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Pablo Milanes returns with his music to the USA, after 10 years absence

<p style="text-align: justify;">As the title of his famous song Yo pisaré las calles nuevamente (I shall step over the streets again), the Cuban Pablo Milanes, returns to the USA next October to offer two concerts in California, as a preview of his tour all over the country scheduled for next year. "I haven’t been to the USA in the last 10 years, last time I was there, was to offer some concerts in New York, Washington, Chicago and Los Angeles", said Milanes to EFE from Cuba in a telephone conversation. Read More

MH/Tamayo: Lawyer in line to head Marti stations

<p style="text-align: justify;">MIAMI HERALD. Posted on Wednesday, 09.22.10.A lawyer active in the Cuban American National Foundation is in line to head U.S. government broadcasts to Cuba, sources said. Read More

XINHUA: Time for US to lift Cuban embargo

<p style="text-align: justify;">I recall years ago protesting to then-Senator Bill Bradley (the "liberal" and so-called intellectual New Jersey senator) and asking him to listen to the General Assembly vote. He dismissed the General Assembly vote as meaning nothing. His aide smiled in agreement. Read More

AP: US, Haiti accord paves way for Korean factories

<p style="text-align: justify;">PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti. U.S. and Haitian officials signed an agreement Monday with a South Korean clothing manufacturer to build garment factories that they said will employ 10,000 people in this quake-ravaged nation. Read More

CNN: Obama invited to visit Cuba -- and bring jailed Cubans with him

<p style="text-align: justify;">Havana. Cuba (CNN) -- U.S. President Barack Obama has been issued an unexpected invitation to visit Cuba -- from the island's 90-year-old prima ballerina, who implored him to bring along five Cuban agents imprisoned in the United States for more than a decade. "I want to invite the president of the United States to come to Cuba with his wife and lovely children," Alicia Alonso said at an event to call for the release of the agents, who were convicted of spying on Cuban exile groups in a hotly debated trial. Read More

Near Cuba, Wary Kin Wait for Proof of a New Path

<p style="text-align: justify;">MIAMI — Fashion boutiques, restaurants, a bank — Jorge Gomez plans to help his relatives in Havana open whatever business they want. But when? Like many Cubans on and off the island, Mr. Gomez has been scrutinizing the Cuban labor federation’s announcement last week that 500,000 public sector workers would soon be laid off and expected to find jobs in small private enterprises, possibly reshaping Cuba’s state-dominated economy. Read More

Deeper Cuba, Caricom unity

<p style="text-align: justify;">THE CARIBBEAN Community and Cuba have pledged to strengthen regional integration based on “cooperation and solidarity”, as well as to deepen Caribbean and Latin American cooperation. The pledges are outlined in a “declaration” released late Monday,&nbsp; following last week’s Third Ministerial Meeting Of Foreign Affairs Ministers Of CARICOM And Cuba hosted by President Raul Castro’s government in Havana. Read More

Havana Hosts Film Festival About Genre and Environment

<p style="text-align: justify;">HAVANA, Cuba, Sept 21 (acn) The Third Humberto Solas Low-Budget Cinema Theme Festival will be about genre and environment and it will take place in Havana from October 13-16. For the first time the festival will be held outside its traditional venue of the southern city of Cienfuegos. The event will provide a space for the exchange between the cinema avant-garde and social sciences specialists and search for solutions to currents obstacles in audiovisual productions. Read More

AUSTRALIA: Melbourne -Spring Latin Fiesta, Solidarity Gathering October

<p style="text-align: justify;">Join us for a night of Latin American music to get you in the mood for spring!Saturday September 25, 7pm, MUA Hall, Two fantastic Latin American bands, "Madre Monte" The best Colombian band in Melbourne, Regea ballads, rumba and Latin rhythms. Read More