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Illinois pols in Cuba to urge more trade

<p style="text-align: justify;">Sept. 7, 2011, 12:27 p.m. EDT. CHICAGO (MarketWatch) -- A group of 33 Illinois lawmakers are in Havana Wednesday as part of an effort to push the U.S. government to ease restrictions that hamper bilateral trade and hurt the state's agricultural sector, AFP reports. Read More

US experts eye Cuba oil plans after BP spill

<p style="text-align: justify;">AFP By Jordi Zamora. A group of US experts led by a former top environment official has visited Cuba to gather information on the communist country's Gulf of Mexico oil exploration plans, according to state media. William Reilly, who led the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under former president George H.W. Bush and led a commission on the BP oil spill disaster in the Gulf until January, was reportedly leading the US delegation. Read More

Cuba's Roads Take on New Look as Classic American Cars Wane

<p style="text-align: justify;">Sept. 6, 2011. Ellen Creager. The 50-year-old U.S. trade embargo prevents American auto companies or parts suppliers from doing business with Cuba. That didn't matter much in 1961. But now it's half a century later, and these cars need work. "Sometimes you see a pile of rust on four tires, and you're thinking, how can that thing even move?" said John McElroy of Autoline Detroit, who has been to Cuba. "I saw people who were making their own brake fluid using sap from a bush and mineral spirits." Read More

Jamaica: Gov't to sign anti-crime pacts with Cuba

<p style="text-align: justify;">KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — Jamaica's top security official announced Tuesday that he will lead a delegation to Cuba this week to sign agreements strengthening cooperation against drug trafficking and other crimes. Security Minister Dwight Nelson said the pacts are intended to increase intelligence sharing about the "movement of guns and drugs and the groups involved in their movement between the two countries." Read More

SOUTH JOURNAL: Iran's Vice President to Arrive in Cuba for Joint Governmental Commission

<p style="text-align: justify;">September 6, 2011. South Journal: Iran's Vice-president Mohammad Reza Rahimi departed on Tuesday for Cuba where he is scheduled to participate at the 15th Iran-Cuba Joint Commission and meet with government officials. Rahimi will visit Ecuador after Cuba, ISNA news agency reported. Before departing Tehran, the Iranian Vice-president said that his country relations with Latin American countries have broadened in recent years in the economic, cultural and politic fields. Read More

Havana Hosts Cuba-Spain Cultural Seminar

<p style="text-align: justify;">2011.09.06 - 09:41:12 / radiorebelde.icrt.cu. HAVANA, CUBA.-&nbsp; An international academic seminar on the cultures of Spain and Cuba has been scheduled for September 6th through the 8th in this capital. Sponsored by the universities of Havana (UH) and Saragossa, the event will also serve to celebrate the 15th anniversary of the creation of the “Jose Marti” Cuban Culture Department at that Spanish center of higher studies. Read More

Cuba Announces Having Developed Vaccine against Lung Cancer

<p style="text-align: justify;">2011.09.05 - 17:42:03 / radiorebelde.icrt.cu.Havana, Cuba.- Cuba announces the encouraging news of having developed the first vaccine against lung cancer one of the most frequent in the world and with most incidences among smokers. According to Cubadebate.cu, successful clinical tests have proven the efficiency of the vaccine which will be commercialized on the island by the name of Cimavax-EGF, thanks to the patient work of researchers from the Molecular Immunology Center in Havana whom are already assessing the use of the same basic medicine in the treatment of other types of cancer. Read More

Photographic Exhibition by Brazilian Ecologist to be Inaugurated in Havana

<p style="text-align: justify;">2011.09.06 - 09:38:57 / radiorebelde.icrt.cu. Photographic Exhibition by Brazilian Ecologist to be Inaugurated in HavanaHAVANA, CUBA.-&nbsp; Renowned Brazilian documentary maker and photographer Conceicao Praun will inaugurate on Tuesday, at Havana’s Cities of the World Gallery, the exhibition “Caminata por el ambiente,” with some thirty black and white images taken in several parts of Cuba. Read More

Cuba,Vietnam Strengthen Collaboration in Rice Production

<p style="text-align: justify;">By: Ana Julia Suarez Cruz.Pinar del Río, Cuba, Sep 6 (Prensa Latina) Vietnamese and Cuban experts strengthen scientific collaboration for increasing rice production in this western Cuban province, using technologies from both countries. Alexander Miranda, director of the Experimental Station in Los Palacios municipality, told Prensa Latina that this program includes advice to rice growers of this territory. Read More

Mexico: Regional Meeting on Fighting Desertification, Drought

<p style="text-align: justify;">By: Ileana Ferrer Fonte. Mexico City, Sep 6 (Prensa Latina) Actions to fight desertification and drought in the region will be discussed Tuesday during the 14th UN meeting for Latin America and the Caribbean on those global problems. The meeting will promote cooperation projects and assess soil degradation in Latin America and the Caribbean. Read More