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Archive - Sep 8, 2011

U.S. urged to cooperate with Cuba on offshore oil

<p style="text-align: justify;">HAVANA (Reuters) - The United States must work with its ideological foe Cuba on joint safety plans as the communist island readies to begin exploration of its still-untapped Gulf of Mexico oil fields, the co-chief of the U.S. BP oil spill investigation said on Wednesday. William Reilly told reporters the United States should make its expertise and equipment available in case of an accident when a Chinese-made rig begins drilling for oil later this year in Cuban waters about 60 miles from the Florida Keys. Read More

American Jazz troupe donates instruments to Cubans

<p style="text-align: justify;">Sep 07, 2011. HAVANA (AP) - Members of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra are in Cuba for the second time in a year, this time to distribute a planeload of instruments to promising young musicians at four Havana schools. The Horns for Havana project grew out of a much higher profile visit to Cuba last year that was headlined by Jazz at Lincoln Center legend Wynton Marsalis. Read More

Richardson to seek release of American jailed in Cuba

<p style="text-align: justify;">By the CNN Wire Staff. September 7, 2011. Washington (CNN) -- Former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson is going to Cuba on Wednesday to try to negotiate the release of jailed U.S. contractor Alan Gross, CNN has learned. The exclusive report by CNN's Wolf Blitzer on "The Situation Room" said Richardson was invited by the Cuban government for the specific mission of trying to negotiate the release of Gross. Richardson is expected to spend "the next few days" in Havana, Blitzer reported. Read More

Alicia Alonso: I’m not Thinking about Retirement

<p style="text-align: justify;">2011.09.07 - 10:01:20 / radiorebelde.icrt.cu. Prima ballerina assoluta and choreographer Alicia Alonso. HAVANA, Cuba.- Prima ballerina assoluta and choreographer Alicia Alonso stated on Tuesday that she’s not thinking about retiring from her post of director of Cuba’s National Ballet Company and that, at her age (90), she’s still linked to that art, no longer physically, but mentally. In a conversation with Europa Press, the founder of the celebrated company joked about the matter of who’s going to succeed her in that responsibility, because she plans to live 200 years, the Cubadebate Web site reported. Read More

Cuba: Change in Lauderdale charters, start Sept. 17

<p style="text-align: justify;">By: Doreen Hemlock September 7th, 2011 | 11:00 AM. Havana. Charter flights from Fort Lauderdale to Cuba will start a few days later than planned –&nbsp; on Sept. 17, the company organizing the trips confirmed. Airline Brokers Co. had aimed to start charters on Sept. 12, flying twice a week from Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport&nbsp; to Havana. But instead, it will kick off with flights once a week departing Saturdays at 12:30 p.m., using an A320 aircraft operated by JetBlue Airways. Read More

Cuba Defends Sustainable Development

<p style="text-align: justify;">By: Ileana Ferrer Fonte. Beijing, Sep 7 (Prensa Latina) Cuba defends sustainable development as a goal humanity should never renounce, said expert Gisela Alonso, leading up a UN symposium in Beijing. Alonso, who is also president of the Cuban Environmental Agency, told reporters that the two-day high level meeting, which starts Thursday in this capital, will prepare for the Rio+20 Summit. Read More

Cuba launches world's first lung cancer retardant

<p style="text-align: justify;">Beijing, Sep 7 (IANS) Cuba has launched the world's first therapeutic drug against lung cancer.The drug CimaVax-EGF comes following a 25-year research into tobacco smoking related diseases by scientists at the Centre of Molecular Immunology in Havana, Xinhua reported. The active ingredient in the drug is based on 'a protein we all have when cancer is uncontrolled,' said lead researcher Gisela Gonzalez. Read More

Cardinal: Cuba in a "Springtime of Faith"

<p style="text-align: justify;">Marian Pilgrimage Seen as Sign of Changing Times. HAVANA, Cuba, SEPT. 6, 2011 (Zenit.org).- The archbishop of Havana is claiming that Cuba is in a springtime of faith. Cardinal Jaime Ortega y Alamino spoke Sunday of "many things" changing, as he led a ceremony in Madruga, 35 kilometers (21 miles) from the Cuban capital. Read More

Replicas of La Colmenita in Several Countries

<p style="text-align: justify;"><br /> LAS TUNAS, Cuba.- The Cuban Children’s Theater Group La Colmenita has replicas in several nations and others are in the process of being formed or have made requests for the creation of new groups. In the interest of the Spanish Communist Party, the first one to be founded abroad was that of Seville, and the following one at the El Chorrillo neighborhood of Panama City, composed of humble children. Read More

Visiting Iranian First VP Pays Tribute to Cuban National Hero Jose Marti

<p style="text-align: justify;">2011.09.07 - 14:34:51 / radiorebelde.icrt.cu. Dr. Mohammad Reza Rahimi. HAVANA, Cuba.- In his first official activity after his arrival in Cuba on Tuesday afternoon, the First Vice President of Iran, Dr. Mohammad Reza Rahimi, paid tribute on Wednesday morning to Cuban National Hero Jose Marti at Havana’s Revolution Square. Read More