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Raul Meets with the PM of the Commonwealth of Dominica

<p style="text-align: justify;">HAVANA, Cuba, Sep 16 (acn) Cuban president Raul Castro met at Revolution Palace on Wednesday afternoon with Roosevelt Skerrit, Prime Minister of the Commonwealth of Dominica, who is now on an official visit to Cuba. Read More

Cuba offers 19 ways Obama can loosen US embargo

<p style="text-align: justify;">AP. HAVANA – Cuba is offering a series of small but specific steps the administration of President Barack Obama can take to soften the United States' 48-year-old trade embargo, including expanding flights and establishing ferry service between both countries and dropping bank bans that keep U.S. credit cards from working on the island. Read More

Spirit of Cuba defies gravity

<p style="text-align: justify;">Sydney Morning Herald - September 15.Reviewer rating: 5 out of 5 stars. If you like your contemporary dance unapologetically alive, Danza Contemporánea de Cuba is for you. A spectacular explosion of desire, conflict and passion, Danza Contemporánea de Cuba pitches bodies against bodies and dance against music with a furious energy that will leave you breathless. Read More

Cuba One of the Best Islands for Tourism

<p style="text-align: justify;">Cuba classified as one of the best islands in the world for tourism, according to the Readers Travel Awards 2010 sponsored annually by the British magazine Condé Nast Traveller. Read More

Cuban Squad to 39th World Chess Olympiad

<p style="text-align: justify;">Cuban Great Master Leinier Dominguez leads the team that will represent the island at the 39th World Chess Olympiad, set for September 23rd through October 4th in Russia. Read More

Cuba shares the little it has

<p style="text-align: justify;">The Heads of State of Caricom and the Government of Cuba met at their first summit in Havana in December 2002 and decided to celebrate Cuba-Caricom Day on December 8. This historic decision institutionalised a permanent mechanism of dialogue at the highest governmental level between Cuba and the Caricom countries. Read More

Panel calls for end to Cuba embargo

<p style="text-align: justify;">September 15, 2010. A panel in Washington, D.C. Tuesday discussed a U.S. House bill to remove obstacles to selling U.S. agriculture commodities to Cuba. The measure would also end American travel restrictions to Cuba. Read More

Venezuelan President to travel to China

<p style="text-align: justify;">Caracas, 16 Sep. AVN .- Venezuela"s President Hugo Chavez announced on Wednesday that he will soon travel to the People"s Republic of China to have a meeting with the president of that country, Hu Jinta Read More

Kaplowitz: It's past time to end failed embargo on Cuba

<p style="text-align: justify;">September 16, 2010.With credible reports that President Obama will issue an executive order lifting parts of the anachronistic U.S. trade embargo against Cuba, it is high time the U.S. public pressures Congress to go the final step to entirely end the half century old Cold War relic. The Obama administration's move would return U.S. embargo policy to the "people-to-people" approach followed by President Bill Clinton's administration,loosening restrictions on travel by academic, religious and cultural groups added to the embargo by President George W. Bush in 2004. Read More

MT Farmers Union urges more Cuba trade

<p style="text-align: justify;">Members of the Montana Farmers Union have been in Washington D.C. this week to talk about agricultural and economic issues with legislators and their peers from around the country. Read More