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‘El bloqueo’ turns 50 today

<p style="text-align: justify;">As a push to lift the travel ban has stalled in the U.S. Congress, the economic embargo — termed blockade&nbsp; by Cuba — is turning 50 years old today. The Torricelli Law of 1992 and the Helms-Burton Act of 1996 codified the embargo, putting Congress in charge of U.S. sanctions against Cuba. While the political power of pro-embargo forces has waned, as a result of the lack of threat by Cuba to U.S. national security and reforms on the island, the funds provided by anti-Castro PACs to Congressional campaigns continue to bolster inertia. Read More

Book by Prestigious Cuban Narrator to be presented in Italy

<p style="text-align: justify;">2010.10.18 - 18:49:53 / [email protected]. Holguin, Cuba.- The book Papeles de un naufragio (Papers from a Shipwreck), by prestigious Cuban writer Lourdes Gonzalez (Holguin, 1952) will be soon presented in Italy, translated under the title of “Carte da un naufragio". Read More

Int’l Fishing Tournament Kicks off in Cayo Guillermo, Cuba

<p style="text-align: justify;">2010.10.18 - 19:12:35 / [email protected]. Int’l Fishing Tournament Kicks off in Cayo Guillermo, Cuba. Ciego de Avila, Cuba.- The first International Fishing Tournament Jardines del Rey kicked off Monday in Cayo Guillermo, in the central northern keys of Ciego de Avila, bringing fishing enthusiasts from different parts of the world. Read More

Cuban Wins Award in Portuguese Philatelic Contest

<p style="text-align: justify;">10/18/2010.&nbsp; With a collection of philatelic postcards, Cuban Adrian Fernandez got the first prize in the junior competition of an exhibit in Portugal which is the biggest this year in that European country. Fernandez is the youngest expositor awarded in the world since 2006, and he received the unanimous vote of the judges because of his exceptional research for his collection, said the Cuban Philatelic Federation in a communiqué.<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> Read More

Chavez Visits Iran

<p style="text-align: justify;">Venezuela''s President Hugo Chavez begins Tuesday a working visit to Iran, with view to strengthening energy cooperation particularly in the oil and natural gas sectors. The two countries are interested in boosting their bilateral cooperation during the eighth round of talks on energy, taking advantage of President Chavez visit. Read More

In UN, Cuba Condemns Sport Talent Theft

<p style="text-align: justify;">In the United Nations, Cuba condemned the theft of sports talent suffered by underdeveloped nations and repeated its opposition to athletic activities where money is the only reward. It also vindicated the right of nations of the South to host the Olympic Games, and assured that the 2016 event in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, would be a success for that entire region. Read More

Circle of Mercy member leads ministry training in Cuba

<p style="text-align: justify;">Staff reports. October 19, 2010. ASHEVILLE — Mark Siler, a prison chaplain in North Carolina, begins a nine-month long series of prison ministry trainings for local church leaders in Cuba, beginning with workshops in three eastern cities of Camagüey, Holguin and Bayamo. Read More

MH: Cuba, U.S. talk on jailed American

<p style="text-align: justify;">MIAMI HERALD. Posted on Mon, Oct. 18, 2010. Cuba, U.S. talk on jailed American. Alan Gross, a 60-year-old U.S.government contractor from Potomac, Maryland, was arrested in Cuba on Dec. 3. The Obama administration's top diplomat on Latin America has met with Cuba's foreign minister to press for the release of a U.S. citizen jailed in Havana since December -- the latest in a recent string of high-level bilateral sessions. Read More

Correa Says He Has Proof of Who Was behind the Attempted Coup

<p style="text-align: justify;">October 17,&nbsp; 2010.Rafael Correa, President of Ecuador, said he has proof of who was behind the September 30 attempted coup.&nbsp; The guilty parties include Fidel Araujo, who is close to former Ecuadoran President Lucio Gutiérrez. In an interview for the international news department of the NTN 24 chain, whose headquarters are in Bogotá, Correa stated that U.S. President Barack Obama “didn’t have anything to do with it.”&nbsp; However, he said that “power groups” in the United States couldn’t be excluded, for they may have intervened in the attempt to destabilize Ecuador’s democratic Government. Read More

WASHINGTON, DC/Oct. 21: Metro Coalition to Free the Cuban Five

<p style="text-align: justify;">There will be a meeting of The DC Metro Coalition to Free the Cuban Five on Thursday, October 21st, 2010 at Kamau Benjamin's home, 517 T Street NW,Washington, DC, at 7:00 PM Comrade Patricia Pego, the First Secretary of the Cuban Interests Section will be present to give an update on the litigation of the Cuban Five and information on the imperialist US political and economic embargo of Cuba. Hope to see you at the meeting. Read More