CDRs Celebrate 50th Anniversary with art

<p style="text-align: justify;">The exhibition 50 Years Defending Socialism and the Cuban Revolution was inaugurated at the National Museum of the Revolution to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Committees for the Defense of the Revolution (CDR). More than 300 pieces made up the exhibition, which includes documents, photos, historic objects and personal belongings of the founders and supporters of the organization, and reflects the 50 years of existence of the largest grassroots organization of the country. Read More

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Peres thanks Castro for words about Jews

<p style="text-align: justify;">Published: 09.25.10, 19:30 / Israel News. President Shimon Peres sent a missive to Cuba's Fidel Castro to thank him for his words about Jews. "Your unexpected words comprise a kind of surprising bridge between a difficult reality and a new horizon," Peres wrote. "This is proof that those distant from one another can be close." Read More

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Cuban Vice President Ricardo Cabrisas Visits China

<p style="text-align: justify;">HAVANA, Cuba, Sept 25 (acn) The Vice President of the Cuban Council of Ministers, Ricardo Cabrisas, began on Saturday an official visit to China. During his stay in China, Cabrisas will meet with important local authorities and he will participate in celebrations for the 50th anniversary of the establishment of Cuba-China bilateral relations. Read More

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Funes to be escorted by large business delegation

<p style="text-align: justify;">President Mauricio Funes during his upcoming visit to Havana will be accompanied by a large delegation of&nbsp; businesspeople, El Salvador’s foreign minister announced. Fifty businesspeople said they will accompany Funes to Havana during the first week of October, Hugo Martínez said, according to daily newspaper La Página. This is the first visit of a Salvadoran president since the two countries resumed diplomatic relations last year. Read More

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ESPN columnist: Cuba may allow baseball stars to become free agents

<p style="text-align: justify;">Cuba may allow its stars to play professional baseball abroad, ESPN Deportes columnist Enrique Rojas wrote in his blog. Rojas based his information on a “source close to Cuban baseball authorities.” Even if the Cuban government were to allow its players to sign contracts in the United States, the U.S. embargo would make financial transactions with Cuba impossible. Read More

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International Community Demands End of US Blockade of Cuba at United Nations

<p style="text-align: justify;">HAVANA, Cuba, Sept 25 (acn) The international community urged the United States on Friday to put an end to the almost 50-year-old economic blockade of Cuba during the 65th ordinary period of sessions of the United Nations General Assembly in New York. Granma newspaper reports that the demand was made by the representatives of Bolivia, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Haiti and the Democratic Republic of Laos. Read More

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Canadian Network on Cuba Holds Successful Convention

<p style="text-align: justify;"><br> The Canadian Network on Cuba (CNC) held a very successful 5th Biennial Convention in Toronto from September 4-6, 2010. Delegates and observers from 18 member organizations were joined by observers and invited guests including Her Excellency, the Cuban Ambassador to Canada Teresita Vicente, the Consul General of Cuba to Canada Jorge Soberón and other Cuban guests. Read More

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Belarus and Cuba Discuss Ways to Foster Economic Exchange

<p style="text-align: justify;">HAVANA, Cuba, Sept 24.- Belarus and Cuba discussed on Thursday in Minsk possibilities to foster trade relations which are not up to the current actual potentials. In a meeting with Cuban deputy Foreign Trade and Foreign Investment minister,Oscar Perez, Belarusian deputy Foreign minister pointed out that political cooperation between the two countries is much stronger than economic collaboration, Prensa Latina reported. Read More

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`Everybody in Cuba has access to culture'

<p style="text-align: justify;">LONDON. Aida Bahr, a prize-winning fiction writer, literary critic, and screenwriter in Cuba, recently spoke at two universities in the United Kingdom on "Culture and the Cuban Revolution." On September 10 Bahr spoke as a guest lecturer at a meeting of 70 people hosted by the Hispanic Studies Department at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. The event was chaired by Dr. Fiona Mackintosh, a university lecturer in Latin American literature. The next day more than 80 heard Bahr at the University of London's Birkbeck College. The events were broadly sponsored by bookshops,artists and other cultural figures, students, and trade unionists. Read More

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Cuba Ballet’s Don Quixote oozes an infectious lust for life

<p style="text-align: justify;">The magnificent spectacle of Ballet Nacional de Cuba's production of Don Quixote. A sense of pure joy pervades Ballet Nacional de Cuba's Don Quixote in a way that is rare in highly-disciplined traditional art forms, writes reviewer Sommer Tothill. Ballet Nacional de Cuba’s production of Don Quixote is introduced by a short video by acclaimed prima ballerina and founder of the company, Alicia Alonso, to celebrate her 90th birthday. Speaking of her long career in ballet the world over, she muses, "Dancing is laughing with the body." Then Don Quixote goes on to illustrate just that. Read More

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