Boleto al Paraiso, a Daring Film in Cuban Screens

<p style="text-align: justify;">Havana, Mar 29 (Prensa Latina) Filmmaker Gerardo Chijona played in the Cuban screens a film that ventures into an unexplored subject in the island, HIV AIDS, based on true stories.Inspired by the book Confesiones a un medico (Confessions to a physician), by specialist Jorge Rivas, who headed an Institute of care to these patients in the 1990s, the film had an excellent reception in 2010 at the Havana International Festival and recently in the Sundance festival founded by Robert Redford. Read More

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Mexico Downs Cuba 3-0 to Open CONCACAF U-20s

<p style="text-align: justify;">CONCACAF.com. March 28, 2011. GUATEMALA CITY - Alan Pulido and Ulises Davila scored second-half goals and Mexico subdued Cuba 3-0 in the opening game for both Monday at the CONCACAF Under-20 Championship.Cuba, which was making its first appearance in the CONCACAF U-20 finals since 2002, had an equal amount of possession to open the game, but neither side was able to generate much that was dangerous. Eventually Mexico was able to dominate, taking the lead in the 36th and adding insurance in the 53rd and 84th. Read More

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India to expand IT cooperation with Cuba

<p style="text-align: justify;">Cuban IT consulting firm Avante signed a memorandum of understanding with India’s Electronics and Computer Software Export Promotion Council (ESC) at the Indiasoft 2011 fair in Maharashtra state, Cuba’s foreign ministry announced in a press release.The two state entities agreed to “promote information exchanges, business opportunities, and the participation of businesspeople on both sides in exhibitions, seminars and workshops,” according to an Avante official quoted by the press release. Read More

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For Cuba Open Source Is Not A Matter Of Choice

<p style="text-align: justify;">Lack of access to commercial software makes open source the only choice for Cuba. By Alan Shimel on Tue, 03/29/11 - 2:09pm.In case you want to attend, Cuba is hosting the Latin American Festival of Open Source Software on April 9th. It seems Cuba is a big supporter of open source and is trying to have a majority of its computers run Linux. In fact Cuba has its own Linux distribution called Nova. But if you think about it, Cuba does not really have a choice but to support open source.&nbsp; Read More

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Septeto Nacional Ignacio Piñeiro de Cuba to Play UCSB

<p style="text-align: justify;">Arts &amp; Lectures Presents the Cuban Supergroup on Sunday, April 3 at Campbell Hall. Tuesday, March 29, 2011. By Charles Donelan. They are the oldest and greatest of the Cuban small orchestras performing in the musical style that gave birth to salsa. Septeto Nacional Ignacio Piñeiro de Cuba may not have the longest band name out right now (that would be … And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead), but that doesn’t mean this 82-year-old organization won’t blow its audience away when it stops by UCSB on Sunday, April 3. Read More

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Cuba’s Oil Potential at the Center of Earth Sciences Convention

<p style="text-align: justify;">HAVANA, Cuba, Mar 29 (acn) The Fourth Earth Sciences Convention will take place in Havana in April with the participation of experts from nearly 20 countries who will discuss important topics such as the oil potentials in Cuba’s Exclusive Economic Zone in the southeast of the Gulf of Mexico.Manuel Iturralde, president of the event’s Organizing Committee and of the Cuban Society of Geology, told ACN that this topic will be analyzed during the Third Cuban Congress on Oil and Gas, one of the meetings that will take place during the Convention. Read More

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Cuba to Open New International Diving Center

<p style="text-align: justify;">2011.03.29 - 14:03:32 / radiorebelde.icrt.cu. CIENAGA DE ZAPATA.-&nbsp; A new international diving center will be soon inaugurated in Punta Perdiz, between Playa Larga and Playa Giron, in the western province of Matanzas.The Deputy Sales Director with the Comprehensive Tourist Enterprise in Cienaga de Zapata, Jorge Miranda, told ACN that the new facility will meet the standards established internationally for this sport, including a hyperbaric chamber.&nbsp; Read More

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Carter says he is not taking U.S. contractor home from Cuba

<p style="text-align: justify;">By Shasta Darlington, CNN. March 29, 2011 -- Updated 1558 GMT (2358 HKT) Havana, Cuba (CNN) -- Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter squashed speculation on Tuesday that he can sure the release of American contractor Alan Gross during Carter's trip to Cuba."We have spoken to some officials about Mr. Gross. But I am not here to take him out of the country," he told journalists, speaking in Spanish, when asked about the case.Carter was visiting the Belen Convent on the second day of his three-day private visit to talk about Cuba's economic reforms and bilateral relations. Read More

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Pernod Ricard Loses Appeals Court Ruling in Bacardi ‘Havana Club Fight

<p style="text-align: justify;">By Susan Decker - Mar 29, 2011 9:55 AM GMT-0500. Pernod Ricard SA, the world’s second-biggest liquor maker, lost a U.S. court ruling in its decades-long battle with Bacardi Ltd. over the right to use the name Havana Club on rum in the American market.The U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington ruled today that the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control was correct when it refused to let a Cuban state-owned group renew its U.S. trademark on the Havana Club name because of a 1998 law that barred renewal of certain Cuban trademarks. Read More

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Cruise veteran to launch Tampa-Havana ferry

<p style="text-align: justify;">By Gay Nagle Myers. Here's an idea: Offer overnight sailings on a deluxe cruise ferry from Tampa to Havana as an alternative mode of transport for Cuban-Americans who are now crowding onto charter flights at three U.S. airports to visit their ancestral homeland.The concept is more than just a notion for longtime cruise executive Bruce Nierenberg, who plans to operate a cruise ferry service for Cuban-Americans from Florida ports to Havana once he receives the required U.S. Treasury Department approval.And once the floodgates open to allow travel to Cuba for all U.S. citizens, there will be no stopping the tourism surge, Nierenberg recently predicted. Read More

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