Cuban duet Buena Fe on tour around Venezuela

<p style="text-align: justify;">The popular Cuban duet, Buena Fe, will tour over Venezuela from June 10, accompanied by the local group King Changó in order to delight the public with their best known songs and those songs from their last album Pi 3,14. According to several journal sources, the tour includes performances in the states if Aragua, Carabobo, Lara, Anzoategui, Miranda, Mexico F.D. and Portuguesa. Read More

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Italy Interested in Collaborating with Cuban Province

<p style="text-align: justify;">2011.06.06 - 12:59:42 / radiorebelde.icrt.cu. CamagueyCAMAGUEY, CUBA.- Italian ambassador to Cuba Marco Baccin visited the province of Camaguey to explore ways to collaborate in the preservation of the historical center of the city, among other projects. Baccin told ACN in Camaguey, around 500 km east Havana, that his country is also interested in increasing the presence of Italian art in this Cuban city and announced the intention of donating small garbage trucks to the city. Read More

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Disturbance has 40 percent chance of developing

<p style="text-align: justify;">6:16 AM. By: Glenn Glazer By: Glenn Glazer. A large area of low pressure in the Caribbean continues to produce showers and thunderstorms over Jamaica, eastern Cuba, and Haiti.The National Hurricane Center has left this disturbance at a 40% chance of development over the next 48 hours. Because it has not shown more signs of organization since Sunday, the hurricane hunter flight for today has been canceled. Read More

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Black Venus film in Cuban Theaters

<p style="text-align: justify;">The French film The Black Venus, starring Cuban Yahima Torres in her acting debut, is now in Havana movie theaters. Directed by Adbellatif Kechiche, the film has won praise from international critics and the Lumiere prize for Torres as best actress for playing South African woman Saartje Baartman, the victim of racism in early 19th century France. In statements to Prensa Latina when the film opened in Havana on Saturday, the 30-year-old Torres said the role changed her life not only as an actress but also as a human being. Read More

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Reforestation Progresses in Eastern Cuba

<p style="text-align: justify;">By: Ileana Ferrer Fonte.11:22Havana, Jun 5 (Prensa Latina) In the last five years, about 9,000 hectares of forestland grew in eastern Cuba, which holds two percent of the the world''s endemic flora species.The announcement by Cuban authorities coincided with a call by UNESCO to act more vigorously against the dangers that threaten the world's forests on Sunday, which is World Environment Day.According to forest experts and workers, there are many reasons to celebrate World Environment Day in Guantanamo province, dedicated to forests this year. Read More

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Embargo may block U.S. response to Cuban oil spill

<p style="text-align: justify;">By JENNIFER A. DLOUHY. Washington Bureau. With oil exploration set to begin in Cuba’s Gulf of Mexico waters, pressure is mounting on the administration to relax a politically sensitive embargo that would prevent U.S. firms from responding swiftly to potential oil spills roughly 50 miles from Florida beaches. The U.S. trade embargo against Cuba generally bars U.S. commerce with the nation and caps at 10 percent the portion of American-made components in offshore drilling equipment used in Cuba.That means containment equipment developed after last year’s oil spill would be off-limits — at least initially – if the same thing happened in Cuba’s part of the Gulf. Oil spilled there could reach the U.S. in three days. Read More

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New website launched to find long-lost Cuban birth certificates

<p style="text-align: justify;">A new company is charging $495 to help people who are desperate to find long-long Cuban legal documents.www.cubacityhall.com. By Frances Robles.miamiherald.com. Mario Alvarez spent several years and many dollars looking for yellowing documents in Cuban archives so he could write his family history. Read More

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Xi: Cuba showing clear direction for future

<p style="text-align: justify;">2011-06-06 09:49. HAVANA, Cuba - Vice-President Xi Jinping praised the 6th Congress of the Cuban Communist Party for showing a clear direction for the country's future development.In a written speech delivered to the press at the Jose Marti Airport in the Cuban capital Havana on Saturday night, Xi voiced his determination to expand consensus, enhance friendship, deepen cooperation and seek common development with the Caribbean island nation.Xi praised Cuba's relationship with China, which dates back to 1960, when Cuba became the first Latin American country to establish diplomatic ties with China. Read More

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China signs letter of intent to redo Cuba refinery

<p style="text-align: justify;">HAVANA - CHINA signed a letter of intent to refurbish a Cuban oil refinery and agreed to give new credit and start drawing up a five-year cooperation plan between the two communist-run countries in accords signed on Sunday during a visit by Chinese Vice-President Xi Jinping.The agreement on the refinery was the first official word on a project first reported by Reuters in November that is expected to cost US$6 billion (S$7.36 billion) and would be a significant step forward in budding Cuba-Chinese economic relations. Read More

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China backs Cuba reforms

<p style="text-align: justify;">Mon, 06 Jun 2011 8:05. Cuba and China strengthened their political and economic alliance Sunday by signing 10 new cooperation agreements that will provide Havana with much needed financial support to implement its plan of economic reforms. The accords were signed in the presence of Cuban President Raul Castro and Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping.The agreements "reflect the political will of both parties and governments to continue deepening their ties," an official Cuban announcement said. Read More

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