Acclaimed Cuban film school trains its focus on ‘cinema and life’

<p style="text-align: justify;">9 January 2011. By Meesha Nehru. Inside the main building of the International School of Film and Television (EICTV) in Cuba, the atmosphere is a mixture of warm conviviality and frenetic hard work.Each year, around 500 applicants from more than 30 countries compete for just 42 places on its internationally accredited diploma programme.The three-year course allows students to specialise in one of seven disciplines – directing, scriptwriting, documentary-making, editing, production, cinematography or sound. Read More

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New Cohiba cigar deemed a ‘commercial success’

<p style="text-align: justify;">U.S.-based magazine Cigar Aficionado selected a Cuban-made Cohiba cigar as best of 2010, describing it as a “commercial success” as well.Habanos S.A. launched the Cohiba Behike BHK 52 in February last year, during the Habano Fair.“The shortish, fat smoke, made with an artful pigtail and clad in gorgeous Colorado wrapper of reddish brown, is a phenomenally rich, delicious smoke that more than lives up to the reputation of cigars with the name Cohiba.” Read More

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Cuba's Fidel Castro condemns attack on US congresswoman Giffords as "atrocious"

<p style="text-align: justify;">By: The Associated Press,The Canadian Press - ONLINE EDITION. 9/01/2011 6:48 AM. HAVANA - Fidel Castro has denounced as "atrocious" a shooting attack on a U.S. lawmaker that left six people dead and the legislator in critical condition.The Cuban revolutionary icon says in an opinion piece that even those, like him, who frequently disagree with the United States would never want to see violence like the attack Saturday in Tucson, Arizon. Read More

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Vuelta a Cuba Cycling Tour Cancelled in 2011

<p style="text-align: justify;">HAVANA, Cuba, Jan 8 (acn) The president of the Cuban Cycling Federation, Jose Pelaez, announced on Friday that the annual Vuelta a Cuba cycling tour will not take place this year. Read More

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Cuba’s Public Health Gives Priority to Sustainability and Efficiency

<p style="text-align: justify;">PINAR DEL RIO, Cuba, Jan 8 (acn) Cuba’s Public Health Minister Roberto Morales said on Saturday in Pinar del Rio that sustainability, high quality and efficiency are the priorities of this sector amidst the process of transformations currently underway in the island. Read More

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News Sport Holguin Wrestling Teams to the National Championships

<p style="text-align: justify;">Holguin Wrestling Teams to the National Championships. By Jose A. Chapman Perez/ [email protected] / Saturday, 08 January 2011 10:38. The banner ceremony posed challenges for the Holguin wrestling teams in the coming national championships.The delegation to represent the Cuban province of Holguin in the National Wrestling Championships (classical and free style) was presented with a banner during a ceremony held at the Sport Provincial Museum. Read More

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Carmi native building ties with Cuba

<p style="text-align: justify;">By Randy Adams. Carmi Times. Posted Jan 08, 2011 @ 10:24 AM.Carmi Rotarians heard Thursday from a local native who is now an administrator at Southern Illinois University Carbondale.And the club learned (as The Times reported Thursday) that it has retained its title as the most productive group of bell-ringers for The Salvation Army. Read More

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Cuban duet Buena Fe in Holguin soon

<p style="text-align: justify;">By Lydia Esther Ochoa / [email protected] / Saturday, 08 January 2011 09:53. Buena Fe while performing in Antilla last 2008, one of the most severely hit municipalities in Holguin province. The popular Guantanamo born Buena Fe duet will give a concert at the Calixto Garcia square in the city of Holguin next January 16, as part of the national tour dedicated to the country’s hero Jose Marti. Buena Fe’s tour began in the central city of Sancti Spiritus and will end in Havana next January 27, in the eve of the 158 anniversary of Cuban apostle's birth (January 28, 1853). Read More

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Hotel’s story reads like parable of Havana’s history

<p style="text-align: justify;">Nacional first drew movie stars and mobsters; now it’s tourists in flip-flops. By JENNY BARCHFIELD The Associated Press. Sat, Jan 8 - 4:54 AM. HAVANA, Cuba — The carpets are worn and the rooms have a musty feel. Yet Havana’s iconic Hotel Nacional, which marked its 80th birthday Dec. 29, wears its slightly shabby elegance with pride, an aging beauty a bit past its prime.The hotel has welcomed movie stars and mobsters, but today’s visitors are mostly flip-flop-wearing tourists from Britain and Spain hoping to get a taste of the past at the apricot-coloured monolith on Havana’s seaside Malecon boulevard. Read More

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Canadian Divers Train in Cuba

<p style="text-align: justify;">2011.01.08 - 09:40:21 / [email protected]. Havana, Cuba.- Canadian divers of synchro three-meter springboard modality Alexandre Despite and Reuben Ross are currently training in the Baragua Pool Complex in havana city.Despatie, several times world champion and Olympic medalist, and his compatriot exploit the climatic conditions of Cuba for this winter season, reported Jit website. Read More

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