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Archive - Jul 2011

New York pastor's ashes honored at Cuban seminary

<p style="text-align: justify;">HAVANA (AP) — The ashes of a U.S. pastor who led annual relief pilgrimages to Cuba in defiance of Washington's decades-old trade embargo have gone on display at a seminary on the island. The regional Communist Party newspaper Giron says religious leaders and worshippers paid their respects Thursday to the late Rev. Lucius Walker in Matanzas province. Read More

Dancer José Manuel Carreño says adiós to the ABT

<p style="text-align: justify;">The stellar 16-year career of José Manuel Carreño with the American Ballet Theatre comes to its New York end today when the Cuban dancer performs, to a soldout audience, one of the roles that has made him famous. "Carreño says adiós to the ABT; it´s my decision, but I will continue dancing," says the 43-year-old Havana native. "I feel that is the moment to continue going forward, experimenting with other things." For the farewell at the Metropolitan Opera House, Carreño is scheduled to perform the role of Prince Siegfried in "Swan Lake." Read More

What is the Perfect Holiday to Cuba?

<p style="text-align: justify;">Cuba Relax Holiday: This is the most common option to travel to Cuba. We would strongly advise punters NOT TO travel to Cuba just for the beach. It is simply a waste of money. Most big tour operators will not explain that buying excursions in Cuba is quite expensive. For example, going from Varadero to Havana in an excursion which will merely show you Havana from a bus in about two hours, will cost about £60. What we recommend instead is to do a twin centre holiday in Cuba or even a three centre holiday. Read More

New Ways to Visit Cuba — Legally

<p style="text-align: justify;">By MICHELLE HIGGINS. Published: June 30, 2011. ALWAYS wanted to visit Cuba? Well now you can — legally. Cuba Travel Guide. Go to the Cuba Travel Guide. Thanks to policy changes by President Obama earlier this year designed to encourage more contact between Americans and citizens of the Communist-ruled island, the Treasury Department is once again granting so-called “people-to-people” licenses, which greatly expand travel opportunities for Cuba-bound visitors. Read More

Friendly Planet Travel Humanitarian Tour to Cuba

<p style="text-align: justify;">Dear Friends, You might have heard about the recent changes in U.S. law easing restrictions on travel to Cuba for certain types of tourism programs. Friendly Planet is now offering a new series of Humanitarian Relief tours to Cuba beginning in October of 2011. We have organized several such missions to Cuba over the past year,coordinated through a humanitarian organization officially licensed by the United States Department of Treasury. Read More

Ecuador's President Urges the U.S. to Lift Blockade against Cuba

<p style="text-align: justify;">HAVANA, Cuba, Jun 30 (acn) Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa urged Washington to put an end to the economic, commercial and financial blockade against Cuba,and labeled the measure as an offense to the international law. According to the Cubadebate website, Correo told Prensa Latina the action underway for more than 50 years now against the island demonstrates international double standards, and that it is unjustifiable at this point of the history of mankind. Read More

AMERICA/CUBA-Appointment of National Director of Pontifical Mission Societies

<p style="text-align: justify;">Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Archbishop Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed National Director of Pontifical Mission Societies in Cuba for the years 2011-2016, the Rev. Castor Jose Alvarez Devesa, of the clergy of the Archdiocese of Camaguey on May 27, 2011. Read More

La Colmenita Children´s Theater Company Announce Summer Program

<p style="text-align: justify;">06/28/2011. By Kimani Hernandez Garcia. La Colmenita Children’s Theater Company has announced its summer program, which includes presentations at the Orden Tercera Theater and the San Francisco de Asis Convent in the old quarter of the city of Havana. Director of the company Carlos Alberto Cremata said that children enrolled in municipal workshops will be performing during the summer, with presentations included in the Rutas y Andares tourist program organized by the Office of the Havana Historian.&nbsp; Read More

Cuba Beats Curacao in Dutch Baseball Tournament

<p style="text-align: justify;">Cuba beat the team of Curacao 1-0 at the Neptunus Family stadium in Rotterdam, Holland, in the baseball tournament being held in this Dutch city Wednesday, and kept its second place. Right-hander Dalier Hinojosa pitched well for seven innings, with just one hit, and got his first victory at the tournament, this being the third won by the Cuban team. Read More

Everything by Virgilio Piñera in printed letter, in Cuba

<p style="text-align: justify;">The literary legacy of Virgilio Piñera will circulate profusely in Cuba on the comming 2012, a year maked by the hundredth anniversary of his birth. The medular work will irradiate from different editorial labels. His work has a high aesthetic flight, such as his Teatro completo, innovative, advanced for his time, as may be seen in Electra Garrigó, that anticipates an absurd that is atributed to Ionesco, even though La soprano calva was published and represented much later. Read More