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Vice-president Miguel Diaz-Canel Attends Inauguration of Rafael Correa
HAVANA, Cuba, May 23 (acn) Cuba first vice-president Miguel Diaz Canel arrived in Quito, Ecuador, on Thursday heading the Cuban delegation that will attend the official inauguration of president-elect Rafael Correa on May ...
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Fidel Congratulates Cuban Rehabilitation Specialists
HAVANA, Cuba, May 22 (acn) The historic leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro, sent congratulations to participants in the materialization of the National Rehabilitation Program, who marked its first decade on ...
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Cubans more optimistic about Castro’s economic changes
The survey by the International Republican Institute also showed that the number of Cubans working off the books for themselves grew by 9 percent compared to the IRI poll last year, while the number of those with licenses grew by only 3 ...
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Business in Cuba A new course
The comandante emerges from his bunker AFTER the 1959 revolution Fidel Castro declared that golf was a "bourgeois" hobby, unsuitable for communists. Most of the island's courses were built on, and no new ones have been developed since. But the government has just given the go-ahead to a new golf resort, in what it claims is "the start of a whole new policy to increase the ...
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7 migrants returned to Cuba by U.S. Coast Guard
Seven Cuban migrants have been returned to Bahia de Cabañas, Cuba, after arriving off the Keys.The Cuban migrants arrived May 18 east of Card Sound Bridge in a rustic boat that was taking on water, the U.S. Coast Guard said. A Coast Guard Air Miami helicopter and Coast Guard Station Islamorada boat crew responded to the scene after getting a call from a passerby. The migrants were removed ...
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Canada businessman involved in Cuba corruption probe apparently on trial 2 years after arrest
HAVANA - The trial of a Canadian businessman caught up in a corruption probe in Cuba is apparently under way nearly two years after he was detained. Sarkis Yacoubian was president of import company Tri-Star Caribbean, which was shuttered in July 2011. He was seen entering a courthouse in Havana on Thursday morning after arriving in a black sedan with tinted windows. Canadian Ambassador Matthew ...
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Cuba and China Sign Agreement in Sports
HAVANA, Cuba, Apr 23 (acn) A cooperation agreement in the field of sports was renewed on Monday between Cuba and China with the purpose of contributing to the promotion of relations of cooperation, mutual understanding and friendship between the athletes and peoples of the two ...
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AU Foreign Ministers Back Cuba
Addis Ababa, May 23 (Prensa Latina) The foreign ministers of the African Union (AU) adopted "by consensus or acclamation," a motion of support and gratitude to Cuba, for its contribution to the emancipation of Africa, a regional executive told Prensa Latina. The executive secretary of the South African Development Community (SADC), the Mozambican Tomaz Salomao, said the text was also ...
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Cubas Film School Celebrated in France
3 de mayo de 2013, 10:23 Paris, May 23 (Prensa Latina) The significance of the San Antonio de los Baños International Film School (EICTV) in Cuba, where young filmmakers from many countries have trained, was highlighted in France during an exhibition of films from the school. Founded 27 years ago, the institution is one of the most important of its kind in the world, and its associated ...
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UPDATE 1-Canadian businessman goes on trial in Cuban corruption crackdown
Thu May 23, 2013 10:37am EDT * Importer expected to plead guilty, faces up to 12 years in prison * Case is part of broad government corruption crackdown * Trials of more foreign businessmen expected By Marc Frank HAVANA, May 23 (Reuters) - The trial of a Canadian businessman who has confessed to bribing Cuban officials began on Thursday, almost two years after his arrest in a sweeping government ...
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Fidel Castro Greets Cuban Rehabilitation Health Program
Havana, May 23 (Prensa Latina) The historic leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro, sent congratulations today to the workers of the national community program of comprehensive rehabilitation of patients, started a decade ago. Since 2003, these services were expanded throughout the island, with 400 wards where about 69 million patients have so far benefited, with high levels of ...
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U.S. Blockade on Cuba is Unjust Saharawi Minister Says
Addis Ababa, May 23 (Prensa Latina) The economic blockade imposed by the United States on Cuba is unjust and illegal, stated today in this capital Saharawi Foreign Minister, Mohamed Ould Salek, who said that position is common among African ...
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Jamaica branch of Cuba-Venezuela cable goes live
ALBA -1 submarine cable, which connects the island with Venezuela, according to Doug Madory of internet analysis firm Renesys. Madory told The Associated Press that he detected new traffic between state-owned telecoms monopoly Empresa de Telecomunicaciones de Cuba (ETECSA) and Cable & Wireless Jamaica beginning 13 May 2013. 'They’re gaining some physical diversity there, so if ...
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Cuban parliament leader says ties with Russia under full expansion
The relations between Cuba and Russia are under full expansion, Esteban Lazo, president of Cuban parliament, said on Friday. Lazo made the remarks after signing an agreement with the visiting leader of Russian Senate, Valentina Matviyenko, to boost the parliamentary cooperation between the two countries. The delegation of the Russian Senate arrived Thursday in Havana, headed by Matviyenko. ...
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Cuba bridgade information session
Find out about the 31st Southern Cross Brigade to Cuba (an annual trip organised through the Australia Cuba Friendship Societies), 29 Dec 2013 - 20 Jan 2014. Lotteries House, 2 Delhi Street, West Perth Are you interested in: Agricultural sustainability? Food security? Global social justice? Universal health care? Education? Organic Gardening? Socialism in practice? The brigade offers the ...
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Cuban Argentinean Volleyball Teams to Play Training Matches
Havana, May 23 (Prensa Latina) A Cuban Volleyball team of 12 players will meet this month the first and second teams from Argentina in four training matches, announced the federation of that sport in the Caribbean country. The Cubans will travel tomorrow to the South American nation to play three matches with the elite team and another one with the second. The Cuban team is formed by Rolando ...
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Canadian goes on trial in Havana for corruption scandal
The Canadian government has vowed to close loopholes to monitor sex who leave the country to abuse children abroad, especially in countries like ...
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Obama Drones Speech To Lay Out Rationale Reiterate Guantanamo Bay Prison Closure Pledge
WASHINGTON, May 22 (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will lay out the rationale for U.S. drone strikes in a speech on Thursday, a White House official ...
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Works by Cuban Landscape Painters on Display in Paris
HAVANA, Cuba, April 12 (acn) An exhibition by three landscape painters from the Cuban province of Pinar del Rio was inaugurated at the headquarters of the United Nations Education, Science and Culture Organization (UNESCO) in Paris, France, by the ambassador of the Caribbean island to that entity, Maria de los Angeles ...
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Cuban Folklore Stars at Film Festival in Arizona
HAVANA, Cuba, Apr 12 (acn) The DVD Los Hermanos Arango y las Estrellas del Folclor (The Arango Brothers and the Folklore Stars of Cuba) by the Bis Music Cuban record label, has been selected to be included in the official screenings of 22nd edition of the International Film Festival of Arizona, the United ...
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Cuba to allow Internet access
Raul Castro has led Cuba since July 2006 and has been president since Feb. 26, 2008. Since then, he has implemented some progressive reforms in allowing access to technology. Cubans can purchase their own mobile phones and computers.An internal memo seen by Reuters on March 13, 2008, disclosed that Cuba had authorized the unrestricted sale of computers. (Computers first went on sale in Havana, ...
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Can Mark Cuban Make 2013 Free-Agent Splash After 2012 Whiff
Carlisle , who's among the most respected at his position in the NBA, isn't going anywhere. Neither is Donnie Nelson, who's worked closely with Mark Cuban since Nelson's father, Hall ...
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Cuban Working Class Honors Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
HAVANA, Cuba, Apr 22 (acn) Hundreds of Havana workers, on behalf of the Cuban working class, paid tribute today to the leader of the October Revolution, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, on the occasion of the 143 anniversary of his ...
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New Investments in Cuban Port to Improve its Work
NUEVITAS, Cuba, Apr 12 (acn) The maintenance of its three gantry cranes and the building a platform to support the operations of the pier are some of the actions carried out to improve its management in Puerto Tarafa, a city located north of the Cuban province of ...
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Cuban Agriculture Needs Young People
She is not sure where her vocation came from, but she does know that this is what she wants to do. In Cuba, which is seeking to boost agricultural yields, there is a scarcity of young people working in the sector. Blanco, a petite 20-year-old, dropped her math studies after two years to try her hand at ...
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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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