Cuba eliminates Spanish-CNN from cable TV

<p style="text-align: justify;">11:16, January 15, 2011.Cuba eliminated the U.S channel Spanish-CNN from the cable TV package provided to hotels and foreign companies on the island, an official from the state-owned International Telecable Co. confirmed Friday. Read More

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Obama makes a limited move, in the right direction

<p style="text-align: justify;">Dear friend of Cuba, Half a year after first floating the idea, the Obama Administration announced a series of limited measure to ease travel and remittance restrictions. While the move is timid - the president apparently first discarded it. Read More

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2nd Annual Minnesota Cuban Film Festival

<p style="text-align: justify;">Date: 7:30 pm, Thursdays, February 24 - March 31.With sell-out crowds at last year's festival, Minnesotans' love affair with Cuban cinema is clear. And it is also clear that there is a hunger for information about this intriguing island to our south, so rich in music and the arts. Yet, despite all that we have to share with one another, our government still denies us acess. So, although most of us can't get there in person, we can get a taste of Cuban life through their movies. Read More

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Obama to ease travel restrictions to Cuba, allow more U.S. cash

<p style="text-align: justify;">MIAMI HERALD:Obama to ease travel restrictions to Cuba, allow more U.S. cash to island. BY LESLEY CLARK. WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration Friday said it will allow for more U.S.travel to Cuba, making it easier for schools, churches and cultural groups to visit the island.A senior Obama official told The Miami Herald the much-expected move to expand cultural, religious and educational travel to Cuba is part of the administration's continuing ``effort to support the Cuban people's desire to freely determine their own future." Read More

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OK given on Tampa to Cuba air travel

<p style="text-align: justify;">Tampa Bay Business Journal - by Jane Meinhardt , Staff writer. Date: Friday, January 14, 2011, 5:23pm EST. Direct air travel between Tampa and Cuba is able to begin now that the Obama administration has approved it, Rep. Kathy Castor, D-Tampa, said Friday.“I am confident Tampa International Airport will be first in line to apply for final approval for expanded eligibility,” Castor said in a written statement. Read More

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Caribbean a top cruise destination

<p style="text-align: justify;">Europe, the Caribbean and Alaska will be among the top destinations for cruises this year, according to the Cruise Line Industry Association (CLIA).The association estimates that up to 16 million people will take cruises in 2011.That's a projected increase of 6.6% over 2010. Read More

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Culture week festival in Holguin City

<p style="text-align: justify;">By Lydia Esther Ochoa / [email protected] / Friday, 14 January 2011.The Culture Week Festival, that starts today in Holguin, has scheduled a packed agenda which includes the participation of local talent in the year’s cultural event that is dedicated to PhD Maria Dolores Ortiz, MSc. Angela Pena Obregon and to the 50th anniversary of the foundation of the El Alba plastic arts academy.Cuban City of Holguin Marks 259 Anniversary. Read More

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Cuban and foreign specialists to heart event in Holguin

<p style="text-align: justify;">By Rodrigo / [email protected] / Friday, 14 January 2011. More than a hundred foreign and Cuban specialists are to attend the Third International Symposium on Cardiovascular Investigation to star tomorrow at the Playa Pesquero hotel, in the municipality of Rafael Freyre, in Holguin province. Read More

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No Major Progress Expected from New Immigration Talks

<p style="text-align: justify;">By Patricia Grogg. HAVANA, Jan 14, 2011 (IPS) - The Cuban capital was the venue for a new round of immigration talks between delegations from this Caribbean island nation and the United States, although no major progress towards a broader dialogue is expected, in contrast to the hopes raised when President Barack Obama took office. Read More

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U.S. food sales to Cuba fall further in 2010

<p style="text-align: justify;">HAVANA (Reuters) – U.S. food sales to Cuba fell by 30 percent from January through November compared with the same period in 2009, meaning trade has halved in the last two years as Cuba bought more from allies, a U.S.-based group said on Friday. Read More

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