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October 28th

Cuba Seeks to Develop Export of Chili Pepper

<p style="text-align: justify;">2010.10.27 - 13:44:19 / [email protected]. CIENFUEGOS, CUBA.- Cuba has started to export a species of chili pepper (Capsicum chinense), after selling to Canada the first 27 tons of the crop this year. Chili peppers are an underestimated crop in the Cuban diet and had nearly vanished from the country’s fields until an agricultural enterprise in the municipality of Abreu, Cienfuegos, started growing the crop in cultivation houses covering a total area of barely 4.70 acres. The enterprise, named La Horquita, currently harvests an average of five kilograms per plant in a month, but is looking to boost production after planting ten of its 36 cultivation houses with red and yellow chilli peppers. Read More

New disc will revere Santiago’s traditional music

<p style="text-align: justify;">A musical anthology gathering the work of Santiago’s authors will be edited to revere the rhythmic and authorial legacy of this city, cradle of genres such as son, bolero, pilon and conga. The Bis Music record, from ARTEX, an enterprise for artistic and literary promotion, is preparing the double phonogram with 25 tracks from the Cuban popular and traditional repertory, with equal number of composers from Santiago. The selection takes in authors from the nineteenth-century, who founded the Cuban sonorous identity -among them Jose "Pepe" Sanchez, father of the first bolero and the trova– and includes contemporary authors as Rodulfo Vaillant and Enrique Bonne. Read More

Cuba to Participate in Salvadoran Commercial Fair

<p style="text-align: justify;">Cuba will be present at the 23rd International Commercial Fair of El Salvador scheduled for November 9-14 at the International Fair and Convention Center (CIFCO) of San Salvador with the participation of over 20 countries. Read More

For the US, a spectacularly embarrasing vote at the UN

<p style="text-align: justify;">La Alborada - October 27. After last year, it seemed that the annual vote at the UN could not get worse for the US. This year, it did just that: the vote was 187 against the blockade,two in favor. Palau, a Pacific micro-island that has supported the US in the past, decided to abstain, following the prior example of its neighbor Marshall Islands. Taking that stand is no small matter for an isolated nation in a commonwealth with the US. Read More

October 27th

Cuba Defeats Chinese Taipei at Baseball Intercontinental Cup

<p style="text-align: justify;">The Cuban baseball squad defeated their rivals from Chinese Taipei at the Intercontinental Cup, currently underway in Douliou City, Yunlin County. Read More

Nestor Kirchner dies suddenly

<p style="text-align: justify;">Néstor Kirchner, Argentina’s president from 2003 to 2007, the husband of the incumbent, Cristina Fernández and the man widely considered the country’s most powerful politician, died suddenly on Wednesday after a heart attack. He was 60. Read More

Jose Manuel Carreño to Retire from the American Ballet Theatre

<p style="text-align: justify;">10/27/2010. Principal dancer of the National Ballet of Cuba and of the American Ballet Theatre (ABT) Jose Manuel Carreño announced he will retire from the American company on June 30, 2011. Carreño said he will continue his dancing career and hopes to do some choreography and to create a work of his own. The artist, who joined the ABT 15 years ago, said it is a great opportunity to be in Cuba with the US company for the first time to participate in the 22nd International Ballet Festival of Havana, scheduled for October 28 to November 7. Read More

Jazz In Cuba Is music helping shred a senseless Cold War remnant?

<p style="text-align: justify;">Is music helping shred a senseless Cold War remnant? 10/27/10 • By Ken Franckling. After all these years, is there anything more senseless than the U.S. trade embargo against Cuba? I think not, but some are bound to disagree. But the arts are thawing the iceberg a bit – and jazz is at the forefront of that relaxation. rturo O'Farrill leads his Arfo-Latin Jazz Orchestra at Litchfield Jazz Festival 2010. Right now, pianist Chucho Valdés and his Afro-Cuban Messengers are in the midst of a 12-city U.S. tour that included two nights at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Rose Room in Manhattan and hop-scotched around the Northeast and West Coast. Read More

BLOOMBERG: Obama Is Urged to End Cuba Trade Embargo

<p style="text-align: justify;">Cuba's margin of victory actually incresed this time as Palau - population 20,000 - which voted against Cuba last time abstained this time. Obama Is Urged to End Cuba Trade Embargo in 187-2 UN General Assembly Vote. By Bill Varner - Oct 26, 2010 10:12 AM. The United Nations General Assembly voted for the 19th consecutive year to urge an end to the U.S. trade embargo against Cuba, which the government in Havana has labeled an "act of genocide." Read More

Indonesian tsunami kills 272; help finally arrives

<p style="text-align: justify;">Planes and helicopters packed with rescue workers and supplies landed for the first time on Wednesday on remote Indonesian islands that were pounded by a 10—foot (three—meter) tsunami, sweeping away villages and killing at least 272 people. Read More