Florida International University's Cuba Travel Policy

<p style="text-align: justify;">Now that an appellate court has upheld the Florida law that prohibits state universities from spending money on trips to Cuba, Florida International University has a new Cuba travel policy. FIU’s Faculty Senate had challenged the law with no luck.&nbsp; The new policy almost sounds like it encourages faculty to play around with the books, pointing out that the trips are not prohibited – as long as the funds that pay for them do not pass through any FIU accounts. Read More

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Cuban Posters at International Design Biennial

<p style="text-align: justify;">11/17/2010. Poster “La Joven Estampa 2009”, created by Nelson Ponce, designer of Casa de las Americas, was selected in the graphic design category, to represent Cuba at the 2nd International Design Biennale (BID), which will take place in Madrid, Spain, November 22-26, and that will have the attendance of 23 countries. Read More

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Digital Television Developed in Cuba for 2020

<p style="text-align: justify;">Specialists announced that Cuba will develop digital television with the Chinese, Japanese, or Brazilian standards by 2020. Manuel Barreras, director of the Office of the Digitalization of Radio and Television, explained that during 2009, the possibilities and necessary conditions for these standards were verified. Read More

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Cuba to Take Part in Cali Track World Cup

<p style="text-align: justify;">Cuban track cycling team will participate in the cycling Track World Cup in Cali, Colombia next December 16-18, Cuban News Agency informed. Read More

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Could Cuba Help U.S. Fight Tropical Diseases?

<p style="text-align: justify;">When it comes to issues like the spread of infectious disease, increased collaboration with Cuba may just be good medicine. By Julienne Gage.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Wed Nov 17, 2010 09:19 PM ET. In the wake of this month's Republican electoral shakeup in Congress, talk of lifting the U.S. travel ban to Communist Cuba is pretty much off the table. But President Barack Obama still has the executive power to ease the amount of red tape faced by U.S. medical researchers who can travel to the island. Read More

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Fidel Castro happy with direction Cuba is moving

<p style="text-align: justify;">By PAUL HAVEN, Associated Press Paul Haven, Associated Press. HAVANA – Fidel Castro says he is happy with the direction in which Cuba is moving under the leadership of his brother Raul, his most explicit remarks to date about the sweeping economic changes the country is undergoing. Read More

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Los Aldeanos at the Miami-Dade County Auditorium last Nov 14

<p style="text-align: justify;">By Jacob Katel, Thu., Nov. 18 2010 @ 8:30AM. Miami-Dade County Auditorium. Sunday, November 14, 2010. Across the street from the Miami-Dade County Auditorium, Vigila Mambisa protesters held up signs and screamed into a bullhorn against the "Salsa Sangre" being passed off as a concert. Who knew old people could scream so loud? A world-weary city cop warned us to take their picture from across the street and keep it moving. Yet despite the negative attention, Los Aldeanos brought that fire to Little Havana for a loving crowd who knew the words to every song. Read More

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Russian car – more than just transport in Cuba

<p style="text-align: justify;">RIA Novosti. Havana’s residents have demonstrated their virtuosic driving skills riding the Russian cars. The Cubans discuss the latest car industry’s news and compete with each other in driving at monthly meetings of the Russian Car Lovers Club, which was opened a year ago. The AvtoVAZ cars are in great demand at Cuba due to their simplicity, repair capability and relatively cheap spare parts. Read More

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Cuban Ambassador to India Speaks of New Economic Model

<p style="text-align: justify;">2010.11.17 - 19:10:00 / [email protected]. HAVANA, Cuba. - The Cuban ambassador to India, Miguel Ramirez, affirmed –in a lecture called “Updating the Cuban economic model”, delivered at the Nehru University— that the objective of the economic rearrangement process, currently underway in Cuba, is to make the existing socialist project more viable. Read More

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Vietnam eager to tap Cuban market

<p style="text-align: justify;">From the Voice of Vietnam news agency: Many Vietnamese businesses are now highly interested in investments in Cuba in the near future, according to the Department of American Markets under the [Vietnamese] Ministry of Industry and Trade. Cuba is showing signals that it is opening its market, promising many prospects for investment. The Department of American Markets recently held a trade and investment forum in the Cuban capital city of Havana in an effort to assist Vietnamese businesses in seizing new investment opportunities arising from recent economic reforms in Cuba. Read More

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