Carmi native building ties with Cuba

<p style="text-align: justify;">By Randy Adams. Carmi Times. Posted Jan 08, 2011 @ 10:24 AM.Carmi Rotarians heard Thursday from a local native who is now an administrator at Southern Illinois University Carbondale.And the club learned (as The Times reported Thursday) that it has retained its title as the most productive group of bell-ringers for The Salvation Army. Read More

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Cuban duet Buena Fe in Holguin soon

<p style="text-align: justify;">By Lydia Esther Ochoa / [email protected] / Saturday, 08 January 2011 09:53. Buena Fe while performing in Antilla last 2008, one of the most severely hit municipalities in Holguin province. The popular Guantanamo born Buena Fe duet will give a concert at the Calixto Garcia square in the city of Holguin next January 16, as part of the national tour dedicated to the country’s hero Jose Marti. Buena Fe’s tour began in the central city of Sancti Spiritus and will end in Havana next January 27, in the eve of the 158 anniversary of Cuban apostle's birth (January 28, 1853). Read More

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Hotel’s story reads like parable of Havana’s history

<p style="text-align: justify;">Nacional first drew movie stars and mobsters; now it’s tourists in flip-flops. By JENNY BARCHFIELD The Associated Press. Sat, Jan 8 - 4:54 AM. HAVANA, Cuba — The carpets are worn and the rooms have a musty feel. Yet Havana’s iconic Hotel Nacional, which marked its 80th birthday Dec. 29, wears its slightly shabby elegance with pride, an aging beauty a bit past its prime.The hotel has welcomed movie stars and mobsters, but today’s visitors are mostly flip-flop-wearing tourists from Britain and Spain hoping to get a taste of the past at the apricot-coloured monolith on Havana’s seaside Malecon boulevard. Read More

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Canadian Divers Train in Cuba

<p style="text-align: justify;">2011.01.08 - 09:40:21 / [email protected]. Havana, Cuba.- Canadian divers of synchro three-meter springboard modality Alexandre Despite and Reuben Ross are currently training in the Baragua Pool Complex in havana city.Despatie, several times world champion and Olympic medalist, and his compatriot exploit the climatic conditions of Cuba for this winter season, reported Jit website. Read More

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Guantánamo Prisoner Sent Home

<p style="text-align: justify;">By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. Published: January 8, 2011.The United States military sent a Guantánamo prisoner back to his native Algeria on Thursday over the objections of his lawyers, who said he feared being tortured in his homeland. Read More

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Cigar Aficionado names top cigars of 2010

<p style="text-align: justify;">Saturday, January 08, 2011. Cigar Aficionado names top cigars of 2010. BEIRUT: The Cigar Aficionado countdown of the Top 25 Cigars of 2010 concluded this week naming the Cohiba Behike BHK 52, a Havana-made smoke, as the best cigar of the year. The competition began with 700 cigars from around the world.&nbsp; Throughout the year, the magazine rates cigars, awarding points on a scale of 0-90.&nbsp; Based on previous rankings, Cigar Aficionado narrowed the competition down to a top 60 smokes and then conducted multiple rounds of blind taste tests to pick the top cigars of the year. Read More

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Cuba offshore oil rig delayed til mid-summer

<p style="text-align: justify;">By Jeff Franks - HAVANA, Jan 7 (Reuters)&nbsp; A Chinese-built drilling rig that was expected to arrive in Cuban waters in the first quarter of 2011 and begin the first full-scale offshore oil exploration there has been delayed until mid-summer, industry sources said on Friday.They said construction of the rig, known as the Scarabeo 9, had progressed more slowly than planned and now it would likely not get to Cuba until late June or early July. Read More

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USA State Department has no info on Cuban "defector"

<p style="text-align: justify;">Posted Friday January 7, 2011.MIAMI (Reuters) - The State Department has no information about the whereabouts or status of a leading Cuban government trade expert whom Miami media reports said had fled the island, a U.S. official said on Friday. Read More

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Arrest overshadows Cuba, U.S. migration talks

<p style="text-align: justify;">(AHN) Reporter:Tom Ramstack.Washington, D.C.United States.Published:January 7, 2011 03:27 pm EST. Cuban and American diplomats plan to meet again next week to figure out whether they can relax the travel and migration ban between the two countries. Thawing relations between the two Cold War-era enemies has been a campaign promise set forth by President Barack Obama. Read More

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Holguin Water Nets in Holguin Improved

<p style="text-align: justify;">Water Nets in Holguin Improved. By Maribel Flamand / ahora.cu&nbsp; / [email protected] / Friday, 07 January 2011 12:45. Improvement of water nets in the Cuban province of Holguin goes on. Photo: ahora.cuThe rehabilitation of Holguin’s aqueduct is a need rather than a will for both the population and the enterprises as for those who administer a resource that is scarce in several parts of the world. Read More

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