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

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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

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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

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`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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Car Accident Leaves 12 dead in Central Cuba

<p style="text-align: justify;">SANTA CLARA, Cuba, Sep 24 (acn) A trailer carrying goods got loose from a truck and collided head-on with a bus in Sagua la Grande municipality in central Villa Clara province causing an accident whose death toll reaches 12 while 36 people got <br> injured. Read More

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New Cuban tourist campaign to be promoted in France

<p style="text-align: justify;">The publicity campaign Auténtica-Cuba (Authentic-Cuba), destined to show Cuba to the world, was presented in France, where people talked about the qualities of the products of the tourist sector in Cuba. Music, draws and a renewed message of the good things of the island, were the center of an evening in Le Petit Journal from Montparnasse, in Paris, which marked the starting point towards the new proposition. Aleida Castellanos, director of Communication and Promotion from the Cuban Tourism Ministry (MINTUR in Spanish), declared that the idea is to promote other possibilities from our country, beyond the sun and the beach. Read More

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