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Archive - Aug 13, 2011

Mexico Celebrates Cantinflas' Birthday

<p style="text-align: justify;">Mexico is celebrating the one-hundred-year birthday anniversary of its most famous actor, Mario Moreno (Cantinflas). The actor was born in Santa Maria la Redonda neighbourhood in Mexico City and died at 82 years old. Fragments of his films will be shown at the Auditorium, the Music Library, and other places, including different areas of the crowded subway, among many other activities in the capital and all over the country. Read More

Getty offers photographic views of Cuba

<p style="text-align: justify;"><br /> Though it's a small country compared to the United States, there's a lot of history that runs between the two nations, from the explosion of the U.S.S. Maine in 1898 to the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 to the detention of terrorism suspects at Guantanamo Bay today. Cuba, its people and culture have also been popularized by writers Ernest Hemmingway and José Martí; musicians Ry Cooder, Compay Segundo and Celia Cruz; and artist Wifredo Lam, along with many others. Read More

Dispatches from Cuba: Cuban culture, politics on the schedule for this tour

<p style="text-align: justify;">Free Press travel writer Ellen Creager is with the first American tourists on a new “people-to-people” cultural tour that started Thursday. Except for a brief window 2000-2003, it is the first time in 50 years the average American can travel to Cuba. Previous Dispatches: Americans get rare glimpse of island nation. HAVANA -- No lollygagging or beach bathing allowed. I haven’t even used the hotel pool.Under the conditions of the U.S. government’s loosening travel restrictions to allow people-to-people trips here, cultural interaction with Cubans is mandatory for American travelers. Read More

Cuba gay man and transgender woman to marry

<p style="text-align: justify;">13 August 2011 Last updated at 03:47 GMT.Ignacio Estrada and Wendy Iriepa The couple say their wedding is not intended as political provocation. A Cuban man and transgender woman are set to marry in what is being seen as the country's first "gay wedding".Same sex marriage is illegal in Cuba, but bride Wendy Iriepa is legally a woman after undergoing one of the first state sanctioned sex changes in 2007.Her fiance, Ignacio Estrada, is a noted dissident and gay rights activist in Cuba and is also HIV positive. Read More

Cuba Boosts Food Production

<p style="text-align: justify;">Havana, August 11 (KCNA) -- Cuba has paid much effort to boosting food production.Speaking at a recent meeting with a group of presidents of cooperatives in the central province of Ciego de Avila, the president of the National Association of Small Farmers, Orlando Lugo, called for increasing food production in Cuba to reduce imports.During the last five years Cuba has had to spend an average of 1.5 billion USD annually on food imports. Read More

Cuba and New Zealand Work for More Cooperation

<p style="text-align: justify;">2011.08.12 - 14:48:48 /radiorebelde.icrt.cu. HAVANA, Cuba.-&nbsp; The Governor-General of New Zealand, Anand Satyanand, met on Friday with the Cuban ambassador to that nation, Jose Luis Robaina, who will soon finish his diplomatic mission there.Satyanand praised the development of bilateral relations over the last four years since Robaina arrived in Wellington, the country’s capital, while the Cuban diplomat summarized the main actions carried out during that period to strengthen bilateral friendship and cooperation ties. Read More

Asian Artists Win Over Cuban Public at Circuba 2011

<p style="text-align: justify;">By. Jennifer Socorro Ramon. viernes, 12 de agosto de 2011.&nbsp; 11:44Havana, Aug 12 (Prensa Latina) The Brothers Giang from Vietnam received a standing ovation from the Cuban public at the Trompoloco Big Top, one of the venues for the International Festival Circuba 2011. The Vietnamese duo, a favorite for the Gran Prix and Popularity awards, electrified the audience on Thursday with a performance full of balance, strength, coordination and beautiful movements. Read More

Cuban, Mexican Environmental Experts Meet

<p style="text-align: justify;">By: Ileana Ferrer Fonte. viernes, 12 de agosto de 2011.Havana, Aug 12 (Prensa Latina) Cuban and Mexican environmental experts met to discuss protected areas in their respective countries which have the support of the UN and which they described as successful.Hector Amigo Carcases, president of the Commission on Energy and Environment of the Cuban National Assembly of People's Power, told the National News Agency that the study of mutual initiatives helped to increase knowledge about environmental protection. Read More

Harper can't ignore Cuba

<p style="text-align: justify;">By Peter McKenna, Ottawa Citizen August 12, 2011 8:09 AM. As Prime Minister Stephen Harper visits powerhouse Brazil and the tiny Central American country of Costa Rica - which shares a bilateral free trade agreement with us - he shies away from the less ideologically acceptable countries of Venezuela, Bolivia and Nicaragua. But at a time when Harper claims to be pursuing an invigorated policy toward Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), he is ignoring Canada's natural advantages in Cuba - one of the region's most important countries. Needless to say, this doesn't make any foreign policy sense. Read More

Cuba Gives a Boost to Railroad Track Repair

<p style="text-align: justify;">By: Raquel Maria Garcia Alvarez.viernes, 12 de agosto de 2011. Havana, Aug 12 (Prensa Latina) The annual repair plan of Cuba´s major railroad tracks has reached a 73-percent completion, said director of the Railroad Tracks, Works and Constructions business Ledysban Morales.Main efforts have been carried out in the first half of this tear, he told Prensa Latina. Read More