Canadian couple kicked off plane in Cuba

<p style="text-align: justify;">By Dave Dormer, QMI Agency.January 9, 2011. A Calgary couple were removed from a Sunwing Vacations flight in Cuba on Thursday after a man lit up in the plane's washroom. Read More

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British Taekwondo Fighters Arrive in Cuba

<p style="text-align: justify;">Havana, Jan 9 (Prensa Latina) The British National Women's and Men´s Taekwondo Teams will arrive in Cuba this Sunday, Carlos Bonasco, national commissioner of taekwondo, informed.Bonasco told Cuba´s News Agency (AIN) that the visit of the British teams will be very important and advantageous for the Cuban taekwondo national team that is training for the Pan American Games Guadalajara 2011.Bonasco said that the British are very good and that they will bring to Havana their Olympic and World medallists. That represents a great opportunity to know in what shape the Cubans are. Read More

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Ecuador Ratifies Protocol with Cuba

<p style="text-align: justify;">Quito, Jan 9 (Prensa Latina) Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa ratified a protocol on economy with Cuba, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs informed.The protocol allows for products new to the Cuban market, including roses, rice, tabacco, cotton yarn, fabrics and cables.The objective of the protocol is to promote the expansion and diversification of bilateral trade, with emphasis on goods produced by small and medium producers and the handicraft sector. Read More

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Latin American Music In Pursuit of Its Protection

<p style="text-align: justify;">Autor: Mario Vizcaino Serrat |&nbsp; 09 de Enero 2011. Specialists, musicians, artists, and producers from several Latin American and Caribbean countries have pinned their hopes on a network of record companies of the Cultural ALBA initiative, about which they met in Havana.The first meeting on this integrationist project was organized by Cubadisco – Cuba’s most important recording company and trade show - and the Cuban Music Institute. All activities were held at the ALBA Center, in Havana’s Vedado district. Read More

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Acclaimed Cuban film school trains its focus on ‘cinema and life’

<p style="text-align: justify;">9 January 2011. By Meesha Nehru. Inside the main building of the International School of Film and Television (EICTV) in Cuba, the atmosphere is a mixture of warm conviviality and frenetic hard work.Each year, around 500 applicants from more than 30 countries compete for just 42 places on its internationally accredited diploma programme.The three-year course allows students to specialise in one of seven disciplines – directing, scriptwriting, documentary-making, editing, production, cinematography or sound. Read More

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New Cohiba cigar deemed a ‘commercial success’

<p style="text-align: justify;">U.S.-based magazine Cigar Aficionado selected a Cuban-made Cohiba cigar as best of 2010, describing it as a “commercial success” as well.Habanos S.A. launched the Cohiba Behike BHK 52 in February last year, during the Habano Fair.“The shortish, fat smoke, made with an artful pigtail and clad in gorgeous Colorado wrapper of reddish brown, is a phenomenally rich, delicious smoke that more than lives up to the reputation of cigars with the name Cohiba.” Read More

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Cuba's Fidel Castro condemns attack on US congresswoman Giffords as "atrocious"

<p style="text-align: justify;">By: The Associated Press,The Canadian Press - ONLINE EDITION. 9/01/2011 6:48 AM. HAVANA - Fidel Castro has denounced as "atrocious" a shooting attack on a U.S. lawmaker that left six people dead and the legislator in critical condition.The Cuban revolutionary icon says in an opinion piece that even those, like him, who frequently disagree with the United States would never want to see violence like the attack Saturday in Tucson, Arizon. Read More

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Vuelta a Cuba Cycling Tour Cancelled in 2011

<p style="text-align: justify;">HAVANA, Cuba, Jan 8 (acn) The president of the Cuban Cycling Federation, Jose Pelaez, announced on Friday that the annual Vuelta a Cuba cycling tour will not take place this year. Read More

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Cuba’s Public Health Gives Priority to Sustainability and Efficiency

<p style="text-align: justify;">PINAR DEL RIO, Cuba, Jan 8 (acn) Cuba’s Public Health Minister Roberto Morales said on Saturday in Pinar del Rio that sustainability, high quality and efficiency are the priorities of this sector amidst the process of transformations currently underway in the island. Read More

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News Sport Holguin Wrestling Teams to the National Championships

<p style="text-align: justify;">Holguin Wrestling Teams to the National Championships. By Jose A. Chapman Perez/ [email protected] / Saturday, 08 January 2011 10:38. The banner ceremony posed challenges for the Holguin wrestling teams in the coming national championships.The delegation to represent the Cuban province of Holguin in the National Wrestling Championships (classical and free style) was presented with a banner during a ceremony held at the Sport Provincial Museum. Read More

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