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Archive - Mar 2011

March 2nd

Cuba and the United States, Will They Ever Be Friends?

<p style="text-align: justify;">League of Women Voters Host Speaker Thursday.Have you thought much about Cuba lately? Maybe you heard that sugar will no longer be subsidized in that country. But how much do you know about our close neighbor to the south? The League of Women Voters and the American Association of University Women are joining forces to bring Dr. Alberto Coll to Lake Forest at 7 p.m. Thursday at the Lake Forest-Lake Bluff Senior Center, 100 E. Old Mill Road. Read More

Cuban coffee recovers after calamity

<p style="text-align: justify;">2/3/2011: The Cuban media has reported that their coffee industry is recovering after a tropical storm damaged crops in October last year. The country has announced a target of 6,700 tons of semi-processed coffee beans for 2011, having already harvested almost 2,700 tons in Santiago de Cuba – the country’s most productive coffee-producing area.The socialist nation – which loves its coffee as much as it does its cigars – suffered a major decline in its coffee output. Read More

Creole choir of Cuba really hails from Haiti

<p style="text-align: justify;">AMY EDWARDS. 02 Mar, 2011 04:00 AM.The singers behind the Creole Choir of Cuba share more than beautiful voices, they share history.This vibrant 10-piece group, five men and five women, hail from Camagüey, Cuba’s third-largest city, but are originally from Haiti.They tell the stories of their Haitian ancestors who were brought to Cuba to work in slave-like conditions in the sugar and coffee plantations. Read More

March 1st

Cuba is present at Ghanaian Trade Fair

<p style="text-align: justify;">2011.03.01 / radiorebelde.HAVANA, CUBA.- For the third consecutive year, Cuba is present at the International Trade Fair of Ghana, considered the most important business forum of Western Africa, which will end on March 9.The Cuban stand was officially inaugurated by Cuba’s ambassador to the Republic of Ghana, Miguel Perez, and by Mahama Ayariga, Deputy Trade Minister of that African nation, as well as by diplomats accredited to Accra and local authorities. Read More

Mexico will be the Guest of Honor at Cuban Tourism Fair

<p style="text-align: justify;">2011.02.28 - 20:03:13 / radiorebelde.Havana, Cuba.- Mexico will be the guest country at the 31st edition of the International Tourism Fair -the main tourism market on the island-, which will take place from May 2 through the 7 at Havana’s Morro-Cabaña Complex.Alicia Perez, representative of the Cuban Tourism Ministry (MINTUR) in Mexico, explained that the meeting will be attended by over 300 tour operators of Europe, Asia and the Americas.This edition will include an evening dedicated to Mexico, with a banquet in honor of that ation, composed of typical dishes, the Xinhua news agency reports, reproducing statements by Perez to that country’s press. Read More

Russian ships visit Cuba

<p style="text-align: justify;">HAVANA - A Russian antisubmarine destroyer and two logistical warships docked in Cuba yesterday. The arrival was nonmilitary, an extension of a tour that has included stops in Venezuela and Panama.Russians sailors in white and tan dress uniforms stood at attention on the deck of the Admiral Chabanenko destroyer, which sailed into Havana Bay amid a cloud of gray smoke.The ships will be moored here until Tuesday and the crew planned a tour of Havana that includes a trip to a naval school. Read More

Cuba acknowledges delay in layoff plan

<p style="text-align: justify;">Cuban President Raul Castro says layoff plan behind schedule, says caution is necessary. ap. Paul Haven, Associated Press, On Monday February 28, 2011, 9:29 pm EST. HAVANA (AP) -- President Raul Castro acknowledged on Monday what has been clear in the streets of Cuba for some weeks, that a key government plan to lay off half a million state workers by the end of March is well behind schedule and won't be completed on time. Read More

Cuban Province Protects Soil with Natural Fertilizers

<p style="text-align: justify;">2011.02.28 - 16:21:07 / radiorebelde.Ciego de Avila, Cuba.- Last year, the central Cuban province of Ciego de Avila protected about 3,400 hectares of different crops by using 8,000 tons of humus produced by cooperatives and farmers.In 2010, 605 farms joined the production of humus, in which nearly 230,000 tons of bovine, equine, and ovine manure were used. Read More

Benicio del Toro debuts as director with film shot in Cuba

<p style="text-align: justify;">Published February 28, 2011.EFE. Havana –&nbsp; Oscar-winning actor Benicio del Toro is in Cuba to film one of the stories making up the movie "Siete dias en La Havana" (Seven days in Havana), in which he will make his debut as a director, a source with the production confirmed to Efe.Del Toro is one of the seven directors involved in the Spanish-French co-production that was begun this month by French director Laurent Cantet and will also include Spain's Julio Medem, Cuba's Juan Carlos Tabio, Argentines Gaspar Noe and Pablo Trapero and Palestinian Elia Suleiman. Read More

Cuba is an Example of Humanism, Says Prime Minister of East Timor

<p style="text-align: justify;">HAVANA, Cuba, Feb 28 (acn) The Prime Minister of East Timor, Kay Rala Xanana Gusmao, said that Cuba is an example of solidarity and humanism for the rest of the world.During a visit to the Havana-based Latin American School of Medicine (ELAM), Gusmao —also Minister of Defense and Security of East Timor— added that the Cuban Revolution was an inspiration for the rebels of country during their liberation struggle. Read More