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Cuba Film at Sundance Film Festival

The Sundance Film Festival in Utah is down to its final two days and the film “Memories of Overdevelopment” by Cuban Miguel Coyula has its fifth and final showing on Saturday evening.

Premiere of Cuban film in Miami

The Cuban feature length Chamaco, by filmmaker Juan Carlos Cremata, will make its international debut in the Miami International Film Festival, to be held in that U.S. city March 5-14, announced Tiziana Finzi, the event’s artistic director. The film is about the connection between poverty and sexual exploitation in contemporary Cuban society.

Cuba Wants New Immigration Accord

The Cuban government will propose a new immigration accord to the United States when representatives hold their second meeting on February 19 in Havana, announced Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez. The current agreement was reached in the height of the rafters’ crisis in the summer of 1994

Cuba’s Chucho Valdes’s Song for Haiti

Cuban virtuoso jazz pianist Chucho Valdes will record a special song titled Haiti volverá (Haiti will Return) dedicated to the victims of the earthquake that devastated the capital of the Caribbean country on January 12. Chucho agreed to donate the rights to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) to help with the recovery effort.

Agents Could Torpedo US-Cuba Thaw

A US government agent jailed in Cuba for distributing illegal electronic equipment and the Cuban Five jailed in the US for conspiracy to commit espionage may axe any hopes of a significant change in the adversarial relations of a half century between the two neighboring countries.

See You Soon, Howard

Howard Zinn (August 24, 1922 – January 27, 2010), a militant anarchist, social activist, historian and American political scientist, has left on a new journey.

Resistance Strategy in Honduras

For the coup supporters and their international allies, it will be the date of reconciliation and the return to normality by the country. For the Resistance, however, it will mark the continuity of a coup-supporting dictatorial régime controlled by the military and factions that are attempting to absolve themselves of their crimes and to deepen the neoliberal economic model.

Cuba Opens 4th Field Hospital in Haiti

Hundreds of persons began being treated this morning in the fourth field hospital installed by the Cuban medical brigade in Haiti, this one in Croix des Bouquets, 10 miles from the center of Port-au-Prince, where a group of Cuban healthcare professionals are working together with Haitian students from the Latin American School of Medicine (ELAM).

Emigrants: Cuba’s #2 Source of Tourists

In 2009 emigrants were the second most important source of tourists for Cuba, with the arrival of 296,000 persons born in the country but residing abroad. Canada continues being the most important tourist market for Cuba, with more than 914,000 visitors, followed by Great Britain and Spain.

Cuba In As ALBA Currency Takes Effect

A ledger book currency called the SUCRE took effect Wednesday among the countries belonging to the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas (ALBA) and has a value of US $1.25, announced Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.