SMS sent to Cuban mobiles is US Cyber Warfare

<p style="text-align: justify;">Havana, October 6 (KCNA) -- A U.S. federal institution in charge of radio broadcasting services will undertake the task, it said, adding that anti-Cuban radio broadcasting services are included.Prensa Latina of Cuba on Sunday exposed the U.S. plan for cyber warfare against cell phone users of Cuba. Read More

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Baseball World Cup with four triumphant teams

<p style="text-align: justify;">Santiago de Veraguas, Panama, Oct 7 (Prensa Latina) The baseball teams of Canada, Panama, and the Netherlands in the competition group A, and also Cuba in group B, on Friday are already qualified for the second round of the 2011 IBAF World Cup, held in various cities of the country. Canadian, Dutch, and host baseball players head the competition group A with four wins and any defeat, while being virtually unassailable for the rest of the teams. Read More

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Tampa-Holguín flights now possible with ABC Charters

<p style="text-align: justify;">The once-a-week flights will be leaving Tuesdays, in addition to a weekly Tampa-Havana flight the Miami-based company has been offering since September.ABC Charters will offer flights from Tampa to the eastern city of Holguín, company owner Tessie Aral told Cuba Standard. In July, Tampa International Airport received permission from U.S. Customs to offer charter flights to Havana. An estimated 140,000 Cuban Americans live within a two-hour drive from Tampa. Read More

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Vietnam setting up two biogas facilities at Las Tunas eastern region of Cuba

<p style="text-align: justify;">The Hanoi-based Biogas Technology Center is setting up two midsize biogas generators in Cuba, official news agency ACN reported. Vietnam, which established a comprehensive infrastructure at home with 2 million micro-size and thousands of larger digesters, has provided Cuba with biogas know-how since 2003, and the two generators are part of a larger program, Duan Thi Hai, an engineer with the Vietnamese group told the conference. Vietnam has already donated at least four biogas generators in Las Tunas and Matanzas province, according to local newspaper Tiempo 21. Read More

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Direct flights between Key West and Cuba approved

<p style="text-align: justify;">By Mary Beth Wilson. NBCMIAMI.com. 10/7/2011. Custom approves Key West to Cuba flights. Under a U.S. trade embargo, tourist travel to Cuba from the U.S. has been prohibited and direct flights were available only at Miami International Airport. But in March, following the easing of travel restrictions by President Barack Obama, customs officials began allowing direct flights for approved travelers from Tampa International Airport and Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood, and several others are following suit. Read More

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American Delegation in Cienfuegos province

<p style="text-align: justify;">CIENFUEGOS, Cuba, Oct 7 (acn)The American delegation met with members of the Cuban National Association of Jurists in the province in order to expand their knowledge on the legal system of the Caribbean island. The delegation made up of American students and teachers on criminal justice of the Eastern Kentucky University (EKU) in the U.S. are visiting the central Cuban province of Cienfuegos to exchange with their peers and counterparts. Read More

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Promotional campaign “Genuine Cuba” in Coimbra, Portugal

<p style="text-align: justify;">HAVANA, Cuba, Oct 7 (acn) Coimbra is the cradle of the first university of Portugal and one of the oldest in Europe, and it’s located at some 200 kilometers of Lisbon, the country’s capital, the Prensa Latina news agency reported.Genuine Cuba, the tourist caravan with which the island is currently showing its attractive tourist industry, was presented this week in the Portuguese city of Coimbra, after touring the main five Spanish cities, including Madrid. The caravan began its tour on September 30, which ended on October 6 in Corunna, in the Spanish autonomous community of Galicia. Read More

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Namibian species to be sent to a Cuban zoo causes concern in the African nation

<p style="text-align: justify;">Jana-Mari Smith.7 October 2011. Several animal health experts and conservationists have questioned the decision of a mass donation of wildlife from Namibia to Cuba.The translocation of an estimated 150 animals - said to include the 'big five' as well as a large number of other species.There are fears that certain wildlife species could be at serious risk,because of the travel distance and also due to the relocation to a tropical climate. But these concerns were dismissed by the Ministry of Environment and Tourism (MET) which is currently in the process of finalising the list of wildlife to be shipped to national parks in Cuba. Read More

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Rene Gonzalez's Wife one of the Cuban five says his life is in danger in US

<p style="text-align: justify;">Friday, October 07, 2011. HAVANA, Cuba (AP) —Rene Gonzalez, a dual US-Cuban citizen, petitioned a judge to let him return to his family in Cuba after he gets out of a federal penitentiary in Marianna, Florida today. But last month, a judge declined to alter the original sentencing requirement that Gonzalez serve three years of parole in the United States. The life of a Cuban intelligence officer jailed in the US will be in danger from members of the Cuban exile community if he is forced to serve parole there, his wife said yesterday on the eve of his release. Read More

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Cuba goes ahead with its offshore drilling: Repsol

<p style="text-align: justify;">In spite of serious threats from a bipartisan group, the Cuban program continues its trend with the nearly arrival of the Scarabeo platform. The United States is suffering from high unemployment, high energy prices, stagnant economic growth, and a massive budget deficit. By expediting the development of offshore oil resources, the government could tackle all four of these problems simultaneously. Yet for some reason, the Administration continues to drag its feet. Read More

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