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Cuban Experiment Should be Adopted to Divert the Food Crisis

<p style="text-align: justify;">By Abbey Kibirige Semuwemba. The current rise in food prices is a problem which we are capable of solving ourselves especially if all the stakeholders are committed to the cause. The food crisis problems go well beyond the Uganda borders as it is also a marginal problem even here in the UK where i live such that I have registered with several supermarkets online to help me compare prices before I do my home shopping.But with fertile Uganda soils, surely we can do better with the support of the current government. Read More

Jean Ferrat and his visits to Cuba

<p style="text-align: justify;">By: Rafael Lam. It is one It is one year since the death of Jean Ferrat, considered the last of the great French singers along with Jacques Brel, Leo Ferré and Georges Brassens. His last visit to Cuba was in May 1967.To learn more details of Ferrat’s trip to the island 44 years ago, I spoke to Julio Bidopia, general manager of Agencia Clave, who was responsible for the French singer’s engagement here.Ferrat toured Cuba twice, the second time was for the 1st International Festival of Popular Song in Varadero.The Parisian public described Jean Ferrat as "an icon of protest song." Read More

Cuba-US relations continue to suffer

<p style="text-align: justify;">By Spencer Cadden. Recently, on a trip to Canada, I saw something I forgot existed- a box of cigars labeled "Made in Cuba." Suddenly, images of a small island to the south of the United States came rushing back to me.Images of cigar smoking, scraggly bearded old men filled my head. So I opened my phone and searched the Associated Press to see how Cuba is doing.Coincidentally this week, former President Jimmy Carter took a trip to speak with Cuba's current leader, Raul Castro (brother of longtime leader Fidel Castro) as well as Cuban activists and religious leaders. Read More

Forum Calls for Decentralisation, to Boost Participation

<p style="text-align: justify;">By Dalia Acosta. HAVANA, Mar 31, 2011 (IPS) - The annual Critical Observatory Social Forum discussed the need for new spaces of dialogue, debate and participation in Cuba, including the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) and decentralisation to empower local communities."If we are going to make a revolution that is consistent, many Cuban bloggers are committed to the idea of improving the situation, not going backwards," said feminist blogger Yasmín Portales, who attended the forum held in Havana last weekend. "And the way to improve things is to be critical in a systematic way," she said. Read More

Pernod Ricard Loses Appeals Court Ruling in Bacardi ‘Havana Club Fight

<p style="text-align: justify;">By Susan Decker - Mar 29, 2011 9:55 AM GMT-0500. Pernod Ricard SA, the world’s second-biggest liquor maker, lost a U.S. court ruling in its decades-long battle with Bacardi Ltd. over the right to use the name Havana Club on rum in the American market.The U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington ruled today that the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control was correct when it refused to let a Cuban state-owned group renew its U.S. trademark on the Havana Club name because of a 1998 law that barred renewal of certain Cuban trademarks. Read More

Cruise veteran to launch Tampa-Havana ferry

<p style="text-align: justify;">By Gay Nagle Myers. Here's an idea: Offer overnight sailings on a deluxe cruise ferry from Tampa to Havana as an alternative mode of transport for Cuban-Americans who are now crowding onto charter flights at three U.S. airports to visit their ancestral homeland.The concept is more than just a notion for longtime cruise executive Bruce Nierenberg, who plans to operate a cruise ferry service for Cuban-Americans from Florida ports to Havana once he receives the required U.S. Treasury Department approval.And once the floodgates open to allow travel to Cuba for all U.S. citizens, there will be no stopping the tourism surge, Nierenberg recently predicted. Read More

Cuba And The Pleasure Of Last Minute Vacations In Caribbean Islands

<p style="text-align: justify;">The pleasure of last minute vacations in Caribbean Islands can only be truly appreciated by those who're busy shoveling snow off their driveway in the freezing cold back home. It may be a pipe-dream for some to think about the warm beaches and brilliant weather in Cuba or the Bahamas or Jamaica. But as far as Canadians are concerned, it's not so hard to make it a reality.In fact, Canucks are the only ones truly able to enjoy and appreciate the fun and beauty of a Cuba holiday on a whim. Read More

Musical Dialogue Beyond Embargoes

<p style="text-align: justify;">By LARRY ROHTER. Published: March 24, 2011. Among the festival schedule’s highlights are appearances by Los Muñequitos de Matanzas, who have not performed in New York since 2002 and are considered Cuba’s greatest rumba ensemble, and the Septeto Nacional de Ignacio Piñeiro, the group that claims to have invented salsa nearly 80 years ago. So now might be the perfect time to get acquainted with the terminology and the various styles of Cuban music. Read More

A Cuba story

<p style="text-align: justify;">Published: Wednesday, March 23, Putting Down Roots, by Cliff Johnson. I was in junior high school when Fidel Castro led a guerrilla army through the mountains, towns and sugarcane fields of Cuba to defeat the corrupt Batista government. Since that successful revolution in the late 1950s, Americans haven't had much of a view into this 750-mile-long island just 90 miles south of Miami.I spent eight days in Cuba in mid-February, traveling more than 1,000 miles by bus, and met hundreds of Cuban people. Read More

Leonard Weinglass (1933-2011)

<p style="text-align: justify;">by John Mage. Leonard Weinglass, a leading leftwing lawyer in the United States with an international perspective, died in the early evening on March 23, 2011.&nbsp; Len, who died on his 78th birthday, fell ill in late January while in Cuba.&nbsp; In the first days of February exploratory surgery at Montefiore Hospital discovered that he had inoperable cancer of the pancreas. Read More

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