Machado Ventura Meets with Visiting Russian Deputy Prime Minister

<p style="text-align: justify;">2010.10.21 - 08:59:08 / [email protected]. HAVANA, CUBA.- Jose Ramon Machado Ventura, First Vice-president of the Cuban councils of State and Ministers, met on Wednesday with Alexander Dmitrievich Zhukov, Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation and president of that nation’s Olympic Committee, who is now on an official visit to Cuba. Read More

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Swiss Orchestra Gives Concert in Eastern Cuba

<p style="text-align: justify;">2010.10.21 - 13:55:13 / [email protected]. LAS TUNAS, CUBA.- The Cuban audience at the Tunas Theater give Swiss traditional band Distelfinken a big ovation after its first concert in the eastern province of Las Tunas, Cuba. The orchestra made up of women played songs by Märku Hafner, a Swiss composer who has worked hard to promote the Helvetian cultural roots. The repertoire was a display of different Swiss folkloric rhythms. Read More

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THE AWL: Who Is Francisco Chavez Abarca?

<p style="text-align: justify;">Miami Terror Machine: Who Is Francisco Chávez Abarca?<br> <br> Wednesday, October 20th, 2010. According to a convoluted Miami Herald article that macerates its own opening, the recently arrested Francisco Chávez Abarca, who is accused of terrorist attacks in Cuba in the 90s, is actually a double-agent mystery man in a thriller of international suspense and intrigue. He admits to planting bombs in hotels and colluding with others on the bombing of Cubana Flight 455, but maybe he's just a patsy in a game of cloak and dagger and disinformation to tarnish the good name of admitted terrorist Posada Carriles? Read More

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LONDON/UK/Oct. 26: Cuba Research Seminars

<p style="text-align: justify;">Dear subscriber, You are invited to attend the following Research Seminar co-hosted by the Centre for Transcultural Research and the Centre for Caribbean and Latin American Research and Consultancy: Tuesday 26th October 2010, Tower Building, London Metropolitan University, Room T1.20 (Old Staff Café)166-220 Holloway Road, London, N7 7DB, 6.00 7.30pm with drinks afterwards. SPEAKERS: Emily Morris (London Met) Read More

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LA ALBORADA: Continental dreams since the 19th Century

<p style="text-align: justify;">October 21. Question: Who said the following?: The day is not far distant when three Stars and Stripes at three equidistant points will mark our territory: one at the North Pole, another at the Panama Canal, and the third at the South Pole. The whole hemisphere will be ours in fact as, by virtue of our superiority of race, it already is ours morally. Read More

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Biotechnology 2010 Congress Opens in Havana

<p style="text-align: justify;">The Biotechnology Havana 2010 Congress opens in this capital on Wednesday with 130 experts from 27 countries, and is focused on comprehensive care for diabetic foot ulcer patients. That condition is mostly treated in Cuba with Heberprot-P, a medicine created by the Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology Center, which sponsors the congress. Four years after it was launched onto the market, the results of post-commercialization studies of that medicine will be discussed by roundtables, seminars, and workshops at the congress, which concludes on Friday. Read More

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Message by Commander in Chief Fidel Castro Ruz against the Nuclear War

<p style="text-align: justify;">The use of nuclear weapons in a new war would mean the end of humanity. This was candidly foreseen by scientist Albert Einstein who was able to measure their destructive capability to generate millions of degrees of heat, which would vaporize everything within a wide radius of action. This brilliant researcher had promoted the development of this weapon so that it would not become available to the genocidal Nazi regime. Read More

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Moratinos replaced in Cabinet shuffle; took part in the talks that led to prisoner release

<p style="text-align: justify;">October 20, 2010. Miguel Angel Moratinos, the Spanish foreign minister who in July helped negotiate the prisoner release in Cuba, was replaced by Trinidad Jiménez, the health minister, in a major Cabinet shakeup Wednesday. Moratinos had held the post since 2004, when the Socialist Party came to power. He was a firm opponent of the European <br> Union's "common position" toward Cuba. Read More

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Cuba’s Press and the Cepeda Affair

<p style="text-align: justify;">October 20, 2010. HAVANA TIMES, Oct. 20 — A few days ago the new Cuban baseball roster was announced for the Intercontinental Cup to take place starting October 23 in Chinese Taipei. The restructuring of Team Cuba has generated more than a few comments in our country among the followers of the national sport, especially over the exclusion of Sancti Spiritus slugger Frederich Cepeda. Read More

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Canadians and Britons help boost tourist visits to Cuba

<p style="text-align: justify;">October 20, 2010. Tourist visits to Cuba rose three per cent this year from the same period a year earlier, led by arrivals from Canada and the U.K., Cuban state newspaper Granma reported. A total of two million tourists have visited Cuba this year, Granma said. Tourism to Cuba rose 3.5 per cent last year to 2.4 million visitors, Jose Manuel Bisbe, commercial director for the Tourism Ministry, said. The International Monetary Fund said Tuesday that a bill in the U.S. Congress that would lift a 47-year ban on most Americans visiting the island may overwhelm Cuban resorts with tourists if passed. Read More

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