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Bay of Pigs: The 'perfect failure' of Cuba invasion

<p style="text-align: justify;">By Michael Voss BBC News, Cuba. Fidel Castro's forces outnumbered the invaders by about 10 to one. Fifty years ago, shortly before midnight on 16 April 1961, a group of some 1,500 Cuban exiles trained and financed by the CIA launched an ill-fated invasion of Cuba from the sea in the Bay of Pigs.The plan was to overthrow Fidel Castro and his revolution.The Bay of Pigs is a large isolated inlet on Cuba's southern coast.The beach at Playa Giron, a village with a small airstrip at the mouth of the Bay of Pigs, was the invaders' primary target. (To this day, it is referred to in Cuba as the Playa Giron invasion.) Read More

Four-month long ¡Sí Cuba! festival puts on a united front

<p style="text-align: justify;">By: Carolina Gonzalez. Wednesday, April 13th 2011, 9:13 AM.&nbsp; The ¡Sí Cuba! Festival will bring Los Muñequitos de Matanzas to the U.S. for the first time in years. The renowned Afro-Cuban dance troupe will play May 5-7 at Symphony Space.New York City is having a Cuban spring.The ¡Sí Cuba! Festival, which began officially two weeks ago, sprawls over nearly four months and 14 venues, with enough events for even the most avid Cuban culture fiend.But while the festival front-loads artists from the island nation making rare visits to the Big Apple, a substantial portion of the program features Cuban-born artists who have made the New York area their home, such as singers Xiomara Laugart and Pedrito Martínez. Read More

Experts solve mystery of ancient stone monument near Atlanta

<p style="text-align: justify;">April 11th, 2011 9:07 am ET. Richard Thornton. Architecture &amp; Design Examiner. Rock art specialists from around North America have finally solved this century old archaeological riddle.&nbsp;&nbsp; The stone slab is evidence that native peoples from Puerto Rico or Cuba once lived within the interior of Eastern North America.One day, long before Christopher Columbus claimed to have landed on the eastern edge of Asia, a forgotten people cut steps in the rocks leading up a steep bluff near the Chattahoochee River in the northwest section of the State of Georgia.&nbsp; Read More

Alex Cuba: Emotions carry the words in an electric show

<p style="text-align: justify;">J.D. Considine. From Monday's Globe and Mail. Published Sunday, Apr. 10, 2011 12:02PM EDT. In Toronto on Saturday. He has two Junos and a Latin Grammy. He co-wrote half of Nelly Furtado’s last album. He’s got a single on the charts in Puerto Rico right now. But being Canada’s biggest Cuban music star isn’t an easy job, even if B.C.-based Alex Cuba makes it seem that way.<br /> <br /> Read More

New documentary, 'Operation Peter Pan: Flying Back to Cuba,' explores return, 50 years after exodus

<p style="text-align: justify;">Albor Ruiz - Ny Local. Sunday, April 10th 2011, 4:00 AM. A new documentary explores the feelings of several popular Cuban personalities returning to their homeland nearly 50 years later.'I left Cuba, but Cuba never left me." That's how Candi Sosa expressed the longing she has felt for 40 years for the country where she was born, and from which she - and thousands of Cuban children - was torn when she was 10.Her dramatic story is reflected in a gripping documentary, "Operation Peter Pan: Flying Back to Cuba," by award-winning director Estela Bravo, a native New Yorker who lives in Cuba. Read More

Obama slaps ban on Irish musicians traveling to Cuba

<p style="text-align: justify;">Administration refuses visas for traditional Irish artists. By NIALL O'DOWD.IrishCentral.com Founder. Published Sunday, April 10, 2011, 7:48 AM. Updated Sunday, April 10, 2011, 8:42 AM.&nbsp; The Obama Administration has refused to allow Irish American traditional musicians (and Irish musicians resident in the US) to participate in the Second Annual Celtic Festival in Cuba, April 15-26.The festival is being organized by Kilian Kennedy of Ireland who discovered during a vacation in Cuba a lively Celtic tradition sustained by immigrants and descendants from Gaelic provinces of northern Spain. Read More

Glee Club Spring Concert anticipates Cuba trip

<p style="text-align: justify;">By: Arielle Speciner. Daily Arts Writer. Published April 7th, 2011. Resting on more than 150 years of tradition, camaraderie and musical excellence, the highly noted Men’s Glee Club will be mixing it up for its performance tomorrow at Hill Auditorium at 8 p.m. The concert is a send-off to Paul Rardin, the club’s conductor of six years, as well as a celebration of the group’s upcoming 2011 UMMGC Tour of the southeastern United States, including a stop in Cuba.“Half the songs will be an American set, celebrating (Rardin's) work as an American composer, arranger and conductor,” said Lee Quackenbush. Read More

"La Bayamesa," Cuba’s popular anthem

<p style="text-align: justify;">By: Rafael Lam. CUBA’s popular anthem "La bayamesa" emphasizes the romanticism of the Cuban sense of nationality. The story of how this song was created is as follows: Francisco Castillo called on the services of two of his friends to help him write a song of reconciliation, dedicated to wife, Luz Vázquez, who was estranged from him at the time. Read More

Marina owners talk about collaboration

<p style="text-align: justify;">By: Joe Shooman. 4 April 2011. Marina owners in Jamaica, Cuba and the Cayman Islands are discussing closer working practices.Dale Westin of Errol Flynn Marina in Port Antonio, Jamaica, Neville Scott of Barcadere and Comodoro Jose Escrich of the Marlin group of marinas in Cuba met unofficially at the Miami Boat Show to talk about the possibilities of pursuing joint promotional and marketing initiatives, revealed Mr. Scott.“It’s not like we’re a cruise association or a formal organisation of which we three are a part. It’s still in its infancy, something we are discussing and something [for which] we haven’t really formalised a written agreement. Read More

All Revolutions Have Conflicts, Ruptures, and Contradictions

<p style="text-align: justify;">By Rafael González, Encontrarte, Venezuelanalysis.com, April 2nd 2011. Rafael González (1950 - ) was born in Ranchuelo, Villa Clara province, Cuba. Since 1977 he has helped to consolidate Cuba’s Teatro Escambray, serving as the theater group’s theatrical advisor, chief of socio-cultural investigations, author of many performances, and since 1995 is the group’s general director. Since 2001 he has served as professor of dramaturgy at the Villa Clara School of Art Teachers. He holds medals of distinction for his participation in Cuba’s historic literacy campaign and for his service in the Cuban armed forces, and he is an active member in the Cuban Union of Writers and Artists (UNEAC) and the Cuban Communist Party (PCC). Read More

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