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Archive - Oct 30, 2010

Cuba, Norway sign agreement to aid Haiti

<p style="text-align: justify;">English.news.cn&nbsp;&nbsp; 2010-10-30 11:31:43. HAVANA, Oct. 29 (Xinhua)-- Cuba and Norway signed a second agreement Friday to help the Haitian government fight the cholera epidemic in the aftermath of a major earthquake in January, official Cuban sources said. Read More

Burbeen lecture to take guests on Cuba 'road trip'

<p style="text-align: justify;">By Anonymous GateHouse News Service. Posted Oct 29, 2010 @ 02:34 PM. Woburn, MA —The Burbeen Free Lecture series continues on Thursday, Nov. 4, with a film and lecture entitled “Cuba: Road Trip from Havana to Santiago” presented by Marlin Darrah. Long off-limits to Americans, Cuba — and Havana especially — is the most tragically beautiful place in the Caribbean. Traveling in a beautiful and classic 1950s black Buick across this fascinating island, the film presents a road trip from Havana to Santiago du Cuba. Along the way, the film explores the Plaza de Cathedral, cigar-making, tobacco fields, beautiful beaches, sugar plantations, forts and colonial architecture. Read More

'Day Diplomacy Died' premieres in California

<p style="text-align: justify;">BY LEA SHERMAN. BERKELEY, California"More than 60 people attended the Bay Area premier of The Day Diplomacy Died, a documentary by Bernie Dwyer and Roberto Ruiz Rebo. It was held at La Peña Cultural Center here October 7. The event was an evening in solidarity with Cuba and the Cuban Five and marked the 43rd anniversary of Che Guevara’s murder in Bolivia. Read More

Chucho Valdes, Candidate to Win another Grammy Award

<p style="text-align: justify;">Por Jorge Petinaud Martínez . 10/29/2010. The music record El Ultimo Trago has won two nominations to the Latin Grammies for its authors Concha Buika and Chucho Valdes. This could possibly give Valdes another two awards for his Grammy collection. The music record El Ultimo Trago has won two nominations to the Latin Grammies for its authors Concha Buika and Chucho Valdes. This could possibly give Chucho another two awards for his Grammy collection. Read More

Taking A "Model" Out For a Spin (Part III)

<p style="text-align: justify;">By Ike Nahem. Behind the New Economic Measures in Cuba: Advancing the Revolution in the Concrete World Situation of Today. Genesis of the Cuban Economic Crisis. .It is certainly no secret that revolutionary Cuba has been in a permanent structural economic and financial crisis - within which concrete advances and setbacks have unfolded - since the late 1980s and early 1990s. The onset of this crisis - known in Cuba as the "Special Period" - was catalyzed by the collapse of the ruling governments in the former Soviet Union and its allied Eastern European states from 1989 to 1991. Read More

US spy spending revealed for first time, tops $80 billion

<p style="text-align: justify;">By Pam Benson, CNN National Security Producer.Washington (CNN) -- The United States spent $80 billion on spy activities in 2010, the first time the government has officially announced the total tab for intelligence spending. The amount included $53.1 billion on non-military intelligence programs, a 6 percent boost from the previous year, according to a statement released Thursday by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. Read More

All of the color, none of the overkill from all-female Dance Cuba

<p style="text-align: justify;">By Sid Smith, special to the Tribune. 12:33 p.m. CDT, October 29, 2010.&nbsp; Folk dance is typically florid, effusive, more awash with bright colors than layered with choreographic design. All that indeed came to mind while watching Lizt Alfonso Dance Cuba Thursday at the Auditorium Theatre, along with a word not so often associated with ethnic dance: restraint. Alfonso fuses many styles and traditions that have come together in Cuba over the centuries — Spanish flamenco, Afro-Cuban rhythmic heat and island frolic all included. Read More

Iran says UN resolution proves US sanctions against Cuba are illegal

<p style="text-align: justify;">UNITED NATIONS : Iran has said that a recent United Nations General Assembly resolution on the U.S. trade embargo against Cuba shows that these sanctions have been illegally imposed, the semi-official Fars news agency reported. The remarks were made by Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehman-Parast and congratulated the Cuban nation and government on the approval of the resolution. Read More

MIAMI HERALD: Ros-Lehtinen's role could grow in House

<p style="text-align: justify;">Thu, Oct. 28, 2010.BY LESLEY CLARK. Miami Republican Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen is poised to chair the House Foreign Affairs Committee if Republicans take control of the House in November,effectively quashing congressional efforts to ease restrictions on Cuba. Read More

The Musical Return To Cuba His Father Couldn't Make

<p style="text-align: justify;">By Felix Contreras.When Cuban-born jazz arranger Chico O'Farrill died in 2001, his one great lament was not being able to return to the island of his birth. Now, his son, pianist and bandleader Arturo O'Farrill, will lead his father's band back to Havana.&nbsp; The week-long visit will be filled with performances, instruction and musical diplomacy. The Afro Latin Jazz Alliance, the non-profit organization that maintains the Chico O'Farrill Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra, announced the trip in a news release on Monday. The performance highlight will be a gig at the Havana International Jazz Festival, curated by Cuban pianist/composer Chucho Valdes. Read More