Members of the Brazilian delegation for Pan Am Games in Guadalajara

<p style="text-align: justify;">Guadalajara, Oct 8 (Prensa Latina) Brazilian athletes are already strolling the streets of Guadalajara, after arriving in this Mexican city that will be the venue of the 16th Pan Am Games starting on October 14. Members of the Brazilian table tennis team arrived in Guadalajara on Friday to begin the last leg of their preparation, while most of the Brazilian delegation will start arriving this Saturday. Read More

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Cuba's boxing team with two gol medals

<p style="text-align: justify;">2011.10.08 - 13:36:22. radiorebelde.icrt.cu. Havana, Cuba.-Cuba now has two new World Champions in Boxing.&nbsp; Cuban boxers Lazaro Alvarez and Julio Cesar la Cruz became world champions after winning their respective bouts in the finals of the Baku 2011 World Championships. Cuba's team captain, Julio la Cruz proved to be in great shape though the whole tournament, and with excellent footwork and straight punches sorted difficult hurdles, including defending Champion Egor Mekhontsev from Russia in semi-finals. Read More

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Chancellors from Venezuela- Cuba lead a trip to Syria

<p style="text-align: justify;">By Naharnet Newsdesk.Representatives of Venezuela, Cuba, Ecuador, Nicaragua and Bolivia led by Maduro and Cuba's Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez are traveling to Damascus to "support the Syrian people in their search for stability." The foreign ministers of Venezuela and Cuba are leading a delegation of leftist Latin American countries to Syria to meet Sunday with Syria's President Bashar Assad in a show of support. Read More

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Cuban Senior official Ricardo Alarcon says Rene Gonzalez should be sent to Cuba

<p style="text-align: justify;">Mexico City. Associated Press. President of the Cuban parliament chief, Ricardo Alarcón urges Obama to let freed spy ring member and return him to the island. Cuban Parliament President Ricardo Alarcon said that Rene Gonzalez is at risk of attack in the United States, where a judge has ordered him to serve three years probation before he can go to Cuba. Read More

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Island-to-island air service is returning: Key West to Cuba

<p style="text-align: justify;">By SEAN KINNEY. Saturday, October 08, 2011 10:40 AM EDT. Airlines recruited for Cuba flights. Now that the federal government is allowing direct Key West-Cuba flights, the ball is in the hands of the aviation industry to start running flights from the Southernmost City 90 miles south to the island nation. The permission came by way of a Tuesday letter to Monroe County Airports Director Peter Horton from Thomas Winkowski, assistant commissioner in U.S. Custom and Border Protection's Office of Field Operations. Read More

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Dissident Laura Pollan's health condition compromised

<p style="text-align: justify;">By Associated Press. October 8, 2011. HAVANA (AP) Associates of the founder of Cuba's Ladies in White dissident group say she has been hospitalized and is in serious but stable condition.Founder of Cuba's Ladies in White, Laura Pollan, hospitalized for acute respiratory problems. Read More

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Leo Brouwer's music conquers US's audience

<p style="text-align: justify;">By: Jorge Petinaud Martinez.October 8. 2011. Havana, (PL). – In an exclusive interview to Prensa Latina, via e-mail, the director of Cuarteto de Cuerdas de La Habana, who also won a Cubadisco last year, for the Brouwer work for that format, said that the record astonished the United States. The United States specialized critic is delighted with the discovery of the Leo Brouwer, composer of quartet, assured the Cuban violin player Jorge Hernandez, winner of a 2010 Latino Grammy, during a trip from Philadelphia to New York. Read More

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Cuba- Viet Nam's new programs include investment in the Asian nation

<p style="text-align: justify;">Sat, October 8, 2011. Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung receives Cuban Minister of Foreign Trade and Investment Rodrigo Malmierca Diaz.&nbsp; Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung requested Cuba to step up co-operation and investment in Vietnam while receiving Cuban Minister of Foreign Trade and Investment Rodrigo Malmierca Diaz in Hanoi on October 7. He asked Cuba to continue to create favourable conditions for Vietnamese firms to co-operate and invest in Cuba. Read More

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Chavez invites oil countries to form part of a future int.organization

<p style="text-align: justify;">Caracas, Oct 8 (Prensa Latina) Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez, launched an invitation to create a new international organization, apart from the existing ones, that would bring together the countries considered oil giants. The president referred briefly to this issue this weekend, when he spoke in the act of registration of social organizations in the Great Patriotic Pole, held at Miraflores Palace, venue of the presidency of the Venezuelan State. Read More

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Alarcon to be at the Sixth Regional Meeting of Solidarity with Cuba Forum

<p style="text-align: justify;">2011.10.07 - 12:59:37. radiorebelde.icrt.cu. HAVANA, Cuba.-The regional meeting is attended by representatives from 25 countries, according to ICAP’s president, who announced that the forum will ratify the demand for the freedom of Rene Gonzalez, Antonio Guerrero, Fernando Gonzalez, Gerardo Hernandez and Ramon Labañino, who were unfairly arrested and condemned for trying to prevent criminal plans against the Cuban people, organized from the US. Read More

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