Cuban Wins Award in Portuguese Philatelic Contest

<p style="text-align: justify;">10/18/2010.&nbsp; With a collection of philatelic postcards, Cuban Adrian Fernandez got the first prize in the junior competition of an exhibit in Portugal which is the biggest this year in that European country. Fernandez is the youngest expositor awarded in the world since 2006, and he received the unanimous vote of the judges because of his exceptional research for his collection, said the Cuban Philatelic Federation in a communiqué.<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> Read More

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Chavez Visits Iran

<p style="text-align: justify;">Venezuela''s President Hugo Chavez begins Tuesday a working visit to Iran, with view to strengthening energy cooperation particularly in the oil and natural gas sectors. The two countries are interested in boosting their bilateral cooperation during the eighth round of talks on energy, taking advantage of President Chavez visit. Read More

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In UN, Cuba Condemns Sport Talent Theft

<p style="text-align: justify;">In the United Nations, Cuba condemned the theft of sports talent suffered by underdeveloped nations and repeated its opposition to athletic activities where money is the only reward. It also vindicated the right of nations of the South to host the Olympic Games, and assured that the 2016 event in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, would be a success for that entire region. Read More

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Circle of Mercy member leads ministry training in Cuba

<p style="text-align: justify;">Staff reports. October 19, 2010. ASHEVILLE — Mark Siler, a prison chaplain in North Carolina, begins a nine-month long series of prison ministry trainings for local church leaders in Cuba, beginning with workshops in three eastern cities of Camagüey, Holguin and Bayamo. Read More

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MH: Cuba, U.S. talk on jailed American

<p style="text-align: justify;">MIAMI HERALD. Posted on Mon, Oct. 18, 2010. Cuba, U.S. talk on jailed American. Alan Gross, a 60-year-old U.S.government contractor from Potomac, Maryland, was arrested in Cuba on Dec. 3. The Obama administration's top diplomat on Latin America has met with Cuba's foreign minister to press for the release of a U.S. citizen jailed in Havana since December -- the latest in a recent string of high-level bilateral sessions. Read More

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Correa Says He Has Proof of Who Was behind the Attempted Coup

<p style="text-align: justify;">October 17,&nbsp; 2010.Rafael Correa, President of Ecuador, said he has proof of who was behind the September 30 attempted coup.&nbsp; The guilty parties include Fidel Araujo, who is close to former Ecuadoran President Lucio Gutiérrez. In an interview for the international news department of the NTN 24 chain, whose headquarters are in Bogotá, Correa stated that U.S. President Barack Obama “didn’t have anything to do with it.”&nbsp; However, he said that “power groups” in the United States couldn’t be excluded, for they may have intervened in the attempt to destabilize Ecuador’s democratic Government. Read More

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