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Comments?<br /> plcomercial@prensa-latina.cu<br /> -<br /> <br /> Morning Transmission<br /> Monday, October 19, 2009<br /> For up to the minute news: www.plenglish.com <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> CUBA-NATIONAL NEWS CUBA<br /> UNESCO Renews Support for Marti Project<br /> International Breast Cancer Day<br /> Gambian Minister Visits Cuba<br /> Belgian Solidarity with Cuba<br /> Moratinos: Potential f ... <br /> <a href='http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72884&cat=p&h=1' />read more</a> http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72884&cat=p&h=1 Politics English info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) Thu, 05 Nov 2009 09:45:02 MST info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72883&cat=p Agency : info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) <br /> Date/Fecha: 2009-10-24 <br /> Language: English <br /> Category/Categoria: Politics <br /> 10/24/09 - Prensa Latina (Habana) - DIRECT FROM HAVANA (AM)<br /> <br /> LATIN AMERICAN NEWS AGENCY, SA<br /> P R E N S A L A T I N A<br /> Reactions? 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Comments?<br /> plcomercial@prensa-latina.cu<br /> -<br /> <br /> Morning Transmission<br /> Saturday, October 24, 2009<br /> For up to the minute news: www.plenglish.com <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> CUBA-NATIONAL NEWS CUBA<br /> Cuba to Switch to Regular Winter Hours<br /> WHO Director-General Visits Cuba<br /> Cuba to host LAtam Congress on Marine Sciences<br /> Peru-Cuba Friendship Meeting<br /> Cu ... <br /> <a href='http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72883&cat=p&h=1' />read more</a> http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72883&cat=p&h=1 Politics English info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) Thu, 05 Nov 2009 09:45:01 MST info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72882&cat=p Agency : info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) <br /> Date/Fecha: 2009-10-23 <br /> Language: English <br /> Category/Categoria: Politics <br /> 10/23/09 - Prensa Latina (Habana) - DIRECT FROM HAVANA (AM)<br /> <br /> LATIN AMERICAN NEWS AGENCY, SA<br /> P R E N S A L A T I N A<br /> Reactions? 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Comments?<br /> plcomercial@prensa-latina.cu<br /> -<br /> <br /> Morning Transmission<br /> Monday, October 12, 2008<br /> For up to the minute news: www.plenglish.com <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> CUBA-NATIONAL NEWS CUBA<br /> Guinea Bissau Premier Stresses Cuban Solidarity<br /> Chile-Cuba Event Devoted to Juan Almeida<br /> Cuba Slams Blockade Damages to Genetics<br /> <br /> INTERNATIONAL NEWS<br /> <br /> ... <br /> <a href='http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72881&cat=p&h=1' />read more</a> http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72881&cat=p&h=1 Politics English info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) Thu, 05 Nov 2009 09:30:03 MST info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72880&cat=p Agency : info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) <br /> Date/Fecha: 2009-10-04 <br /> Language: English <br /> Category/Categoria: Politics <br /> 10/04/09 - Prensa Latina (Habana) - DIRECT FROM HAVANA (AM)<br /> <br /> LATIN AMERICAN NEWS AGENCY, SA<br /> P R E N S A L A T I N A<br /> Reactions? 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Comments?<br /> plcomercial@prensa-latina.cu<br /> -<br /> <br /> Morning Transmission<br /> Sunday, October 4, 2009<br /> For up to the minute news: www.plenglish.com <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> CUBA-NATIONAL NEWS CUBA<br /> Bolivia Congress Honors Che<br /> President Raul Castro Met Lesotho's Prime Minister<br /> Audience Award for Cuban Tabio at Biarritz<br /> <br /> INTERNATIONAL NEWS<br /> <br /> <br /> LATIN ... <br /> <a href='http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72880&cat=p&h=1' />read more</a> http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72880&cat=p&h=1 Politics English info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) Thu, 05 Nov 2009 09:30:03 MST info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72879&cat=p Agency : info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) <br /> Date/Fecha: 2009-10-21 <br /> Language: English <br /> Category/Categoria: Politics <br /> 10/21/09 - Prensa Latina (Habana) - DIRECT FROM HAVANA (AM)<br /> <br /> LATIN AMERICAN NEWS AGENCY, SA<br /> P R E N S A L A T I N A<br /> Reactions? 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Comments?<br /> plcomercial@prensa-latina.cu<br /> -<br /> <br /> Morning Transmission<br /> Thursday, October 29, 2009<br /> For up to the minute news: www.plenglish.com <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> CUBA-NATIONAL NEWS CUBA<br /> UN Vote, a Call to Obama to Lift Blockade on Cuba<br /> Energy Efficiency Exhibit in Cuba<br /> US Stance on Cuba Blockade Absurd<br /> LatAm-China Friendship Forum in C ... <br /> <a href='http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72877&cat=p&h=1' />read more</a> http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72877&cat=p&h=1 Politics English info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) Thu, 05 Nov 2009 09:30:02 MST info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72876&cat=p Agency : info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) <br /> Date/Fecha: 2009-11-05 <br /> Language: Español <br /> Category/Categoria: Politics <br /> 11/05/09 - Agencia de Informacion Nacional (Habana) - Tormenta tropical Ida <br /> muy próxima a<br /> categoría de huracán<br /> <br /> El Centro de Pronósticos del Instituto de Meteorología de Cuba emitió el <br /> siguiente aviso número tres sobre la tormenta tropical Ida:<br /> A las seis de la mañana de hoy, el centro de la tormenta tropical Ida se <br /> estimó en los 12.9 grados latitud Norte y 83.6 grados de longitud Oeste, a <br /> unos cien kilómetros al Nordeste de Bluefields, Nicaragua.<br /> Ida continúa con rumbo próximo al ... <br /> <a href='http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72876&cat=p&h=1' />read more</a> http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72876&cat=p&h=1 Politics Español info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) Thu, 05 Nov 2009 09:30:02 MST info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72875&cat=p Agency : info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) <br /> Date/Fecha: 2009-11-05 <br /> Language: Español <br /> Category/Categoria: Politics <br /> 11/05/09 - Granma (Habana) - Evalúan participación de China en expansión de <br /> la refinería y en<br /> el polo petroquímico<br /> <br /> Armando Sáez Chávez<br /> CIENFUEGOS.- China y Cuba son amigos y hermanos, con una amplia gama de <br /> colaboración en varios sectores, y ahora mismo estamos evaluando nuestra <br /> participación en el polo petroquímico, en el que han intervenido algunas <br /> empresas chinas en las licitaciones.<br /> Así lo expresó el Excelentísimo señor Zhao Rongxian, embajador de la <br /> República Popular China ... <br /> <a href='http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72875&cat=p&h=1' />read more</a> http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72875&cat=p&h=1 Politics Español info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) Thu, 05 Nov 2009 09:15:03 MST info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72874&cat=p Agency : info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) <br /> Date/Fecha: 2009-11-05 <br /> Language: Español <br /> Category/Categoria: Politics <br /> 11/05/09 - Granma (Habana) - Sostuvo encuentro Raúl con Ministro brasileño <br /> de Desarrollo,<br /> Industria y Comercio Exterior<br /> <br /> El General de Ejército Raúl Castro Ruz, Presidente de los Consejos de Estado <br /> y de Ministros, recibió este miércoles al excelentísimo señor Miguel Jorge, <br /> Ministro de Desarrollo, Industria y Comercio Exterior de Brasil.<br /> El encuentro permitió evaluar la positiva marcha de la colaboración <br /> bilateral, la cual recibió un notable impulso durante las visitas oficiales <br /> d ... <br /> <a href='http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72874&cat=p&h=1' />read more</a> http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72874&cat=p&h=1 Politics Español info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) Thu, 05 Nov 2009 09:15:02 MST info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72873&cat=p Agency : info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) <br /> Date/Fecha: 2009-11-05 <br /> Language: Español <br /> Category/Categoria: Politics <br /> 11/05/09 - Granma (Habana) - Cuba estrenará primera planta de polo <br /> petroquímico<br /> <br /> Una planta para la elaboración de 250 millones de bolsas plásticas al año <br /> comenzará a producir en la ciudad portuaria de Cienfuegos en los próximos <br /> días, aseguró hoy un directivo del sector de la industria química.<br /> La fábrica dotada de tecnología italiana constituye el primero de los 10 <br /> proyectos que conformarán el futuro polo petroquímico de esta ciudad, 250 <br /> kilómetros al sudeste de La Habana, confir ... <br /> <a href='http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72873&cat=p&h=1' />read more</a> http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72873&cat=p&h=1 Politics Español info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) Thu, 05 Nov 2009 09:15:02 MST info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72872&cat=p Agency : info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) <br /> Date/Fecha: 2009-11-05 <br /> Language: Español <br /> Category/Categoria: Politics <br /> 11/05/09 - Granma (Habana) - Recibe Raúl al Comisario Europeo Karel De <br /> Gucht<br /> <br /> El General de Ejército Raúl Castro Ruz, Presidente de los Consejos de Estado <br /> y de Ministros, recibió la tarde de este miércoles al excelentísimo señor <br /> Karel De Gucht, Comisario Europeo para el Desarrollo y la Ayuda Humanitaria, <br /> quien realiza una visita oficial a nuestro país.<br /> El encuentro ratificó el propósito de continuar avanzando en la cooperación <br /> entre la Comisión Europea y Cuba, así como de construi ... <br /> <a href='http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72872&cat=p&h=1' />read more</a> http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72872&cat=p&h=1 Politics Español info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) Thu, 05 Nov 2009 09:15:02 MST info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72871&cat=p Agency : info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) <br /> Date/Fecha: 2009-11-05 <br /> Language: Español <br /> Category/Categoria: Politics <br /> 11/05/09 - Granma (Habana) - Incrementa Brasil inversiones en Cuba<br /> <br /> Silvia Martínez Puentes<br /> Miguel Jorge, ministro brasileño de Desarrollo, Industria y Comercio, <br /> anunció nuevas inversiones de su país en Cuba y expresó a la prensa <br /> acreditada a FIHAV 2009, que "no hay forma de volver atrás las relaciones <br /> con la Isla", las cuales "nunca antes estuvieron mejor que ahora".<br /> En FIHAV se celebró ayer el día nacional de Vietnam.<br /> A mediados de diciembre próximo, informó, como parte de la cola ... <br /> <a href='http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72871&cat=p&h=1' />read more</a> http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72871&cat=p&h=1 Politics Español info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) Thu, 05 Nov 2009 09:15:02 MST info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72870&cat=p Agency : info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) <br /> Date/Fecha: 2009-11-05 <br /> Language: Español <br /> Category/Categoria: Politics <br /> 11/05/09 - Granma (Habana) - Se forma la tormenta tropical Ida<br /> <br /> Orfilio Peláez<br /> Cuando muchas personas daban por terminada la temporada ciclónica del 2009, <br /> ayer se formó la tormenta tropical Ida en las aguas del suroeste del mar <br /> Caribe, a unos 120 kilómetros al este de Bluefields, costa atlántica de <br /> Nicaragua.<br /> Al atardecer este organismo ciclónico tenía vientos máximos sostenidos de 95 <br /> kilómetros por hora, con una presión mínima central de 996 hectopascal. Se <br /> desplazaba lentamente ... <br /> <a href='http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72870&cat=p&h=1' />read more</a> http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72870&cat=p&h=1 Politics Español info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) Thu, 05 Nov 2009 09:15:02 MST info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72869&cat=p Agency : info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) <br /> Date/Fecha: 2009-11-05 <br /> Language: Español <br /> Category/Categoria: Politics <br /> 11/05/09 - Agencia de Informacion Nacional (Habana) - Potencian Cuba y <br /> Turquía intercambio<br /> bilateral<br /> <br /> ROBERTO MIGUEL TORRES BARBÁN<br /> Las 15 empresas turcas que integran el pabellón de ese país europeo, llegan <br /> a la Feria Internacional de La Habana (FIHAV 2009) con el objetivo de <br /> potenciar el intercambio entre ambas naciones.<br /> Omer Giray, coordinador general de la representación turca en la feria, <br /> manifestó que en el último lustro los negocios entre los dos países <br /> crecieron de manera ... <br /> <a href='http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72869&cat=p&h=1' />read more</a> http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72869&cat=p&h=1 Politics Español info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) Thu, 05 Nov 2009 09:15:02 MST info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72868&cat=p Agency : info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) <br /> Date/Fecha: 2009-11-05 <br /> Language: English <br /> Category/Categoria: Politics <br /> 11/05/09 - Prensa Latina (Habana) - DIRECT FROM HAVANA (AM)<br /> <br /> LATIN AMERICAN NEWS AGENCY, SA<br /> P R E N S A L A T I N A<br /> Reactions? 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Comments?<br /> plcomercial@prensa-latina.cu<br /> -<br /> <br /> Morning Transmission<br /> Saturday, October 24, 2009<br /> For up to the minute news: www.plenglish.com <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> CUBA-NATIONAL NEWS CUBA<br /> Cuba to Switch to Regular Winter Hours<br /> WHO Director-General Visits Cuba<br /> Cuba to host LAtam Congress on Marine Sciences<br /> Peru-Cuba Friendship Meeting<br /> Cu ... <br /> <a href='http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72868&cat=p&h=1' />read more</a> http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72868&cat=p&h=1 Politics English info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) Thu, 05 Nov 2009 08:30:01 MST info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72867&cat=p Agency : info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) <br /> Date/Fecha: 2009-11-05 <br /> Language: Español <br /> Category/Categoria: Politics <br /> 11/05/09 - La Jornada (Mexico) - La buena relación con Cuba seguirá: <br /> Brasil<br /> <br /> Gerardo Arreola<br /> Corresponsal<br /> Periódico La Jornada<br /> Jueves 5 de noviembre de 2009, p. 24<br /> La Habana, 4 de noviembre.Un ministro del gobierno del presidente Luiz <br /> Inacio Lula aseguró hoy que Brasil mantendrá el alto nivel de las relaciones <br /> que tiene con Cuba, aunque la oposición ganara las elecciones del año <br /> próximo.<br /> Cualquiera que sea el presidente de Brasil, no habrá cómo volver atrás en <br /> las relaciones ... <br /> <a href='http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72867&cat=p&h=1' />read more</a> http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72867&cat=p&h=1 Politics Español info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) Thu, 05 Nov 2009 08:15:01 MST info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72866&cat=p Agency : info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) <br /> Date/Fecha: 2009-11-04 <br /> Language: Español <br /> Category/Categoria: Politics <br /> 11/04/09 - La Jornada (Mexico) - Espinosa visitará Cuba en diciembre<br /> <br /> Gerardo Arreola<br /> Corresponsal<br /> Periódico La Jornada<br /> Miércoles 4 de noviembre de 2009, p. 17<br /> La Habana, 3 de noviembre. La canciller mexicana Patricia Espinosa visitará <br /> Cuba en diciembre, cuando las relaciones bilaterales están plenamente <br /> normalizadas, dijo aquí el subsecretario de México para América Latina y el <br /> Caribe, Salvador Beltrán del Río.<br /> No hay fecha para el viaje de Espinosa, pero será antes de que termi ... <br /> <a href='http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72866&cat=p&h=1' />read more</a> http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72866&cat=p&h=1 Politics Español info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) Thu, 05 Nov 2009 08:15:01 MST info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72865&cat=p Agency : info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) <br /> Date/Fecha: 2009-11-03 <br /> Language: Español <br /> Category/Categoria: Politics <br /> 11/03/09 - La Jornada (Mexico) - Cuba reconoce, por primera vez, haber <br /> congelado cuentas de<br /> empresas extranjeras<br /> <br /> Gerardo Arreola<br /> Corresponsal<br /> <br /> La Habana, 2 de noviembre. Un año después que estalló la crisis, el gobierno <br /> cubano reconoció este lunes por primera vez en público, aunque tácitamente, <br /> la congelación de cuentas bancarias de cientos de empresas extranjeras, pero <br /> se abstuvo de ofrecer señales de cuándo repondrá esos fondos, que fuentes <br /> comerciales calculan en cerca de ... <br /> <a href='http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72865&cat=p&h=1' />read more</a> http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72865&cat=p&h=1 Politics Español info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) Thu, 05 Nov 2009 08:00:01 MST info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72864&cat=p Agency : info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) <br /> Date/Fecha: 2009-11-04 <br /> Language: Español <br /> Category/Categoria: Politics <br /> 11/04/09 - La Jornada (Mexico) - Cuba: ethos del bloqueo<br /> <br /> José Steinsleger<br /> <br /> De 192 países que integran la ONU, sólo la república de Palau y el Estado <br /> terrorista de Israel votaron a favor del bloqueo yanqui contra Cuba en la <br /> última reunión de la Asamblea General. Dos abstenciones: Islas Marshall (52 <br /> mil habitantes) y la Federación de Micronesia (108 mil), archipiélagos <br /> independientes del Pacífico que al igual que Palau (20 mil) son candidatos a <br /> que el cambio climático de la Tierr ... <br /> <a href='http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72864&cat=p&h=1' />read more</a> http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72864&cat=p&h=1 Politics Español info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) Tue, 03 Nov 2009 20:15:02 MST info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72863&cat=p Agency : info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) <br /> Date/Fecha: 2009-11-03 <br /> Language: English <br /> Category/Categoria: Politics <br /> 11/03/09 - RIGZONE (Houston) - Lacula Farms-Out Interest to Cupet Onshore <br /> Angola<br /> <br /> <br /> Lacula Oil Company Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of ROC, has agreed to <br /> farm-out a 5% interest (6.25% paying interest) in the Cabinda Onshore South <br /> Block, Angola to Cuba Petroleo ("Cupet"), Cuba's national oil company. The <br /> assignment is on similar terms to the farm-out by Roc Oil (Cabinda) Company <br /> to Pluspetrol Angola Corporation announced on April 28, 2009.<br /> <br /> ROC will retain a 10% interest (12. ... <br /> <a href='http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72863&cat=p&h=1' />read more</a> http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72863&cat=p&h=1 Politics English info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) Tue, 03 Nov 2009 20:15:02 MST info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72862&cat=p Agency : info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) <br /> Date/Fecha: 2009-11-03 <br /> Language: Español <br /> Category/Categoria: Politics <br /> 11/03/09 - EFE (Madrid) - Omara Portuondo será presentadora en los Grammy <br /> Latinos<br /> <br /> LA HABANA, EFE<br /> <br /> La diva del Buena Vista Social Club, Omara Portuondo, se convertirá en la <br /> primera cubana residente en la isla que participará y actuará como <br /> presentadora en una ceremonia de entrega de los premios Grammy Latinos, el <br /> próximo jueves en Las Vegas, informó el lunes un medio oficial.<br /> <br /> Portuondo, de 79 años y nominada por Gracias en la categoría de Mejor Album <br /> Tropical Contemporáneo, "se ... <br /> <a href='http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72862&cat=p&h=1' />read more</a> http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72862&cat=p&h=1 Politics Español info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) Tue, 03 Nov 2009 20:00:03 MST info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72861&cat=p Agency : info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) <br /> Date/Fecha: 2009-11-03 <br /> Language: English <br /> Category/Categoria: Politics <br /> 11/03/09 - Prensa Latina - DIRECT FROM HAVANA (AM)<br /> <br /> LATIN AMERICAN NEWS AGENCY, SA<br /> P R E N S A L A T I N A<br /> Reactions? 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Comments?<br /> difusion@prensa-latina.cu<br /> Morning Transmission<br /> Tuesday Nov 3, 2009<br /> For up to the minute news: www.plenglish.comCUBA-NATIONAL NEWS CUBA<br /> Mother of One of Cuban 5 Dies<br /> Services Greatly Influence Cuban Exports<br /> Raul Castro Attends Cuban 5 Mother's Burial<br /> EU Normalizing Ties with Cuba, Commissioner<br /> Cuba Looks at Children, Adolescents<br /> INTERNATIONAL N ... <br /> <a href='http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72861&cat=p&h=1' />read more</a> http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72861&cat=p&h=1 Politics English info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) Tue, 03 Nov 2009 20:00:02 MST info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72860&cat=p Agency : info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) <br /> Date/Fecha: 2009-11-03 <br /> Language: English <br /> Category/Categoria: Politics <br /> 11/03/09 - Council on Hemispheric Relatons (Washington, DC) - Outrage and <br /> Double Standards:<br /> The Lockerbie and Cubana Airlines' Bombings<br /> <br /> by COHA Guest Contributor Keith Bolender<br /> <br /> http://www.coha.org/outrage-double-standards-and-lockerbie-and-cubana-airlines%E2%80%99-bombings/<br /> <br /> The recent release of convicted Lockerbie bomber Abdel Basete al-Megrahi <br /> produced immediate outrage from the White House in reaction to later scenes <br /> of jubilation marking his arrival in Libya.<br /> <br /> Al-Megrahi ... <br /> <a href='http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72860&cat=p&h=1' />read more</a> http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72860&cat=p&h=1 Politics English info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) Tue, 03 Nov 2009 20:00:02 MST info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72859&cat=p Agency : info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) <br /> Date/Fecha: 2009-11-03 <br /> Language: English <br /> Category/Categoria: Politics <br /> 11/03/09 - AFP (Paris) - Cuba, Russia sign first post-Soviet oil deal<br /> <br /> HAVANA - Cuba and Russia signed an agreement Monday to allow Russian state <br /> oil company Zarubezhneft to explore for and produce oil in Cuba in their <br /> first post-Soviet oil pact.<br /> <br /> "The contracts that were signed are tremendously important for Russia and <br /> Cuba, since they will guarantee cooperation over the next 25 years," said <br /> Nikolai Brunich, a Zarubezhneft official after inking the deal with the head <br /> of Cuba's s ... <br /> <a href='http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72859&cat=p&h=1' />read more</a> http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72859&cat=p&h=1 Politics English info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) Tue, 03 Nov 2009 20:00:02 MST info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72858&cat=p Agency : info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) <br /> Date/Fecha: 2009-11-03 <br /> Language: English <br /> Category/Categoria: Politics <br /> 11/03/09 - AFP (Paris) - EU leaning toward normal ties with Cuba: official<br /> <br /> (HAVANA) - Most EU member states want the European Union to resume normal <br /> relations with communist Cuba, a European Union official said Tuesday.<br /> <br /> European Commissioner for Development and Humanitarian Aid Karel De Gucht, <br /> on a visit to Havana acknowledged that the issue remains controversial for <br /> some EU members.<br /> <br /> But normalization "is an opinion (favored by) most EU members," he said <br /> after meetings here wi ... <br /> <a href='http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72858&cat=p&h=1' />read more</a> http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72858&cat=p&h=1 Politics English info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) Tue, 03 Nov 2009 20:00:02 MST info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72857&cat=p Agency : info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) <br /> Date/Fecha: 2009-11-03 <br /> Language: English <br /> Category/Categoria: Politics <br /> 11/03/09 - Prensa Latina - Direct from Havana (PM)<br /> <br /> <br /> DIRECT FROM HAVANA, CUBA<br /> LATIN AMERICAN NEWS AGENCY, SA<br /> P R E N S A L A T I N A<br /> Reactions? 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Comments?<br /> plcomercial@prensa-latina.cu<br /> Evening Transmission<br /> Tuesday, November 3, 2009<br /> <br /> For up to the minute news: www.plenglish.com<br /> <br /> CUBA-NATIONAL NEWS CUBA<br /> Brazil, USA Theater Groups Debate in Cuba<br /> <br /> <br /> INTERNATIONAL NEWS<br /> <br /> LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN<br /> Hope in Honduras for New Plan to End Crisis<br /> Honduran Congress Analyzes ... <br /> <a href='http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72857&cat=p&h=1' />read more</a> http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72857&cat=p&h=1 Politics English info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) Tue, 03 Nov 2009 20:00:02 MST info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72856&cat=p Agency : info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) <br /> Date/Fecha: 2009-11-03 <br /> Language: English <br /> Category/Categoria: Politics <br /> 11/03/09 - Juventud Rebelde (Habana) - More Cuban Doctors Head for Bolivia<br /> <br /> Members of a Cuban medical brigade under the "Moto Méndez Solidarity <br /> Mission" will carry out psychogenetic and social work with disabled patients <br /> in Bolivia<br /> <br /> By: Luis Hernández Serrano<br /> <br /> Email: serrano@juventudrebelde.cu<br /> <br /> Members of a medical brigade leaving for Bolivia on Monday received <br /> greetings from Cuban leader Fidel Castro as they got ready to depart. <br /> Fidel's regards to the Cuban experts were conve ... <br /> <a href='http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72856&cat=p&h=1' />read more</a> http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72856&cat=p&h=1 Politics English info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) Tue, 03 Nov 2009 20:00:01 MST info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72855&cat=p Agency : info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) <br /> Date/Fecha: 2009-11-03 <br /> Language: English <br /> Category/Categoria: Politics <br /> 11/03/09 - Juventud Rebelde (Habana) - Vaccination against Seasonal <br /> Influenza to Begin in<br /> Cuba on November 9<br /> <br /> The campaign takes place every year. This time it will extend over two weeks <br /> and will involve 902 000 dosages. The vaccine gives protection against most <br /> frequent colds this season but does not immunize against Influenza A (H1N1)<br /> <br /> By: Luis Hernández Serrano<br /> <br /> Email: serrano@juventudrebelde.cu<br /> <br /> Cuba will start massive vaccination against seasonal influenza, or common <br /> cold ... <br /> <a href='http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72855&cat=p&h=1' />read more</a> http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72855&cat=p&h=1 Politics English info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:30:03 MST info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72854&cat=p Agency : info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) <br /> Date/Fecha: 2009-11-03 <br /> Language: Español <br /> Category/Categoria: Politics <br /> 11/03/09 - Granma (Habana) - Cuba: sede de Fórum Global para la <br /> Investigación de Salud<br /> <br /> IRIS DE ARMAS PADRINO<br /> Jóvenes de las Américas participarán desde mañana en el evento "Lucha por la <br /> Salud", previo a la celebración del Forum Global para la Investigación de <br /> Salud, que tendrá lugar del 16 al 20 de este mes.<br /> Fuentes del comité organizador anunciaron que la reunión, con sede en el <br /> Hospital Ginecobstétrico América Arias, en la capital cubana, hasta el 13 de <br /> noviembre, proporcionar ... <br /> <a href='http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72854&cat=p&h=1' />read more</a> http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72854&cat=p&h=1 Politics Español info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:30:02 MST info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72853&cat=p Agency : info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) <br /> Date/Fecha: 2009-11-03 <br /> Language: Español <br /> Category/Categoria: Politics <br /> 11/03/09 - Granma (Habana) - "Chivos" que cuestan millones<br /> <br /> Freddy Pérez Cabrera<br /> Los chivos de que les cuento no pueden ser degustados como chilindrón, ni su <br /> cuero utilizado para hacer tambores. Estos son despreciables, y cuestan cada <br /> año al país millones de pesos por concepto de energía consumida de manera <br /> fraudulenta sin abonar un solo centavo.<br /> Enfrentar el fraude eléctrico constituye una tarea vital de los trabajadores <br /> del sector, asegura el inspector Luis Fidel Pulido.<br /> Para te ... <br /> <a href='http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72853&cat=p&h=1' />read more</a> http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72853&cat=p&h=1 Politics Español info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:30:02 MST info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72852&cat=p Agency : info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) <br /> Date/Fecha: 2009-11-03 <br /> Language: Español <br /> Category/Categoria: Politics <br /> 11/03/09 - Granma (Habana) - El gigante engrasa su poder<br /> <br /> Luego de tres zafras con un discreto comportamiento, en el central Antonio <br /> Guiteras solo se habla de multiplicar resultados<br /> Pastor Batista Valdés<br /> PUERTO PADRE, Las Tunas.- Afirman que por estos días la motivación de los <br /> trabajadores humea mucho más alto que las chimeneas del coloso azucarero. <br /> Tal vez sea porque pocas veces la industria acometió inversiones y labores <br /> de reparaciones de tal envergadura con vistas a la futura m ... <br /> <a href='http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72852&cat=p&h=1' />read more</a> http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72852&cat=p&h=1 Politics Español info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:30:02 MST info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72851&cat=p Agency : info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) <br /> Date/Fecha: 2009-11-03 <br /> Language: Español <br /> Category/Categoria: Politics <br /> 11/03/09 - Granma (Habana) - Positivos lazos entre Comisión Europea y Cuba<br /> <br /> Juan Diego Nusa Peñalver<br /> El canciller cubano Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla calificó de positivo el <br /> desarrollo de las relaciones entre nuestro país y la Comisión Europea (CE), <br /> al reunirse con Karel De Gucht, comisario europeo para el Desarrollo y la <br /> Ayuda Humanitaria, en la sede del Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores en la <br /> capital cubana.<br /> Tras reconocer la contribución al fortalecimiento de los lazos bilaterales ... <br /> <a href='http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72851&cat=p&h=1' />read more</a> http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72851&cat=p&h=1 Politics Español info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:30:02 MST info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72850&cat=p Agency : info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) <br /> Date/Fecha: 2009-11-03 <br /> Language: Español <br /> Category/Categoria: Politics <br /> 11/03/09 - Granma (Habana) - Feria de la Habana dedicada hoy a Canadá, <br /> Argentina y Rusia<br /> <br /> La XXVII Feria Internacional de La Habana (FIHAV) 2009, que abrió sus <br /> puertas este lunes con la presencia de mil 230 empresas de 54 países, estará <br /> dedicada hoy a Canadá, Rusia y Argentina.<br /> Hombres de negocio de América Latina, Estados Unidos, Asia, África y Europa, <br /> asisten a esta edición de la mayor bolsa comercial de la Isla, que se <br /> extenderá hasta el sábado en el recinto ferial de EXPOCUBA, ... <br /> <a href='http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72850&cat=p&h=1' />read more</a> http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72850&cat=p&h=1 Politics Español info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:30:02 MST info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72849&cat=p Agency : info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) <br /> Date/Fecha: 2009-11-03 <br /> Language: Español <br /> Category/Categoria: Politics <br /> 11/03/09 - Granma (Habana) - Más de 581 mil latas de café recogidas en <br /> Santiago de Cuba<br /> <br /> MANUEL ASSEFF BLANCO<br /> Con la recogida de 581 mil 476 latas de café cerró el mes de octubre la <br /> provincia de Santiago de Cuba, que mantiene estable sus índices productivos <br /> en la actual cosecha cafetalera.<br /> El grano recolectado representa el 59 por ciento del estimado previsto en la <br /> producción de café arábigo, que en la presente zafra se calcula por encima <br /> de unas 981 mil latas en el territorio, po ... <br /> <a href='http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72849&cat=p&h=1' />read more</a> http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72849&cat=p&h=1 Politics Español info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:30:02 MST info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72848&cat=p Agency : info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) <br /> Date/Fecha: 2009-11-03 <br /> Language: Español <br /> Category/Categoria: Politics <br /> 11/03/09 - Granma (Habana) - Presentan nuevas vitolas de habanos Trinidad<br /> <br /> MARITZA PADILLA VALDÉS<br /> Las vitolas Cañonazo y Peti Robusto fueron presentadas este martes en la <br /> fábrica de tabacos Francisco Donatién, de la provincia de Pinar del Río, y <br /> ampliarán el surtido de la marca de habanos Trinidad, reconocida por su <br /> calidad.<br /> Pavel Francisco Martínez y José Rodríguez Valdés, son los creadores de los <br /> dos nuevos productos, que comenzarán a comercializarse en enero próximo y <br /> tienen c ... <br /> <a href='http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72848&cat=p&h=1' />read more</a> http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72848&cat=p&h=1 Politics Español info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:30:02 MST info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72847&cat=p Agency : info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) <br /> Date/Fecha: 2009-11-03 <br /> Language: English <br /> Category/Categoria: Politics <br /> 11/03/09 - EFE (Madrid) - Cuba slashes purchases from US in 2009 by 37 <br /> percent<br /> <br /> HAVANA - Cuban purchases from US companies will total some $580 million by <br /> the end of 2009, down 37 percent from last year, the head of the state <br /> corporation Alimport said.<br /> <br /> “This will be the first year that they (purchases from the US) will decline <br /> both in volume and in value, and if current conditions continue, it will be <br /> very difficult to keep increasing the volume of business,” Igor Montero sai ... <br /> <a href='http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72847&cat=p&h=1' />read more</a> http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72847&cat=p&h=1 Politics English info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:30:01 MST info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72846&cat=p Agency : info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) <br /> Date/Fecha: 2009-11-02 <br /> Language: English <br /> Category/Categoria: Politics <br /> 11/02/09 - Reuters (London) - Cuba says foreign trade down 36 percent in <br /> 2009<br /> <br /> * 35 U.S. businesses, organizations at trade fair<br /> <br /> HAVANA(Reuters) - Cuba opened its annual international trade fair Monday <br /> with the news its foreign trade was down 36 percent this year as the <br /> communist-ruled island battles the effects of the global economic recession.<br /> <br /> Cuban Minister of Foreign Trade and Investment Rodrigo Malmierca told <br /> diplomats and business people at the ExpoCuba exhibition center i ... <br /> <a href='http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72846&cat=p&h=1' />read more</a> http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72846&cat=p&h=1 Politics English info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:30:01 MST info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72845&cat=p Agency : info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) <br /> Date/Fecha: 2009-11-02 <br /> Language: English <br /> Category/Categoria: Politics <br /> 11/02/09 - AFP (Paris) - Cuba slams book by Castro's sister<br /> <br /> HAVANA — Cuba's state-run media on Monday condemned a just-published book in <br /> which Fidel Castro's sister admits she spied for the Central Intelligence <br /> Agency.<br /> <br /> The country's media added that the expose proves that the former Cuban <br /> leader was a "victim" of decades of US targeting.<br /> <br /> "The truth is in full view: Fidel Castro is the victim, the offended person, <br /> the individual against whom they conspired," wrote the governm ... <br /> <a href='http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72845&cat=p&h=1' />read more</a> http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72845&cat=p&h=1 Politics English info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:30:01 MST info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72844&cat=p Agency : info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) <br /> Date/Fecha: 2009-11-03 <br /> Language: English <br /> Category/Categoria: Politics <br /> 11/03/09 - EFE (Madrid) - Cuba: Juanita Castro's Book "in Bad Taste"<br /> <br /> HAVANA - The autobiography of Juanita Castro, sister of Raul and Fidel <br /> Castro, is "a commercial venture in bad taste and of low morality," a <br /> magazine published by Cuba's Culture Ministry said Monday as a first <br /> official reaction to the book.<br /> <br /> "Through techniques of political recycling and marketing that includes <br /> advertising, manipulation and sensationalism, Miami's anti-Castro industry, <br /> under the auspices of the ... <br /> <a href='http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72844&cat=p&h=1' />read more</a> http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72844&cat=p&h=1 Politics English info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:30:01 MST info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72843&cat=p Agency : info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) <br /> Date/Fecha: 2009-11-02 <br /> Language: English <br /> Category/Categoria: Politics <br /> 11/02/09 - Miami Herald - Peso merger due 'soon,' diplomat says<br /> <br /> The Cuban peso and the convertible peso (CUC), "Cuba's main units of <br /> currency, will soon be fused for the purpose of simplifying the economic <br /> operations conducted by the population and the visitors," a Cuban diplomat <br /> told the Mexican electronic newspaper e-consulta.com. [Emphasis mine.]<br /> <br /> Strictly speaking, the statement is not official and comes from a relatively <br /> low-ranking diplomat - Alcides de la Rosa, Cuban consul ... <br /> <a href='http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72843&cat=p&h=1' />read more</a> http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72843&cat=p&h=1 Politics English info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:30:01 MST info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72842&cat=p Agency : info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) <br /> Date/Fecha: 2009-11-02 <br /> Language: English <br /> Category/Categoria: Politics <br /> 11/02/09 - Miami Herald - Cuban magazine pans Juanita's book<br /> <br /> Juanita Castro's book "Fidel and Raúl: My brothers" did not get a good <br /> review in La Jiribilla, a magazine of the Culture Ministry, which described <br /> it as "a commercial operation in bad taste and low moral standing."<br /> <br /> The book is "a pamphlet created to roll out assertions that are frankly <br /> unimportant," the magazine says. (See our Oct. 24 blog item, "'Shocking <br /> revelations' about the Castros...")<br /> <br /> "Through techniques of rec ... <br /> <a href='http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72842&cat=p&h=1' />read more</a> http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72842&cat=p&h=1 Politics English info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:30:01 MST info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72841&cat=p Agency : info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) <br /> Date/Fecha: 2009-11-03 <br /> Language: English <br /> Category/Categoria: Politics <br /> 11/03/09 - EFE (Madrid) - Cuba Needs No Intermediaries to Speak with U.S.<br /> <br /> MADRID The new Cuban ambassador in Spain said on Tuesday that his country <br /> needs no intermediaries to speak with the United States, having already <br /> expressed its willingness to discuss their differences directly on a basis <br /> of respect.<br /> <br /> Alejandro Gonzalez Galiano gave a press conference on Tuesday at the Cuban <br /> Embassy in Madrid.<br /> <br /> Gonzalez was serving as Cuba's deputy foreign minister when President Raul <br /> Cas ... <br /> <a href='http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72841&cat=p&h=1' />read more</a> http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72841&cat=p&h=1 Politics English info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:15:03 MST info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72840&cat=p Agency : info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) <br /> Date/Fecha: 2009-11-03 <br /> Language: Español <br /> Category/Categoria: Politics <br /> 11/03/09 - Granma (Habana) - Asiste Raúl a sepelio de madre de Gerardo <br /> Hernández Nordelo<br /> <br /> DEISY FRANCIS MEDIDOR Y JUVENAL BALÁN (FOTO)<br /> El General de Ejército Raúl Castro Ruz, Presidente de los Consejos de Estado <br /> y de Ministros, asistió en la mañana de este martes, en la Necrópolis de <br /> Colón, al sepelio de Carmen Nordelo Tejera, madre de Gerardo Hernández <br /> Nordelo, Héroe de la República de Cuba y uno de los Cinco luchadores <br /> antiterroristas cubanos, prisioneros en cárceles de Estados ... <br /> <a href='http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72840&cat=p&h=1' />read more</a> http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72840&cat=p&h=1 Politics Español info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:15:02 MST info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72839&cat=p Agency : info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) <br /> Date/Fecha: 2009-11-03 <br /> Language: Español <br /> Category/Categoria: Politics <br /> 11/03/09 - Granma (Habana) - Asiste Raúl a inhumación de Carmen Nordelo<br /> <br /> El General de Ejército Raúl Castro Ruz, presidente de los consejos de Estado <br /> y de Ministros, asiste en la Necrópolis de Colón a la ceremonia de <br /> inhumación de Carmen Nordelo Tejeda.<br /> La madre de Gerardo Hernández, uno de los Cinco antiterroristas cubanos <br /> presos injustamente en Estados Unidos, falleció en horas del mediodía del <br /> lunes último.<br /> En su féreto fueron depositadas ofrendas florales de Raúl, Fidel, Gerard ... <br /> <a href='http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72839&cat=p&h=1' />read more</a> http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72839&cat=p&h=1 Politics Español info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:15:02 MST info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72838&cat=p Agency : info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) <br /> Date/Fecha: 2009-11-03 <br /> Language: Español <br /> Category/Categoria: Politics <br /> 11/03/09 - Granma (Habana) - Desarrolla Cuba nuevos proyectos de vacunas <br /> terapéuticas<br /> <br /> Orfilio Peláez<br /> La industria biotecnológica cubana genera hoy decenas de productos, que <br /> además de contribuir al diagnóstico, prevención y tratamiento de muchas <br /> enfermedades, constituyen bienes exportables significativos.<br /> El profesor Harald zur Hausen, Premio Nobel de Fisiología y Medicina 2008, <br /> recibe el diploma que lo acredita como presidente de honor del Congreso <br /> Biotecnología Habana 2009.<br /> As ... <br /> <a href='http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72838&cat=p&h=1' />read more</a> http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72838&cat=p&h=1 Politics Español info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:15:02 MST info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72837&cat=p Agency : info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) <br /> Date/Fecha: 2009-11-03 <br /> Language: Español <br /> Category/Categoria: Politics <br /> 11/03/09 - Granma (Habana) - Dialogan Cabrisas y Comisario Europeo para <br /> Desarrollo<br /> <br /> MIGUEL MAURY GUERRERO<br /> Ricardo Cabrisas Ruíz, Vicepresidente del Consejo de Ministros de Cuba y <br /> Karel De Gucht, comisario europeo para el Desarrollo y la Ayuda Humanitaria <br /> dialogaron hoy en la capital cubana en un ambiente cordial y amistoso.<br /> Al recibir al visitante en la sede del Consejo de Ministros, Cabrisas deseó <br /> que la presencia del mismo en La Habana "sea una oportunidad para el <br /> mejoramiento ... <br /> <a href='http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72837&cat=p&h=1' />read more</a> http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72837&cat=p&h=1 Politics Español info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:15:02 MST info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72836&cat=p Agency : info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) <br /> Date/Fecha: 2009-11-03 <br /> Language: Español <br /> Category/Categoria: Politics <br /> 11/03/09 - Granma (Habana) - La Feria es una oportunidad de integración <br /> comercial e industrial<br /> <br /> Expresó Ricardo Cabrisas en la jornada inaugural de FIHAV 2009 en Expocuba<br /> Lianet Arias Sosa y Silvia Martínez Puentes<br /> La Feria es una buena oportunidad de integración comercial e industrial <br /> entre todas las naciones, declaró a la prensa Ricardo Cabrisas, <br /> vicepresidente del Consejo de Ministros, tras recorrer varios stands de la <br /> 27 edición de FIHAV 2009, en el recinto ferial Expocuba.<br /> Ca ... <br /> <a href='http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72836&cat=p&h=1' />read more</a> http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72836&cat=p&h=1 Politics Español info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:15:02 MST info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72835&cat=p Agency : info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) <br /> Date/Fecha: 2009-11-03 <br /> Language: Español <br /> Category/Categoria: Politics <br /> 11/03/09 - Granma (Habana) - Cuba y Canadá por mayores vínculos comerciales<br /> <br /> IRIS ARMAS Y FIDEL RENDÓN<br /> Cuba y Canadá reafirmaron este martes el interés de fortalecer y <br /> diversificar sus vínculos económicos y comerciales, en la XXVII Feria <br /> Internacional de La Habana (FIHAV).<br /> En la inauguración del pabellón de este país norteño, Antonio Luís <br /> Carricarte, viceministro de Comercio Exterior e Inversión Extranjera, <br /> recordó que Canadá es el primer emisor de turistas hacia la Isla, su tercer ... <br /> <a href='http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72835&cat=p&h=1' />read more</a> http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72835&cat=p&h=1 Politics Español info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:15:02 MST info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72834&cat=p Agency : info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) <br /> Date/Fecha: 2009-11-03 <br /> Language: Español <br /> Category/Categoria: Politics <br /> 11/03/09 - Granma (Habana) - Universidad minera de Cuba con más de siete <br /> mil graduados<br /> <br /> LEONARDO PUPO PUPO<br /> El Instituto Superior Minero Metalúrgico Doctor Antonio Núñez Jiménez, de <br /> Moa, graduó en los 33 años de creación a más de siete mil 300 profesionales <br /> de Cuba y otros países del llamado Tercer Mundo.<br /> Fundado en noviembre de 1976, el centro es la principal institución <br /> académica del país en la rama de la geología y la minería y está ubicado en <br /> la zona donde se encuentran una de ... <br /> <a href='http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72834&cat=p&h=1' />read more</a> http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72834&cat=p&h=1 Politics Español info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:15:02 MST info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72833&cat=p Agency : info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) <br /> Date/Fecha: 2009-11-03 <br /> Language: Español <br /> Category/Categoria: Politics <br /> 11/03/09 - Granma (Habana) - Cuba pide mejor atención a la infancia en el <br /> mundo<br /> <br /> La protección y el reconocimiento a los derechos de los niños y adolescentes <br /> debe ser prioridad mundial, afirmó hoy el Fiscal General de la República de <br /> Cuba, Juan Escalona.<br /> En su discurso inaugural del Tercer Encuentro Internacional sobre Protección <br /> Jurídica de los Derechos del Menor en el Palacio de Convenciones, Escalona <br /> subrayó que los infantes deben estar asegurados con medidas de carácter <br /> soci ... <br /> <a href='http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72833&cat=p&h=1' />read more</a> http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72833&cat=p&h=1 Politics Español info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:15:02 MST info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72832&cat=p Agency : info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) <br /> Date/Fecha: 2009-11-03 <br /> Language: Español <br /> Category/Categoria: Politics <br /> 11/03/09 - Granma (Habana) - Exponen avances de Cuba en la protección de la <br /> niñez<br /> <br /> Cuba dispone de un sólido sistema defensor de los menores, basado en el <br /> respeto a la Convención de los Derechos del Niño y del Código de la Familia, <br /> aseguró el Fiscal General del República de Cuba, Juan Escalona.<br /> La realidad de los menores cubanos es totalmente diferente, porque la <br /> protección de sus derechos comienza desde su concepción, pues el esquema de <br /> salud garantiza a todas las madres una aten ... <br /> <a href='http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72832&cat=p&h=1' />read more</a> http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72832&cat=p&h=1 Politics Español info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:15:01 MST info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72831&cat=p Agency : info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) <br /> Date/Fecha: 2009-11-03 <br /> Language: Español <br /> Category/Categoria: Politics <br /> 11/03/09 - Granma (Habana) - El bloqueo también limita la actividad <br /> meteorológica en Cuba<br /> <br /> Cuba lidera, junto a Brasil y Argentina, la actividad meteorológica en <br /> Latinoamérica, pero su esfuerzo ha sido mayor que el de esos dos países <br /> debido al bloqueo yanqui impuesto durante medio siglo.<br /> En declaraciones publicadas en el sitio digital CubaDebate, el doctor José <br /> Rubiera, jefe del Centro de Pronósticos del Instituto de Meteorología de <br /> Cuba, refirió las dificultades que, por esa caus ... <br /> <a href='http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72831&cat=p&h=1' />read more</a> http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72831&cat=p&h=1 Politics Español info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:15:01 MST info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72830&cat=p Agency : info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) <br /> Date/Fecha: 2009-11-03 <br /> Language: Español <br /> Category/Categoria: Politics <br /> 11/03/09 - Granma (Habana) - Programa Educa a tu Hijo muestra avances en <br /> Ciego de Ávila<br /> <br /> SUSEL SANTANA ECHEMENDÍA<br /> La integración durante este curso escolar de más de 17 mil niños de la <br /> provincia de Ciego de Ávila al Programa Educa a tu Hijo, muestra la validez <br /> de esta experiencia cubana.<br /> Este proyecto, aplicado en todo el país, es una vía no institucional para <br /> preparar a la familia en cuestiones educativas básicas que permitan a los <br /> pequeños llegar a la enseñanza primaria con may ... <br /> <a href='http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72830&cat=p&h=1' />read more</a> http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72830&cat=p&h=1 Politics Español info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) Mon, 02 Nov 2009 19:15:01 MST info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72829&cat=p Agency : info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) <br /> Date/Fecha: 2009-11-02 <br /> Language: English <br /> Category/Categoria: Politics <br /> 11/02/09 - Associated Press - As economy sags, Cuba says it will spend at <br /> least 32 pct less on US food in<br /> '09<br /> <br /> By: WILL WEISSERT<br /> <br /> HAVANA — Cuban purchases of U.S. food will fall by at least a third this <br /> year as the island slashes imports to stabilize an ever-weak economy further <br /> hammered by the global economic crisis, a top trade official said Monday.<br /> <br /> Igor Montero, head of the state import company Alimport, calculated that the <br /> communist government would spend less than $590 m ... <br /> <a href='http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72829&cat=p&h=1' />read more</a> http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72829&cat=p&h=1 Politics English info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:45:02 MST info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72828&cat=p Agency : info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) <br /> Date/Fecha: 2009-11-02 <br /> Language: Español <br /> Category/Categoria: Politics <br /> 11/02/09 - Granma (Habana) - Inicia Feria Internacional de La Habana <br /> (FIHAV) 2009<br /> <br /> Por Silvia Martínez Puentes<br /> 2 de noviembre de 2009, 09:00 am<br /> Guantánamo (Redacción Digital Venceremos) - En la mañana de este lunes fue <br /> inaugurada en Expocuba la 27 Feria Internacional de La Habana (FIHAV 2009) <br /> que acogerá, durante seis días, a más de 1 600 expertos agrupados en 652 <br /> empresas representantes de 51 países.<br /> Una intensa jornada de feria con más de 17 000 metros cuadrados de expansión <br /> e ... <br /> <a href='http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72828&cat=p&h=1' />read more</a> http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72828&cat=p&h=1 Politics Español info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:45:02 MST info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72827&cat=p Agency : info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) <br /> Date/Fecha: 2009-11-02 <br /> Language: Español <br /> Category/Categoria: Politics <br /> 11/02/09 - Agencia de Informacion Nacional (Habana) - Controlado el alza de <br /> maduración<br /> cafetalera en Guantánamo<br /> <br /> Por Ariel Soler Costafreda<br /> 2 de noviembre de 2009, 09:00 am<br /> Guantánamo (Redacción Digital Venceremos) - El alza de maduración en las <br /> plantaciones cafetaleras de la provincia de Guantánamo se encuentra hoy <br /> controlado, aseguró José Fernández, jefe del grupo Empresarial de la <br /> Agricultura de Montaña en este territorio.<br /> El especialista calificó como atípico el comportamient ... <br /> <a href='http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72827&cat=p&h=1' />read more</a> http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72827&cat=p&h=1 Politics Español info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:45:02 MST info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72826&cat=p Agency : info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) <br /> Date/Fecha: 2009-11-02 <br /> Language: Español <br /> Category/Categoria: Politics <br /> 11/02/09 - Agencia de Informacion Nacional (Habana) - Comisario Europeo <br /> para el Desarrollo<br /> inicia visita oficial a Cuba<br /> <br /> Karel De Gucht, comisario europeo para el Desarrollo y la Ayuda <br /> Humanitaria, inicia hoy una visita oficial a Cuba por invitación del <br /> ministro de Relaciones Exteriores, Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla.<br /> Durante su estancia sostendrá conversaciones oficiales con el Canciller <br /> cubano, inaugurará el stand de la Comisión Europea en la XXVII edición de la <br /> Feria Internacio ... <br /> <a href='http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72826&cat=p&h=1' />read more</a> http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72826&cat=p&h=1 Politics Español info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:45:02 MST info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72825&cat=p Agency : info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) <br /> Date/Fecha: 2009-11-02 <br /> Language: Español <br /> Category/Categoria: Politics <br /> 11/02/09 - Agencia de Informacion Nacional (Habana) - Aerolínea canadiense <br /> WestJet apuesta<br /> por Cuba en esta temporada<br /> <br /> La aerolínea canadiense WestJet inició sus operaciones con Cuba este <br /> domingo, cuando el primer vuelo del turoperador turístico WestJet Vacations <br /> tocó tierra por el aeropuerto internacional Juan Gualberto Gómez, de <br /> Varadero.<br /> El Boing 737, con capacidad para 136 pasajeros, fue recibido en la <br /> terminal aérea por directivos del Ministerio del Turismo (MINTUR), quie ... <br /> <a href='http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72825&cat=p&h=1' />read more</a> http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72825&cat=p&h=1 Politics Español info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:15:01 MST info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72824&cat=p Agency : info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) <br /> Date/Fecha: 2009-11-02 <br /> Language: Español <br /> Category/Categoria: Politics <br /> 11/02/09 - Juventud Rebelde (Habana) - ¡Le zumba el mango!<br /> <br /> Lo ocurrido durante el pasado verano muestra a las claras que en un polo <br /> productivo como es Santiago de Cuba, todavía no se consigue la suficiente <br /> armonía entre el campo y la industria que respalde un mejor aprovechamiento <br /> de las frutas<br /> <br /> <br /> Odalis Riquenes Cutiño<br /> digital@juventudrebelde.cu<br /> 31 de Octubre del 2009 23:17:02 CDT<br /> <br /> SANTIAGO DE CUBA.- El intenso olor a fruta podrida aún queda en el ambiente <br /> de la pintoresca zo ... <br /> <a href='http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72824&cat=p&h=1' />read more</a> http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72824&cat=p&h=1 Politics Español info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:15:01 MST info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72823&cat=p Agency : info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) <br /> Date/Fecha: 2009-11-02 <br /> Language: Español <br /> Category/Categoria: Politics <br /> 11/02/09 - Periodico 26 (Las Tunas) - Incrementan uso de plantas <br /> medicinales en provincia cubana<br /> <br /> Por Hernán Bosch<br /> Las Tunas, Primero de Noviembre (AIN) Con la siembra de unas 18 hectáreas de <br /> plantas medicinales, la provincia cubana de Las Tunas incrementa en lo que <br /> va de año en un 80 por ciento el área dedicada a esa actividad.<br /> Estas plantas se suministran a los laboratorios con que cuenta el Ministerio <br /> de Salud Pública en los ocho municipios tuneros, donde son procesadas para <br /> ... <br /> <a href='http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72823&cat=p&h=1' />read more</a> http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72823&cat=p&h=1 Politics Español info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:15:01 MST info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72822&cat=p Agency : info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) <br /> Date/Fecha: 2009-11-02 <br /> Language: Español <br /> Category/Categoria: Politics <br /> 11/02/09 - Peridico 26 (Las Tunas) - Visible recuperación del plátano en <br /> suelo manatiense<br /> <br /> Por Yuset Puig Pupo Foto: Norge Santiesteban Vidal<br /> Las Tunas 2 de noviembre (P-26) La recuperación del plátano ya esta a la <br /> vista dentro y fuera del suelo manatiense. ¿Alcanza este cultivo hasta el <br /> momento el rendimiento planificado en el territorio? ¿La producción real <br /> satisface las demandas de la población? Sobre estas y otras interrogantes <br /> conversó 26digital con Reynaldo Rivero Álva ... <br /> <a href='http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72822&cat=p&h=1' />read more</a> http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72822&cat=p&h=1 Politics Español info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:15:01 MST info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72821&cat=p Agency : info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) <br /> Date/Fecha: 2009-11-01 <br /> Language: Español <br /> Category/Categoria: Politics <br /> 11/01/09 - Agencia de Informacion Nacional (Habana) - Cuba desarrolla <br /> programa de<br /> alimentación porcina<br /> <br /> Por Roger Aguilera<br /> Las Tunas, Primero de Nov. (AIN) Cuba concluyó la primera etapa de un <br /> proyecto que mira hacia el cultivo de alimentos para la masa porcina, con <br /> vistas a disminuir el consumo de piensos y productos importados a altos <br /> precios.<br /> Ello es el resultado de la política de disminuir la compra de productos que <br /> pueden tener respuesta en el territorio nacional, para aho ... <br /> <a href='http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72821&cat=p&h=1' />read more</a> http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72821&cat=p&h=1 Politics Español info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:15:01 MST info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72820&cat=p Agency : info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) <br /> Date/Fecha: 2009-10-31 <br /> Language: Español <br /> Category/Categoria: Politics <br /> 10/31/09 - Agencia de Informacion Nacional (Habana) - Diversifican <br /> producciones lácteas en<br /> Las Tunas<br /> <br /> Por Roger Aguilera<br /> Las Tunas, Cuba, 31 oct (AIN) La diversificación de las producciones, con un <br /> sello superior de calidad, ha sido determinante en el nivel de aceptación <br /> que ha tenido la empresa láctea de la provincia de Las Tunas.<br /> Productos como mayonesa, helado, yogurt de soya y natural, aderezos, <br /> mantequilla, queso fundido y dulce de leche (parecido a la leche condensada <br /> por ... <br /> <a href='http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72820&cat=p&h=1' />read more</a> http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72820&cat=p&h=1 Politics Español info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:00:01 MST info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72819&cat=p Agency : info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) <br /> Date/Fecha: 2009-11-02 <br /> Language: Español <br /> Category/Categoria: Politics <br /> 11/02/09 - Periodico 26 (Las Tunas) - Favorable gestión mercantil en <br /> provincia cubana<br /> <br /> Por Freddy Pérez Pérez<br /> Las Tunas 2 de noviembre (P-26) Un crecimiento de 66 millones 364 mil 800 <br /> pesos en comparación con similar etapa del año precedente, registró esta <br /> provincia hasta el cierre de septiembre, se supo durante el análisis mensual <br /> de la economía en el territorio.<br /> El dividendo, en opinión de Teresa Amarelle Boué, primera secretaria del <br /> Partido en el territorio, responde a un may ... <br /> <a href='http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72819&cat=p&h=1' />read more</a> http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72819&cat=p&h=1 Politics Español info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) Mon, 02 Nov 2009 12:45:01 MST info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72818&cat=p Agency : info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) <br /> Date/Fecha: 2009-11-02 <br /> Language: English <br /> Category/Categoria: Politics <br /> 11/02/09 - Commodity Online Drastic drought to hit China sugar output<br /> <br /> BEIJING (Commodity Online) : Unprecedented drought that hit Most of China's <br /> fertile regions is likely to hit its sugar output for next crop year, <br /> according to Ministry of Agriculture.<br /> <br /> The total area under sugar is expected to fall by 8%, while the area under <br /> beets is estimated to fall by more than 50%, resulting in a significant drop <br /> in beet sugar output from the previous year, said the ministry in a report.<br /> <br /> ... <br /> <a href='http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72818&cat=p&h=1' />read more</a> http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72818&cat=p&h=1 Politics English info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) Mon, 02 Nov 2009 12:30:02 MST info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72817&cat=p Agency : info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) <br /> Date/Fecha: 2009-11-01 <br /> Language: English <br /> Category/Categoria: Politics <br /> 11/01/09 - Prensa Latina (Habana) - Fidel Sends His Regards to Cuban Doctors<br /> <br /> Havana, Nov 1, (PL).- The leader of the Cuban Revolution Fidel Castro sent <br /> his regards to the Cuban medical brigade that will participate in the Moto <br /> Mendez solidarity Mission that will research handicapped people in Bolivia.<br /> <br /> During the farewell ceremony the Cuban Public Health Minister Jose Ramon <br /> Balaguer transmitted Fidel Castro's message to the 73 collaborators that <br /> comprise geneticists, psychopedagogu ... <br /> <a href='http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72817&cat=p&h=1' />read more</a> http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72817&cat=p&h=1 Politics English info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) Mon, 02 Nov 2009 12:30:02 MST info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72816&cat=p Agency : info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) <br /> Date/Fecha: 2009-10-30 <br /> Language: English <br /> Category/Categoria: Politics <br /> 10/30/09 - Political Affairs - I Thought it was a Promotion<br /> <br /> By Manuel E. Yepe<br /> <br /> An example of the moral and political qualities of some "Cuban-Americans" <br /> who have placed themselves at the service of the enemies of the land of <br /> their birth is offered in an interview in the Spanish newspaper El Mundo <br /> with one of the so-called "plumbers" who became famous as participants in <br /> the Watergate scandal that led to the ouster of President Richard Nixon.<br /> <br /> The interview, which appeared on July ... <br /> <a href='http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72816&cat=p&h=1' />read more</a> http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72816&cat=p&h=1 Politics English info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) Mon, 02 Nov 2009 12:30:01 MST info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72815&cat=p Agency : info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) <br /> Date/Fecha: 2009-10-31 <br /> Language: Español <br /> Category/Categoria: Politics <br /> 10/31/09 - Prensa Latina (Habana) - Impulsan en Cuba programa para <br /> alimentación porcina<br /> <br /> La Habana, 31 oct (PL) Trabajadores cubanos vinculados al desarrollo del <br /> sector porcino impulsan hoy un programa para la alimentación de los cerdos <br /> con productos de factura nacional o de escasas materias primas importadas.<br /> <br /> Esa iniciativa tiene entre sus objetivos el ahorro de divisas a esta <br /> nación caribeña, y el fomento del cultivo de especies como el maíz, la soya <br /> y el sorgo, partes de la ... <br /> <a href='http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72815&cat=p&h=1' />read more</a> http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72815&cat=p&h=1 Politics Español info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) Mon, 02 Nov 2009 11:45:01 MST info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72814&cat=p Agency : info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) <br /> Date/Fecha: 2009-11-02 <br /> Language: Español <br /> Category/Categoria: Politics <br /> 11/02/09 - E-Consulta (Veracruz) - Con mayor apertura económica, Cuba <br /> avanza en medio de la crisis mundial<br /> <br /> Por Inés García Nieto<br /> <br /> Cuba está abierta a la economía mundial, salvaguardando los principios <br /> socialistas a través de mecanismos mixtos de cooperación con empresas como <br /> las petroleras de España, Canadá y Brasil.<br /> Alcides de la Rosa del Toro, cónsul de la República de Cuba en Veracruz, <br /> declaró que esos acuerdos económicos no han comprometido la soberanía de <br /> Cuba y mucho me ... <br /> <a href='http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72814&cat=p&h=1' />read more</a> http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72814&cat=p&h=1 Politics Español info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) Mon, 02 Nov 2009 09:45:01 MST info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72813&cat=p Agency : info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) <br /> Date/Fecha: 2009-10-29 <br /> Language: English <br /> Category/Categoria: Politics <br /> 10/29/09 - The Wrap - Sean Penn in Cuba: Hollywood's Still in Love With <br /> Fidel<br /> <br /> By Sharon Waxman<br /> <br /> What started as a quick and quiet in-and-out Cuba visit for Sean Penn has <br /> turned into raging political and journalistic debate over the leftist actor's <br /> supposed assignment by Vanity Fair to interview el primo Fidel Castro.<br /> But that's not the real story.<br /> Vanity Fair didn't assign anything, and neither did Huffington Post. Sean <br /> Penn was only in Cuba for one day this week. He had no plan ... <br /> <a href='http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72813&cat=p&h=1' />read more</a> http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72813&cat=p&h=1 Politics English info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) Sun, 01 Nov 2009 17:30:01 MST info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72812&cat=p Agency : info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) <br /> Date/Fecha: 2009-10-30 <br /> Language: English <br /> Category/Categoria: Politics <br /> 10/30/09 - Bloomberg (New York) - U.S. wants Microsoft, Google to end <br /> message bans<br /> Bloomberg<br /> <br /> The Treasury Department says it wants companies such as Microsoft Corp. and <br /> Google Inc. to resume instant messaging services in countries including Cuba <br /> and Iran that remain under U.S. trade sanctions.<br /> Microsoft and Google cut off the use of instant messages by citizens of <br /> Iran, Syria, Cuba and Sudan, saying U.S. regulations prohibit the required <br /> downloads. Now the Treasury Department sa ... <br /> <a href='http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72812&cat=p&h=1' />read more</a> http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72812&cat=p&h=1 Politics English info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) Sun, 01 Nov 2009 17:00:02 MST info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72811&cat=p Agency : info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) <br /> Date/Fecha: 2009-10-25 <br /> Language: English <br /> Category/Categoria: Politics <br /> 10/25/09 - Miami Herald - Fidel Castro's sister says she worked with CIA <br /> while in Cuba<br /> <br /> BY JUAN O. TAMAYO<br /> jtamayo@ElNuevoHerald.com<br /> <br /> Juanita Castro, sister of Cuban rulers Fidel and Raúl Castro, cooperated <br /> with the CIA in the 1960s -- a time when the U.S. agency was plotting to <br /> assassinate Fidel and overthrow his revolution -- according to an exclusive <br /> Univisión-Noticias 23 report on her newly published book.<br /> <br /> The report also revealed that Juanita, who broke with her brothers' ... <br /> <a href='http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72811&cat=p&h=1' />read more</a> http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72811&cat=p&h=1 Politics English info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) Sun, 01 Nov 2009 17:00:02 MST info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72810&cat=p Agency : info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) <br /> Date/Fecha: 2009-10-30 <br /> Language: English <br /> Category/Categoria: Politics <br /> 10/30/09 - Mambi Watch (Miami) - Juanita's World<br /> <br /> In this photo (courtesy of Libre magazine) Salvador Lew holds up a picture <br /> of a young Juanita Castro, sister of Cuban leaders Fidel and Raul Castro. <br /> I'm sure you've heard the news by now: two years after the Cuban Revolution <br /> of 1959, Juanita Castro worked with the CIA helping opponents of the <br /> Revolution. Juanita soon went into exile in 1964 after her brother Raul <br /> revealed that the Cuban government already knew about her secret activi ... <br /> <a href='http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72810&cat=p&h=1' />read more</a> http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72810&cat=p&h=1 Politics English info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) Sun, 01 Nov 2009 17:00:01 MST info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72809&cat=p Agency : info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) <br /> Date/Fecha: 2009-10-15 <br /> Language: English <br /> Category/Categoria: Politics <br /> 10/15/09 - Mambi Watch (Miami) - Go Get 'em Mel!<br /> <br /> Mel Martinez is a very interesting person. And things just keep getting more <br /> interesting with this man.<br /> <br /> Last August, rumors of his early resignation were finally confirmed, and by <br /> early September the first Cuban-American to serve the U.S. Senate was saying <br /> farewell more than a year before the official end of his term. Martinez had <br /> stressed the care of his family being the reason for his early departure, <br /> but Radio Mambi hosts expr ... <br /> <a href='http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72809&cat=p&h=1' />read more</a> http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72809&cat=p&h=1 Politics English info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) Sun, 01 Nov 2009 16:45:02 MST info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72808&cat=p Agency : info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) <br /> Date/Fecha: 2009-10-25 <br /> Language: Español <br /> Category/Categoria: Politics <br /> 10/25/09 - Progreso Semanal (Miami) - Cuba: La problemática actual de la <br /> política migratoria cubana (I)<br /> <br /> Jesús Arboleya Cervera<br /> Progreso Semanal<br /> <br /> No es un secreto para nadie que el tema de la emigración ha estado en el <br /> centro de los debates cubanos durante los últimos cincuenta años y que en la <br /> actualidad son muchos los que consideran que se debe hacer una revisión a <br /> fondo, respecto a la forma en que la política cubana enfrenta esta <br /> problemática.<br /> <br /> Vale comenzar por de ... <br /> <a href='http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72808&cat=p&h=1' />read more</a> http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72808&cat=p&h=1 Politics Español info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) Sun, 01 Nov 2009 16:45:02 MST info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72807&cat=p Agency : info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) <br /> Date/Fecha: 2009-10-31 <br /> Language: English <br /> Category/Categoria: Politics <br /> 10/31/09 - Havana Times (Spain) - Cuba a State Sponsor of Terrorism?<br /> <br /> By Dawn Gable<br /> <br /> HAVANA TIMES, Oct. 31 - “Wisdom removes hate,” said U.S. Congressman Bobby <br /> Rush, noting that U.S. citizens have been denied the truth about today’s <br /> Cuba. The representative spoke on Capitol Hill where he, along with the <br /> Center for Democracy in the Americas, hosted a panel this Wednesday to <br /> discuss the appropriateness of Cuba being included on the list of State <br /> Sponsors of Terrorism (SST).<br /> ... <br /> <a href='http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72807&cat=p&h=1' />read more</a> http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72807&cat=p&h=1 Politics English info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) Sun, 01 Nov 2009 16:45:02 MST info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72806&cat=p Agency : info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) <br /> Date/Fecha: 2009-11-01 <br /> Language: English <br /> Category/Categoria: Politics <br /> 10/2809 - Los Angeles Times - Obama's Cuba policy faces a world of <br /> expectation<br /> <br /> The world is eager for President Obama to lift the U.S. embargo on Cuba, <br /> which nearly every nation opposes. But though he has relaxed some curbs, for <br /> now he still backs the embargo.<br /> <br /> By Tracy Wilkinson<br /> <br /> Reporting from Mexico City<br /> <br /> It is an annual ritual: The United Nations today will vote to condemn the <br /> U.S. embargo on Cuba, much as the world organization has done for nearly two <br /> decades.<br /> <br /> This w ... <br /> <a href='http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72806&cat=p&h=1' />read more</a> http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72806&cat=p&h=1 Politics English info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) Sun, 01 Nov 2009 16:45:02 MST info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72805&cat=p Agency : info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) <br /> Date/Fecha: 2009-10-28 <br /> Language: English <br /> Category/Categoria: Politics <br /> 10/28/09 - Associated Press - Douglas becomes 2nd Hollywood star visiting <br /> Cuba<br /> <br /> HAVANA — Michael Douglas staged an impromptu walking tour of the Cuban <br /> capital's historic district Tuesday, posing for photos with construction <br /> workers and surprised residents.<br /> <br /> His visit came two days after fellow Oscar-winner Sean Penn arrived in Cuba, <br /> reportedly seeking an interview with 82-year-old Fidel Castro, who has been <br /> little seen since announcing he was suffering from an unspecified illne ... <br /> <a href='http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72805&cat=p&h=1' />read more</a> http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72805&cat=p&h=1 Politics English info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) Sun, 01 Nov 2009 16:45:02 MST info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72804&cat=p Agency : info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) <br /> Date/Fecha: 2009-10-28 <br /> Language: English <br /> Category/Categoria: Politics <br /> 10/28/09 - The Guardian (London) - Sean Penn seeks interview with Fidel <br /> Castro in Cuba for Vanity Fair<br /> <br /> <br /> Sean Penn seeks interview with Fidel Castro in Cuba for Vanity Fair<br /> <br /> • Communist leader has not spoken to press in three years<br /> <br /> • Oscar winner visited Island of Youth yesterday<br /> <br /> Rory Carroll, Latin America correspondent<br /> <br /> Sean Penn visits Isla de la Juventud in Havana. Photograph: Mayangdi <br /> Inzaulgarat/EPA<br /> <br /> The actor Sean Penn has flown to Cuba to chase what would be the b ... <br /> <a href='http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72804&cat=p&h=1' />read more</a> http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72804&cat=p&h=1 Politics English info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) Sun, 01 Nov 2009 16:45:01 MST info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72803&cat=p Agency : info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) <br /> Date/Fecha: 2009-10-28 <br /> Language: English <br /> Category/Categoria: Politics <br /> 10/28/09 - EFE (Madrid) - Cuba says it hasn't heard from Miami telecoms firm<br /> <br /> Havana, Oct 28 (EFE).- The Cuban government said Wednesday it has had no <br /> contacts with a Miami firm that recently announced plans to build an <br /> underwater fiber-optic cable linking the United States and the <br /> communist-ruled island.<br /> <br /> Neither the communications ministry nor state telephone company Etecsa has <br /> heard from TeleCuba Communications Inc., Cuba's official media said, citing <br /> authorities.<br /> <br /> TeleCuba s ... <br /> <a href='http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72803&cat=p&h=1' />read more</a> http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72803&cat=p&h=1 Politics English info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) Sun, 01 Nov 2009 16:45:01 MST info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72802&cat=p Agency : info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) <br /> Date/Fecha: 2009-10-28 <br /> Language: English <br /> Category/Categoria: Politics <br /> 10/28/09 - Center for Democracy in the Americas (Washington, DC) - After UN <br /> Embargo Vote, Obama Should Push Further, Faster on Cuba Policy Reforms<br /> <br /> For Immediate Release<br /> contact:<br /> <br /> Kendra Seymour<br /> <br /> Washington, DC – Sarah Stephens, Executive Director of the Center for <br /> Democracy in the Americas, released the following comments about the vote in <br /> the UN General Assembly today against the United States embargo of Cuba:<br /> <br /> “President Obama inherited a Cuba policy that doesn't fit him ... <br /> <a href='http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72802&cat=p&h=1' />read more</a> http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72802&cat=p&h=1 Politics English info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) Sun, 01 Nov 2009 16:30:02 MST info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72801&cat=p Agency : info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) <br /> Date/Fecha: 2009-10-28 <br /> Language: English <br /> Category/Categoria: Politics <br /> 10/28/09 - Associated Press - Cubans fear more gov't control of farmers <br /> markets<br /> <br /> By WILL WEISSERT<br /> Associated Press Writer<br /> <br /> The habanero peppers, oranges and peanuts cost more at Cuba's free-market <br /> "agros" - farmers markets where vendors, not the government, set prices. But <br /> food stalls overflow with abundance not seen elsewhere on the <br /> shortage-plagued island.<br /> <br /> So when the Communist Party served notice that it plans to impose price <br /> controls at those agros - ending one of Cuba's ... <br /> <a href='http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72801&cat=p&h=1' />read more</a> http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72801&cat=p&h=1 Politics English info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) Sun, 01 Nov 2009 16:30:02 MST info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72800&cat=p Agency : info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) <br /> Date/Fecha: 2009-11-01 <br /> Language: English <br /> Category/Categoria: Politics <br /> 11/01/09 - NY DAILY NEWS - President Barack Obama now owns the crippling <br /> Cuba embargo, because he hasn't stopped it<br /> <br /> Albor Ruiz<br /> As predictable as the sun rising every day, the United Nations General <br /> Assembly<br /> last Wednesday overwhelmingly condemned, for the 18th year in a row, the <br /> U.S.<br /> embargo of Cuba.<br /> <br /> During his presidency - to nobody's surprise - George W. Bush arrogantly <br /> ignored<br /> the UN resolution. This year many believed it would be different. After all,<br /> President Obama had ... <br /> <a href='http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72800&cat=p&h=1' />read more</a> http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72800&cat=p&h=1 Politics English info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) Sun, 01 Nov 2009 12:00:04 MST info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72799&cat=p Agency : info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) <br /> Date/Fecha: 2009-10-30 <br /> Language: English <br /> Category/Categoria: Politics <br /> 10/30/09 - Miami Herald - Omara Portuondo to present on Latin Grammys<br /> <br /> Tucked into the latest press release on performers and presenters at the <br /> Latin Grammys on Nov. 5th was the groundbreaking announcement that Cuban <br /> singer Omara Portuondo will be one of the presenters on the awards show <br /> being televised nationally by Univision.<br /> <br /> The "girlfriend of filin", former member of the Cuarteto d'Aida, and lone <br /> female in the Buena Vista Social Club, had already broken ground recently by <br /> bei ... <br /> <a href='http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72799&cat=p&h=1' />read more</a> http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72799&cat=p&h=1 Politics English info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) Sun, 01 Nov 2009 12:00:04 MST info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72798&cat=p Agency : info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) <br /> Date/Fecha: 2009-10-30 <br /> Language: English <br /> Category/Categoria: Politics <br /> 10/30/09 - The Washington Note - Kerry is going to give a major speech on <br /> Cuba Nov. 6<br /> <br /> <br /> Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry is going to give a <br /> major speech on Cuba on Friday, the 6th of November, at Boston University.<br /> <br /> Congressman Bill Delahunt (D-MA) -- who has been doing much of the heavy <br /> lifting on the Freedom to Travel (to Cuba) bill is also going to be at this <br /> important conference.<br /> <br /> What has been interesting to watch in Senator Kerry's speeches this past ... <br /> <a href='http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72798&cat=p&h=1' />read more</a> http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72798&cat=p&h=1 Politics English info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) Sun, 01 Nov 2009 12:00:04 MST info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72797&cat=p Agency : info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) <br /> Date/Fecha: 2009-10-30 <br /> Language: English <br /> Category/Categoria: Politics <br /> 10/30/09 - Billboard - Cuban singer Portuondo back in U.S. with "Gracias"<br /> <br /> By Judy Cantor-Navas<br /> <br /> NEW YORK (Billboard) - Omara Portuondo's Latin Grammy Award-nominated <br /> "Gracias" was released in the United States in 2008, but she wasn't able to <br /> tour stateside in support of the album until now.<br /> <br /> Like other Cuban singers, Portuondo, best known as one of the stars of the <br /> "Buena Vista Social Club" album, had been barred from performing in the <br /> States since 2003, when the administration ... <br /> <a href='http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72797&cat=p&h=1' />read more</a> http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72797&cat=p&h=1 Politics English info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) Sun, 01 Nov 2009 12:00:03 MST info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72796&cat=p Agency : info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) <br /> Date/Fecha: 2009-10-30 <br /> Language: English <br /> Category/Categoria: Politics <br /> 10/30/09 - Xinhua (Beijing) - Cuba, Turkey begin 9th intergovernmental <br /> meeting in Havana<br /> <br /> HAVANA, Oct. 30 (Xinhua) -- The 9th session of the Cuba-Turkey <br /> Intergovernmental Commission, aimed at exploring new cooperation <br /> opportunities between the two nations, began Friday in Havana.<br /> <br /> Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Cemil Cicek and Cuban Minister of Foreign <br /> Trade and Foreign Investment Rodrigo Malmierca co-chaired the meeting.<br /> <br /> During the inauguration, Cicek said a range of areas includ ... <br /> <a href='http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72796&cat=p&h=1' />read more</a> http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72796&cat=p&h=1 Politics English info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) Sun, 01 Nov 2009 12:00:03 MST info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72795&cat=p Agency : info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) <br /> Date/Fecha: 2009-10-31 <br /> Language: English <br /> Category/Categoria: Politics <br /> 10/31/09 - Associated Press - Castro: More U.S. visitors means more swine <br /> flu in Cuba<br /> <br /> HAVANA — Fidel Castro has found something to sneeze at in Washington's <br /> decision to ease visits by Cuban-Americans to his island: He says more <br /> Americans mean more swine flu.<br /> <br /> The 83-year-old ex-president wrote in state-controlled newspapers today that <br /> many of Cuba's early cases of the virus were visitors from the United States <br /> and he used the occasion to take a jab at the U.S. embargo.<br /> <br /> "We ... <br /> <a href='http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72795&cat=p&h=1' />read more</a> http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72795&cat=p&h=1 Politics English info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) Sun, 01 Nov 2009 12:00:03 MST info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72794&cat=p Agency : info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) <br /> Date/Fecha: 2009-10-31 <br /> Language: English <br /> Category/Categoria: Politics <br /> 10/31/09 - Pittsburgh Post-GazetteCuban medical people visiting hospitals <br /> here<br /> <br /> By Karamagi Rujumba,<br /> <br /> Dr. Ramon Villamil, a Cuban transplant surgeon, talks about his team's <br /> experiences visiting Pittsburgh during a visit to the Global Links warehouse <br /> in Garfield yesterday.Dr. Ramon Villamil had just graduated from medical <br /> school in Cuba when the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991. That almost brought <br /> down the island's economy, which was heavily reliant on its Russian <br /> benefactors.<br /> <br /> ... <br /> <a href='http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72794&cat=p&h=1' />read more</a> http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72794&cat=p&h=1 Politics English info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) Sun, 01 Nov 2009 12:00:03 MST info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72793&cat=p Agency : info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) <br /> Date/Fecha: 2009-10-26 <br /> Language: English <br /> Category/Categoria: Politics <br /> 10/26/09 - Investor's Business Daily - Cuba Looks To Emerge As A Tech <br /> Success Infrastructure<br /> <br /> Needs Upgrade Island nation has the basic ingredients, tech-minded work <br /> force, observers say<br /> <br /> SHEILA RILEY<br /> <br /> Cuba, land of beaches, salsa clubs, aging U.S. cars and . . . high-tech?<br /> <br /> The communist island nation can become a tech success story, says Mark <br /> Entwistle, Canada's former ambassador to Cuba.<br /> <br /> With a population of just 11.4 million, Cuba already does high-level medical <br /> care and ... <br /> <a href='http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72793&cat=p&h=1' />read more</a> http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72793&cat=p&h=1 Politics English info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) Sun, 01 Nov 2009 12:00:03 MST info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72792&cat=p Agency : info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) <br /> Date/Fecha: 2009-10-25 <br /> Language: English <br /> Category/Categoria: Politics <br /> 10/25/09 - Miami Herald - Diplomat Robert Pastor reflects on Cuban <br /> relations, looks ahead to new opportunity<br /> <br /> BY JUAN O. TAMAYO<br /> jtamayo@ElNuevoHerald.com<br /> <br /> Robert Pastor says that when he sees Israelis and Palestinians at each <br /> other's throats, he sometimes tells himself, ``Boy, this sure reminds of <br /> something.''<br /> <br /> And well it should, for Pastor played a lead role in the deepest and <br /> broadest U.S. effort to normalize relations with Cuba since 1959, a campaign <br /> by President Jimmy Cart ... <br /> <a href='http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72792&cat=p&h=1' />read more</a> http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72792&cat=p&h=1 Politics English info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) Sun, 01 Nov 2009 12:00:01 MST info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72791&cat=p Agency : info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) <br /> Date/Fecha: 2009-10-28 <br /> Language: English <br /> Category/Categoria: Politics <br /> 10/28/09 - Reuters (London) - WHO chief says Fidel Castro "looks wonderful"<br /> <br /> * WHO chief says Fidel Castro looks strong, "wonderful"<br /> <br /> * Praises Cuban health system<br /> <br /> * Says WHO has helped 121 countries get H1N1 medicine<br /> <br /> By Jeff Franks<br /> <br /> HAVANA, Oct 28 (Reuters) - Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro "looks <br /> wonderful," World Health Organization director general Margaret Chan said on <br /> Wednesday, after meeting the 83-year-old who resigned the presidency last <br /> year due to ailing health.<br /> <br /> ... <br /> <a href='http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72791&cat=p&h=1' />read more</a> http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72791&cat=p&h=1 Politics English info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) Sun, 01 Nov 2009 11:45:02 MST info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72790&cat=p Agency : info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) <br /> Date/Fecha: 2009-10-29 <br /> Language: English <br /> Category/Categoria: Politics <br /> 10/29/09 - Granma (Habana) - Japanese Cruiser for Peace Anchors in Havana<br /> <br /> ARNALDO MUSA y AIN<br /> musa.amp@granma.cip.cu<br /> <br /> A Japanese Cruiser for Peace anchored in the Havana Harbor on Wednesday <br /> carrying five-hundred passengers, who brought their message of love and <br /> solidarity to the Cuban people.<br /> <br /> Among the passengers were ten Hibakushas, survivors of the bombs launched by <br /> the United States on Japan in 1945.<br /> <br /> The objective of the trip is to promote a world free from wars and nuclear ... <br /> <a href='http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72790&cat=p&h=1' />read more</a> http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72790&cat=p&h=1 Politics English info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) Sun, 01 Nov 2009 11:45:02 MST info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72789&cat=p Agency : info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) <br /> Date/Fecha: 2009-10-29 <br /> Language: English <br /> Category/Categoria: Politics <br /> 10/29/09 - Radio Australia - Palau supports US against Cuba for aid<br /> <br /> Presenter: James Oaten<br /> Speaker: Palau's Minister of State, Sandra Pierantozzi<br /> <br /> PIERANTOZZI: Well, we have always voted with the United States on that <br /> issue,<br /> and with the United States on many other issues at the United Nations. We <br /> have a<br /> very close relationship with the United States called Free Association under <br /> the<br /> Compact of the Association and so to find an ally, we have been supporting <br /> them.<br /> <br /> OATEN: But ... <br /> <a href='http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72789&cat=p&h=1' />read more</a> http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72789&cat=p&h=1 Politics English info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) Sun, 01 Nov 2009 11:45:02 MST info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72788&cat=p Agency : info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) <br /> Date/Fecha: 2009-10-29 <br /> Language: English <br /> Category/Categoria: Politics <br /> 10/29/09 - Inter Press Service (Rome) - CUBA: Food Security Focus of New UN <br /> Programmes<br /> <br /> Patricia Grogg<br /> <br /> HAVANA, Oct 29 (IPS) – Three new international cooperation agreements <br /> channeled through the United Nations system in Cuba are aimed at <br /> strengthening food security, especially in the poorest parts of the country.<br /> <br /> ”Thanks to the joint work of the international community, the United Nations <br /> and the Cuban government, we have been able to provide more assistance in <br /> such im ... <br /> <a href='http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72788&cat=p&h=1' />read more</a> http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72788&cat=p&h=1 Politics English info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) Sun, 01 Nov 2009 11:45:01 MST info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72787&cat=p Agency : info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) <br /> Date/Fecha: 2009-10-30 <br /> Language: English <br /> Category/Categoria: Politics <br /> 10/30/09 - Prensa Latina (Habana) - Cuba Appoints New Ambassador to Holy See<br /> <br /> Havana, Oct 30 (Prensa Latina) The State Council of the Republic of<br /> Cuba has appointed Eduardo Delgado Bermudez as new extraordinary and<br /> plenipotentiary ambassador to the Holy See, Granma newspaper reported<br /> Friday.<br /> <br /> Before his appointment, Delgado was occupying the post of General<br /> Director of the Foreign Affairs Ministry.<br /> <br /> Delgado joined a group of dozens of Cubans appointed recently as<br /> ambassadors in count ... <br /> <a href='http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72787&cat=p&h=1' />read more</a> http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72787&cat=p&h=1 Politics English info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) Sun, 01 Nov 2009 10:45:02 MST info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72786&cat=p Agency : info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) <br /> Date/Fecha: 2009-11-01 <br /> Language: English <br /> Category/Categoria: Politics <br /> 11/01/09 - Reuters (London) - Cubans say access to online market site is <br /> blocked<br /> <br /> By Esteban Israel<br /> <br /> HAVANA (Reuters) - A popular website of classified ads that has given Cubans <br /> a taste of the free market has been blocked on the communist-run island, <br /> Internet users said.<br /> <br /> Cubans trying to access Revolico.com, which says it has more than 1.5 <br /> million page views a month, are being diverted to the search engine <br /> Google.com.<br /> <br /> "If I type the address and press 'enter,' I get redirecte ... <br /> <a href='http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72786&cat=p&h=1' />read more</a> http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72786&cat=p&h=1 Politics English info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) Sun, 01 Nov 2009 10:45:02 MST info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72785&cat=p Agency : info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service) <br /> Date/Fecha: 2009-11-01 <br /> Language: English <br /> Category/Categoria: Politics <br /> 11/01/09 - BBC (London) - Cuba swine flu 'from US tourists'<br /> <br /> By Michael Voss<br /> BBC News, Havana<br /> <br /> Cuba's former leader, Fidel Castro, has blamed the growth in swine flu on an <br /> increase in US visitors to the island.<br /> <br /> US President Barack Obama recently lifted restrictions on Cuban-Americans <br /> visiting relatives on the island.<br /> <br /> This is the the first time any Cuban official has found cause to complain <br /> about the US president's policy of relaxing travel restrictions.<br /> <br /> But, in an editorial ... <br /> <a href='http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72785&cat=p&h=1' />read more</a> http://cuba-l.unm.edu/?nid=72785&cat=p&h=1 Politics English info@cuba-l.unm.edu (Cuba-L Direct News Service)