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Self-employed in Havana Choose Rental of State Facilities for their Businesses
HAVANA, Cuba, May 3 (acn) Over 1 thousand 180 self-employed workers in the capital Havana have chosen the rental of state facilities to set up their businesses and provide services to the population, the largest figure with regards to this option on the island since the initiative was generalized one a half year ...
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New Tourist Facilities in Central Cuba Attract Foreign Vacationers
SANTA CLARA, Cuba, May 3 (acn) Tourist authorities in central Villa Clara province reported the arrival of over 100 000 foreign visitors from January to March, some 11 000 visits more than in similar period last year. The increase in the figure is particularly due to a new developing tourist center at Santa Maria Key, with 6 000 hotel ...
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Cuban Journalists Congress Holds Provincial Sessions
HAVANA, Cuba, May 3 (acn) Cuban journalists kick off provincial sessions prior to their National Congress in eastern Guantanamo province, in a gathering that today coincides with World Press Freedom ...
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US Unionist Asks Obama to Release the Cuban Five
HAVANA, Cuba, May 3 (acn) US Union leader Santos Crespo, who heads a New York-based education ...
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FAO Director General Jose Graziano da Silva Arrives in Cuba
HAVANA, Cuba, May 2 (acn) Jose Graziano da Silva, director general of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), arrived on Thursday in this capital from Mexico to begin a working visit to ...
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FIFA President Ends Visit to Cuba
HAVANA, Cuba, Apr 18 (acn) Swiss Joseph Blatter, president of the International Federation of Association Football (FIFA), concluded on Wednesday his two-day visit to Cuba with a press conference at the ...
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Dissidents find Cuba outside Cuba in Miami
MIAMI -; When Cuban hunger striker Guillermo Farinas arrived in Miami, he said he was prepared to face rejection from radical members of the Cuban-American ...
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Milestones for Guantanamo Bay detention center
FILE - In this July 16, 2009 file photo, reviewed by the U.S. military, flags hang above the sign marking the Camp Justice compound, the site of the U.S. war crimes tribunal, at Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base, Cuba. President Barack Obama's speech national security speech Thursday is expected to reaffirm his national security priorities _ from homegrown terrorists to killer drones to the ...
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Cuba for Diversifying Sugar By-Products
Havana, May 23 (Prensa Latina) Half a century from its foundation, the Cuban Institute for Research on Sugar Cane By-Products (ICIDCA) is focusing on agricultural diversification programs with the development of new products. Sources from the sector highlighted among the current guidelines the improvement of the processes to obtain alcohol, torula melasse, sorbitol, animal food, and bioproducts ...
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U.S. Choreographer Praises Cuban Dancers
Matanzas, Cuba, May 23 (Prensa Latina) U.S. dancer and choreographer Suki John praised today the good and solid formation of Cuban dancers, which gives them versatility to perform any piece of music. "Their training is based on the ballet, contemporary dance and African rhythms, and all this together gives the possibility to vary the styles," John, who is also teacher at the University ...
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Cuban Discography Catalog Allows Musical Journey in Time
Havana, May 23 (Prensa Latina) Cuban Recording and Musical Editions Company (EGREM) promoted a trip back in time to that Old Havana nights of singers and accomplice pianists. The pretext was the presentation of its new catalog, and nearby celebration of the Africa Day, for which a splendid party will be given to that continent's diplomatic corps accredited in Cuba. Amen to disclose all ...
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Obama to limit drones moves to shut Guantanamo
WASHINGTON - US President Barack Obama outlined plans on Thursday to limit the use of US drone strikes against extremists abroad and took steps aimed at breaking a deadlock on closing the Guantanamo Bay military prison.In a major foreign policy speech after two weeks of fending off domestic scandals, Obama limited the scope of what his predecessor, George W. Bush, had called a global war on ...
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Cuban First Vice President In Ecuador for Correa Inaguration
Quito, May 23 (Prensa Latina) Cuba''s First Vice President Miguel Diaz-Canel arrived here at the head of his country''s delegation to the inauguration of President Rafael Correa tomorrow. Ecuadorian Foreign Minister Ricardo Patino, received visitors and Cuban Deputy Foreign Minister Ana Teresita Gonzalez at the Mariscal Sucre International Airport, accompanied by Cuban ...
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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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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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Canada businessmans corruption trial on in Cuba
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 ...
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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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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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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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