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December 21st

U.S. allowing Cuban peso remittances

<p style="text-align: justify;">Efe: Easing restrictions on remittances, the U.S. Department of Treasury now allows U.S. residents to wire Cuban convertible pesos (CUC) to family members on the island, a Western Union executive told efe. Read More

Salvadorian Terrorist Goes to Trial in Cuba

<p style="text-align: justify;">HAVANA, Cuba, Dec 20 (acn) The trial of Salvadorian Francisco Chavez Abarca on terrorism charges started this Monday at 9.30 AM at the Crimes against State Security Court in Havana city. Read More

Ontario man arrested in Cuba in Molson grow-op case

<p style="text-align: justify;">Globe and Mail Update. Published Monday, Dec. 20, 2010 2:02PM EST. BARRIE, Ont. — Provincial police have arrested another man in a years-long investigation into a massive marijuana grow-op uncovered in a former Ontario brewery. Read More

In Cuba, Questions About Economic Change Persist

<p style="text-align: justify;">Ray Suarez's three-part Cuba series begins Monday night on the NewsHour.When I returned from Cuba recently, I was struck by the intense level of curiosity about the place, and the air of mystery the United States trade embargo and travel ban have created around a place 90 miles from the U.S. mainland."What was it like?" "Was it easy to get around" "Were you followed? Or were you just able to go about your business?" Read More

Mexicans to Enjoy Some of the Best of Cuban Cinematography

<p style="text-align: justify;">2010.12.18 - 12:04:08 / [email protected]. Havana, Cuba.- The First International Film Festival of Mexico City (FICCMexico), to be held from February 4th through the 13th, 2011, and in which 130 films will be presented, will have Cuba as Guest of Honor.Some 30 works, between feature films and shorts, animated films and documentaries made between 1961 and 2009, make up the retrospective that Cuba will take to the event, the Prensa Latina news agency reported. Read More

New Book on Che to be launched in Cuba

<p style="text-align: justify;">HAVANA, Cuba, Dec 20 (acn) "Ernesto Che Guevara, preludio de una leyenda" (Ernesto Che Guevara, prelude of a legend) by Heberto Norman Acosta, will be launched this Thursday at 11 AM at the ALBA Cultural House.The book deals with the arrival of the youngster that later became the legendary Cuban-Argentinean guerrilla to Costa Rica and his journey to the Jacobo Arbenz’s Guatemala in December 1953. Read More

Government will let loss-making state companies falter

<p style="text-align: justify;">During a frank, four-day exchange with deputies of the national parliament about economic reform projects, Raúl Castro and Marino Murillo, Cuba’s point man of the reform, said that loss-making state companies are running out of time and will be gradually stripped of subsidies. Read More

December 20th

Percussion, Axis of the Cuban Essence of Jazz

<p style="text-align: justify;">lunes, 20 de diciembre de 2010. Por José Dos Santos. (Prensa Latina) Veterans and youth mixed it up with their talent and knowledge during the 6th International Colloquium of the Jazz Plaza 2010 Festival, which just concluded in the Cuban capital.For three days, lectures, presentations, book launches and films culminated in a special presentation by elite figures from Cuban percussion, such as José Luis Quintana "Changuito", Enrique Plá, Yaroldys Abreu and Oliver Valdés. Read More

Night of One Thousand and One Texts

<p style="text-align: justify;">By Dalia Acosta. HAVANA, Dec 20, 2010 (IPS) - The legendary Scheherazade has exchanged her enthralling tales of "One Thousand and One Nights" for a compact disc with 1,001 academic articles, essays and books, giving Cubans access to materials that would otherwise be very difficult to obtain.The initiative of the Criterios Theoretical-Cultural Centre is to provide "the greatest amount of international information. Read More

Russian art exhibition in Cuba

<p style="text-align: justify;">Dec 20, 2010 12:57 Moscow Time. Alexander Pushkin. Photo: RIA Novosti. Portraits of renowned Russian poet Alexander Pushkin are currently on display in the Cuban city of Matanzas, where an art exhibition to this effect opened earlier in the day.The exhibition features 24 canvases by Russian and Soviet painters, who specifically grappled with depicting Pushkin in various periods of his lifetime.&nbsp; Read More