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Funes to be escorted by large business delegation

<p style="text-align: justify;">President Mauricio Funes during his upcoming visit to Havana will be accompanied by a large delegation of&nbsp; businesspeople, El Salvador’s foreign minister announced. Fifty businesspeople said they will accompany Funes to Havana during the first week of October, Hugo Martínez said, according to daily newspaper La Página. This is the first visit of a Salvadoran president since the two countries resumed diplomatic relations last year. Read More

ESPN columnist: Cuba may allow baseball stars to become free agents

<p style="text-align: justify;">Cuba may allow its stars to play professional baseball abroad, ESPN Deportes columnist Enrique Rojas wrote in his blog. Rojas based his information on a “source close to Cuban baseball authorities.” Even if the Cuban government were to allow its players to sign contracts in the United States, the U.S. embargo would make financial transactions with Cuba impossible. Read More

International Community Demands End of US Blockade of Cuba at United Nations

<p style="text-align: justify;">HAVANA, Cuba, Sept 25 (acn) The international community urged the United States on Friday to put an end to the almost 50-year-old economic blockade of Cuba during the 65th ordinary period of sessions of the United Nations General Assembly in New York. Granma newspaper reports that the demand was made by the representatives of Bolivia, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Haiti and the Democratic Republic of Laos. Read More

Canadian Network on Cuba Holds Successful Convention

<p style="text-align: justify;"><br> The Canadian Network on Cuba (CNC) held a very successful 5th Biennial Convention in Toronto from September 4-6, 2010. Delegates and observers from 18 member organizations were joined by observers and invited guests including Her Excellency, the Cuban Ambassador to Canada Teresita Vicente, the Consul General of Cuba to Canada Jorge Soberón and other Cuban guests. Read More

Belarus and Cuba Discuss Ways to Foster Economic Exchange

<p style="text-align: justify;">HAVANA, Cuba, Sept 24.- Belarus and Cuba discussed on Thursday in Minsk possibilities to foster trade relations which are not up to the current actual potentials. In a meeting with Cuban deputy Foreign Trade and Foreign Investment minister,Oscar Perez, Belarusian deputy Foreign minister pointed out that political cooperation between the two countries is much stronger than economic collaboration, Prensa Latina reported. Read More

`Everybody in Cuba has access to culture'

<p style="text-align: justify;">LONDON. Aida Bahr, a prize-winning fiction writer, literary critic, and screenwriter in Cuba, recently spoke at two universities in the United Kingdom on "Culture and the Cuban Revolution." On September 10 Bahr spoke as a guest lecturer at a meeting of 70 people hosted by the Hispanic Studies Department at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. The event was chaired by Dr. Fiona Mackintosh, a university lecturer in Latin American literature. The next day more than 80 heard Bahr at the University of London's Birkbeck College. The events were broadly sponsored by bookshops,artists and other cultural figures, students, and trade unionists. Read More

Cuba Ballet’s Don Quixote oozes an infectious lust for life

<p style="text-align: justify;">The magnificent spectacle of Ballet Nacional de Cuba's production of Don Quixote. A sense of pure joy pervades Ballet Nacional de Cuba's Don Quixote in a way that is rare in highly-disciplined traditional art forms, writes reviewer Sommer Tothill. Ballet Nacional de Cuba’s production of Don Quixote is introduced by a short video by acclaimed prima ballerina and founder of the company, Alicia Alonso, to celebrate her 90th birthday. Speaking of her long career in ballet the world over, she muses, "Dancing is laughing with the body." Then Don Quixote goes on to illustrate just that. Read More

Restoration of the Jagua Castle, National monument

<p style="text-align: justify;">09/25/2010.The work of one brigade of the Contingent 5 of September, from the Ministry of Construction, is transforming the Fortress of Nuestra Señora de los Ángeles de Jagua, where the old entering bridge, with over 250 years old of existence, receives a new platform. The Jagua Castle, in south centre of Cuba, was built to defend the bay from pirates. It is the third most important of the country and the only one in the centre of the island and changes the image to the Cuban and foreign visitors through the pieces built during the construction. Read More

Venezuelan Security Ready for Polls

<p style="text-align: justify;">Venezuela Major General Henry Rangel said the Armed Forces along with the militias will guard the polling stations before and during Sunday's Parliamentary elections. Read More

Cuba to Expand Production of Antioxidant Derived from Mango

<p style="text-align: justify;">The Glucose Company of this port city in the center-south of Cuba today announced it will add Vimang to its production line, an antioxidant nutritional supplement also used for the skin´s aging processes, synthesized from the peel of certain varieties of mango (Mangifera indica L.) Read More