Olympic Champ Robles Blames Slow Race on Rain

<p style="text-align: justify;">12:14Marigot, May 8 (Prensa Latina) Cuban Dayron Robles, Olympic champion in the 110-meter hurdles, blamed the rain on Sunday for his slow time of 13:35 seconds in his first race of the year.On Saturday, Robles won his race in the 7th Grand Prix of Guadeloupe under rain that affected the entire competition."It's rained a lot, and I was barely able to warm up, but I reached my goal; I broke the ice, and now it's time to get ready for my next commitments," Robles told Cuban reporters. Read More

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Cuba Improves Earthquake Monitoring, Response System

<p style="text-align: justify;">10:21Havana, May 8 (Prensa Latina) Cuban specialists are perfecting their work to reduce vulnerability and achieve constant monitoring of seismic activity, a phenomenon of concern in many parts of the world.Cuba's closeness to the Bartlett-Cayman fault system, a tectonic boundary with a very dynamic, active structure, is reason to remain alert regarding human settlements on the eastern part of the island. Read More

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An ancient 'lost civilization' in Cuba?

<p style="text-align: justify;">8 May 2011. During the 1950s Cuban divers and underwater archaeologists found extensive artifact evidence of a Native American civilization on the western end of Cuba that was different and more advanced that the Taino-Arawak peoples, who migrated to the island beginning around 900 CE. Their theories are based on the likelihood that Cuba probably functioned as a gateway of ideas, crops and peoples for all of the Americas. Cuba is only 90 miles (144km) from the Florida Keys and 96 miles (154km) from the Yucatan Peninsula. Read More

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Cuba seeks to jump-start economy

<p style="text-align: justify;">Reforms approved, but experts worry they're not enough. By: Frances Robles McClatchy Newspapers. Knoxville News Sentinel. Posted May 8, 2011 at midnight. MIAMI - Ernesto is a 26-year-old mechanical engineer turned entrepreneur. Laid off, he chose a new profession among the list of nearly 200 new private businesses legalized by the Cuban government. He decided to become a locksmith, because a relative recently brought the required machine from Italy. But he still needed cash to buy blank keys. Read More

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Two Bronze Medals for Cuba at 2011 Diamond League Opening Meeting in Doha

<p style="text-align: justify;">011.05.07 - 18:40:22 / radiorebelde.icrt.cu. Havana, Cuba.- Cuba and led the performance of Latin American and Caribbean athletes during the opening meeting of the 2011 Diamond League of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) that took place on Friday, May 6, in Doha, Qatar, with two bronze medals for each country.The Cuban medals were for Alexis Copello, in men’s Triple Jump, and for Lazaro Borges, who won an unprecedented bronze in the men’s Pole Vault. Read More

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US. chief of Latin American affairs quits

<p style="text-align: justify;">The head of the U.S. State Department’s Latin American and Caribbean will resign this summer.Arturo Valenzuela announced he will leave his post of Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs to return to Georgetown University, where he taught before his appointment by Barack Obama in 2009. Read More

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CubaSoy Festival, cultural identity of these times

<p style="text-align: justify;">By Alain Valdes Sierra. A new opportunity for the promotion of the popular dance music as well as other artistic expressions was opened with the call to the Festival of the Cuban arts CubaSoy, to be held in PLaya municipality, Havana City from the first and through the fifth of next June.Arnaldo Rodríguez, president of the event and director of the orchestra Talismán, explained in a press conference held at the Miramar Casa de la Musica, that the main objective of the project is to promote and develop the cultural identity of the island nowadays. Read More

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Porto Santo Wants to Twin with Baracoa

<p style="text-align: justify;">The mayor of Porto Santo, Roberto Silva, has requested to twin that Portuguese island and the Cuban city of Baracoa, where longstanding cultural and historic links between both countries remain.Silva made his proposal on Friday to Cuban Ambassador Eduardo Gonzalez, who visited Porto Santo as part of a month-long event that began in Lisbon on April 30 to highlight Cuban-Portuguese relations.Baracoa is also home to the Parra Cross, brought by Columbus and later blessed by Pope John Paul II on his visit to Cuba in 1998. Read More

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Russian Culture Honored in Santiago de Cuba

<p style="text-align: justify;">By: Raquel Maria Garcia Alvarez. 00:02Santiago de Cuba, May 7 (Prensa Latina) A two-day event to pay tribute to Russian culture will be held in this city, some 540 miles southeast of Havana, on May 13-14.The event will mark the 50th anniversary of friendly relations between Cuba and Russia, organizers said.A highlight of the event will be the inauguration of a photo exhibit, including images of St. Petersburg through the years, the Great Patriotic War, the current Russian Federation, the Army and the first astronaut Yuri Gagarin. Read More

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Guatemala Reaffirms Ties with Cuba

<p style="text-align: justify;">By: Osmany González Tocabens.Guatemala City, May 7 (Prensa Latina) The peoples of Guatemala and Cuba reaffirmed their historical ties of friendship in a meeting organized by the city council of the capital.The meeting was headed by Mayor Alvaro Arzu, who during his term as president reestablished diplomatic bilateral relations with Cuba in 1998, broken off years earlier by Guatemala. Read More

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