Three months ago Argentine director Juan Jose Campanella won the award for Best Director at the Havana Film Festival for “El secreto de sus ojos” (The Secret in their eyes). On Monday, he won a prestigious Oscar in Hollywood for the Best Foreign Film.
Read MoreIf these countries actually desire to use US Internet companies is another subject. In the case of Cuba, to date the island’s government has put it hopes on improving its Internet capacity and services via a fiber optic cable to be laid from Venezuela to Jamaica to Cuba.
Read MoreCuba holds opposition member Guillermo Fariñas responsible for his health and affirmed that he and the “unpatriotic persons, foreign diplomats and the media that manipulate him” should resolve the problem created by his hunger strike in demand for the release of political prisoners, according to a news item published today by the official Granma daily. “If he is alive today, it must be said, it is thanks to the qualified medical care he has received notwithstanding the fact that he is a mercenary.”
Read MoreThe Western Division playoffs between Havana Province and Industriales start Wednesday and Thursday with games one and two in San Jose de las Lajas, home of Havana Province, last year’s league champions. The Eastern Division playoff finals between Villa Clara, last year’s league runner-ups and Ciego de Avila open with games one and two on Thursday and Friday in Santa Clara, home of Villa Clara.
Read MoreThe Cuban government sent a new group of nine doctors and technicians to strengthen the brigade of 27 already working in Chile after the recent devastating earthquake. Currently 423 Chileans are studying on scholarships in Cuba, the majority in careers related to medicine.
Read MoreCuba’s month long International Book Fair came to a close on Sunday in Santiago de Cuba after taking place nationwide.
Read MoreVilla Clara blew a 6-2 lead against Santiago de Cuba on Saturday but then scored a run in the bottom of ninth to win 7-6 and move on to the Eastern Division final series showdown with Ciego de Avila.
Read MoreWithout saying what it costs nor what it covers, the Cuban government announced it would obligate tourists to buy health insurance in order to visit the island. The same measure applies for Cubans returning home for visits and for foreigners living in the country.
Read MoreDuring the final week of the regular season Sancti Spíritus rolled over Germán Mesa’s Lions in a three-game sweep at Latin American Stadium. Mesa was out-managed at every turn in those three games by his counterpart, Lourdes Gourriel, and the heavy-hitting Roosters seemed to have served clear notice that this was indeed “the year of the Gallos” in National Series play.
However, what a difference a week makes. Industriales somehow managed to catch lightning in a bottle for the rematch series, once the teams were truly playing “for all the marbles.”
Read MoreThe 32nd International Festival of the New Latin American Cinema will take place in Havana from December 2–12, 2010, and is summoning —as it does every year— works to be submitted in film competitions in the areas of fiction, documentary and animation, first works, unpublished scripts and film posters. The deadline is September 10.
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