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Archive - Sep 9, 2010

Mixing plastics arts with books and songs in Cienfuegos

<p style="text-align: justify;">Oil paintings, cement, graphite over cloth. Different tones of greys, whites and blacks, some with identifiable red slashes. Suggested ideas, stated: everyday man, from its own profiles and visions, then back to the childhood between outlines and backgrounds. Mixing codes and intentions are presented at the Mecenas hall of the Ateneo Dionisio San Román bookshop in Cienfuegos, the painters Irving Torres Barroso and Luis Miguel Rivero García. Read More

N.D. ag commissioner postpones Cuba trade mission

<p style="text-align: justify;">The five-person delegation had tickets to Havana on Mexicana Airlines, which went out of business Aug. 28. Agriculture Commissioner Doug Goehring said alternate flights are too expensive. AP. BISMARCK — Agriculture Commissioner Doug Goehring said a state Agriculture Department trade mission to Cuba has been postponed. Read More

US-Cuba relations in 'positive phase:' US governor

<p style="text-align: justify;">(AFP). WASHINGTON — New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson, who visited Cuba last month, said Wednesday US-Cuban relations were in a "positive phase" after goodwill gestures from both sides. "US-Cuba relations are heading into a positive phase. I see changes," Richardson told a Washington think-tank after heading a trade mission to Havana, during which he also discussed the case of US contractor Alan Gross, held in Cuba since December. Read More

Lincoln Center, Cuba Get Jazzy

<p style="text-align: justify;">The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra will take its first trip to Cuba next month as part of a cultural exchange with the Cuban Institute of Music, the company will announce this Thursday. The visit comes at the invitation of the Havana-based institute and was facilitated by the Cuban pianist and bandleader Chucho Valdés. Read More

Railroad Training Courses Reopen in Cuba

<p style="text-align: justify;">2010.09.08. Santa Clara, Cuba.- About a hundred youths from the central provinces of Cienfuegos, Sancti Spiritus and Villa Clara have enrolled in course in railroad maintenance and exploitation starting next week at the Ramon Ribalta technical school, in the municipality of Sagua la Grande. Read More

Native of Cuba brings ambition to practice medicine to America

<p style="text-align: justify;">When he was a boy, Gerard Dorta carried bandages with him in case of emergency. The Havana native hoped to pursue a career in medicine and often provided aid to classmates when needed. He also studied medical textbooks. Read More

Vietnam, Cuba vow to deepen relations

<p style="text-align: justify;">Leading legislators from Vietnam and Cuba have resolved to deepen the friendship and multifaceted co-operation that exist between the two nations, both bilaterally and multilaterally. The Chairman of Vietnam’s National Assembly, Nguyen Phu Trong and his Cuban counterpart, Ricardo Alarcon, reached a consensus on the issue during their talks in Havana on September 6. Read More

Cuba to send its best chess players to World Olympiad in Russia

<p style="text-align: justify;">16:51, September 08, 2010. Cuba will send its top ten players to the World Chess Olympiad, scheduled from September 21 to October 11 in Khanty Mansiysk, Russia, said here on Tuesday a note from the National Institute of Sports and Recreation (INDER). The men's team on the island, with an average of 2,652 ELO points, will be headed by the great master Leinier Dominguez (2,716) and it is comprised also by Lazaro Bruzon (2,679), Yuniesky Quesada (2,614), Fidel Corrales (2,599), and Holden Hernandez (2,563). Read More

SOUTH JOURNAL: Lucius Walker,The Man That Breached The US Blockade of CUBA

<p style="text-align: justify;">Lucius Walker never asked Cuba for anything but for keeping on with his solidarity efforts. Since he first came to the island heading a Friendship Humanitarian Caravan, in 1992, he strived to break the economic US blockade of Cuba. Read More

Report: Castro says Cuban model doesn't work

<p style="text-align: justify;">HAVANA — Fidel Castro told a visiting American journalist that Cuba's communist economic model doesn't work.The fact that things are not working efficiently on this Caribbean island is hardly news. Fidel's brother Raul, the country's president, has said the same thing repeatedly. Read More