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Two New Discs by the Trabuco

<p style="text-align: justify;">Two new discs by Manolito Simonet y su Trabuco captivate for their proposal. In one, the band continues showing its peculiar way of making 'son', and in another, proves its daring by presenting us a work pretty distant from what it usually plays. In "Beat Cubano" and "Trabuco una vez más", both discs produced by Bis Music, we can see a same group that shows its ability to splitting from an eminently son group into a jazz band, without demeritting its work in any of the two. Manolito Simonet is sure that the genre he defends does not lose its paramount role in the repertoire of this type of groups, if there's room for other musical styles. Read More

Marsalis, Chucho and Omara together in a CD

<p style="text-align: justify;">Cuban singer Omara Portuondo and pianist Chucho Valdes invited US jazz trumpeter Wynton Marsalis to record on the single, Esta tarde vi llover, for Omara's upcoming album. The famous jazz musician together with the Lincoln Center Orchestra played in Havana a series of concerts. Read More

Church Announces 3 More Cuba Dissidents Freed, Traveling to Spain

<p style="text-align: justify;">October 9, 2010. LA HABANA. The Catholic Church in Cuba announced Saturday that another three political prisoners will be released to go to Spain, making a total of 42 dissidents freed upon accepting that condition. Read More

Cuban Son for NSW

<p style="text-align: justify;">Sunday, October 10, 2010. JJ Son con Idabelis. Cuban band JJ Son con Idabelis is touring NSW until the end of November. The quartet is playing at construction sites, organised by the Construction Forestry Mining Energy Union (CFMEU), cultural festivals and solidarity concerts supporting the trapped Chilean miners, political prisoners in Colombia and against the Cuban blockade. Read More

Matanzas power plant ready to re-boot

<p style="text-align: justify;">The Antonio Guiteras thermoelectric plant is ready to go back on the grid by the end of October after a substantial overhaul, Granma reported. The Granma report didn’t provide any details of the project, other than saying that the plant received a new boiler and transformers, and that it will have backup equipment. The 330-mw plant near Matanzas began operating in 1989 with two Japanese-made and two Czech generators. Read More

Brazil, Cuba move into world volleyball final

ROME (AP) -- Brazil will play for a third consecutive men's volleyball world championship against Cuba after beating host Italy in the semifinals Saturday. Brazil won 25-15, 25-22, 23-25, 25-17 in its bid to become the second team to win three world titles. Italy won three straight crowns in 1990, 1994 and 1998. Read More

Cuba marks 43rd anniversary of Che Guevara's death

<p style="text-align: justify;">11:11, October 09, 2010. Cuba marked on Friday the 43rd anniversary of the death of Argentine-Cuban guerrilla legend Ernesto "Che" Guevara, who was killed in La Higuera village in Bolivia. As traditionally, the official media devoted several articles to commemorate the legendary guerrilla leader. A total of 120,000 pupils received their blue scarf insignia, which identified them as members of the Jose Marti Pioneers Organization, and swore "to be like Che Guevara." Read More

U.S. gov't paid media in frame-up of Cuban Five

<p style="text-align: justify;">Interview with lawyer on plans for defense effort (feature article). THE MILITANT. Vol. 74/No. 39 October 18, 2010. Below are major excerpts of an interview with Leonard Weinglass, one of the attorneys on the legal defense team of the Cuban Five. The September 15 phone interview was conducted for the English-language broadcast of Radio Havana Cuba by Bernie Dwyer, an Irish journalist and filmmaker. Read More

Chile: Miner Rescue in Final Stages

<p style="text-align: justify;">10/08/2010. Relatives of the 33 miners trapped underground in northern Chile are anxiously awaiting as the rescue shaft being dug nears the refuge where the men have been surviving since August 5. Read More

Baseball Pre-World Cup in Final Stretch in Puerto Rico

<p style="text-align: justify;">The best eight teams in the Baseball World Cup Qualifying Tournament began their race for medals on Friday, with seven winners to continue on to the 2011 Pan-American Games and six to the World Cup. Read More