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S. American Tourism to Cuba on the Rise

<p style="text-align: justify;">The wave of South American visitors to Cuba increased by 12 percent in the first nine months of this year, according to Luis Felipe Aguilera, from the Cuban Ministry of Tourism (MINTUR). Aguilera, who is Director of the Information and Promotion Department for South America, told Prensa Latina that his forecast is to close the year with over 115,000 South American visitors, a significant increase of over 25 percent compared to last year, when at least 85,000 travellers from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay visited the Island. Read More

Cuba-Venezuela cable could finally open up in July 2011

<p style="text-align: justify;">October 15, 2010 — 11:05am ET. Carriers that want to penetrate the relatively untapped Cuban telecom market will have to wait a little bit longer as an submarine cable network linking Venezuela to Cuba won't go into operation until possibly July 2011. While not revealing where they are at in the network construction process Alberto Rodriguez, Cuba's vice minister of information and communications, said in Cuban Communist Party-backed newspaper Granma that the new cable would take ten months to build the 5,000 km cable. Read More

Vietnam Business News:VN firms eager to invest in Cuba

<p style="text-align: justify;">Posted by VBN on Oct 15th, 2010. Cuba has become increasingly attractive to Vietnamese investors following changes to the country's trade policies that are designed to attract foreign firms in the service and production sectors, according to the Ministry of Industry and Trade's American Department. Nguyen Xuan Khien, the department's head, said Cuba was particularly looking for real estate investors. He said Cuba had begun actively looking for foreign investment at the beginning of this year, mostly in the fields of ourism, plastic packaging, paper processing, mining and foodstuffs. Read More

CBS: Paula's Remnants Sneak Up on Cuba

<p style="text-align: justify;">October 15, 2010 3:38 AM. Paula's Remnants Sneak Up on Cuba. Havana's Capitol building is seen under the rain of tropical storm Paula in the municipality of Bahia Honda, about 50 miles west of Havana, Pinar del Rio province, Cuba, Oct. 14, 2010. Although winds and rain whipped Havana for only about two hours late Thursday afternoon, much of the Cuban capital was left without electricity or cooking gas. Read More

AP: Ecuador Officers Face Inquiry in Police Unrest

<p style="text-align: justify;">"They held President Rafael Correa captive for more than 10 hours after he came to talk to them, trapping him inside a police hospital. Mr. Correa was finally rescued when army commandos firing assault rifles and using concussion grenades&nbsp; stormed into the hospital and took him away. Mr. Correa called the uprising an attempted coup." COMMENT: This was obviously an attempt by these insubordinate cops to impose their rule on the country by kidnapping Ecuador's elected president. To call it anything else is, in its political essence, to collude with the actions of the kidnappers. Read More

Cuban Cooperation with Yemeni University Acknowledged

<p style="text-align: justify;">Radio Cadena Agramonte - October 13. Havana, Cuba, Oct 13.- Yemen’s Higher Education Minister, Saleh Ali Basora, acknowledged Cuba’s cooperation for 35 years in the training of almost 5,000 health professionals at the University of Aden.<br> While speaking during a meeting to mark the 40th anniversary of the foundation of that center for higher studies, the minister gave a certificate to Cuban ambassador to Yemen, Buenaventura Reyes, in recognition of services rendered by the Cuban professionals. Read More

Dracula on Stage

<p style="text-align: justify;">The ballet Dracula is the proposal that presents Mella Theater, from Thursday 14-Sunday 17, this month, Prodanza Center directed by the Grand Maitre Laura Alonso.&nbsp; That version that includes a prologue and two acts with choreography of the Puerto Rican Nana Badrena, from a script of Laura Alonso is inspired by Bram Stoker’s book and the homonymous movie of Francis Ford Coppola.&nbsp; These shows of the Ballet Laura Alonso, the Prodanza Center, will be dedicated to the Day of Cuban Culture, next October 20; on the 22nd International Ballet Festival of Havana that will begin on October 28; and the 491 anniversary of the foundation of the Village of San Cristobal of Havana. Read More

David Torrens in Mexico

<p style="text-align: justify;">Cuban singer-songwriter David Torrens will perform next Sunday, October 17 at “Hidalgo” Theater, in the Mexican state of Colima, where he’ll give a free concert. The show by the young Cuban musician will develop at the 2010 Alfonso Michel Cultural Festival, event organized by the Secretariat of Culture and the National Council for Culture and the Arts (CONACULTA), of the Aztec nation. Read More

The Genuine Cuba Publicity Campaign Tours Norwegian Cities

<p style="text-align: justify;">2010.10.13 - 21:45:27 / [email protected]. HAVANA, Cuba.- The promotion of Cuba, one of the favorite tourist destinations in the Caribbean, is expanding in the world with the presentation in Norway of a publicity campaign about the island’s tourist attractions. Read More

Lebanon, Iran to Reinforce Bilateral Ties

<p style="text-align: justify;">Lebanese President Michel Sleiman on Wednesday advocated the strengthening of relations with Iran in different sectors during talks he will hold with President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Read More