against polio

<p style="text-align: justify;">March 4, 2011. Over half a million Cuban children will receive a vaccination against polio during the 50 National Polio Vaccination Campaign, which will run in Cuba from March 4 through March 10 and from April 22 to April 28.Cuba began the first campaign of this kind in 1962. Since then, Cuba Headlines reports, the country has administered 79 million doses of polio vaccine so that the population of the country under the age of 62 is protected against the disease. Before the time of the revolution, polio was a serious health problem in Cuba. Read More

Port, ferry operators want to run a slow boat to Cuba

<p style="text-align: justify;">Washington Bureau. 10:07 p.m. EST, March 5, 2011. WASHINGTON — Imagine boarding a deluxe ferry boat at Port Everglades or the Port of Tampa one evening, settling into a cabin or a reclining chair and sailing into Havana harbor as the sun rises the next morning, all for $150 to $300 roundtrip.Florida port officials are planning for this tantalizing prospect, while ferry operators push the Obama administration to allow them to make it a reality.For thousands of Cuban-Americans and other passengers scrambling for seats on charter flights to Cuba, ferry service would be a cheaper new way to get themselves and lots of luggage to the island. Read More

Cuba trial of U.S. contractor ends but no verdict yet

<p style="text-align: justify;">HAVANA (Reuters) – The trial of U.S. aid contractor Alan Gross for crimes against the Cuban state ended on Saturday after two days of testimony, but judges were still mulling the verdict, a U.S. official said.Gross, 61, faces up to 20 years in prison if convicted for his work in a U.S. program to increase opposition to Cuba's one-party government. Read More

Cuba's Music and the Septeto Nacional Ignacio Piñeiro

<p style="text-align: justify;">If you like tropical music, that is the sound of the Caribbean, you'll love the sound of this seven-piece band,&nbsp; Septeto Nacional Ignacio Piñeiro de Cuba. The band was formed more than 80 years ago and has gone through some changes and&nbsp; transitions, but still holds true to the sound of Cuba. Read More

Cuban Ambassador Meets with African Union Commissioners

<p style="text-align: justify;">HAVANA, Cuba, Mar 5 (acn) Cuban ambassador to Ethiopia, Clara Pulido, met in Addis Ababa with commissioners of the African Union (AU), during which they analyzed possible fields of cooperation between that organization and the Caribbean island. Read More

Cubans Save More Haitians Infected with Cholera

<p style="text-align: justify;">2011.03.05 - 12:57:40 /radiorebelde.Cubans Save More Haitians Infected with Cholera. Havana, Cuba.- The work carried out in Haiti by the Cuban Henry Reeve Medical Brigade has represented saving the lives of over 1,100 citizens of that small and impoverished nation, now affected by cholera. Read More

The ALBA Foreign Ministers Debate on Situation in Libya

<p style="text-align: justify;">2011.03.05 - 08:55:11 / radiorebelde.The ALBA Foreign Ministers Debate on Situation in Libya. Havana, Cuba.- The search for a peaceful solution to the political conflict in Libya was the main focus of debates on Friday during the meeting of Foreign Ministers of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas (ALBA). Read More

Cinema Helps One Understand Life, Reality, Spanish Filmmaker says

<p style="text-align: justify;">Miami, March 4 (IANS/EFE) Cinema fulfils the "need for fiction" that is inherent in human beings and helps them "better understand life and reality", Spanish filmmaker Fernando Trueba has said."Writers and filmmakers, with their stories, have enabled us to better understand human beings," Trueba said during the presentation of his animated feature "Chico &amp; Rita" in Miami.The director, whose 1992 movie "Belle Epoque" won the Oscar for the best foreign language film, said he had the "sense that this film ought to come to Miami because of its large Hispanic and Cuban population". Read More