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Pope: Mideast Peace Is Urgently Needed

<p style="text-align: justify;">&nbsp;Domingo, 24 de octubre de 2010.&nbsp; 10:50Vatican, Oct 24 (Prensa Latina) Pope Benedict XVI on Sunday and said that peace in the Middle East is possible, urgently needed and the best remedy to the exodus of Christians from the region. Read More

Cuban Pianist Harold López-Nussa Feels at Home with Jazz

<p style="text-align: justify;">24 de Octubre 2010. Cuban pianist Harold López-Nussa CD Canciones, recorded in 2008, is one of the beautiful records included in The jazz young spirit collection by Gloria Ochoa , one of the highlights of the last ten years of the Cuban recording industry on the Producciones Colibrí label. When López-Nussa first began to perform, many thought that he would devote himself only to classical music, given his great success, winning several national and international competitions. However, deep down inside his calling led him to the world of jazz and popular music. Read More

REUTERS: Factbox: Jailed U.S. contractor, sour U.S.-Cuba relations

<p style="text-align: justify;">Among other things, this neglects to mention that Gross went to Cuba under false pretenses and did not seek Cuban authorization to set up satellite hookups. I doubt that there are many countries in the world that would allow one to come in on a tourist visa and then do this kind of thing without specific authorization. It is simply false to claim that the Cubans' arrest of Gross is responsible for souring US Cuban relations, which have been sour since 1959. Emile Schepers Read More

UN: 19th Resolution against Blockade of Cuba Ready

<p style="text-align: justify;">Sunday, 24 October 2010 10:37 Source:Prensa Latina. Guantanamo (Solvision).- For the 19th consecutive year, the UN General Assembly will vote on a resolution on Tuesday demanding the lifting of the blockade imposed by the United States on Cuba for the last 48 years. Read More

United States Cuba Policy & Business

<p style="text-align: justify;">United States Cuba Relations: Its About the Politics Not The Policy! More polls and articles continue to come out making excellent arguments why our policies with Cuba should change beginning with lifting the travel ban. Yet nothing has happened yet. To all those who want to see the travel ban lifted and the embargo ended, what is it going to take for us to learn? We have won the policy argument. It is the politics that we continue to lose and seem unwilling to address. A recent encounter with President Obama revealed as much. Read More

A life of leisure on the interest alone

<p style="text-align: justify;">A Cuban reader of the blog La Joven Cuba has a suggestion for Guillermo Fariñas, winner of the 50,000-euro Sakharov Prize. Fifty-thousand euros translate into 1.5 million ordinary pesos (CUPs), the reader says, which Fariñas could squirrel away in a bank as a Certificate of Deposit. The rate of interest for CDs is 6 percent per annum, the reader notes, so in one year Fariñas would earn 90,000 pesos. Read More

Photo Exhibition on the Cuban Five Opens in Havana

<p style="text-align: justify;">HAVANA, Cuba, Oct 23.- A traveling photographic exhibition on the five Cuban antiterrorists unjustly incarcerated in the United States, was opened today at the September 28 National Museum of the Committees for the Defense of the Revolution (CDR) in this capital. Read More

Flying like birds is already possible for humans

<p style="text-align: justify;">10/23/2010. By Marcelino Ortiz C. An aircraft with movable wings (to flap), powered by a person, has made history in aviation by becoming the first of its type to fly in a sustained and continuous way, according to the University of Toronto, Canada. The 'Snowbird' performed its record-breaking flight at the Great Lakes Gliding Club in Ontario in Canada in August 2nd. The feat was witnessed by the vice-president of the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI), the world-governing body for air sports and aeronautical world records. Read More

Steelpan, jazz fuse for music workshops

<p style="text-align: justify;">Cuban-born jazz musician Alexis Baró.Engaging, exciting, informative—words used by participants to describe the Trinidad and Tobago Steelpan and Jazz Festival (TTSJF) annual series of Developmental Workshops for Young Musicians. An instructive accompaniment to its concert programme, these free workshops provide opportunities for young musicians to improve their craft by observing the refined techniques of, and listening to the discerning advice dispensed by professional musicians from abroad and at home. Read More