Agreement with Venezuela Favors Electric System in Cuba

<p style="text-align: justify;">2011.01.27 - 14:50:48 / Agreement with Venezuela Favors Electric System in Cuba. Havana, Cuba.- Cuba’s VP of the Council of Ministers Ricardo Cabrisas and Venezuela’s Minister for Electric Energy Ali Rodriguez agreed on Wednesday on the positive results of an existing bilateral agreement in the field of electricity. Caracas hosted a bilateral meeting to follow up on 23 projects and programs of cooperation signed between Cuba and Venezuela with the participation of experts and authorities. Read More

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Yoani Sanchez, the Cuban blogger's strategy whereabouts

<p style="text-align: justify;">Tracey Eaton. Pulitzer Center, Havana. As one Cuban official sees it, she's the quarter-million dollar woman, a creation of foreign interests determined to topple the socialist government.Yoani Sanchez became an enemy of the state in Cuba soon after her meteoric rise as creator of the blog Generación Y. Read More

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American surgeon to help with heart surgery in Cuba

<p style="text-align: justify;">Wausau Daily Herald • January 27, 2011. When Dr. Dagoberto Riveron took his family out of Cuba in 1962, he knew he would never practice medicine in the country where he trained and treated patients for years. But nearly five decades later, his youngest son, Dr. Fernando Riveron, a Wausau heart surgeon, is about to make history.When Fernando returns to Cuba in February, he will assist Cuban doctors in a heart surgery. Fernando believes he is the first American surgeon to work in a Cuban hospital since the revolution in the 1950s, he said. Read More

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Movie festival in a cavern in Gibara-Holguin

<p style="text-align: justify;">AIN /&nbsp; Wednesday, 26 January 2011 13:45. The gorgeous coastal city of Gibara to harbor again a film festival. Photo: Amauris Betancourt.The La Caverna de los Panaderos (Cavern of the Bakers), in the city of Gibara, will be a venue from February 1 to February 3 of the 11th edition of the International Movie Festival of Cinema Lebu, which will session simultaneously in the Chilean homonymous city. Read More

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Chavez Beats AT&T to Cuban Market Over Price Dispute

<p style="text-align: justify;">January 26, 2011, 1:09 PM EST. Jan. 26 (Bloomberg) -- A pricing dispute between the U.S. and Cuba may have cost American companies including AT&amp;T Inc. and Verizon Communications Inc a foothold in the island’s recently opened telecommunications market. Read More

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President Castro expresses grief to Russian leader over the casualties in terrorist bombing

<p style="text-align: justify;">Press release Wednesday from the Cuban Foreign Ministry: Army Gen. Raúl Castro sent a message of condolences to the President of the Russian Federation, Dmitri Medvedev, on the occasion of the terrorist act perpetrated at Domodedovo Airport in the city of Moscow. Read More

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Cuban defector Yasiel Balaguer to hold workout for Marlins

<p style="text-align: justify;">Yasiel Balaguer, who defected from Cuba in November in order to become a free agent and eventually sign with an MLB team, will hold his first workout today for the Marlins, according to Michael Miller of the Miami New Times. Read More

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In fields and city streets, Cuba embraces change

<p style="text-align: justify;">Tue Jan 25, 2:14 pm ET.ARANGO, Cuba (Reuters) – Across Cuba, new farmers are tilling fertile fields abandoned for decades and city streets are abuzz with market stalls as private businesses sow the seeds of what many hope will be an economic revival. Read More

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Cuba Assists Angola in Fight against Malaria

<p style="text-align: justify;">HAVANA, Cuba, Jan 26 (acn) A fumigation campaign to fight the mosquito that transmits malaria began on Wednesday in the northern Angolan province of Uige with the participation of Cuban specialists as well as technicians of the Angolan Ministry of Health and other organizations. Read More

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Florida frogs floated from Cuba

<p style="text-align: justify;">Tue Jan 25, 7:16 pm ET. PARIS (AFP) – Two species of invasive frog which are hopping their way through Florida probably got to the state by hitching a ride on floating debris from Cuba, according to a study published on Wednesday.Amphibian experts have long wrangled over the origins of the greenhouse frog (Eleutherodactylus planirostris) and the Cuban treefrog (Osteopilus septentrionalis). The two species are widespread across the Caribbean, but were first spotted in the Florida Keys -- the island chain that starts at Florida's southeastern tip -- in the mid-1800s. Read More

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