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Archive - Dec 6, 2010

Flesh-eating zombies 'attack' Havana

<p style="text-align: justify;">Reuters. GRACE MILLIMACI, The West Australian December 6, 2010, 9:01 am. Jazz Vila, left, and Senia Veigas in Juan de los Muertos in Havana. Onlookers would be forgiven for thinking Havana has been taken over by freaks, but they are actually actors filming Juan de los Muertos - Juan of the Dead. Read More

Hollywood Goes to Havana

<p style="text-align: justify;">By MICHAEL CIEPLY. December 5, 2010, 11:11 pm. “No route found.” So said a voice on the fuzzy line as it searched for a telecommunications path during the first 15 or 20 attempts to reach the Hotel Nacional de Cuba on Friday evening. But the connections finally clicked for a quick conversation with the film industry’s man in Havana — one of them, anyway — Sidney Ganis.Sidney GanisKevin Winter/Getty Images Sidney Ganis Read More

Hanukkah in Cuba, Raúl Castro celebrates with Cuban Jews

<p style="text-align: justify;">Cuba's President Raul Castro lights a Hanukkah candle during a ceremony at the Bet Shalom synagogue in Havana, Cuba, Sunday . By Paul Haven. Dec. 5, 2010. (AP Photo/Ismael Francisco, Prensa Latina) HAVANA — President Raul Castro celebrated Hanukkah on Sunday with Cuba's tiny Jewish community, a heavily symbolic act at a time when his government is holding a Jewish-American subcontractor on suspicion of spying. Read More

Juan Formell y Los Van Van in New York

<p style="text-align: justify;">This Holiday season, 'The Rolling Stones of Salsa', Los Van Van, come to SOB’s for 3 incredible nights that New York has been eagerly awaiting for over a decade. Monday, December 6th, Tuesday, December 7th and Wednesday, December 8th the band hits the island of Manhattan, straight from the island of Cuba. Read More

Zuma lands in Cuba for talks

<p style="text-align: justify;">December 6 2010 at 12:14am. Associated Press. South African President Jacob Zuma, left, talks to Cuba's Deputy Foreign Minister Marcos Rodriguez upon his arrival at the Jose Marti International Airport in Havana, Cuba. Read More

Americans go to Vietnam (and love it), so why not Cuba?

<p style="text-align: justify;">Bill Claiborne and his wife recently spent some time in Vietnam; he even put together a travelogue. The trip evoked memories of Cuba -- and the sense that the American press should do a better job on why restrictions still exist.By William Claiborne [email protected]. As my wife and I traveled around Vietnam recently during a glorious journey through the Indochina peninsula, I was constantly confronted by images that made me think about the senselessness of the nearly 50-year-old U.S. trade embargo and travel restrictions that America continues to impose on Cuba. Read More

Celebrations for the CARICOM-Cuba Day Begin in Trinidad and Tobago

<p style="text-align: justify;">2010.12.05 - 10:08:05 / [email protected]. Havana, Cuba.- Celebrations for the establishment of bonds between the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and Cuba began on Friday in Trinidad and Tobago with the screening of a documentary on the work and solidarity of Cuban physicians. Among the activities of the program –to celebrate on December 8 the 38th anniversary of these bonds. Trinidadian authorities have scheduled a health fair in the city of San Fernando, the screening of films, and performances of indigenous music, the Prensa Latina news agency reported. Read More

Posada trial marked by incriminating evidence gathered by FBI and Cuban authorities

<p style="text-align: justify;">Jurors in the Luis Posada Carriles trial will hear key evidence for the first time -- including a controversial recorded interview.Cuba's Supreme Court commuted the death sentence of a Salvadoran man convicted of terrorism for his role in a string of bombings that killed an Italian and wounded 11 others in 1997, ruling Friday that he should serve 30 years in prison instead. Read More

Summit to U.S.: End blockade against Cuba

<p style="text-align: justify;">Excerpts from communiqué on Cuba adopted by the 20th Ibero-American Summit, held this weekend in Mar del Plata, Argentina.In the defense of the free exchange and transparent practice of international commerce, the application of coercive, unilateral measures that affect the well-being of the peoples, their access and full enjoyment of the benefits of international cooperation in all spheres is unacceptable. Read More

Cuba Welcomes Jamaica''s Trade Initiative

<p style="text-align: justify;">By: Martin Hacthoun.domingo, 05 de diciembre de 2010.Havana, Dec 5 (Prensa Latina) Cuba has welcomed the decision of Jamaica to endorse the implementation of duty free access for specific goods from Cuba into the Jamaican market, and seasonal duties on other products. Read More