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New programs being implemented in Cuba for small business

<p style="text-align: justify;">Story by PRI's The World. Cuba's leader Raul Castro has been making some moves toward liberalizing the island's communist economy. The government recently announced that it was drastically reducing its workforce, and now it has begun offering the island's first MBA program, sponsored by the Catholic Church.Would-be small business owners in Cuba now have the opportunity to sign up for a masters degree in business administration from the Catholic Church. Read More

Insight Cuba announces a Havana International Jazz Festival tour next December

<p style="text-align: justify;">PR Newswire. NEW ROCHELLE, N.Y., Oct. 4, 2011. The world-renowned Havana International Jazz Festival, originally organized by master jazz musicians including Chucho Valdes, and sponsored by the Instituto Cubano de la Musica, will run December 15-18. A lively celebration of music and culture, the festival began as a loosely organized event in 1978 when Bobby Carcasses and other jazz musicians played an outdoor show at Casa de la Cultura in Havana. Insight Cuba offers a musical program which is in fact music to the ears, it's a Six-Day Inclusive Program Features All-Access Pass to Concerts, Events and People-to-People Encounters Read More

Is it time for the USA embargo against Cuba to end?

<p style="text-align: justify;">Tuesday, January 14, 2003.By Amy Maness. While the embargo has not produced the desired regime change in Cuba, integration into the international economy has helped other developing countries - including socialist countries. Economic growth enhanced by trade has reduced poverty and created a middle class that supports further liberalization. Trade partners are well positioned to influence government policies on human rights and to encourage democratization. Read More

Cuba denies having a Hezbollah base in its national territory

<p style="text-align: justify;">2011/10/04.By Luis Chirino. Granma daily has released Cuba's statements about the news aired on a Hezbollah base in its national territory and rejected accusations made by US presidential candidate Rep. Michele Bachmann that the island is serving as a base for the Hezbollah Lebanese movement. Read More

US company "Flowserve" fined due to selling of spare parts to Cuba

<p style="text-align: justify;">Flowserve voluntarily disclosed that domestic and foreign affiliates had exported&nbsp; $2.1 million worth of pumps, valves and related parts to Iran, Sudan and Cuba; a press release by the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) didn’t say whether the equipment was for offshore oil operations. In the case of Cuba, a foreign affiliate of Flowserve “engaged in transactions involving property in which Cuba or a Cuban national had an interest,” the press release said, without providing more details. The transactions in question were made — without obtaining U.S. licenses — in 2005 and 2006. OFAC fines Texas offshore oil supplier. Read More

Life Insurance company in Cuba has compensated 18 000 People per year

<p style="text-align: justify;">Havana, Oct 4 (Prensa Latina) Applied in Cuba since 1997, life insurance last year expanded its coverage to disability from heart and cerebrovascular disease, diabetes and cancer, as long as the disability is apparent within 12 months after diagnosis of the disease.<br /> The temporary disability insurance includes those which may be caused by cardiovascular and vascular-brain diseases or emergency surgery. Read More

Brazilian dancer Carlinho de Jesús glad with Cuba-Brazil cultural project

<p style="text-align: justify;">Havana, Oct 4 (Prensa Latina) This is a remarkable project, he said, when assessing the cultural event the premier of Italian playwright Tancredi Dollfus'' Cuban musical show "Que bolá?", foreseen for April next year in Rio de Janeiro. In remarks to journalists recently, the Brazilian dancer said to be happy to be involved in this event, that will be the start of an exchange with the art of "a country we love, know and respect so much." "Que bola?" constitutes a tribute to musical theater in the Island and its main figures. It is the story of a Cuban boy who emigrates to the United States along with his mother, and for personal reasons returns as a young man to the Island, where he first falls in love in a cigar factory and reunites with his roots. Read More

12th International Wine Festival to be held in Havana

<p style="text-align: justify;">2011.10.03. 18:10:30. radiorebelde.icrt.cu.Havana, Cuba.- Producers, distributors, sellers, sommeliers, enologists and representatives from wineries from Argentina, Chile, Spain, Mexico, France and Italy have confirmed their participation in the three-day event to be hosted by the Hotel Nacional. The 12th International Wine Festival starts on Wednesday October 5 in Havana giving wine experts a new opportunity to learn about the latest world trends and the best products from the field commercialized in the Cuban market. Read More

Soil degradation a major concern for Cuba's agriculture

<p style="text-align: justify;">2011.10.03 - 20:12:41.radiorebelde.icrt.cu.Holguin, Cuba.- One of the major concerns for Cuban specialists in the branch is Soil degradation, this is in fact one of the most pressing environmental challenges in the eastern province of Holguin, spanning across more than 9,300 square kilometers. Ernesto Mastrapa, an specialists from the Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment’s office in Holguin told ACN soil degradation was the main cause leading to desertification. Read More