Yuliesky Key to Cuba's Victory Over South Korea

<p style="text-align: justify;">PL — last modified Oct 27, 2010 09:06 AM. Cuba defeated South Korea 3-0 in its second game at the Intercontinental Baseball Cup.Yuliesky Key to Cuba's Victory Over South Korea. Read More

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High-Ranking North Korean Military Official to Arrive in Cuba on Thursday

<p style="text-align: justify;">2010.10.28 - 13:18:41 / [email protected]. HAVANA, CUBA.- Vice Marshal Ri Yong Ho, head of the General Staff of the Ministry of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of North Korea, will arrive in Havana on Thursday for an official visit to Cuba. Read More

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Small British Company Takes On Lloyds for Not Cashing Cuban Check

<p style="text-align: justify;">Posted by Clif Burns at 8:26 pm on October 25, 2010.It started simply enough. A small, U.K.-based agricultural consultant, Fertecon,took a check for 7,156 to its banker, Lloyds, and asked them to cash it. Lloyds refused. The reason? The check came from Cuba. Read More

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Julio Bocca to Participate in Havana Festival

<p style="text-align: justify;">Bocca, director of the National Ballet of the Official Radio, Television and Show Services will be accompanied by 10 dancers. In a press conference at the Adela Reta National Auditorium of Montevideo, Bocca said he is hoping to show in his performances in Havana that the Uruguayan ballet is being reborn. He is also expecting to present to the world Uruguayan figures and the company he has created. Read More

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Another visit with Gerardo Hernandez

<p style="text-align: justify;">10/28/2010. Another visit with Gerardo Hernandez . - By Danny Glover and Saul Landau ( progresoweekly ). We sat in the waiting room with eight other people, all black or Latino,while prison authorities "counted" -- presumably -- the prisoners. An hour and a half later we went through the "screening" machine while our shoes got x rayed -- the airport has moved to the prison; or was it vice versa? Read More

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Taking a "Model" Out for a Spin (Part II)

<p style="text-align: justify;">Behind the New Economic Measures in Cuba: Advancing the Revolution in the Concrete World Situation of Today. Behind the New Economic Measures in Cuba: Advancing the Revolution in the Concrete World Situation of Today. By Ike Nahem. The expansion of "self-employment". Expansion of retail operations, small merchants and peddlers, and self-employed services are not the same thing as capitalist commodity production. Any expansion of small-scale private retail consumer goods sales and services will not be supplied directly by capitalist manufacturing but by enterprises owned or controlled by the Cuban workers state. Read More

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Taking a "Model " Out for a A Spin (Part I)

Behind the New Economic Measures in Cuba: Advancing the Revolution in the Concrete World Situation of Today. By Ike Nahem. On September 13, 2010 the Confederation of Cuban Workers (CTC) - the mass trade-union organization that is a central component and pillar of the Cuban workers state and the revolutionary government headed by Raul Castro - issued an announcement which codified and specified new measures and significant changes in economic, financial, and commercial policies that will be implemented in Cuba over the coming months and years. Read More

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Cuba Recalls Camilo Cienfuegos

<p style="text-align: justify;">Escrito por Ileana Ferrer Fonte. jueves, 28 de octubre de 2010.09:49Havana, Oct 28 (Prensa Latina) The Cuban people on Thursday are commemorating the 51st anniversary of the death of revolutionary hero Camilo Cienfuegos, who holds a special place in the hearts of compatriots of all ages. Read More

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Raul Castro Offers Condolences for Kirchner's Death

<p style="text-align: justify;">By Ileana Ferrer Fonte. Cuban President Raul Castro sent a message of condolence to Argentina''s Cristina Fernandez for the death of her husband, former Argentine President Nestor Kirchner. Read More

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New Book on Cuban Rum, Cocktails and Bartenders

<p style="text-align: justify;">10/28/2010. Researcher José Alfonso Castro Gómez brings to the shelves his latest title, Ron, cócteles y cantineros de Cuba (Cuban Rum, Cocktails, and Bartenders), full of fascinating details about those specialties on the island. Castro Gómez, who is the historian of the National Association of Barmen, covers five centuries in his book, examining the Cuban rum industry, bartenders and their associations and clubs, from the early years of Spanish colonialism to the first decade of the 21st century. Read More

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