Cuba’s popular salsa band Charanga Habanera begins a 45-day tour of the United States on December 17 featuring nine concerts in Florida, announced David Calzado, its director. “Our aim is to reopen that country’s doors to Cuban popular dance music,” affirmed Calzado, whose group has recorded 15 records since its foundation in 1988.
Read MoreHuman rights form part of the dialogue with Cuba, affirmed Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt, whose country will end this month its six-month presidency of the European Union (EU).
Read More“But kids these days aren’t so interested in what’s happening on the American continent. I can understand that. Thanks to television we’ve been saturated with Bolivia, Venezuela, Ecuador… Really, I understand it…not everything is political. For that reason (and for the quality of the films) they prefer to see the more international selections,” said festival goer Jorge Armando.
Read MoreWhen the final credits come on the screen, the audience is left with mixed emotions. Is it a comedy? A melodrama? Maybe it’s a tragic-comedy? It’s difficult to pin a label on this one.
Read MorePorfirio Lobo set out on an international tour Tuesday in an effort to gain recognition from the international community of his recent triumph in the presidential elections organized by the de facto government in Honduras that seized power five months ago.
Read MoreArgentine singer/composer Fito Paez is in Havana to present the documentary film Las manos al piano, about the recording of his album Rodolfo in 2007. Paez is well known in Cuba and has a large following among several generations.
Read MoreThe sentences against two of the Cuban Five were slightly reduced at a hearing held in Miami on Tuesday. Ramon Labaniño now must serve 30 years, down from life imprisonment and Fernandez Gonzalez, 17 years and 9 months, reduced from 19 years.
Read MoreRe-elected Bolivian President Evo Morales will travel to Cuba next Saturday, December 12, to participate in the summit of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA), which will begin the following day, reported IPS. Morales was ratified in his post in Sunday’s elections with 62 per cent of the votes.
Read MoreWith the arrival of President Barack Obama there is “less tension” and “less rhetoric against Cuba,” admitted Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez in statements to the press in Tokyo. Nevertheless, Rodriguez recalled that the US economic blockade on the island “remains intact and is fully applied,” and he expressed his government’s will to talk with the United States at whatever level.
Read MoreTwo of the five Cubans imprisoned in the United States charged with conspiracy to commit espionage will receive new sentences today in a court in the city of Miami, reported IPS. Cuba’s authorities consider the men, known internationally as the Cuban Five as heroes in the struggle against terrorism.
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