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Archive - Aug 3, 2011

Paypal and eBay Impose U.S. Blockade Against Cuba in Germany

<p style="text-align: justify;">2011.08.03 - 14:33:53 / radiorebelde.icrt.cu. Cuba-AlemaniaHAVANA, Cuba.-&nbsp; Online auction site eBay and its subsidiary PayPal are prohibiting German merchants from doing Cuba-related transactions, prompting accusations the company is violating European law, a local newspaper reported.The German newspaper Die Welt slammed the move against German website owners selling Cuban cigars who have had their transactions blocked and their Paypal accounts closed. The daily labeled the actions as “grossly unlawful.” Read More

Chavez Calls for Ending Dictatorship of the Dollar

<p style="text-align: justify;">By: Lourdes chang.3 de agosto de 2011, 11:12Caracas, Aug 3 (Prensa Latina) President Hugo Chavez called Wednesday for an end to the dictatorship of the U.S. dollar by using instruments such as the Sucre, a virtual currency promoted by the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of our America (ALBA). Read More

To Cuba and beyond

<p style="text-align: justify;">Editorial.By TBO.COM. Published: August 03, 2011. The direct charter flights from Tampa to Havana that are to begin in September could signal a thawing of U.S. relations toward Cuba. The popularity of the flights also could help airlines see Tampa as a natural gateway to Latin America. Joe Lopano, chief executive of Tampa International Airport, is right to want to land all the international flights that regional demand can support. Many local leaders think Tampa has been unfairly overlooked by airlines in favor of Miami and Orlando, and Lopano says research suggests that view. Read More

Study confirms Internet changes Human Memory

<p style="text-align: justify;">2011.08.03 - 08:49:48 / radiorebelde.icrt.cu / Study confirms Internet changes Human Memory.Havana, Cuba.- The computers and the internet are changing the nature of the human memory, according to study issued by the Science magazine. U.S researchers consider that the website media acts as a transitory memory on which we rely on as it remembers for us.According to specialists, the transitory memory represents an idea about the existence of external sources of memory that constitute real spaces for the information storage. Read More

Sectors of Cuba Fulfill Their First Half-Yearly Plans

<p style="text-align: justify;">Havana, August 1 (KCNA) -- The agricultural field of Cuba successfully carried out its first half-yearly quota, according to a recent report of the government. Production of chicken, egg, coffee, tobacco, etc., in particular, increased during the period. The economic plans were over-fulfilled in commerce and timber production fields, too. Read More

Cuban Nurses to Assist Jamaicans

<p style="text-align: justify;">South Journal: Posted on August 3, 2011 By lchirino. KINGSTON, Jamaica (SJ) As part of a bilateral health agreement between Jamaica and Cuba, 114 Cuban nurses in different specialties are expected to soon offer their assistance in primary and secondary healthcare centers in this Caribbean island nation.A team of officials from Jamaica's Health Ministry traveled to Cuba two weeks ago to interview the nurses, who would work in Jamaica for one year, out of a two-year agreement, said Minister of Health Rudyard Spencer as cited by the Jamaica observer. Read More

Direct Flights to Cuba Will Benefit Island Nation, Sunshine State

<p style="text-align: justify;">By Kimberly Morgan. Yahoo! Contributor Network. Tampa, Fla., has been given the green light to begin hosting non-stop flights to Cuba. Until now, Tampa's Cuban-American community, if they wanted to visit relatives in Cuba, had to make the trek to Miami before continuing on -- a drive that takes anywhere from 4-5 hours. The move is a boon for Tampa, whose 140,000 Cuban-Americans will have not had the benefit of airport service to the embargoed island nation for half a century. Read More

Democrat, State Dept end impasse on Cuba money

<p style="text-align: justify;">By DONNA CASSATA, Associated Press. WASHINGTON (AP) — A senior Democratic senator and the State Department have resolved their dispute over U.S. aid to a program that promotes democracy in communist Cuba, clearing the way for the Obama administration to spend $20 million in assistance. Sen. Patrick Leahy, who had placed a hold on the money, said Tuesday that the department provided answers about oversight of the program and he had stopped blocking the funds. Established in 1996, the program promotes human rights and basic freedoms in the Castro-led nation, but it has come under question amid reports of grantees misusing money and little U.S. scrutiny. Read More

Cuba's Economic Growth in the First Half of 2011 was 1.9 Percent, Asserts Raul Castro

<p style="text-align: justify;">HAVANA, Cuba, Aug 1 (acn) Cuban President Raul Castro asserted that the economy has grown by 1.9 % in the first half of the year and that an increase of 2.9 % of the island's GDP is estimated for the end of 2011. While closing the 7th Ordinary Period of Sessions of the National Assembly of the People's Power (Parliament) in its 7th Legislature, Raul stressed that "we'll persist in the road to recover the international credibility of Cuban economy gradually." Read More

50 years later: More Bay of Pigs invasion secret papers released by CIA

<p style="text-align: justify;">BY LUISA YANEZ.MiamiHerald.com. On the 50th anniversary of the infamous Bay of Pigs invasion, the Central Intelligence Agency has released more of it long-held secret papers on its failed 1961 Cuba operation to overthrow Fidel Castro. The secret documents were released in Washington, D.C., pursuant to a Freedom of Information Act filed by Peter Kornbluh, an activist who has long sough to unmask U.S. secret operations in Latin America. Read More