Cuba to Open Fiagrop-2010 Fair Oct. 2

<p style="text-align: justify;">Tens of countries will meet at the 14th International Livestock Fair, Fiagrop 2010, to show from October 2-10 Cuba's successes in Rancho Boyeros, south Havana. Read More

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The Times Channels the Oil Lobby on Cuba

<p style="text-align: justify;">The top story in The New York Times yesterday carried a bit of water for the oil and gas lobby. It’s about how Cuba is thinking about opening up its waters for oil drilling and how that could affect the U.S. if there were a spill. That’s a legit story, although it’s an old one. The Wall Street Journal wrote it three months ago and even then thought it worthy of just A5. The Journal back then reported that “U.S. companies won’t participate because of a longstanding trade embargo against Cuba.” But Big Oil smells Havana crude. And that’s the twist on the Times’ story. Read More

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The Legacy of Arthur Penn

<p style="text-align: justify;">GRANMA. September 30, 2010 NEW YORK .- The U.S. director Arthur Penn, who won great fame with his film Bonnie and Clyde, died late Tuesday in New York, a day before her birthday 88 and after a long illness, The New York Times. Bonnie and Clyde, starring Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway in 1967, established new parameters for the representation of sex and violence in Hollywood. Read More

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Cannes’ Palme d’Or Award Winning Film Screened in Havana

<p style="text-align: justify;">2010.10.01 - 15:03:48 / [email protected]. HAVANA, CUBA.- ‘The White Ribbon’, the film that won the Palme d’Or award during the Cannes Film Festival 2009, had its Cuban premiere on Thursday at Havana’s Chaplin Theater as part of the Cinema Critics’ Review Week. Read More

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India seeking Cuban healthcare information

<p style="text-align: justify;">India’s health minister told the Cuban ambassador in New Delhi his government was interested in Cuba’s experiences with healthcare in general, and with battling dengue fever in particular. Read More

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AfroCubism: Buena Vista take two

<p style="text-align: justify;">AfroCubism Joyfully ebullient … AfroCubism. Photograph: guardian.co.uk, Thursday 30 September 2010 22.30 BST. As stories of musicians' ill fortune go, it ranks not far from Leonard Cohen having to tour because his business manager stole $5m of his savings. In 1996, the Malians Bassekou Kouyate and Djelimady Tounkara were invited by World Circuit Records' Nick Gold to Havana to record with a handful of Cuban singers and musicians. Depending who you talk to, lost passports, visa issues or better-paid gigs elsewhere ensured the Malian musicians never made it to Cuba. Read More

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UNASUR Foreign Ministers to Travel to Ecuador Today

<p style="text-align: justify;">HAVANA, Cuba, Oct 1 (acn) Foreign ministers of the South American Nations (UNASUR) will travel on Friday to Ecuador to express their support of president Rafael Correa who faced on Thursday a coup d’état attempt by police forces. Read More

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Triumphant Correa Addresses the Nation

<p style="text-align: justify;">Quito, Sep 30 (Prensa Latina) After being rescued by elite soldiers from the Metropolitan Police Hospital, where he had been sequestered, Ecuador's President Rafael Correa triumphantly addressed the nation from the balcony of the Presidential Palace. A cheering crowd of thousands of people gathered in front of the palace in downtown Quito to express their support for the Ecuadorian leader who blamed the aborted coup on the evil machinations of "known conspirators". Read More

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Why we should applaud Cuba's progress towards the millennium development goals

<p style="text-align: justify;">Cuba's commitment to prioritise health and education regardless of economic circumstances is one that other countries should emulate MDG Cuba UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon (R) meets with foreign minister of Cuba Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla during the millennium development goals Summit in New York last week. As we discuss how well countries are progressing on the millennium development goals (MDGs), South America's left-leaning governments are coming out of it all quite well. And while their mix of policies more closely resembles modified liberal capitalism than revolutionary socialism (yes, even under the radical governments of Chavez, Morales and Correa), it is to Cuba that most still look for political inspiration. Ask Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the moderate social democratic president of Brazil and the world's latest favourite leader, for his political heroes, and I bet Castro will be in the top three. Read More

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Supporters of Cuba Embargo pour Millions into Congressional Coffers

<p style="text-align: justify;">U.S. Congressional District 25 candidates Democrat Joe Garcia and Republican David Rivera have addressed the Cuba issue at length, because 34 percent of Florida’s 1.7 million Hispanic voters are of Cuban ancestry. Garcia, a Democrat, supports easing travel restrictions while Rivera, a Republican, calls for maintaining all restrictions. Read More

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