ALBA Countries Defend Rights of Mother Earth

<p style="text-align: justify;">Escrito por Ileana Ferrer Fonte. miércoles, 03 de noviembre de 2010. 09:13La Paz, Nov 3 (Prensa Latina) Starting Wednesday, member countries of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America are meeting in Bolivia to advocate a common position on the importance of the rights of Mother Earth. Read More

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Democrats Keep U.S. Senate Majority

<p style="text-align: justify;">03 de noviembre de 2010.10:06Washington, Nov 3 (Prensa Latina) The U.S. Democratic Party avoided a complete sweep by Republicans in Congress, keeping its majority in the Senate, in elections marked by the economic crisis and nearly double-digit unemployment. Read More

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Cuban Dancer Jose Manuel Carrreño Announces His Retirement from the Classics

<p style="text-align: justify;">2010.11.02 - 17:27:51 / [email protected]. HAVANA, Cuba. - Cuban dancer Jose Manuel Carreño announced his retirement from the American Ballet Theatre (ABT) with a special performance on June 30, 2011 at the Metropolitan Opera House of New York. Carreño will be dancing Swan Lake accompanied by Juliet Kent in the role of Odette and Gillian Murphy as Odile, according to a report by Balletin Dance, an Argentinean ballet magazine. Read More

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Brazilian President-Elect Reaffirms Anti-Poverty Fight

<p style="text-align: justify;">By Ana Luisa Brown.&nbsp; Brazilian President-elect Dilma Rousseff says she plans to overhaul the Bolsa Familia social assistance program, and reiterated that her main goal is to eradicate abject poverty. Rousseff made her comments on the social assistance program in an interview with TV Brazil. She initiated the program while she was the chief minister of the ministerial Cabinet of President Luis Inacio Lula da Silva. Read More

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For American and Cuban Jazz, More Riffing, Fewer Rifts

<p style="text-align: justify;">By BEN RATLIFF, LARRY ROHTER and BEN SISARIO. Published: November 2, 2010. The loosening of Washington’s restrictions on travel to and from Cuba has recently resulted in much more cultural exchange than in the past, and the jazz world has benefited in particular. Chucho Valdés performing at the Allen Room at Jazz at Lincoln Center on Oct. 22. Last month the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra visited Havana, and Chucho Valdés, the renowned Cuban pianist, performed a series of concerts in New York. (The group AfroCubism, which includes Eliades Ochoa of Buena Vista Social Club, plays at Town Hall in Manhattan next Tuesday, and on Dec. 6 and 7 the Cuban dance band Los Van Van will be at the club S.O.B.’s; the Latin Grammys will be held in Las Vegas on Nov. 11.) Read More

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USA win thriller with Cuba

<p style="text-align: justify;">The United States had to dig deep to maintain their unbeaten record in Group C at the World Championship in Matsumoto on Wednesday, winning a thriller with Cuba 3-1 (30-28, 25-23, 22-25, 25-23). The USA finished with a 5-0 record, dropping only two sets, while the improving Cuba team – who lost their first match to Croatia 3-0 – ended the first round 2-3. Read More

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Santiago de Cuba to Host International Conference on Mechanical Engineering

<p style="text-align: justify;">2010.11.02 - 09:51:45 / [email protected]. SANTIAGO DE CUBA.- The International Conference “Mechanical Engineering and Energy,” to be held this month in Santiago de Cuba, will assess the impact of the specialty on the environment and its practical use for national development. Read More

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Cuba-Venezuela undersea cable project starts in January: official

<p style="text-align: justify;">21:26, November 02, 2010.The laying of a submarine fiber optic cable linking Cuba and Venezuela will start in January 2011, a Cuban official said on Monday. Read More

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American Ballet Theatre comes to Cuba

<p style="text-align: justify;">By PAUL HAVEN, Associated Press Paul Haven, Associated Press. HAVANA – American Ballet Theatre dancers promised pirouettes — not politics — during the troupe's historic visit to Cuba this week, the first by the New York-based company since shortly after Fidel Castro's 1959 revolution. America's premier ballet company was in Havana to pay homage to Cuba's most famous ballerina, 89-year-old Alicia Alonso, who danced with the American Ballet Theatre in the 1940s and 50s before returning to her homeland to found Cuba's National Ballet. Read More

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Cuba Catholics to open first new seminary in decades

<p style="text-align: justify;">Reuters. By Esteban Israel Esteban Israel. PENALVER, Cuba (Reuters) – The Roman Catholic Church will open on Wednesday its first new seminary in Cuba in more than half a century in a further sign of its improving relations with the island's communist-led government. Read More

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