Cuba-Bolivia to boost parliamentary ties

<p style="text-align: justify;">12:55, November 09, 2010. Cuba and Bolivia lawmakers Monday inaugurated the fourth bilateral parliamentary meeting, and this is the first time that the highest-ranking Bolivian parliamentary leaders have officially visited the island. Read More

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Cuba's long-delayed Communist Party congress set for April

<p style="text-align: justify;">By the CNN Wire Staff. November 9, 2010. Havana, Cuba (CNN) -- Cuban President Raul Castro announced on Monday that the Communist Party will hold a long-delayed congress next April as the country struggles to reshape its Soviet economic model. Read More

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Cuba unveils plans for economic future

<p style="text-align: justify;">Reuters.By Esteban Israel – Tue Nov 9, 2:56 am ET. HAVANA (Reuters) – Cuba in future will be a country that promotes foreign investment, expands the private sector and dutifully pays off its debts, according to a proposal revealed on Monday by the ruling Communist party. But it will not renounce the socialist system installed half a century ago after Fidel Castro took power in a 1959 revolution, according to the 32-page document that will guide debates at a Communist party congress in April. "The economic policy in the new phase will correspond with the principle that only socialism is capable of overcoming difficulties and preserving the gains of the revolution, and that in the updating of the economic model, planning will be paramount, not the market." it said. Read More

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Dancers Leap Over U.S.-Cuba Political Barriers

<p style="text-align: justify;">By Nick Miroff. November 8, 2010. Ballet Theatre perform last week at the Karl Marx Theater in Havana. The first performance of the New York-based ABT in Cuba in 50 years is part of a gradual thawing of cultural ties between the United States and Cuba. November 8, 2010. In Cuba, American artists and musicians are going where tourists and politicians cannot. In October, trumpet legend Wynton Marsalis came to Havana with members of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra. And last week, the American Ballet Theater was in town for the first time in 50 years. Read More

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Cuba announces date for important party congress

<p style="text-align: justify;">By ANDREA RODRIGUEZ, Associated Press Andrea Rodriguez, Associated Press – Mon Nov 8, 7:58 pm ET. HAVANA – Cuba will hold a long-delayed, and much-anticipated, Communist Party Congress next April and leaders will use the meeting to chart a new economic future for the island, President Raul Castro announced Monday. Read More

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Cuba: Communication Internet Access and US- Cuba Policy

<p style="text-align: justify;">Cuban bloggers have done well to document the political, economic, and technological obstacles that prevent most Cubans from using the Internet. But few have written about the political gridlock that has contributed to the island’s poor telecommunications infrastructure. US-based and US-affiliated telecom companies, which is to say, nearly all telecoms that offer service in the Caribbean, face severe restrictions in the US- Cuba embargo legislation, and this has put Cuba in a fundamental disadvantage for decades when it comes to telecommunications. Read More

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Latin lessons: What can we learn from the world’s most ambitious literacy campaign? Part 3

<p style="text-align: justify;">Sunday, 7 November 2010.By: JOSE GOITIA. Fifty years ago this month, Cuba committed itself to teach every citizen basic literacy. Today, the country's education system is the envy of the rest of the world. Nina Lakhani travels to Havana to discover the story behind the success – and ask why some believe that cracks are starting to show... Read More

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Taste of Cuba to be served locally

<p style="text-align: justify;">Local News. By QMI Agency. WELLAND — The Canadian-Cuban Friendship Association of Niagara will offer a taste of Cuba on Nov. 24. The event will be held at the CAW Hall on Steel St. starting at 7:30 p.m. and will include music, food and dance lessons. Read More

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Cuban Boxers Travel to Strong Tournament in Macedonia

<p style="text-align: justify;">2010.11.08 - 11:48:09 / [email protected]. Cuban Boxers Travel to Strong Tournament in Macedonia. HAVANA, CUBA.- A team of eight Cuban boxers travels on Monday to Macedonia to participate in the Golden Gong tournament scheduled for November 11-13 in Skopje. Sources of the national boxing commission announced that the team includes Olympic medallists Carlos Banteur (69 kg) and Emilio Correa (75 kg) as well as national champions Julio Cesar la Cruz (81 kg) and Jorge Luis Mustelier (56 kg). Read More

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UK banks warm to Cuba but are wary of US reproach

<p style="text-align: justify;">Telegraph. Roland Gribben, 19:26, Monday 8 November 2010. British businesses trading with Cuba make some progress in addressing the reluctance of international banks to handle trade payments for fear of US reprisals. Banks are showing signs of shifting their ground about refusing to handle financial transactions involving British trade with Cuba following complaints from small businesses and investigations by The Daily Telegraph. Several business owners say they have had more constructive discussions with their bankers following protests about their treatment when they were told their accounts would be closed unless they gave undertakings to halt the transfer of payments from long-standing Cuban customers and banks. Read More

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