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Cubans Prepare for Hurricane Season
HAVANA, Cuba, May 17 (acn) As the hurricane season approaches for the Caribbean Area on June 1, Cubans strengthen their capacities to lower vulnerabilities with the civil defense annual exercise known as Meteoro 2013, which will take place throughout the island on ...
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High Cuban Official Hightlights the AU 50th Anniversary
Havana, May 22 (Prensa Latina) The head of the International Relations department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC), Jose Ramon Balaguer, met in this capital with African ambassadors on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the African Union (AU), Granma newspaper reported today. During the meeting, Balaguer highlighted the "historical, cultural and blood ...
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Jenny Lins death remembered with Castro Valley service candlelight walk
CASTRO VALLEY -- A service to mark the 19th anniversary of teenager Jenny Lin is planned for Friday.The public service will begin at 6:30 p.m. at the Castro Valley Library. A candlelight walk in downtown Castro Valley will take place afterward.No arrests have been made in the death of Jenny, 14, who was killed in her home on May 17, 1994.The Jenny Lin Foundation sponsored a contest to raise ...
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CUBA Beverage Company invited on exclusive USDA Trade Mission for Turkey
SAN DIEGO, CA, May 22, 2013 /PRNewswire/ - Cuba Beverage Company (CUBV.PK), a manufacturer and innovator of all-natural, herbal energy drinks, announced today CUBA Beverage Company has been invited on the upcoming U.S.-Russia Trade and Investment Mission scheduled ...
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Book Review King Of Cuba
Copyright © 2013 NPR. For personal, noncommercial use only. See Terms of Use. For other uses, prior permission required. MELISSA BLOCK, HOST: From NPR News, this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I'm Melissa Block. ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: And I'm Robert Siegel. Many of the most celebrated Latin American writers have explored the character of the dictator in novels. Gabriel Garcia Marques did ...
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Havana Gold changing tactics for 2000 Guineas
Jamie Spencer is likely to adopt different tactics on Havana Gold in Saturday's Tattersalls Irish 2000 Guineas at the Curragh. Richard Hannon's colt ran a blinder in the French equivalent, hitting the front inside the final furlong before eventually being run out it into fifth. However, he made up plenty of ground at Longchamp and connections are dreaming of claiming a Classic double ...
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Havana goes for Guineas gold
Free £10 bet on racing Richard Hannon's colt ran a blinder in the French equivalent, hitting the front inside the final furlong before eventually being run out it into fifth. However, he made up plenty of ground at Longchamp and connections are dreaming of claiming a Classic double this weekend with Just The Judge running in the same colours in the 1000 Guineas. "Havana Gold ...
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Despite loss Havana back on softball map
Potts, the Ducks’ centerfielder, is one of only two seniors Havana will lose. The other is catcher Morgan Martindale. Each is a four-year ...
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VIDEO Cuba reopens sugar mills
Cuba was once the world's biggest sugar exporter, but the industry was devastated in the 1990s with the disappearance of its big buyer, the Soviet Union. Cane-fields were overrun by weeds, many mills fell to ruin and more than 100,000 people lost their jobs. But sugar prices are on the rise again so Cuba has started reopening its old mills in a bid to recover some of its lost industry. ...
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Cubas sugar mills get lease of life
It is a sight the people of Mejico thought they would never see again - sugar cane pouring onto a conveyer belt, beneath chimneys pouring smoke into a bright blue sky. Silent for seven years, the town's sugar mill has been given a new lease of life. Sugar was Cuba's biggest export until the 1990s, providing half a million jobs. But when the Soviet market disappeared and the world ...
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Olympic Games Medallists to Compete in Cuba
Havana, May 22 (Prensa Latina) Italian fencers Valerio Aspromonte and Giorgio Avola are heading a group of Olympic medallists to participate in the World Cups for the foil and sword, said the organizers of the event here Tuesday. Aspromonte and Avola, Olympic Champions in the foil by teams in London in 2012, are heading a high quality group, including other outstanding athletes from the Olympic ...
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Ecological Cement A friendly Product Developed by Cuba
HAVANA, Cuba, April 8 (acn) In cooperation with Swiss scientists, the Cuban Center for Research and Development of Structures and Materials is producing ecological cement with prospects to increase its output next ...
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Cuban Entrepreneurs Need Better Preparation says Minister
HAVANA, Cuba, April 3 (acn) Cuban entrepreneurs must prepare better in issues related to planning and transactions, said Food Industry minister Maria del Carmen Concepcion in ...
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Cuba and Poland willing to Expand Bilateral Cooperation
HAVANA, Cuba, April 4 (acn) Cuba and Poland expressed in Havana their interest in expanding bilateral economic and commercial collaboration, for which both countries count on a huge ...
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Cuba Produces Organic Fertilizers and Improves its Soils
HAVANA, Cuba, March 13 (acn) Cuba reported a 4.5 percent growth of its production of organic and biological fertilizers in 2012 with respect to the previous ...
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Cuba Produces Five Thousand Tons of Ecological Sugar
SANTA CLARA, Cuba, April 8 (acn) After producing five thousand tons of ecological sugar, the Carlos Balino sugar mill in this central province, the only Cuban plant producing this kind of sugar, concluded its campaign for this year. The bulk is produced to meet the demand of European nations, which are usual consumers of that ...
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Cuban Oil and Gas Congress Concluded in Havana
HAVANA, Cuba, April 6 (acn) Over 130 presentations were discussed at the 4th Cuban Congress on Oil and Gas, which wound up in Havana after five days of scientific ...
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Peru and Chile Main South America Emitting Tourist Markets to Cuba
HAVANA , Cuba, Feb 26 (acn) Peru and Chile are the major emitting markets of tourists to Cuba, according to a preliminary report by the ...
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Cubans Recall Heroine Vilma Espin on her 83d Birthday
HOLGUIN, Cuba, April 6 (acn) Members of the Cuban Women's Federation in this eastern Cuban province opened a workshop Saturday on the life and work of Cuban heroine Vilma Espin to pay her homage on the occasion of the 83rd anniversary of her ...
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Cuban VP Marino Murillo on a Working Visit in Brazil
HAVANA, Cuba, Apr 5 (acn) Cuban Vice-president Marino Murillo began a working visit on Thursday in Brazil, where he will meet with his counterpart Michel Temer and Foreign Minister Antonio ...
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Cuban Youth Creators Advocate for a Better Promotion of Their Works
SANTA CLARA, Cuba, Apr 16 (acn) One of the concerns expressed by members of the Hermanos Saiz Association (AHS by its Spanish acronym) in Villa Clara during assemblies prior to their 2nd Congress, in October, is how to extend the promotion of its ...
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Cubans Mark Historic Arrival of Jose Marti in Cuba to Fight Spanish Colonial Rule
GUANTANAMO, Cuba, April 11 (acn) Cubans commemorate on Thursday the historic landing 118 years ago by Independence heroes Jose Marti and Maximo Gomez on the eastern localities of La Playita to join the war of the Cuban people against the Spanish colonial ...
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Italian Activists Intensify Solidarity with The Five
LAS TUNAS, Cuba, Apr 10 (acn) A group of Italians who have declared their solidarity with Cuba highlighted on Wednesday in this city the intense work they carry out in their country to denounce the injustices committed in the case of the five Cuban antiterrorists heroes condemned in the United ...
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Russian Expert Praises Health Promotion in Cuba
HAVANA, Cuba, Apr 10 (acn) Doctor Igor Shaderkin, representative of ...
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Fidel Castro Inaugurates School Complex in Havana
HAVANA, Cuba, April 11 (acn) Cuban Revolution leader Fidel Castro inaugurated on Tuesday a school complex in the Havana municipality of Playa, named after Cuban heroine Vilma Espin ...
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Cuba and Venezuela pushing ahead with major undersea project
Submarine cables are the information gateways of the modern world and Cuba will soon be linked to Venezuela and Jamaica by one, which will increase the efficiency of information flows between the countries by over 3000 times.
Work on an underwater cable that will link Cuba, Venezuela and Jamaica is underway with the survey ship RV Ridley Thomas mapping the ocean floor between the countries to determine the exact path of the cable. Read more
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