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March 31st

Cuba to host Earth Sciences Convention next month

<p style="text-align: justify;">HAVANA, March 30 (NNN-AGENCIES) - Cuba will show its oil potential in its exclusive economic zone in the Gulf of Mexico at the Fourth Convention of Earth Sciences here next month.Organisers said the convention on April 4-8 will bring together more than 700 specialists in Geology, Mining, Geophysics, Metallurgy, Hydrogeology and Petroleum to discuss issues concerning gas exploitation, deep water extraction and oil refining.During the Third Cuban Congress of Oil and Gas, one of the workshops held in parallel with the convention, experts would discuss Cuba's oil potential. Read More

Napoleon’s death mask to be revealed

<p style="text-align: justify;">Mar 30, 2011. By muhammadshahjehankhan. Bronze cups, a coat, hat and watch that once belonged to Napoleon will also be on display.A four-storey Florentine style mansion has become Cuba's home to the life and times of the French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte.The museum has been under renovation for three years but reopened to the public now. It houses close to 8,000 items from the court of the former French ruler. Read More

Carter asks for end to U.S. trade embargo

<p style="text-align: justify;">At a press conference in Havana on Wednesday, Jimmy Carter advocated an end to the trade embargo the U.S. imposed on Cuba and the removal of Cuba from the list of countries that, according to the U.S. State Department, sponsor terrorism.Carter also advocated the elimination of the restriction of travel by Americans to the island and defended the unrestricted ability of Cubans to travel abroad.According to the official news agency Prensa Latina, Carter "advocated the elimination of the Helms-Burton Law, which codifies Washington's economic, trade and financial blockade of the island." Read More

March 30th

Jimmy Carter meets with jailed American in Cuba

<p style="text-align: justify;">Former president allowed to meet Alan Gross, sentenced this month for "subversive" acts, but Cuba says it won't release himCBS/AP) HAVANA - Former President Jimmy Carter has met with a jailed American contractor but says Cuban authorities have made clear they do not plan to release him.The announcement was a disappointment for Alan Gross' supporters after expectations rose that the 86-year-old former American leader would be allowed to bring the Maryland native home with him. Gross is serving a 15-year sentence after being convicted of bringing communications equipment into Cuba illegally. Read More

Carter meets Cuba dissidents, to visit jailed U.S. man

<p style="text-align: justify;">By Jeff Franks. HAVANA | Wed Mar 30, 2011 10:53am EDT. HAVANA (Reuters) - Former President Jimmy Carter met with leading Cuban dissidents on Wednesday and told them he expected to visit imprisoned U.S. aid contractor Alan Gross before leaving the communist-ruled island.The meeting at the hotel in Old Havana where Carter and his wife Rosalynn have stayed during their three-day trip to Cuba included top critics of the Cuban government such as blogger Yoani Sanchez, Oswaldo Paya and Elizardo Sanchez.Cuban leaders describe all of them as "mercenaries" working for arch-enemy the United States. Read More

Cuba approves loans to help private entrepreneurs launch small businesses

<p style="text-align: justify;">By The Associated Press – HAVANA — The Cuban government has authorized local banks to offer credit to private small business owners and agricultural producers as part of a sweeping economic overhaul announced last year.Havana is dismissing hundreds of thousands of state employees while granting licenses for a broad array of private businesses to absorb the layoffs.The credit measure is intended to help would-be entrepreneurs get off the ground. Read More

Cuban and Canadian Students to Give Concert in Las Tunas

<p style="text-align: justify;">2011.03.29 - 20:08:58 / radiorebelde.icrt.cu. Cuban and Canadian Students to Give Concert in Las Tunas. Las Tunas, Cuba.- Art students from the Cuban province of Las Tunas and Canada’s Quebec are preparing a symphonic concert scheduled for April 2 at the main theater of this city, as part of a solidarity project between Cuba and Canada.The rehearsals are taking place at the Art School El Cucalambe in Las Tunas, eastern region of Cuba, from where students have joined colleagues from La Seigneurie, a music, dance and sports school of Quebec. Read More

Panama Interested in Sports Collaboration with Cuba

<p style="text-align: justify;">2011.03.29 - 20:18:25 / radiorebelde.icrt.cu. Panama Interested in Sports Collaboration with Cuba. Havana, Cuba.- Panama’s Sports (PANDEPORTES) General director Ruben Cardenas who arrived Tuesday in Havana, said to be interested in fostering bilateral collaboration on his field, upon arriving at the Jose Marti International Airport.Cardenas said he is looking to bring Cuban trainers to his country and in turn, have Panamanian sportspeople travel to Cuba with the purpose of increasing their preparation with views of international events, including the Pan American Games of Guadalajara. Read More

Carter and Castro discuss U.S.-Cuba relations

<p style="text-align: justify;">By Jeff Franks Jeff Franks – HAVANA (Reuters) – Former President Jimmy Carter and Cuban President Raul Castro discussed U.S.-Cuba relations in a meeting on Tuesday in which Castro repeated an offer to hold talks with the United States on any issue, Cuban state television said.They met on the second day of Carter's three-day private visit to Cuba after he said he hoped to help smooth over difficulties between the two longtime ideological enemies.The Cuban television report said Carter and Castro spoke about the "international situation, the situation in Cuba and the United States and relations between the two nations."<br /> <br /> Read More

Carter says he hopes to improve U.S.-Cuba relations

<p style="text-align: justify;">Reuters.By Jeff Franks.HAVANA (Reuters) - Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter said on Tuesday he hoped to contribute to better U.S.-Cuba relations, but was not in Cuba seeking the release of a U.S. aid contractor whose imprisonment has blocked better ties between the Cold War-era enemies.On a visit to Havana, Carter told reporters he had spoken to Cuban officials about Alan Gross, who is serving a 15-year sentence for trying to provide illegal Internet access to Cuban groups. But he said, speaking in Spanish, "I am not here to take him out of the country." "I hope we will be able to contribute to better relations between the two countries," he said. Read More