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Archive - May 25, 2011

Cuba interior commerce chief out, No. 2 promoted

<p style="text-align: justify;">Cuba replaces interior commerce minister in office since 2009; no reason given. ap. On Wednesday May 25, 2011, 10:02 am EDT. HAVANA (AP) -- Cuba has replaced its minister of interior commerce after two years on the job. An official report in Communist Party daily Granma on Tuesday does not give a reason for the change. It mentions no criticism of Jacinto Angulo Pardo and says he will be reassigned, "taking into account his experience and career." Read More

Cuban singer to go on US tour in June

<p style="text-align: justify;">IANS India Private LimitedBy Indo Asian News Service | IANS – Wed, May 25, 2011. Havana, May 25 (IANS/EFE) Cuban singer-songwriter Carlos Varela will undertake a new US tour in June during which he is scheduled to offer nine concerts with his band, the government Web site Cubadebate reported Tuesday.The tour will run from June 10-25 and includes shows in Miami, New York, Chicago, Boston, San Francisco and Los Angeles, a year after the artist's last round of concerts in that country. Read More

Communist Party sets date for conference

<p style="text-align: justify;">Setting political reform into motion after ratifying a 313-point economic reform package, the Communist Party scheduled a national conference for Jan. 28.The central issues of the meeting will be “to evaluate the Party’s work” and “determining necessary transformations” to Party statutes and structures, an announcement in the Juventud Rebelde newspaper said. The party that is formally the leading state institution has played a tag-along and low-profile role, and the historic leadership sees reviving the institution as a crucial last task before leaving the stage. In April, the party’s rank-and-file had their first congress since 1998, eight years after they were supposed to meet, according to Party statutes. Read More

Cuba introduces new book on Uncle Ho

<p style="text-align: justify;">A book on the life and career of late President Ho Chi Minh by Cuban author Julio A. Garcia Oliveras was made public in Havana on May 24 on the occasion of his 121st birth anniversary (May 19, 1980-2011). Speaking at the ceremony, held by the Institute of International Relations (IIR) under the Cuban Foreign Ministry, IIR Director Isabel Allende praised the life and revolutionary career of late President Ho Chi Minh, who devoted all of his life to the struggle for national independence and liberation. Read More

Liem finishes second at Havana chess tournament

<p style="text-align: justify;">Last updated: 5/23/2011 11:00. Vietnam’s chess ace Le Quang Liem had to settle for second spot at the 46th Capablanca Chess Memorial in Havana Monday after losing to defending champ Vassily Ivanchuk of Ukraine in the final round.Liem was leading the tournament before the final round and would have won the championship if he had managed a draw with Ivanchuk. Read More

Cuba government swings toward return of golf courses

<p style="text-align: justify;">May 25, 2011, 7:30 am. By Randal C. Archibold. New York Times News Service. MEXICO CITY — One of Fidel Castro's first acts upon taking power was to get rid of Cuba's golf courses, seeking to stamp out a sport he and other socialist revolutionaries saw as the epitome of bourgeois excess. Read More

President Raul Castro Meets with Papal Nuncio to Cuba

<p style="text-align: justify;">2011.05.25 - 09:02:29 / radiorebelde.icrt.cu. President Raul Castro Meets with Papal Nuncio to CubaHAVANA, CUBA.- Cuban President Raul Castro met on Tuesday afternoon with Monsignor Giovanni Angelo Becciu, Papal Nuncio to Cuba, who concludes his mission on the island. Read More

Bean Harvest in Holguin Key to Reduce Imports

<p style="text-align: justify;">By Ania Fernandez / ahora.cu / radioangulo.icrt.cu / Tuesday, 24 May 2011 12:25. Bean fields in the municipality of Calixto Garcia, another stronghold of bean production in Holguin province. The 4.133,6 tons of beans produced in the Cuban province of Holguin, over 900 above planned, is a step forward in the country's zeal of reducing imports. According to local sources, until yesterday some 2.981,6 tons of beans had been gathered, what represents 73% of the total production. Among them, 2.294,6 that are used for import substitution, of vital importance in the territory, since that concept saves over 1.200.000 dollars to the country. Read More

New entrepreneurs on the rise in socialist Cuba

<p style="text-align: justify;">By Jeff Franks Jeff Franks. HAVANA (Reuters) – Under reforms by President Raul Castro, a new entrepreneurial class is developing and with it some new ways of thinking in a country that has long resisted economic change. The government reported recently that 310,000 Cubans are working legally for themselves, of whom 221,000 have received their licenses for self-employment since last fall, when Castro announced an expansion of the private sector. The move was part of a broad package of reforms to modernize Cuba's economy with the goal of saving socialism, installed after the country's 1959 revolution, for future generations. Read More

Arrivals in Cuba of Tourists Increased in the First Four-Month Period of 2011

<p style="text-align: justify;">2011.05.24 - 10:46:28 / radiorebelde.icrt.cu. Arrivals in Cuba of Tourists Increased in the First Four-Month Period of 2011 Havana, Cuba.- Arrivals in Cuba of foreign visitors continue on the rise, since the figure increased by 11.9 percent during the first four-month period of 2011, as compared to the same period of 2010. The National Office of Statistics informed that, until the end of April, the island had welcomed one million 179,963 tourists, and that in that same month the figure of one million travelers was registered 13 days in advance with respect to 2010.&nbsp; Read More