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Archive - Aug 16, 2011

Venezuela Opens New Line of Orinoquia Cell Phones

<p style="text-align: justify;">By: Raquel Maria Garcia Alvarez.00:07Caracas, Aug 16 (Prensa Latina) As part of its plan to increase people's access to telecommunication services, the Venezuelan Government has started to operate a new line of production of Orinoquia cell phones. The announcement was made by the Minister of Science, Technology and Intermediate Industries Ricardo Menendez on Monday during a visit to the Orinoquia Socialist Factory, in the Caracas-based La Carlota neighbourhood. Read More

Hemingway Bar: Cuba's Clever Daiquiri Diplomacy

<p style="text-align: justify;">By Steve Clemons. Aug 15 2011. A new bar is opening in DC, called "Hemingway's Bar", in the invite only Cuban Interests Section.&nbsp; This is vastly better public diplomacy than the US-Cuba tit-for-tat shenanigans of the past. On October 6th, the Cuban Interests Section (aka, the Cuban Embassy if we ever get back to normalizing relations) will launch a clever bit of public diplomacy by opening "Hemingway's Bar." And as commerce can't change hands between Americans and Cubans -- the drinks will be free.&nbsp; I plan to go and will want a "Hemingway Daiquiri" -- double the rum, and no sugar. Read More

Venezuela Stock Market Up 52.38%

<p style="text-align: justify;">“It caught my attention the day before yesterday that the world media reported that all the stock markets in the world fell yesterday, except Venezuela’s,” said Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez proudly from Cuba where he was undergoing chemotherapy for his cancer. CARACAS -- Caracas stocks rose 7.1% last week, closing at 99,528, a new all-time high.The Venezuela Stock Market Index is now up 52.38% for the year to date. Read More

Cuba offers medical courses for Malaysian students

<p style="text-align: justify;">Tuesday August 16, 2011 MYT 6:23:00 PM. PETALING JAYA: Cuba, with expertise in medicine and health, is offering medical courses for Malaysian students this year.Nestor Torres, second secretary at the Cuban embassy here, said the Latin American School of Medicine, touted as the largest medical school in the world, would offer undergraduate and postgraduate programmes."Cuba first offered medical studies to Malaysian students in 2003, but it was only in 2007 that the first intake took place as not many Malaysians were aware of the offer until now," he said Tuesday. Read More

Temperature in Cuba Rises Almost 1 Degree Celsius

<p style="text-align: justify;">The average annual temperature in Cuba rose approximately 0.9 degrees Celsius from 1951 to date, said Ramon Perez, head of the Climate Center at the National Meteorology Institute.Interviewed on a Monday morning television program, the scientist said that the largest increase in the last 70 years was in winter temperatures, and was about 1.4 degrees Celsius above previous records.About summer temperatures in Cuba, Perez said July and August continue to be the hottest months of the year, and that human beings are going all out to adapt to the environment. Read More

Argentina: Election Campaigns in Full Swing

<p style="text-align: justify;">By: Osmany González Tocabens. Buenos Aires, Aug 15 (Prensa Latina) Primary elections in Argentina concluded with the selection of seven slates of candidates for the Oct. 23 elections. Shortly after the nationwide open, simultaneous and compulsory primary elections ended on Sunday, one of the presidential candidates, Ricardo Alfonsin, of the Union Alliance for Social Development (UDESO), said that "now is when the serious campaigning starts." Read More

Cuban High Jumper to Participate in Daegu 2011

<p style="text-align: justify;">By: Osmany González Tocabens.Havana, Aug 15 (Prensa Latina) High jumper Victor Moya, silver medal winner in Helsinki 2005, said Monday that he expects a good performance in the upcoming IAAF World Championship in Daegu, South Korea. His main objectives are to make it to the top 10 and to stabilize at about 2.3 meters, Moya told reporters on Monday.Moya, 28, who recently won the 4th ALBA Games in Venezuela with a jump of 2.28 meters, had been out of competition for a year and a half, but experts considered he has great possibilities of reach the finals at the World Championships. Read More

Panama Canal Turns 97, Expansion Works Continue

<p style="text-align: justify;">By: Estela McCollin.Panama, Aug 15 (Prensa Latina) The Panama Canal marks its 97th anniversary with a program to expand its operating capacity and increase the value of its role in world commerce.Alberto Aleman Zubieta, canal administrator, told reporters that the latest project will improve opportunities for national development.Since its transfer to Panama more than 11 years ago, the canal has contributed about 6.4 billion USD to the National Treasury. Read More

Cuban Circus in Brazil for 2016 Olympics

<p style="text-align: justify;">By: Jennifer Socorro Ramon.Havana, Aug 15 (Prensa Latina) The popular Brazilian actor Marcos Frota is working to bring the Cuban circus to Brazil in July 2012 for the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. In an exclusive interview with Prensa Latina, Frota, who also directed the first free circus university in Brazil, said he intended to bring his own company, Unicirco, to Cuba in early 2016. Read More

Many Cubans living abroad can’t return to Cuba

<p style="text-align: justify;">By Juan O. Tamayo.elnuevoherald.com. Tampa teenager Melissa González wanted to visit her ailing grandfather in Cuba. But her travel agency told her that the Cuban government had turned down her request for an entry permit, without explaination. Whatever the reason, Melissa now belongs to the little-known group of Cubans living abroad who are banned by Havana from visiting the island — anywhere from 77,000 to 300,000 — for reasons that range from illegal departures from Cuba to political activism. Read More