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Clinton Remains Hard on Cuba

By Circles Robinson HAVANA TIMES, Dec. 15 – U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton questioned the human rights situation in

Cuba Expands Tourism in Protected Area

Cuban authorities expanded the number of rooms of the María la Gorda International Scuba Diving Center and the installations of Los Morros de la Piedra Marina in the Biosphere Reserve of the Guanahacabibes Peninsula, in the western tip of the Caribbean country, announced Julio Camacho, director of the Office for the Development of that island.

ALBA Summit in Cuba concludes

The 8th Summit of the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas (ALBA) will conclude today at the Cuban capital’s Convention Centre, reported IPS. The delegations of the nine member countries of this regional integration mechanism focused their discussions on subjects such as the global economic crisis and climate change.

US Lifts Some Restrictions on Sales to Cuba

The US Congress approved the lifting of restrictions imposed in 2005 by the George W. Bush administration on food sales to Cuba, reported the press in Washington. This measure will allow the island to again pay in cash while the merchandise is being transported and not through third country banks before the shipment of products.

Calle 13 Cuba Concert in March

Puerto Rico’s Calle 13 duo will give a concert in Cuba next March, announced its vocalist and composer René Pérez. The musicians did not get authorization from the U.S. government to travel to the island in December, where they would have presented the documentary Sin Mapa during the Havana Film Festival.

Cuba Expert at Copenhagen Meeting

“Energy is an instrument of power. Whoever has energy, controls the world,” Cuban expert Luis Bérriz said in an address to Klimaforum, the civil society meeting being held in parallel to the UN conference on climate change in the Danish capital.

Working Hard Just to Work in Cuba

Pepe gets up every day at five in the morning so he can use the bathroom before everyone else in the house does (three adults and a child), and he leaves before eight. His work, a cafeteria for construction workers, is four or five bus stops from his home. Most of the time he prefers to walk and gets to the job by nine o’clock at the latest.

ALBA Leaders Converge on Cuba

Leaders and top-level representatives of the nine Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas (ALBA) nations are in Havana or soon to arrive for a summit that gets underway on Sunday. The ALBA countries are about to launch a new currency called the “sucre” to facilitate regional exchange and reduce dependence on the US dollar for cooperation and trade.

Cuba Film Festival Awards Announced

The Havana Film Festival awards were announced on Saturday afternoon and the winning movies will get an extra showing on Sunday. “La teta asustada” a Peru-Spain co-production by director Claudia Llosa won the first prize for a full-length fiction film. The top prize for a documentary went to “La perdida” (Argentina-Spain) by Enrique Gabriel and Javier Angulo. The winning short fiction film went to “Para pedir perdon” (Brazil) by Ibere Carvalho.

Hugo Chavez Meets with Fidel Castro

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez meets on Saturday with former Cuban President Fidel Castro. Chavez arrived in Havana on Friday night to participate in a summit of the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas (ALBA) which begins Sunday in the Cuban capital.