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Cuban Musicians Resume US Shows

New York City recently hosted its first Cuban band in five years, after the group Septeto Nacional became the first to win a visa that allowed it to accept a booking there.

Sunday Mass in Haiti Was About the Dead

This was not just a regular church service. For one thing, Mass is usually celebrated in the church pews, not in the yard. So it was on the first Sunday after an earthquake destroyed this city, survivors struggled to keep to their routine, including attending Mass.

Sexuality Congress Kicks Off in Cuba

The 5th Cuban Congress on Sex Education, Guidance and Therapy begins Monday in the Cuban capital with the participation of some 300 specialists, announced Mariela Castro, director of the National Centre for Sex Education (CENESEX).

Cuba Med Teams Get Foreign Reinforcements in Haiti

The large Cuban medical brigade caring for the victims of the earthquake in Haiti on January 12 began receiving the backing of specialists from other countries, noted the local press on Sunday. Personnel from Venezuela, Chile, Spain and Haitian resident physicians who studied in Cuba are already working with the Cuban medial teams deployed at different points in the capital of Port au Prince.

Chile Elects a Billionaire President

Billionaire Sebastian Piñera won a close election Sunday for the Chilean presidency over governing coalition candidate Eduardo Frei.

A Night on Rue Berne – Living in Haiti’s Streets

The sun had barely set and already, the residents of Rue Berne were making their beds. These bedrooms were makeshifts arranged neatly on one side of the street, away from shaky walls and fragile home frames that remain so dangerous.

Fidel Castro’s Take-2 on Haiti Crisis

Haiti bleeds and the international community searches for ways to help amid the chaos so that the immediate needs of the population of Port au Prince can be met after the devastating Jan. 12 earthquake destroyed the city. On Saturday night former Cuban president Fidel Castro wrote his second post-quake commentary on the desperate situation in the Haitian capital and the participation of Cuban medical personnel in the relief effort.

Cuba Steps Up Aid to Haiti

Cuba now has 220 doctors and health staff working in the disaster relief in Port au Prince, Haiti along with ten tons of medicines flown in to meet the most pressing needs. Numerous young Haitian doctors who studied medicine on scholarships in Cuba have joined in the effort, including 37 who arrived from Cuba on Saturday.

Grads Join Cuba’s Haiti Medical Effort

Cuba’s mammoth medical effort in post-earthquake Haiti is receiving reinforcements from Venezuelan and Dominican doctors who graduated at Havana’s Latin American Medical School. For numerous years Cuba has had some 400 doctors and medical staff working full-time throughout Haiti, the most impoverished nation in Latin American and the Caribbean. With the current situation, dozens more specialists in emergency care have arrived.

You Are Not Well Informed

Pedro began his comments by saying that the Cuban people are asked for greater effort, understanding and trust, but that authorities were continuing to turn their backs on them and that their problems remained on the back burner, with the excuses being the nation’s lack of resources and the US trade blockade.