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"The Useful Life", Great Coral Award of the Havana Film Festival

<p style="text-align: justify;">The Uruguayan film, La Vida ütil, by Federico Veiroj, was given the&nbsp; Great Coral Award to best long fiction film meanwhile the second place belonged to the Chilean Pablo Larraín with Post Mortem. The third place was won by the Mexican&nbsp; María Novaro for Las buenas hierbas (The Good Herbs). Read More

Film on Jose Marti Sweeps Havana Film Festival’s Collateral Awards

<p style="text-align: justify;">2010.12.11 - 20:56:48 / [email protected]. Film on Jose Marti Sweeps Havana Film Festival’s Collateral Awards. Havana, Cuba.- The film Jose Marti: the Eye of the Canary by Cuban filmmaker Fernando Perez won most collateral awards at the 32nd International Festival of the New Latin American Cinema.The film won prizes granted by the Association of Cuban Writers and Artists (UNEAC), the Cuban Association of Cinematographic Press and UNICEF in a ceremony held at the Hotel Nacional in Havana. Read More

Cuba, El Salvador Strengthen Ties

<p style="text-align: justify;">By: Glenda Pardo. 12 de diciembre de 2010, San Salvador, Dec 12 (Prensa Latina) Cuba and El Salvador this week reaffirmed their willingness to continue and deepen relations, which were restored on June 1, 2009 after nearly 50 years. Read More

30,000 illegal cigars from Cuba snagged

<p style="text-align: justify;">U.S. customs officials said last week that they seized 30,000 Cuban cigars shipped from Europe to O’Hare International Airport in the past three weeks. Read More

Congressman who tightened U.S.-Cuba embargo retires

<p style="text-align: justify;">WASHINGTON – Miami Congressman Lincoln Diaz-Balart used to enter his Capitol Hill office each morning sounding a battle cry for the U.S. embargo of Cuba."Codification!" he would shout, imploring his staff and anyone in hearing range to help him find a way to entrench the embargo so deeply into law that it could not be weakened by any president. Read More

Cuba Seeks to Normalize Relations with EU

<p style="text-align: justify;">BRUSSELS – Cuba has expressed to the European Union its interest in reaching a bilateral accord and in normalizing relations, though it insists that the 27-member bloc eliminate its hard-line “common position” toward the government in Havana, according to an internal EU document, to which Efe had access. Read More

Coast Guard ships 17 Cubans back to island

<p style="text-align: justify;">BY CAROL ROSENBERG. [email protected]. Seventeen Cuban migrants who were discovered at sea in homemade boats over the previous seven days were returned to Cuba Saturday, among them up to a half-dozen who were saved from a sinking raft and got to spend a night aboard the luxury cruise ship Monarch of the Seas. Read More

Gary Lucas to Record with Cuban Musicians

<p style="text-align: justify;">By Ana Julia Suarez Cruz. Celebrated U.S. composer and guitarist Gary Lucas announced that he hopes to record an album with Cuban musicians to express his affection for the Caribbean country. Read More

Carancho, an Argentine Ace at Havana Film Fest

<p style="text-align: justify;">By:Ana Valdes Portela. sábado, 11 de diciembre de 2010. Havana, Dec 11 (Prensa Latina) Argentina is competing in the Havana Film Festival with an ace, Carancho by Pablo Trapero, a dark film with touches of police thriller, featuring a corrupt, ambulance-chasing lawyer. Read More

Cuba and Jamaica deepening relations

<p style="text-align: justify;">Jamaica Observer. Saturday, December 11, 2010. CUBAN foreign minister, Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla, will arrive in Jamaica tomorrow night for an official visit aimed at deepening relations between the two countries. Read More