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Japan´s Latin Beat Film Festival to start activities

<p style="text-align: justify;">The Latin Beat Film Festival, the only one to present in Tokyo every year the most recent Latin American film productions, started its 7th edition. Read More

Dodd: Improve relations with Cuba

<p style="text-align: justify;">Journal Inquirer. Published: Thursday, October 7, 2010 2:00 PM EDT. U.S. Sen. Christopher J. Dodd on Wednesday renewed his call to improve relations with Cuba and ease the United States’ “isolationist policy” toward the communist island nation. Read More

Cuba Fest scheduled for Oct. 16-17

<p style="text-align: justify;">Saturday, October 16 brings the 20th Annual Chili Cook-Off. You can rev your motors for some Nuts &amp; Bolts Chili this year as some of the area’s car and bodywork specialists preview their premium chili for tasters. Tasters will vote with their tickets for the title of the master chili chef and the silver ladle. Tasting and voting is from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Recklein Auditorium area on Smith Street. Read More

NYC/Sat. 10/9: Direct From CUBA: Final USA Show Lazarito Valdez y Bamboleo

<p style="text-align: justify;">On Saturday night, October 9th the event that has been over a decade in the making, hits SOB's as Bamboleo comes direct from Cuba. Salsa lovers all over New York have been asking for Salsa on late night Saturdays, and SOB's has obliged by bringing one of the best bands in the business. Bamboleo has become one of the most important timba bands in modern era. By combining innovative and innovative arrangements with classic timba grooves,Bamboleo creates a completely original sound backed by an unstoppable energy. Read More

New Exclusive Habanos for World Market

<p style="text-align: justify;">The most demanding smokers in the world now have a new product of Habanos made from the H. Upmann «Jarras de Cristal», according to an official communiqué. International Habanos Corporation pointed out that these «jarras» will be sold in La Casa del Habano world network with more than 140 shops in the world. Read More

Vargas Llosa, the new Unexpected Nobel Prize in Literature

<p style="text-align: justify;">Stockholm, Oct 7 (Prensa Latina) The Peruvian writer, Mario Vargas Llosa, on Thrusday won the Nobel Prize in Literature, although this year his name was not included in the list of favorites, in which he held a permanent seat as "eternal candidate." Peter Englund, permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy, made the official announcement, by declaring a decision that, according to the indiscretion of one of its members, was firm and solid from days ago. We know who is the winner, said the academician preserving the anonymity. Read More

No talk of US-Cuba prisoner swap: US senator

<p style="text-align: justify;">AFP. No talk of US-Cuba prisoner swap: – Wed Oct 6, 11:00 pm ET. WASHINGTON (AFP) – A top US senator just back from a five-day visit to Cuba to meet with officials there said he did not believe there was any chance of a prisoner swap between the United States and its communist neighbor. Read More

Cuba Advances to Semifinals of Men’s World Volleyball Championship

<p style="text-align: justify;">HAVANA, Cuba, Oct 6 (acn) The Cuban national men’s volleyball team edged Bulgaria in five sets (22-25, 25-23, 26-28, 30-28, 15-11) on Wednesday evening to secure a spot in the semifinal round of the 2010 FIVB Men’s World Championship that is underway in several Italian cities. Read More

East Peoria golfers fifth in Cuba

<p style="text-align: justify;">Both teams fare better than last season. East Peoria, Ill. — The East Peoria girls golf team made significant strides this fall in its second season as a program. Their efforts culminated in a fifth-place Mid-Illini Conference tournament finish Thursday at Wee-Ma-Tuk Hills Country Club. The Raiders were sixth in the final league standings with 6.5 points, combining a 2-5 dual mark and their ranking in the <br> 18-hole finale. Read More

President Castro: US ignored its offers on counterterrorism (AP)

<p style="text-align: justify;">The Associated Press. October 7, 2010. HAVANA -- Raul Castro says the U.S. has ignored Cuban overtures to cooperate on counterterrorism. Read More