Cuba's Low Budget Film Festival has lower budget than usual

<p style="text-align: justify;">AFP. Cuba's Low Budget Film Festival has lower budget than usual AFP/File – People go to a cinema in Havana in 2008. The International Low Budget Film Festival that Cuba has hosted … Read More

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Agriculture continues slow recovery

<p style="text-align: justify;">Seventy percent of the land the state has distributed among private farmers and cooperatives is in use, but overall 40 percent of arable land on the island continues fallow, according to the results of an official report published by Communist Party daily Granma. Read More

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Cuba present in tourism Fair in Helsinki

<p style="text-align: justify;">The Autentica Cuba (Authentic Cuba) campaign —which promotes the most genuine values of the traditions and culture of the Caribbean nation— is participating in the MATKA 2011 Nordic Travel Fair, underway in Helsinki, Finland. Read More

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Education Ministers from Eleven Countries Attend Inauguration of Pedagogy Congress in Havana

<p style="text-align: justify;">2011.01.25 - 10:46:01 / 12th International Congress on Pedagogy (Pedagogía 2011)HAVANA, CUBA.- The 12th International Congress on Pedagogy (Pedagogía 2011) was inaugurated on Monday at Havana’s Karl Marx Theater with the presence of Education ministers from 11 countries. Read More

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Who are the Cuban Five?

<p style="text-align: justify;">Gerardo Hernández, Ramón Labañino, René González, Antonio Guerrero, and Fernando González were arrested in September 1998 in Miami. Since then, they have been unjustly held in U.S. prisons on frame-up charges. Convicted in June 2001, they were given draconian sentences. Read More

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Cubans fast becoming the new stars in ballet

<p style="text-align: justify;">By SIGAL RATNER-ARIAS, AP Entertainment Writer. AP. In this undated publicity image released by the Boston Ballet, Cuban dancers Nelson Madrigal, left, and his wife Lorna Feijoo perform in "The Sleeping Beauty" at the Wang Center for the Performing Arts in Boston. (AP Photo/Boston Ballet,Angela Sterling) NEW YORK — Their technique is impeccable, their passion incomparable.With flare and unique style, Cuban dancers are climbing to stardom in American companies from American Ballet Theatre in New York to the Boston and the San Francisco Ballets, and are widely considered the new Russians of ballet. Read More

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Miguel Barnet Race Relations in Cuba Today

<p style="text-align: justify;">Miguel Barnet is an internationally renowned ethnographer, poet, and novelist.His best known work, Autobiography of a Runaway Slave (1966), currently in its 65th edition and translated into more than a dozen languages, is considered a ground-breaking work and the standard in the field of testimonio, or testimonial narrative.Other works like Gallego and Canción de Rachel (La Bella del Alhambra), have been made into films and also translated into multiple languages. La Vida Real (A True Story) has been translated into English and will be presented in New York City later this month. Read More

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Cuba continues to provide Venezuela with electricity know-how

<p style="text-align: justify;">Vice President Ricardo Cabrisas met with Electric Energy Minister Alí Rodríguez Araque Monday in Caracas to assess the state of 23 one-year old cooperation agreements on electricity, and to announce new projects.Cabrisas was accompanied by Vicente Delaó, general director of Cuba’s Unión Eléctrica. Read More

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Cuba to hold 13th cigar festival

<p style="text-align: justify;">English.news.cn. 2011-01-25 11:23:37. HAVANA, Jan. 24 (Xinhua) -- More than 1,000 cigar lovers and experts have confirmed their attendance to the 13th Havana Cigar Festival, which will be held on Feb. 21-25, president of the organizing committee Oscar Basulto said on Monday.The event, organized by Habanos S.A. and Tabacuba Business Group, is devoted to honor the famous cigar brands of the island "Montecristo," "Partagas" and "H. Upmann," said Basulto. Read More

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Cubans Closer To Getting Online

<p style="text-align: justify;">January 2011. Industry Trends And Developments. Cuba is set to finally be connected to the information superhighway as the deployment of a fibre-optic submarine cable gets under way. A boat carrying the 1,630km cable arrived in Venezuela on January 16 and the cable deployment should take two weeks to reach Siboney in Cuba and be operational by June or July 2011.BMI believes this an exciting development in the Cuban telecoms market, although we caution that growth is unlikely to take off significantly for a number of reasons. Read More

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