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Nicaraguan Businessmen for Strengthening Trade with Cuba
Managua, May 21 (Prensa Latina) Nicaraguan businessmen are discussing with optimism possibilities of strengthening trade with Cuba, following an agreement between Nicaraguan Chamber of Industries (Cadin), and the Chamber of Trade of that Caribbean country, said a business expert today. According to Doctor Oscar Aleman, who took part in different private ...
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Haiti is The Great Business of NGOs Cuban Experts Said
Havana, May 21 (Prensa Latina) Haiti is a business for non-governmental organizations (NGOs), whose interference is greater than their help, Cuban specialists in Caribbean themes denounced today. Gloria Leon, a professor at the University of Havana, revealed the background of interference of many organizations that feed on Haitian poverty and exacerbate it in their own interests. In the panel ...
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Pro-government TV host at center of Venezuelan tape scandal steps down
Venezuela’s opposition released a tape of a conversation that pro-government television host Mario Silva allegedly had with a Cuban official. In it, Silva paints a picture of power struggles and ...
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Annual U.S. report on religious freedoms says Cuba eased some controls but still imposed many restrictions
The State Department appointed a special envoy to monitor and combat anti-Semitism Monday as a new report documents a global increase in incidents of anti-Semitism and Holocaust ...
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U.S. Envoy in Cuba Engages Critics On and Offline
Since arriving at the U.S. Interests Section in Havana nine months ago, Conrad Tribble has become perhaps its tweeter-in-chief, while reaching out to some of Washington's most vocal ...
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Cuban First Vice-President and Haitian Premier Hold Official Talks
HAVANA, Cuba, May 16 (acn) Miguel Diaz-Canel, member of the Political Bureau of ...
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Cuban Farmers Support National Economic Strategies
HAVANA, Cuba, May 16 (acn) Thousands of members of the Cuban Small farmers Association (ANAP) held a series of municipal and provincial gatherings over the past days to analyze and debate strategies in support of the ...
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Cuba Landmark Hotel Rancho San Vicente Gets under Restoration
HAVANA, Cuba, May 16 (acn) The old and symbolic hotel Rancho San Vicente, close to the famous ...
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Zambian FM Says Cuban Solidarity is Encouraging
HAVANA, Cuba, May 16 (acn) Minister of Foreign Affairs, Effron Chakupa Lungu, described as encouraging on Wednesday in this capital ...
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Cuba Advances in Respect to Sex Rights Says Mariela Castro
CIEGO DE AVILA, Cuba, May 16 (acn) The promotion of tolerance and the struggle to eliminate all kinds of discrimination is a reality in Cuba, asserted on Wednesday in this city Mariela Castro, director of the National Center of Sex Education ...
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Havana to Host Dutch Cinema Festival
HAVANA, Cuba, May 16 (acn) The Dutch Film Festival will take place in this capital on May 17-25, to offer the Cuban public more than 10 recently made movies well received by the ...
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US Executive Recognizes Cuba as an Important Fishing Destination
Havana, May 21(Prensa Latina) The president of the International Game Fish Association (IGFA), American Rob Kramer, today admitted that Cuba is very important for his organization due to its history and natural conditions. Kramer is attending the 63rd International Billfishing Tournament Ernest Hemingway that is being held until May 25 at the marina facility which carries the name of the famous ...
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U.S. Researchers Participate in Colloquium About Hemingway in Cuba
Havana, May 21 (Prensa Latina) Researchers from the work of writer Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) from the United States, Canada and Japan participate here on an international symposium dedicated to the Nobel Prize for Literature winner, June from 20 to 23. Organized by the Museum House Finca La Vigia, where Hemingway lived nearly two decades, the event will be also attended by specialists from ...
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Cubans Win Gold Silver and Bronze at Journalists Sports Games
Medellin, Colombia, May 21 (Prensa Latina) Cuban athletes won their first medals in track and field events at the First Sports Games for AIPS America journalists, being held in this northern Colombian city. Cuba won two gold medals, four silvers and two bronzes in the 50, 200 and 800 meter races, as well as in the long jump. Cubans Omany Torres and Dayan Garcia won in the 800 meters and long ...
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Cuba-Rushford rolls past C-G into CC quarters
Cuba-Rushford's Zach McGraw races past head coach Steve Yatzkanic as he rounds third and heads home with the game's first run of Monday's Section V, Class CC 1st-round game against ...
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Friends of Cuba Support the Socialist Revolution
HAVANA, Cuba, May 1 (acn) Over one thousand unionists from around the world expressed their full support of the Cuban Revolution and condemned the US economic, commercial and financial blockade of the ...
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Forty Countries to Attend Environment Forum in Cuba
HAVANA, Cuba, May 11 (acn) Over 1 thousand delegates from some 40 countries of the world confirmed attendance at the 9th International Convention on the Environment and Development, to take place July 8-12, in ...
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Egyptian Press Stresses Cuban Deputy Foreign Ministers Visit
Cairo, May 21 (Prensa Latina) The English-language Egyptian Gazette published an extensive interview today with Cuban Deputy Foreign Minister Rogelio Sierra, in which he highlighted the strength and historic nature of bilateral ties between Cuba and Egypt. The visit of the Cuban deputy foreign minister was followed with interest by both Egyptian television and printed press, which requested his ...
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News Summary Cuba lifts appliance power curb
There's a reason that many eyes were on Plaza Towers Elementary as Moore, Oklahoma began to assess the damage from a deadly, devastating tornado that blasted through the town Monday eveningand killed at least 51 people: the school was leveled, with dozens of children still inside. And so far, some of the most emotionally charged news has emerged from the story unfolding ...
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Tweeting with the enemy US diplomat uses social media to engage Cuban critics of Washington
By Peter Orsi, The Associated Press HAVANA - The meeting on a sunny Havana square was a little bit revolutionary for Cuba's revolution. And for U.S. diplomacy as well. Dozens of young bloggers and tweeters gathered to talk about their place in a socialist society whose leaders have referred to the Internet as "a wild colt" to be tamed and make access difficult for all but a few. ...
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Cuba lifts import ban on domestic appliances
Cuba has authorised individual imports of appliances such as air conditioners, refrigerators and microwave ovens, lifting a ban imposed in 2005 amid a wave of energy shortages and blackouts.Islanders can now bring up to two such appliances per person into the country for noncommercial purposes. The list of approved items includes air conditioners with a capacity of less than one ton, ovens that ...
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US envoy in Cuba engages critics on and offline
HAVANA (AP) — A U.S. diplomat has become a sort of tweeter-in-chief for the U.S. mission in Cuba, reaching out to some of Washington's most vocal critics on the island.The U.S. Interests Section has long cultivated ties to dissident bloggers and tweeters. But the mission's deputy chief Conrad Tribble has been reaching out to the communist Twitteratti as well.That has prompted ...
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Cuban Ballet Company Warmly Received at Magdeburg Festival
Berlin, May 21 (Prensa Latina) The ballet company from the eastern Cuban city of Camaguey, directed by dancer and choreographer Regina Balaguer, made its debut at the International Magdeburg Festival, one of the most prestigious in this European nation. According to a press release from the island's embassy, Cuban dancers Laura Rodriguez and Oscar Valdez performed the first act of the work ...
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Gloria Estefan delivers a message of freedom in the Vatican
NEVER FORGET CUBA': Gloria and Emilio Estefan meet with Pope Francis at the Vatican in April. The couple asked him to defend human rights in ...
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Cuba lifts ban on energy-sucking appliances’ imports
PanARMENIAN.Net - Cuba has authorized individual imports of appliances such as air conditioners, refrigerators and microwave ovens, lifting a ban imposed in 2005 amid a wave of energy shortages and blackouts, AP reported. Islanders can now bring up to two such appliances per person into the country for noncommercial purposes, according to a law enacted with its publication Monday, May 20 in the ...
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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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