Cuba touts economic reforms at May Day parade

<p style="text-align: justify;">By Jeff Franks. HAVANA (Reuters) – Hundreds of thousands of Cubans paraded through Havana's Revolution Square on Sunday in a May Day celebration that touted recently approved economic reforms in one of the world's last communist countries.Workers wore red shirts and waved red flags as they filed through the vast plaza, where first vice president Jose Ramon Machado Ventura and other officials looked on from a podium beneath a giant statue of Cuban independence hero Jose Marti. Read More

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Retracing Hemingway’s steps in Cuba

<p style="text-align: justify;">By Janice Law. Contributor. Published May 1, 2011. COJIMAR, Cuba — “Everything about him was old except his eyes and they were the same color as the sea and were cheerful and undefeated. He no longer dreamed of storms, nor of women, nor of great occurrences, nor of great fish, nor fights, nor contests of strength, nor of his wife. He only dreamed of places now and of the lions on the beach.” Read More

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Reader travelogue: Why Cuba?

<p style="text-align: justify;">"Why are you going to Cuba?" several friends asked. Why, indeed? Because I love the country, the culture, and the people, and I have had a research interest in Cuban literature for almost 40 years, but it has been 20 years since my last visit to the island.It was, therefore, with great enthusiasm that I signed up for a trip with the Librarians The tour was arranged by Marazul, a New Jersey agency, in consultation with the Center for Cuban Studies in New York, and in cooperation with ICAP, the Cuban Institute for Friendship With the People. We were traveling under a general license for full-time professionals conducting research in their fields. Read More

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The Pan-American Health Organization Praises Cuba’s Immunization System

<p style="text-align: justify;">Health Organization (PAHO), asserted on Friday that Cuba has a high quality immunization program, due to its total vaccination coverage and to the care and love with which it’s carried out.During the establishment of the National Committee of Experts for the Documentation and Verification of the Elimination of Measles, German measles and the Congenital Rubella Syndrome in The Americas, the expert expressed his admiration for the island’s efforts to protect children. Read More

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Cuban Biopharmaceutical Industry Extolled

<p style="text-align: justify;">2011.04.29 - 22:20:46 / radiorebelde.icrt.cu. Havana, Cuba.- Cuban biopharmaceutical industry stands out for its strict observance of regulations established to guarantee maximum quality and rigor in the production of medicaments, vaccines and other lines.These were the words of Dr. Elizabeth Martinez, general director of the Mexican Group Terrafarma, dedicated to training and consultancy for the pharmaceutical and biotechnological industries in Latin America. Read More

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World Peace Council Extolls Fidel Castro’s Peace Efforts

<p style="text-align: justify;">Fidel Castro was granted on Friday the Olive of Peace by the World Peace Council , for being a constant example in the struggle for the peaceful coexistence of nations.Cuban Parliament President Ricardo Alarcon received the Olive of Peace given to Fidel during the first day of the meeting of the organization’s Executive Committee, which winds up on Saturday, attended by representatives from 40 nations. Read More

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Cuba, Portugal Foster Cultural Ties and Friendship

<p style="text-align: justify;">By: Dayami Interián García.Lisbon, Apr 30 (Prensa Latina) Cuba and Portugal this year commemorate the 92nd anniversary of the establishment of bilateral relations, and an intense program of activities began Saturday in this capital to foster cultural cooperation and friendship between the two peoples. Read More

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U.S. embargo on Cuba: A 50 years-old crime

<p style="text-align: justify;">Since 1960 the U.S. governments maintain and tighten the economic embargo against the island of Cuba -- the longest embargo posed on any country. The reasons for which the United States enacted the alienation of Cuba are exclusively a product of the Cold War period. Fifty years later, none of these reasons exist anymore. What remains is an inhuman commercial and economic blockade that violates the U.N. Charter, restricts Cubans from acquiring certain goods and blows Washington's international reputation even more. Read More

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Training Vessel of the Mexican Navy to Arrive in Cuba on Sunday

<p style="text-align: justify;">2011.04.30 - 13:45:42 / radiorebelde.icrt.cu. Training Vessel of the Mexican Navy to Arrive in Cuba on Sunday. HAVANA, Cuba.- The ARM Cuauhtémoc BE-01, a sail training vessel of the Mexican Navy, is scheduled to arrive in Havana on Sunday, May 1, for an official visit, the Ministry of the Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces (MINFAR) announced.A note published by Granma newspaper on Saturday explains that the visitors’ program includes courtesy visits to the Chief of Cuba’s Revolutionary Navy, to the president of the Provincial Assembly of the People’s Power in Havana, and to the Granma Naval Academy. They will also tour places of historic and cultural interest. Read More

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Puerto Rican, US and French musicians at Cubadisco 2011

<p style="text-align: justify;">Cubarte.cu.Students from the Boston College Berklee, the Puerto Rican musician Andy Montañez and the French septet Son de salon, confirmed their assistance to the International Fair Cubadisco 2011, which will start here next week.A big delegation of singers and musicians from Venezuela, such as the singer Vladimir Lozano, Cesar Monjes, director of the group Dimension Latina, the bolero singer Mario Quintero Suarez and the pianist Enrique Iriarte Culebra will also take part in the event. Read More

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