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Ernesto Che Guevara Sculptural Complex Wins Preservation Award

<p style="text-align: justify;">By Freddy Pérez Cabrera. The Monumental Complex to Ernesto Che Guevara was awarded the Provincial Award for Conservation and Restoration of Monuments 2011 for the excellence of the preservation of the structure, the use of state-of-the-art technology in the solutions to stop the deterioration of the monument."This contest aims at encouraging the rescue of the cultural patrimony built in the province. Read More

Cubans Celebrate 83rd Birthday of Celina Gonzalez

<p style="text-align: justify;">Por marta sanchez. Havana, Mar 20 (Prensa Latina) Cheerful and dynamic, Celina Gonzalez, the queen of Cuban country music celebrated her 83rd birthday at a newly-opened cultural center devoted to that popular genre. Read More

Wynwood activist never stopped fighting for her community

<p style="text-align: justify;">By Sara Gonzalez.MiamiHerald.com. Quintana was born in Puerto Rico and raised in Cuba. For more than 50 years, she called Wynwood home and fought for the rights of the needy in her community.Long-time Wynwood community activist Dorothy Quintana, who advocated for her community up to her last days, died last week of natural causes. She was 101 years old. Read More

Argentina Reports 93 Dengue Cases

<p style="text-align: justify;">Por marta sanchez.Buenos Aires, Mar 20 (Prensa Latina) Only 93 dengue cases have been reported so far this year in Argentina, the Health Ministry said in a press release.The majority of the 73 cases were reported in Romang, in Santa Fe province, where the virus was detected and the DEN 1 type identified, according to health authorities. Read More

Cuban filmmaker to screen, discuss works

<p style="text-align: justify;">CARBONDALE, Ill. -- A filmmaker and director with an award-winning Cuban community media project will screen his documentaries next week at Southern Illinois University Carbondale.Carlos Rodriguez, a filmmaker and director with Cuba’s TV Serrana, will also discuss the organization’s work on Friday, March 25, in the Kleinau Theatre on the second floor of the University’s Communication Building. The event is from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. Admission is free and the public is welcome.The presentation includes a selection of TV Serrana’s productions to provide a historical survey of the organization’s work. Read More

Indonesia Invites Cuba Cigar Industry Develop

<p style="text-align: justify;">Countries in Latin America intend to enhance bilateral relations with Indonesia. One of Cuba, which offers joint development of the cigar industry in Indonesia.It is made by the Cuban Ambassador to Indonesia Anna Valdez in pertamuan ‘The 4th Forum For East Asia-Latin America Cooperation (FEALAC) Outreach Program’, in Ball Room Hotel Gran Senyiur, Jl ARS Mohammad No. 07, Balikpapan, East Kalimantan, Friday (03/18/2011).Anna said the two countries Indonesia and Cuba, the potential has a very good relationship and can be improved since the time of President Sukarno, who was known quite friendly with Cuban President Fidel Castro. Read More

David Haye Says Odlanier Solis Will “Go Down As Yet Another Fat Bum”

<p style="text-align: justify;">By James Slater: WBA heavyweight champ David Haye had an opinion on Cuba’s Odlanier Solis before last night’s fight with WBC king Vitali Kitschko - Haye said, that if the man who defeated him as an amateur was at a good weight he would stand a great chance of winning - and Haye has an opinion on the 30-year-old today. Haye, speaking via his Twitter page, had nothing good to say about Solis; insisting that the excess weight the former Olympian carried into the ring with him in Germany resulted in his embarrassing, 1st-round loss. Read More

Petrobras pullout not a final verdict on Cuba’s oil, Piñon

<p style="text-align: justify;">Petrobras has more to gain from organically growing its position in Brazil than going abroad to expand production”. Petrobras CFO Almhir Guilherme Barbassa (Forbes magazine, February 28, 2011) More than 80 percent of the world’s crude oil production is in the hands of national oil companies (NOCs), the majority with a good track record of managing their national patrimony. But only a handful have been able to keep an arms-length relationship from their country’s politics du jour. Read More

Edmonton country music artist looking for lost Cuban dog

<p style="text-align: justify;">By Jamie Hall, edmontonjournal.com March 19, 2011. EDMONTON — Searchers are combing the streets of Varadero, Cuba, hoping to find the dog that stole the heart of an Edmonton country music artist. Somewhere in that sentence is the inspiration for a country music song, one Craig Moritz would gladly pen once he has all the lyrics for his happy ending.“I kind of fell in love with that dog,” says Moritz, who was selected for the prestigious new artist showcase by the Canadian Country Music Association in 2004. He is about to release his third album. Read More

Cuba adopts "summer time" to save energy

<p style="text-align: justify;">March 20, 2011. Cubans will adjusts their clocks one hour forward at midnight Saturday to implement the "summer time," aimed at using better the daylight and reducing energy consumption.Cubans will adjust their clocks at 24:00 on Saturday to 1:00 on Sunday, replacing the so-called "normal time" in force since Nov. 1.Director of Rational Use of the Electric Energy Union (UNE), Tatiana Amaran Bogachova, said that "with the new schedule will be earned one hour of daylight, which allows to extend the practice of daily activities, from sports to business and leisure." Read More