Party rank-and-file to discuss major new reforms

<p style="text-align: justify;">Hundreds of thousands of rank-and-file members will discuss, in the run-up to the Sixth Communist Party Congress, whether and how Cubans should be allowed to buy and sell homes, whether Cuba should create China-like zones for export industries, whether cooperatives should be allowed to expand beyond agriculture and form clusters, and whether the government should cede direct control over state companies, according to a 32-page guidance document published by the Communist Party of Cuba that began to circulate on Tuesday. Read More

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Cuba tourism inches up despite global economy

<p style="text-align: justify;">AP. Thu Nov 11, 11:07 am ET. HAVANA – Cuba says tourism on the island has inched up during the first nine months of 2010, with both revenue and the number of visitors climbing despite global economic weakness. Revenue through September was $1.3 billion, up 3.5 percent from the $1.26 billion reported over the same period last year. The number of tourists also increased during the period, up about 50,000 to 1.89 million through September. Read More

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Mangroves Protect Cuban Coasts

By Luz María Martínez Zelada. Mangroves constitutes one of the main defense barriers of Cuban coasts extended beyond the 5 700 kilometers and 1 600 keys and islets across the island.<br> <br> Experts of the Villa Clara Research and Environmental Service Center are working in projects on the knowledge and use of a vegetable formation, very valuable in the case of any possible sea penetration due to hurricanes and other environmental problems. Read More

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Chicago on the stage

<p style="text-align: justify;">By Yuris Norido. The bet of Tony Díaz and his company Mephisto Theater for the musical is becoming increasingly more serious. If Huevos, Plácido and Cabaret could be assumed as works more or less committed to the genre, it is pretty obvious that in Chicago the group defines a steady line of work: great musical shows. Read More

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Ibero-American Neonatologists Meet in Cuba

<p style="text-align: justify;">Under the slogan "Nothing More Important Than a Child," the 7th Ibero-American Neonatology Congress and 4th Meeting of Neonatology Nurses is being held in Havana from November 9-12. Read More

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Cuba to allow modest economic reforms

<p style="text-align: justify;">Published: Nov. 10, 2010 at 11:10 AM. HAVANA, Nov. 10 (UPI) -- Cuba will allow more private business and foreign investment, but the basics of socialism will remain, the Communist Party is saying. Read More

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GUARDIAN/Gott: Cuba looking to find its own way

<p style="text-align: justify;">Here's a thoughtful look at the changes now unfolding in Cuba by a long-time friendly, but not uncritical,observer. The Internet is flooded these days with an assortment of self-designated experts who either say Cuba is heading back to capitalism, but not as fast as some would like, or that Cuba is threatened with being dragged back to capitalism, as the perfectionistic and ultra-leftist criticizers ruefully warn. Read More

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Cuba denounces 'virtual' Castro plot in new game

<p style="text-align: justify;">By PAUL HAVEN, Associated Press Paul Haven, Associated Press. HAVANA – Cuba harshly criticized a new video game in which U.S. special operations soldiers try to kill a young Fidel Castro, saying Wednesday that the violent role-playing glorifies assassination and will turn American children into sociopaths. Read More

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Cuba to Export Natural Water to the Caribbean

<p style="text-align: justify;">2010.11.10 - 12:33:22 / [email protected]. Cubahidraulica enterprise HAVANA, CUBA.- The Cubahidraulica enterprise is setting the conditions for the export of bottled and bulk natural water to Jamaica and Bahamas, said director Jose Antonio Hernandez in Havana. In statements to ACN, Hernandez said as part of the company’s export expansion policy, it will broaden its market to the Caribbean, where demands of the liquid are on the rise due to the salinity affecting insular waters. Read More

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British cruise line to skip Havana next season

<p style="text-align: justify;">UK-based Thomson Cruises will skip Cuba during the 2012 winter season, Cruise Critic reported.The cruise line, a subsidiary of Germany’s TUI, has home-ported its flagship, the Thomson Dream, in Havana for several years. This winter, Thomson is offering a 21-night (optional 14 night) Caribbean cruise, with Havana stops at the beginning, middle or end of the trip. Thomson Dream. Even though the Cuba cruises have sold “very, very well,” according to a Thomson executive quoted by Cruise Critic, in 2012, Thomson will move the Thomson Dream to Barbados, for logistical reasons. Read More

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