Swiss Orchestra Gives Concert in Eastern Cuba

<p style="text-align: justify;">2010.10.21 - 13:55:13 / [email protected]. LAS TUNAS, CUBA.- The Cuban audience at the Tunas Theater give Swiss traditional band Distelfinken a big ovation after its first concert in the eastern province of Las Tunas, Cuba. The orchestra made up of women played songs by Märku Hafner, a Swiss composer who has worked hard to promote the Helvetian cultural roots. The repertoire was a display of different Swiss folkloric rhythms. Read More

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THE AWL: Who Is Francisco Chavez Abarca?

<p style="text-align: justify;">Miami Terror Machine: Who Is Francisco Chávez Abarca?<br> <br> Wednesday, October 20th, 2010. According to a convoluted Miami Herald article that macerates its own opening, the recently arrested Francisco Chávez Abarca, who is accused of terrorist attacks in Cuba in the 90s, is actually a double-agent mystery man in a thriller of international suspense and intrigue. He admits to planting bombs in hotels and colluding with others on the bombing of Cubana Flight 455, but maybe he's just a patsy in a game of cloak and dagger and disinformation to tarnish the good name of admitted terrorist Posada Carriles? Read More

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LONDON/UK/Oct. 26: Cuba Research Seminars

<p style="text-align: justify;">Dear subscriber, You are invited to attend the following Research Seminar co-hosted by the Centre for Transcultural Research and the Centre for Caribbean and Latin American Research and Consultancy: Tuesday 26th October 2010, Tower Building, London Metropolitan University, Room T1.20 (Old Staff Café)166-220 Holloway Road, London, N7 7DB, 6.00 7.30pm with drinks afterwards. SPEAKERS: Emily Morris (London Met) Read More

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LA ALBORADA: Continental dreams since the 19th Century

<p style="text-align: justify;">October 21. Question: Who said the following?: The day is not far distant when three Stars and Stripes at three equidistant points will mark our territory: one at the North Pole, another at the Panama Canal, and the third at the South Pole. The whole hemisphere will be ours in fact as, by virtue of our superiority of race, it already is ours morally. Read More

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