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Venezuelan President to travel to China

<p style="text-align: justify;">Caracas, 16 Sep. AVN .- Venezuela"s President Hugo Chavez announced on Wednesday that he will soon travel to the People"s Republic of China to have a meeting with the president of that country, Hu Jinta Read More

Kaplowitz: It's past time to end failed embargo on Cuba

<p style="text-align: justify;">September 16, 2010.With credible reports that President Obama will issue an executive order lifting parts of the anachronistic U.S. trade embargo against Cuba, it is high time the U.S. public pressures Congress to go the final step to entirely end the half century old Cold War relic. The Obama administration's move would return U.S. embargo policy to the "people-to-people" approach followed by President Bill Clinton's administration,loosening restrictions on travel by academic, religious and cultural groups added to the embargo by President George W. Bush in 2004. Read More

MT Farmers Union urges more Cuba trade

<p style="text-align: justify;">Members of the Montana Farmers Union have been in Washington D.C. this week to talk about agricultural and economic issues with legislators and their peers from around the country. Read More

Cuba’s Starting Pitchers for Tournament

<p style="text-align: justify;">09/15/2010. Eduardo Martin, head coach of the Cuban team that will participate in the 2010 FIBA Americas Championship to be held in Puerto Rico, released the names of five starting pitchers included on the team’s official line-up for the competition.<br> <br> Read More

A common aim: to support the miners

<p style="text-align: justify;">David Villa returned to the headlines of the main Spanish media. This time the journalists did not talk about one of his frequent goals or stunning celebrations, it appears that fans didn’t even want to comment about soccer either, because they criticized, often crudely, the Spanish striker for having sent a signed shirt to the relatives of the 33 Chilean miners, trapped in a mine 700 meters (2300ft) underground. Read More

Russia: Cuban Film Week

<p style="text-align: justify;">The award-winning film Strawberry and Chocolate opens a week of Cuban cinema in Russia on Wednesday, featuring films that show the island's cultural diversity and its way of seeing reality. Read More

Cuba criticizes Obama for keeping embargo

<p style="text-align: justify;">HAVANA – Cuba's foreign minister said Wednesday that President Barack Obama has missed a golden opportunity to improve relations, lamenting that nearly two years after he offered an olive branch to America's traditional foes, the U.S. leader has "not lived up to expectations." Read More

US/Cuba Labor Exchange Seminar to Cuba: Educators program

<p style="text-align: justify;">Join the U.S./Cuba Labor Exchange to participate in the Educators program -Cuban Labor Seminar to Cuba, Friday November 19 to Monday November 29, 2010 $1,650 Cuba Labor Seminar-United for a New America Uniting America's Working Class and Increasing its Influence Read More

ONTARIO, CANADA/10/2: Rally for the Cuban Five - University of Wind

<p style="text-align: justify;">Public Rally to Free the Cuban Five, Saturday October 2, 2010, Oak Room, Vanier Hall, University of Windsor, Ontario, Canada. We are honoured to inform you that we will be addressed by Elizabeth Palmeiro,the wife of Ramon Labañino, one of the Cuban Five and Silvia Garcia Tabio,member of the Cuban National Assembly. Read More

Cuba's economic overhaul would require new approach, experts say

<p style="text-align: justify;">MIAMI HERALD.Tue, Sep. 14, 2010. Cuba's announcement that it will try to shift nearly 500,000 workers from state payrolls to the private sector has raised an obvious question: Can the island's system really do that? Read More