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Archive - May 14, 2011

Cuba-Mexico Interparlamentary Meeting Ends Today

<p style="text-align: justify;">By: Glenda Pardo.Mexico, May 14 (Prensa Latina) Topics related to Latin American integration, the situation in the Caribbean and Cuba will be discussed on Saturday, the last day of the XII Mexico-Cuba Interparliamentary Meeting.The meeting, in session since last Thursday in the city of Merida, state capital of Yucatan, aims to deepen the relationship between the two nations, mostly in areas of economic cooperation, tourism, climate change and natural disaster prevention. Read More

Muñequitos de Matanzas and Michel Herrera to Perform at the Chico O'Farrill School of Jazz

<p style="text-align: justify;">2011-05-14. NEW YORK—The Afro Latin Jazz Alliance announced today that members of Cuba's legendary Los Muñequitos de Matanzas, as well as Cuban saxophonist Michel Herrera, will perform at its fundraiser benefiting the Chico O'Farrill School of Jazz (COSJ) to be held Wednesday, May 18, 2011 at the Metropolitan Pavilion in New York City from 6-9PM.Los Muñequitos de Matanzas, Cuba's premiere Afro-Cuban folkloric group, recently concluded a three-day residency at Symphony Space in their first visit to New York since 2002. Read More

Cuba: Nato bombing raids on Libya not justifiable

<p style="text-align: justify;">Thursday 12 May 2011. by Tom Mellen. Cuba's top UN envoy tore into Western countries on Wednesday for justifying bombing raids on developing countries by claiming they save civilian lives.At a UN security council meeting Cuban permanent representative Pedro Nunez Mosquera criticised the implementation of resolution 1973, which approved a "no-fly zone" over Libya in a bid to protect civilians. Read More

Eleventh Havana Biennial Announced for May 2012

<p style="text-align: justify;">2011.05.13 - 17:44:00 / radiorebelde.icrt.cu. Havana, Cuba.- The 11th Havana Biennial was announced this Friday by the director of the Wilfredo Lam Center of Contemporary Art, Jorge Fernandez who said the event will take place from May 17 to June 7 of 2012.Fernandez told ACN the Biennial will be focused on artistic practices and social imaginary. It will seek to strengthen the social character of the event by going deeper in the thinking of people in different communities. Read More

Ill. students visit Cuba after travel ban lifted

<p style="text-align: justify;">By:&nbsp; BARBARA RODRIGUEZ&nbsp; 05/13/11 5:53 PM. Associated Press. Students at a small university in suburban Chicago are testing President Barack Obama's ease on travel restrictions to Cuba with a three-week trip to the island.Twenty students from Dominican University in River Forest began their trip on Friday. With guidance from three faculty members, they're capping a semester course on the country's history and culture. They return June 3.The school is of the first universities in the country to send students to Cuba on a short-term program since Obama lifted travel restrictions to the country in January, university officials said. However, the State Department could not confirm this nor provide statistics on other student groups. Read More

Cuba and China for Development of Biotechnological Cooperation

<p style="text-align: justify;"><br /> 2011.05.13 - 14:40:01 / radiorebelde.icrt.cu. Cuba and China for Development of Biotechnological Cooperation. HAVANA, Cuba.- The Cuban ambassador to Beijing, Carlos Miguel Pereira, highlighted this week the great importance that Cuba gives to its relations with the Chinese province of Hubei, where the High Technology Zone of Donghu is located.During a visit to Wuhan, the capital of this province, Pereira praised the advances and prospects of Cuba’s cooperation with China in the fields of education and biotechnology. Read More

Venezuela appoints new ambassador

<p style="text-align: justify;">Caracas appointed a former education minister as ambassador in Havana, according to Venezuelan news agency AVN.Edgardo Ramírez, a professor of international politics at Universidad Central de Venezuela, was education minister from February 2010 to January 2011.His predecessors in Havana have included a brother of President Hugo Chávez and a former oil and energy minister. Read More

Montreal Long Distance Provider 1010103 Lowers Rates to the Dominican Republic, Bahamas and Cuba

<p style="text-align: justify;">Friday May 13, 2011 - 11:36 AM EDT. PRBuzz Press Release Distribution.PRBuzz.com Staff.A Montreal, Canada, US and international long distance service provider, has further lowered its rates to call the Dominican Republic, the Bahamas, and Cuba. Montreal, Quebec&nbsp; / PRBuzz / May 13, 2011 - - 10-10-10-3, a Montreal, Canada, US and international long distance calling service provider, has announced newly reduced international rates for calling the Bahamas, the Dominican Republic, Cuba andmany other destinations worldwide. Read More

It’s all the captain’s fault!

<p style="text-align: justify;">Friday, May 13, 2011 8:33 am. It’s all the captain’s fault! By Kurt Landsberger Recorder Community Newspapers. There are three Morro Castles in the West Indies. One is at the entrance of the harbor in Havana, Cuba – built in 1589. Another one is at Santiago de Cuba which was taken by our forces during the Spanish-American War. And finally there is one in the harbor of San Juan, Puerto Rico. Read More

Cuban parliament President Attends Cuba-Mexico Meeting

<p style="text-align: justify;">2011.05.13 - 15:15:22 /radiorebelde.icrt.cu. Cuban parliament President Attends Cuba-Mexico Meeting. HAVANA, Cuba.- The president of the Cuban Parliament Ricardo Alarcon is leading the delegation from his country to the 12th Cuba-Mexico Inter-parliamentary Meeting that started this Friday in Yucatan. Alarcon said relations between his country and Mexico are good, but noted that being Mexico one of Cuba’s closest neighbors, the island is looking to have a more active participation in its market, Prensa Latina reported. Read More