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Archive - Sep 28, 2011

Buying and selling of cars now legal in Cuba

<p style="text-align: justify;">AP. By PAUL HAVEN - Associated Press. HAVANA (AP) — Cuba has just authorized selling and buying of cars for all citizens this Wednesday, this is another major step towards major economic changes on the island. The government announced the move in April, but sales have been on hold until the measure was published into law in the Official Gazette.Under the law, which takes effect Oct. 1, buyers and sellers must each pay a 4 percent tax, and buyers must make a sworn declaration that the money used for the purchase was obtained legally. Read More

Argentina defeats Cuba at Americas Championship for Women

<p style="text-align: justify;">28/09/2011. NEIVA (FIBA Americas Championship for Women) - Cuba are 2-1 and third in Group A but will leapfrog second-place Puerto Rico (2-2) with a victory over Chile on Wednesday.The Cubans defeated Puerto Rico 67-50 on the opening day of the tournament. Argentina remained unbeaten on Tuesday at the FIBA Americas Championship for Women in Colombia with a thrilling come-from-behind victory over Cuba. Read More

Austin-Lehman Adventures, and National Geographic Companies arrange trips to Cuba

<p style="text-align: justify;">By JAN FALSTAD Of The Gazette Staff The Billings Gazette. Wednesday, September 28, 2011 12:00 am.A Billings-based travel company, Austin-Lehman Adventures, and National Geographic are two U.S. adventure travel companies now licensed to conduct tours to Cuba. Austin-Lehman has scheduled six trips to Cuba next year. For years, legal travel from the U.S. to Cuba has been limited to&nbsp; academics, public performers, athletes, exhibitors and people attending conferences. Journalists also could go. Rocky Mountain College is leading an academic trip to Cuba in February and March.But the ordinary tourists had to be creative. Read More

Tourism Day celebrated at Nature and Tourism event in Central Cuba

<p style="text-align: justify;">By: Ileana Ferrer Fonte. Manicaragua, Villa Clara, Sep 27 (Prensa Latina) Under the slogan "Cuba in the center," the event takes place until Thursday in the mountainous zones of Villa Clara, Cienfuegos and Sancti Spiritus.Some 200 touroperators, travel agents, executives, experts and journalists from 12 nations dedicate on Tuesday the second day of the 8th International Meeting on Nature Tourism, Turnat 2011, to celebrate the World Day of Tourism. Read More

Flights from Oakland to Cuba

<p style="text-align: justify;"><br /> Flights from Los Angeles to Havana began again briefly this summer, and are expected to again resume, hopefully on a more regular, permanent basis, later in the fall. They were organized through 2004, and are again being organized out of Cuba Travel Services of Long Beach,California. Read More

Gibara once more the venue of movies

<p style="text-align: justify;">2011.09.26 - 21:41:33 / radiorebelde.icrt.cu. Holguin, Cuba.- Many films have been shown in this town during the different low budget film festivals and this coming event wil be labelled The 9th Humberto Solas International Low-Budget Film to be held from April 17-22, 2010,the first event took place in Gibara in 2003. Founded by renowned moviemaker Solas (1941-2008), the meeting is an ideal opportunity for the promotion of films of high aesthetic quality and that don’t need many resources for their production, taking advantage of the possibilities of digital technology. Read More

Cuban Ceramic exhibition in Turkey

<p style="text-align: justify;">2011.09.27 - 09:17:01 / radiorebelde.icrt.cu /Camagüey, Cuba.- The 5th Terracotta International Symposium counts with the presence of Cuban Ceramist Martha Jiménez, UNESCO´s Prize winning artist, the event is to be underway until the upcoming October 2nd in Eskisehir, Turkey. The event is sponsored by the Eskisehir´s city hall, and includes the participation of Cuban artists along with&nbsp; four foreign artists such as Achim Kuhn and Dorit Bereach from Germany, Kim Yong from Korea and Peter Randall from England as well as ten Turkish artists. Read More

Cuba, Argentina successful trend at FIBA

<p style="text-align: justify;">27/09/2011. NEIVA (FIBA Americas Championship for Women) - Hosts Colombia (1-2) pushed Cuba (2-0) hard in the last game of Monday but fell, 75-65.When Elisa Garcia drilled a three-ball late in the third quarter, the Colombians had a 49-42 lead. Cuba struck back, with an Ineidis Casanova three-pointer capping an 11-1 run to close the frame for the Cubans.On top 53-50 going into the last quarter, Cuba never trailed again. Read More

Agreement between Korea-Cuba penned in Pyongyang

<p style="text-align: justify;">Pyongyang, September 26 (KCNA) -- The agreement was inked by Kim Jong Suk and Kenia Serrano Puig.An agreement on friendship and solidarity was signed here on Monday between the Korean Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries, the Korean Committee for Solidarity with Cuba and the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples and the Cuban Committee for Supporting Korea's Reunification. Read More

Italian plastic art in Havana

<p style="text-align: justify;">AFP. Tuesday, 27 September 2011. Narcissus, painted from 1597 to 1599, shows the handsome youth bent over a pool, eyes locked on his own reflection.A dozen other paintings by Caravaggio's followers are also in the exhibit at the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, which runs until November 27. Read More