Saving Hemingway's home in Cuba

<p style="text-align: justify;">January 21, 2011. Havana, Cuba (CNN) -- Ernest Hemingway hasn't lived here in over 50 years but Finca Vigia is still his home.In the garden there's his boat "the Pilar" used to hunt marlin and then Nazi subs off Cuba during World War II. Scrawled on a bathroom wall next to a scale are the daily records of what the writer weighed.Lizards and frogs he caught rest in jars filled with formaldehyde. Antelopes and water buffalo heads taken as trophies from African safaris decorate the walls. Yellowing Time and The Field magazines are still on the shelves.Now a museum, a visitor to Finca Vigia or "lookout farm," could be mistaken for thinking Hemingway might walk in the door at any second. Read More

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Gap Adventures Announces 2011 Cuba Trips

<p style="text-align: justify;">TORONTO, ON, January 20, 2011 /24-7PressRelease/ -- While ice and snow pile up across North America, relations with Cuba appear to be thawing. Gap Adventures (www.GapAdventures.com), the world's adventure travel leader, announced today details of its 2011 trips to the island, which offer travelers the chance to soak up the sun and immerse in Cuba's culture while changes within and outside the country continue. Offering unique homestay options, the most competitive pricing in the industry, and only local Cuban guides, the adventure tour operator expects a significant increase in bookings to Cuba. Read More

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Cuba foresees 3.1 per cent GDP growth this year

<p style="text-align: justify;">Yuri Gala LOPEZ. Wednesday, January 19, 2011. The victory of the revolutionary forces in January 1959 allowed the Cuban people to attain true independence and sovereignty. Since then, our people undertook their project of freedom, solidarity and social justice facing an unjust blockade and aggressions of various kinds. Read More

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Tampa Airport Will Be Eligible for Direct Flights to Cuba

<p style="text-align: justify;">By Ted Jackovics Tampa Tribune, Fla.Publication: Tampa Tribune (Florida) Date: Friday, January 14 2011. For the first time in nearly 50 years, Tampa International Airport will be eligible to restore direct flights to Cuba,fulfilling a longstanding goal of local Cuban Americans forced to rely on Miami's airport because of federal restrictions. Read More

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Work set to begin on Venezuela-Cuba undersea cable

<p style="text-align: justify;">By IAN JAMES, Associated Press Ian James, Associated Press. CARACAS, Venezuela – A specialized ship has arrived in Venezuela carrying enough fiber-optic cable to connect the South American country to Cuba, and will soon begin laying the cable along the sea floor to establish a link expected to dramatically improve telephone and Internet service for Cubans. Read More

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New travel rules lead to Tampa-Cuba baseball reunion

<p style="text-align: justify;">BUCK DELATORRE. TAMPA - After 56-plus years, Charlie Miranda remembers throwing two strikes – curveballs – to start the game. The catcher wanted another one, and Miranda shook him off. The catcher told him to waste the next pitch. Miranda did. Read More

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Changes in US Cuba policy good first step but it's time to normalize relations

<p style="text-align: justify;">The changes in U.S. Cuba policy announced Friday by the Obama administration represent a welcome first step in changing the failed half-century old policy that has sought to bring change in Cuba by isolating the island nation from the United States.The administration announced that within the next two weeks it would make it easier for religious and academic organizations to send delegations to Cuba; return regulations governing people-to-people trips to Cuba to those that pertained during the Clinton Administration; and expand the number of airports that can be used by tour operators as embarkation points to the island. Read More

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Cuba shoots its first zombie movie Juan Of The Dead

<p style="text-align: justify;">Juan Of The Dead Juan Of The Dead: Cuba's answer to Shaun Of The Dead. Blood-spattered, flesh-eating monsters have been roaming the Cuban capital, Havana, in recent months - all part of filming for the country's first zombie movie.Bearing a similar title to Britain's 2004 comedy horror Shaun Of The Dead, Juan Of The Dead's plot is actually closer to the 1984 ghoul classic Ghostbusters.In the film, an entire city is overrun by zombies while Cuba's Communist leaders insist it is just a plot by US-backed dissidents to bring down the government. Read More

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Daylight filters through the Cuban doorway

<p style="text-align: justify;">By Doug Newhouse, 15 January 2011. US President Barack Obama yesterday directed that regulations governing the eligibility of US airports to serve as points of 'embarkation and return' for licensed charter flights to Cuba should be modified to allow all US international airports to apply to provide these services - provided they have adequate customs and immigration services in place. Read More

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No Major Progress Expected from New Immigration Talks

<p style="text-align: justify;">By Patricia Grogg. HAVANA, Jan 14, 2011 (IPS) - The Cuban capital was the venue for a new round of immigration talks between delegations from this Caribbean island nation and the United States, although no major progress towards a broader dialogue is expected, in contrast to the hopes raised when President Barack Obama took office. Read More

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