Cuba to Host Latin American Meeting on Popular Environmental Education

<p style="text-align: justify;">12/02/2010. On this occasion, workshops, lectures and exhibits, organized by more than 80 delegates from Cuba, Spain, Mexico, Colombia,Guatemala, Nicaragua, Brazil, Santa Lucia and Argentina –including a Mapuche delegation– will take place. Read More

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Appeal is heard in case of accused bomber

<p style="text-align: justify;">Death sentence was passed 11 years ago. The Cuban Supreme Court on Thursday began hearing an appeal by Raúl Ernesto Cruz León, charged with "terrorism of a continued nature," the official website Cubadebate reported. He was sentenced to death in March 1999. Read More

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Many firms lose foreign-trade privileges

<p style="text-align: justify;">Their import-export rights will be centralized. Several major business companies have been barred from trading abroad, in what seems to be a tightening of government control over import-export activities, perhaps combined with a drive against corruption. Read More

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How To Travel To Cuba

<p style="text-align: justify;">By: Stacey Sylvester. Travelling to Havana is getting easier, but it can still be difficult to travel there from the U.S. By traveling to another country, it can be made easier and you can avoid any regulations restricting direct flights. If you're already in the United States, then you'll need to go to a second country and from there take a flight to the Caribbean's largest island. Read More

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New Offers at Jardines del Rey Resort

<p style="text-align: justify;">By:Ana Valdes Portela. miércoles, 01 de diciembre de 2010.Ciego de Avila, Cuba Dec 1 (Prensa Latina) The Night Sea excursion is one of the latest offers of the Marlin Nauticas and Marinas company at the Jardines del Rey tourist destination for the high season, December to April. Read More

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An opening in Cuba? U.S. must step up

<p style="text-align: justify;">By Arturo Lopez Levy and Anya Landau French, Special to CNN. December 2, 2010 10:12 a.m. Editor's note: Arturo Lopez Levy is a lecturer and a Ph.D. candidate at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies of the University of Denver, Colorado. Anya Landau French directs the New American Foundation's U.S.-Cuba Policy Initiative. Read More

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Cuba has national debate on economic reforms

<p style="text-align: justify;">HAVANA, 2 DECEMBER, 2010: Cuba began national debates on the economic reforms undertaken by the government of Cuban Leader Raul Castro. The debates are the preparatory steps for the 6th Congress of the Communist Party in April.From yesterday till Feb. 28, the new measures to "upgrade" the socialist economic model will be discussed in every nucleus of the Communist Party (CCP), the unions of the state companies and all the communities across the island state. Read More

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Cuban state press reacts to WikiLeaks, while authorities remain silent (morning roundup)

<p style="text-align: justify;">Top News: CubaDebate, the state-run Web portal, published a biting criticism of Spanish daily El País' report on diplomatic cables in which U.S. officials said that Cuban spies operate openly in Venezuela and have direct access to President Hugo Chávez. Read More

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Cuba travel ban won't be lifted this year

<p style="text-align: justify;">By Mike Lillis - 12/02/10 06:00 AM ET. Legislation eliminating a longstanding travel ban to Cuba is dead in this Congress, several senior Democrats said this week. Rep. Bill Delahunt (D-Mass.), a strong backer of lifting the ban, called it "absurd" that Congress would maintain restrictions "predicated on a Cold-War mentality" irrelevant to current events. Read More

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Los Van Van's visit signals thaw in U.S.-Cuba cultural relations

<p style="text-align: justify;">The band, which last played L.A. in 2003, hits the Conga Room this week.Los Van Van will play at the Conga Room. (Los Van Van) By Reed Johnson, Los Angeles Times. December 2, 2010. When legendary Cuban group Los Van Van played Miami in October 1999, about 3,000 angry anti-Castro Cuban American exiles pelted fans with eggs, soda cans and rocks. Read More

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