Cuba's Music and the Septeto Nacional Ignacio Piñeiro

<p style="text-align: justify;">If you like tropical music, that is the sound of the Caribbean, you'll love the sound of this seven-piece band,&nbsp; Septeto Nacional Ignacio Piñeiro de Cuba. The band was formed more than 80 years ago and has gone through some changes and&nbsp; transitions, but still holds true to the sound of Cuba. Read More

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Cuban Ambassador Meets with African Union Commissioners

<p style="text-align: justify;">HAVANA, Cuba, Mar 5 (acn) Cuban ambassador to Ethiopia, Clara Pulido, met in Addis Ababa with commissioners of the African Union (AU), during which they analyzed possible fields of cooperation between that organization and the Caribbean island. Read More

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Cubans Save More Haitians Infected with Cholera

<p style="text-align: justify;">2011.03.05 - 12:57:40 /radiorebelde.Cubans Save More Haitians Infected with Cholera. Havana, Cuba.- The work carried out in Haiti by the Cuban Henry Reeve Medical Brigade has represented saving the lives of over 1,100 citizens of that small and impoverished nation, now affected by cholera. Read More

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The ALBA Foreign Ministers Debate on Situation in Libya

<p style="text-align: justify;">2011.03.05 - 08:55:11 / radiorebelde.The ALBA Foreign Ministers Debate on Situation in Libya. Havana, Cuba.- The search for a peaceful solution to the political conflict in Libya was the main focus of debates on Friday during the meeting of Foreign Ministers of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas (ALBA). Read More

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Cinema Helps One Understand Life, Reality, Spanish Filmmaker says

<p style="text-align: justify;">Miami, March 4 (IANS/EFE) Cinema fulfils the "need for fiction" that is inherent in human beings and helps them "better understand life and reality", Spanish filmmaker Fernando Trueba has said."Writers and filmmakers, with their stories, have enabled us to better understand human beings," Trueba said during the presentation of his animated feature "Chico &amp; Rita" in Miami.The director, whose 1992 movie "Belle Epoque" won the Oscar for the best foreign language film, said he had the "sense that this film ought to come to Miami because of its large Hispanic and Cuban population". Read More

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Cuba's Deepwater Oil Exploration Could Be a Game Changer

<p style="text-align: justify;">People who follow the oil industry are closing watching a pair of news items, both involving drilling operations in the Gulf of Mexico.Earlier this week, the Obama administration said Noble Energy (NBL) could restart drilling operations at its Santiago well in the Gulf. The announcement will make Noble the first company to resume drilling in the region since last April's BP (BP) Deepwater Horizon disaster -- and the first since the moratorium on deepwater drilling in the Gulf was lifted last October. Read More

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Che's motorcycle companion dies at 88

<p style="text-align: justify;">Argentine scientist and writer Alberto Granado Romero, whose travels with Ernesto Che Guevara through South America were documented in the book and film "The Motorcycle Diaries," died in his sleep Saturday in Havana. He was 88.In December 1951, Granado, then 30, joined Guevara on a nine-month journey up the western coast of South America aboard Granado's motorcycle, "La Poderosa." At the end of their trip, in Venezuela, Guevara returned to Argentina and Granado remained in Caracas. Read More

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Gross trial opens in Cuba with ‘vigorous’ defense

<p style="text-align: justify;">On the first day of the trial of American Alan P. Gross, his Cuban lawyers were said to have offered a “vigorous” defense of their client.A lawyer for U.S. government subcontractor Alan P. Gross said his client put up “a vigorous defense’’ Friday on the first day of a trial in Cuba that could send him to prison for 20 years for giving communications equipment to independent groups. Read More

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Environmental Actions Reduce Damages on Cuban Coasts

<p style="text-align: justify;">2011.03.04 - 15:46:10 / radiorebelde.Ciego de Avila, Cuba.- The implementation of 15 programs related with the compregehensive management of Cuban coastal areas at local level has allowed to reduce the impact of climate change and natural disasters.During a national meeting of environmental management specialists held in Ciego de Avila, participants noticed that there is growing knowledge on the topic, while the main decision-making bodies and other related institutions are working closer together on the matter. Read More

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Cuba to Debut in World Volleyball League vs. the Republic of Korea

<p style="text-align: justify;">2011.03.04 - 19:34:58 / radiorebelde.Havana, Cuba. - Cuba will play against the Republic of Korea in the opening of the 22nd World Volleyball League, slated for May 27 through July 10, with the participation of 16 teams.Cubans will open Group D against the South Koreans in the first weekend of the intercontinental preliminary leg, to be held in the city of Suwon on May 28 and 29, the www.cubadebate.cu Web site reported. Read More

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