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Archive - Nov 12, 2010

MIAMI HERALD: Brouwer, Valdés win Latin Grammys

<p style="text-align: justify;">November 12, 2010. Brouwer, Valdés win Latin Grammys. Guitarist/composer Leo Brouwer and pianist Chucho Valdés were two Cuban winners of Latin Grammy Awards, Brouwer for Best Classical Music Album ("Integral de Cuartetos de Cuerda") and Valdés for Best Traditional Tropical Album ("El Último Trago," with Spanish singer Concha Buika.) Read More

Marabana-2010 over Thousand Runners

<p style="text-align: justify;">More than a week before the close of registration for the international marathon Marabana-2010, more than 1,500 runners have entered the event. Carlos Gattorno, director of Marabana, told Prensa Latina that so far they have received requests from more than 200 foreign marathoners from 42 countries. Read More

Latin Grammy Awards 2010. List of winners

<p style="text-align: justify;">Ely Guerra arrives at the 11th Annual Latin Grammy Awards on Thursday, Nov. 11, 2010, in Las Vegas. Latin Grammy Awards 2010. List of winners 2010, November 11 2010. Album of the Year:&nbsp; “A son de guerra”, by the Dominican Juan Luis Guerra. Son of the Year: “Mientes”, Mario Domm and Mónica Vélez by the Mexican Group, Camila.&nbsp; Recording of the Year: “Mientes” (Camila). Mario Domm, producer: Gabriel Castañon, Mario Domm and Benny Faccone, engineers. Read More

Homage to Swedish Naturalist Erik Ekman in Havana

<p style="text-align: justify;">2010.11.11 - 17:00:28 / [email protected]. Botanists, museum experts and musicians from Cuba and Sweden will pay homage to Erik L. Ekman on November 25th and 26th in Havana. Ekman is considered one of the researchers that have contributed knowledge to the island´s botany. The activities in his honor will be held in Old Havana, according to a news note issued by the Office of the City Historian. Read More

Isabel Santos: Alicia is an Empress of the Motion

<p style="text-align: justify;">By: Giusette Leon Garcia. 11/08/2010. Wax dancers, tiny, light, stylized, mounted on acana wood like an old dreamt scenario, or suspended, movable, in midair as a great jete, fill Origenes Gallery of Havana where the plastic arts artist Isabel Santos presents her personal exposition "Darts of the Memory."&nbsp; Two installments complete the exhibition, impressions in plaster of feet and the hands of the first dancer Anette Delgado in positions that remind the Willis from "The Swams Lake."&nbsp; Read More

Chávez: PdVSA to begin offshore drilling ’soon’

<p style="text-align: justify;">Venezuelan state oil company PdVSA will “soon” being exploratory drilling in Cuban waters of the Gulf of Mexico, President Hugo Chávez said during a bilateral meeting in Havana earlier this week. Read More

Cuban plane crash investigation continues

<p style="text-align: justify;">Nov. 11, 2010, 1:34 p.m. EST. Associated Press. HAVANA (AP) — Investigators from France and dental surgeons from Argentina were working with Cuban officials Thursday to determine the cause of last week's plane crash and help identify the dead, as one victim's family said it is desperate to recover his body and give him a proper burial. Read More

Cuba to Host 3rd International Congress on Animal Production

<p style="text-align: justify;">Omelio Borroto, vice-president of the event’s organizing committee, said in a press conference on Wednesday that the congress will be attended by over 200 foreign delegates and some 150 Cubans, and that the record figure of 542 papers has already been sent. The biennial event, he said, is sponsored by the National Association for Animal Production (ACPA) and the Institute of Animal Science (ICA). Read More

Dignitaries to Seoul for G-20 Summit

<p style="text-align: justify;">11/11/2010. The presidents of Spain and the U.S.A. Jose Luis Zapatero and Barack Obama, and India's Primer Minister Mahmohan Sing arrived in Seoul on Wednesay to attend the G-20 Summit that opens Thursday. Read More

President Funes Visits Cuban Stand at Trade Fair

<p style="text-align: justify;">Mauricio Funes, President of El Salvador, visited on Wednesday the Cuban pavilion at his country’s International Trade Fair and expressed his satisfaction for the participation, for the first time, of the Caribbean island in the event. Read More