Cuban Rat Poison BioRat In Southern Asia

<p style="text-align: justify;">By: Ana Luisa Brown. Hanoi, Sep 19 (Prensa Latina) The prestige of the Cuban rat poison BioRat increased in southern Asia where rats have caused millions loses, demanding a sustainable ecological solution. Produced at Delta of Mekong by BioVietnam, from the Cuban business group Labiofam, this biological product knocked at the doors of the Malaysian market with full reference of effectiveness. They have also reached Malaysia with the credibility provided by the ISO 9001 of 2008 quality Standard and production indicators and quality redoubled in the last five years. Read More

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Cuba’s Work Leading Disarmament Conference Acknowledges

<p style="text-align: justify;">By: Ileana Ferrer Fonte. Geneva, Sep 19 (Prensa Latina) Cuba has received innumerable recognitions at the end of its work leading the Disarmament Conference in Geneva, which will conclude in October with the presentation of the annual report. The United Nations Office's official sources in Geneva state that during 2011, the forum had had the presidencies of Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, North Korea and Cuba. Read More

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Why our Cuba embargo could lead to another Gulf ?

<p style="text-align: justify;">CNN/Fareed Zakaria: Washington's desperate desire to isolate Cuba and block the island's economic development is the highest priority element in US foreign policy toward the island. Obama has simply continued what every other US president before him has done, including sending US agents, funds and technology there to promote destabilization. Read More

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Latin America Working Group: *End the Travel Ban on Cuba*

<p style="text-align: justify;">In January 2012, The Latin America Working Group staff and board are serving as consultants to a *Witness for Peace delegation* to Cuba, focusing on Cuban art and culture. Since Witness for Peace has received a people-to-people license from the U.S. Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC),this trip will be compliant with U.S. travel regulations. Read More

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Cuban Economy Minister Urges Farmers to Plant More Grains

<p style="text-align: justify;">2011.09.19 - 14:36:34 / radiorebelde.icrt.cu. HAVANA, Cuba.-&nbsp; The Cuban minister of economy and planning, Abdel Yzquierdo Rodriguez, urged farmers in the Caujeri Valley to plant more beans, corn, and chickpeas. According to the Granma newspaper, farmers should do so to cover with grains areas where they will not plant tomato anymore due to the lack of an industry to process it.&nbsp; Read More

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Alarcon: President Obama Needs to be Pressed so He Makes a Decision

<p style="text-align: justify;">2011.09.19 - 09:24:36 / radiorebelde.icrt.cu. The fiveHAVANA, Cuba.-&nbsp; We should do our best so more and more people know about this reality and create a climate that forces President Obama to make a decision, stated Cuban Parliament President Ricardo Alarcon during a forum of the civil society for The Five. While addressing participants in the second edition of this meeting, sponsored by the United Nations Association of Cuba (ACNU), Alarcon made reference to the current situation faced by Gerardo Hernandez, Fernando Gonzalez, Ramon Labañino, Antonio Guerrero and Rene Gonzalez. Read More

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Castro supervises expansion work of main port in Cuba

<p style="text-align: justify;">English.news.cn.2011-09-19 11:48:07. HAVANA, Sept. 18 (Xinhua) -- Cuban leader Raul Castro Sunday supervised the ongoing expansion program of the Mariel port, a main port of Cuba with Brazil's investment, local media reported. "The expansion work has an extraordinary economic importance," said Castro after inspecting the port, some 50 km west of Havana. Read More

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Drilling off Keys to begin by December

<p style="text-align: justify;">keysreporter.com.BY DAVID GOODHUE. A giant, semi-submersible oil rig en route from Singapore will probably be drilling in the Florida Straits between Key West and Cuba in mid-December. The rig could arrive earlier, but Repsol, the Spanish oil company, wants to wait until after hurricane season ends before it begins drilling. This latest report on the progress of the Italian-made Scarabeo 9 oil rig comes from Lee Hunt, the chief executive of the International Association of Drilling Contractors, who just returned from a trip to Cuba last week as part of a joint delegation with the environmental group, the Environmental Defense Fund. Read More

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Tampa City Council should reach out to Cuba

<p style="text-align: justify;">Monday, September 19, 2011 02:09. The Tampa City Council has been debating the merits of sending an official letter to the government of Cuba according to the St. Petersburg Times, offering greetings to an island nation that has been under a U.S. trade embargo for the past five decades. Opening communication with the Havanese and national governments comes during a time of softening policies toward Communist Cuba — the Obama administration designated Tampa International Airport as eligible for direct flights to Havana and is relaxing restrictions on remittances, according to ABC News. The Tampa City Council should try to reach out to Havana and the Cuban government to strengthen formal and informal relations between our peoples. Read More

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Medical Brigade Makes Over 14,000 House Calls in Nicaragua

<p style="text-align: justify;">By: Dayami Interián García. 18 de septiembre de 2011, 11:0The "Todos con Voz" medical brigadeManagua, Sep 18 (Prensa Latina). The "Todos con Voz" medical brigade, made up of Cuban and Nicaraguan doctors, has made 14,676 house visits in only six days to update a study on mental and physical disabilities aimed at improving government programs. Read More

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