Cuban Wins 3rd Gold in Paralympic Track and Field Champs

<p style="text-align: justify;">6 de enero de 2011, 12:23Wellington, Jan 26 (Prensa Latina) Cuban Omara Durand on Wednesday won the 200-meter event in the T-13 category at the International Paralympic Committee's Athletics World Championship in Christchurch, New Zealand.This is the first time that Durand, 19, has participated in an international event. Her time was 24.24 seconds, breaking the world record set by U.S. Marla Runyan in 1995 of 24.45 seconds. Read More

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Cuba output sees no change

<p style="text-align: justify;">Cuba's oil and natural gas production last year was similar to 2009 as output continued to stagnate and new wells simply made up for the decline in old ones output, state-run media said today. Read More

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U.S. opens the door further on travel to Cuba

<p style="text-align: justify;">January 25, 2011. Cuba tourbus reuters. For the second time since taking office, President Obama eased restrictions on travel by Americans to Cuba. The relaxed rules are scheduled to take effect by the end of this week. Read More

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Cuba's Low Budget Film Festival has lower budget than usual

<p style="text-align: justify;">AFP. Cuba's Low Budget Film Festival has lower budget than usual AFP/File – People go to a cinema in Havana in 2008. The International Low Budget Film Festival that Cuba has hosted … Read More

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Agriculture continues slow recovery

<p style="text-align: justify;">Seventy percent of the land the state has distributed among private farmers and cooperatives is in use, but overall 40 percent of arable land on the island continues fallow, according to the results of an official report published by Communist Party daily Granma. Read More

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Cuba present in tourism Fair in Helsinki

<p style="text-align: justify;">The Autentica Cuba (Authentic Cuba) campaign —which promotes the most genuine values of the traditions and culture of the Caribbean nation— is participating in the MATKA 2011 Nordic Travel Fair, underway in Helsinki, Finland. Read More

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Education Ministers from Eleven Countries Attend Inauguration of Pedagogy Congress in Havana

<p style="text-align: justify;">2011.01.25 - 10:46:01 / 12th International Congress on Pedagogy (Pedagogía 2011)HAVANA, CUBA.- The 12th International Congress on Pedagogy (Pedagogía 2011) was inaugurated on Monday at Havana’s Karl Marx Theater with the presence of Education ministers from 11 countries. Read More

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Who are the Cuban Five?

<p style="text-align: justify;">Gerardo Hernández, Ramón Labañino, René González, Antonio Guerrero, and Fernando González were arrested in September 1998 in Miami. Since then, they have been unjustly held in U.S. prisons on frame-up charges. Convicted in June 2001, they were given draconian sentences. Read More

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Cubans fast becoming the new stars in ballet

<p style="text-align: justify;">By SIGAL RATNER-ARIAS, AP Entertainment Writer. AP. In this undated publicity image released by the Boston Ballet, Cuban dancers Nelson Madrigal, left, and his wife Lorna Feijoo perform in "The Sleeping Beauty" at the Wang Center for the Performing Arts in Boston. (AP Photo/Boston Ballet,Angela Sterling) NEW YORK — Their technique is impeccable, their passion incomparable.With flare and unique style, Cuban dancers are climbing to stardom in American companies from American Ballet Theatre in New York to the Boston and the San Francisco Ballets, and are widely considered the new Russians of ballet. Read More

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Miguel Barnet Race Relations in Cuba Today

<p style="text-align: justify;">Miguel Barnet is an internationally renowned ethnographer, poet, and novelist.His best known work, Autobiography of a Runaway Slave (1966), currently in its 65th edition and translated into more than a dozen languages, is considered a ground-breaking work and the standard in the field of testimonio, or testimonial narrative.Other works like Gallego and Canción de Rachel (La Bella del Alhambra), have been made into films and also translated into multiple languages. La Vida Real (A True Story) has been translated into English and will be presented in New York City later this month. Read More

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