Natural Disasters in Cuba, Chile

<p style="text-align: justify;">Pyongyang, July 24 (KCNA) -- Cuba registered a record high of 695 forest fires as over 20 000 hectares were blackened by forest fires from January to May.It is taking positive steps to prevent forest fires.Heavy snows fell in southern Chile recently, causing damage.The worst heavy snow fall in the last ten years displaced about 6,500 inhabitants as of July 20, blocking roads and suspending electricity supply. Read More

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Afro-Cuban All Stars and Sensual Dancing

<p style="text-align: justify;">What: See Cuba’s premier folkloric masters of Afro-Cuban traditional music and dance deliver a spectacular of sensual dancing and some of the most complex drumming to be heard in this hemisphere. This is a rare event to see masters from Havana, Matanzas, and Santiago, Cuba playing, singing, and dancing together. All of these performers have a long history and body of work in the most prestigious performing groups in Cuba such as Los Muñequitos de Matanzas, Grupo Afro-Cuba de Matanzas, Conjunto Folklorico Nacional de Cuba, Raices Profundo, Grupo Clave y Guaguanco, Yoruba Andabo, Cutumba, Ban Rra Rra, and more. Read More

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Hurricane Center: No Tropical Development Expected Through Tuesday

<p style="text-align: justify;">Minimal Concern In Atlantic, Gulf Of Mexico. CORAL GABLES, Fla. -- National Hurricane Center forecasters are watching one system for potential development, but do not expect significant activity in the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico over the next 48 hours. Read More

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Large Mexican Presence in Circuba 2011 Festival

<p style="text-align: justify;">24 de Julio 2011. Havana, (Prensa Latina).- A large Mexican artistic delegation, mostly from the Meso-American University of Puebla, will take part in Circuba 2011 Festival from August 8 to 14, announced sources from the organizing committee.Representing Mexico in the festival will be jugglers, acrobats, clowns, and contortionists, such as the ribbon duo Estampa Mexicana, the clown Recorcholis, and the Bambu aereo (air Bamboo) duo, formed by Abraham Hernandez and Estefanie Guzman. Read More

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Boulder senior center celebrates Cuba Day

<p style="text-align: justify;">The smell of empanadas and the sound of traditional Changui music filled the air Saturday as the East Boulder Senior Center celebrated Cuba Day.Activities included Cuban art, Latin guitar-playing, salsa dancing, movie screenings and Cuban food -- including black beans and coconut rice. Karen Morgan, senior center program coordinator, said she likes to bring in cultural events every few months. Read More

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Attractive Ecotourism in Guanahacabibes

<p style="text-align: justify;">24 de Julio 2011. Pinar del Rio, (Prensa Latina).- Walks on crags, caverns and tropical rainforests with high biodiversity are now attractive ecotourism options in the Cuban peninsula of Guanahacabibes, a Biosphere Reserve. On the way to Las Pelas Cave, the visitors can see a forest with over 200year-old trees and a great variety of birds like Tocororo (Cuban Trogon), Cartacuba (Cuban Tody) and Thrush, Director of the National Park located in the area Lazaro Marquez told Prensa Latina. Read More

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Almendrones Roll in Havana

<p style="text-align: justify;">By: Alfredo Boada. Havana, (Prensa Latina) The "almendrones", the name given by popular usage to those old North American cars of all models produced over half a century ago and still circulating in Cuba, now look almost like new, in their daily persistent comings and goings on the streets and avenues of Havana. Emblematic and active elements of this city, perhaps the one place in the world where so many old cars circulate together with a large number of modern cars of different origins, the popular "almendrones" owe the origin of their nickname -born of the imagination of Cubans- to the hardness of their metal bodies. Read More

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A Cuban housing market? Govt is lifting a taboo

<p style="text-align: justify;">AP. By PETER ORSI - Associated Press. HAVANA (AP) — Each morning before the sun rises too high, Cubans gather at a shaded corner in central Havana, mingling as though at a cocktail party. The icebreaker is always the same: "What are you offering?" This is Cuba's informal real-estate bazaar, where a chronic housing shortage brings everyone from newlyweds to retirees together to strike deals that often involve thousands of dollars in under-the-table payments. They're breaking not just the law but communist doctrine by trading and profiting in property, and now their government is about to get in on the action. Read More

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ALBA Games: Cuba Placed Second in Medal Standings

<p style="text-align: justify;">Cuban representatives won 15 titles on Wednesday during the third day of competitions of the Fourth Games of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of the Americas (ALBA Games), under way in several Venezuelan states, and remained second in the medal standings of the multi-sport event attended by more than 2,000 athletes from 23 countries. This is the fourth edition of the games. Read More

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Publicity billboard announces Pablo Milanes' performance in Miami

<p style="text-align: justify;">As part of the cultural exchange between the US and Cuba, Pablo Milanés will sing at the American Airlines Arena and the concert is being announced by different media including radio and TV, publicity billboards and neon signs. Billboards have been paid by Fuego Entertainment Inc, its president Hugo Cancio has represented many of the Cuban artists performing in Miami. Adds can be seen all through Bird Road and Coral Way streets besides the Mega TV channel frequently announcing Pablo Milanés' coming concert. Read More

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