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High Tourist Season Opens in Cuba

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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">NNN---
San Pedro de la Roca Castle, Santiago de Cuba, is a 17th century fortress which
is considered the best preserved and most complete example of Spanish-American
military architecture, about 6 miles (10 km) southwest of the city centre.
These significant places are in UNESCO World Heritage List. With the high
tourist season opening in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Cuba</st1:place></st1:country-region>,
visitors are unlikely to give these places of historical interest a skip. More
than one million visitors are expected to converge at the central <st1:placename w:st="on">Varadero</st1:placename> <st1:placename w:st="on">Tourist</st1:placename>
<st1:placetype w:st="on">Center</st1:placetype>, following an intense
international campaign promoting the island as a tourist destination for
vacationers in Europe, Asia and <st1:place w:st="on">Latin America</st1:place>.
<st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Cuba</st1:place></st1:country-region>
earned over 1.7 billion dollars in terms of different tourist offers, a figure
well over the previous year, according to the National Statistics and
Information Office. From January to September this year, the island received
two million 170 thousand 067 visitors, which stands for a 5.1 increase with
respect to same period of 2011. Photo courtesy wikipedia---NNN<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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High Tourist Season Opens in Cuba

NNN--- San Pedro de la Roca Castle, Santiago de Cuba, is a 17th century fortress which is considered the best preserved and most co...

Cuba, India Seek Expanded Cooperation In Energy, Telecom, Tourism

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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">HAVANA (NNN-Xinhua) -- India has expressed interest in expanding cooperation with Cuba in the sectors of energy, telecommunications and tourism, media reports said here Friday. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Indian Commerce and Industry Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia said during his ongoing visit here that his country was also interested in working together with Cuba in the areas of pharmaceuticals, petrochemicals, sugar, agriculture, agrochemicals, mining and services, according to Cuba's official daily Granma. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Scindia, head of a visiting Indian business delegation, said India has extensive experience in developing information and communications technologies, and is keen to cooperate with Cuba in that area. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">India had launched a global push to promote tourism over the past years, Scindia said. The industry is "very important, not only as a source of foreign revenue, but also for employment," he said. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Scindia arrived in Havana Tuesday, where he met with several top government officials and business leaders, including Cuba's First Deputy Foreign Trade and Investment Minister Orlando Hernandez. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">On Thursday, Scindia inaugurated a bilateral business forum which was attended by 25 Indian entrepreneurs led by Inderdeep Singh, president of the Indian Confederation of Industries. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">During his meeting with Scindia, Hernandez said Cuba had prepared an offer of seven joint venture projects with Asian entrepreneurs in the fields of renewable energy, oil, paper, chemicals and tourism. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Cuba-India bilateral trade peaked in the 1980s standing at more than 300 million U.S. dollars a year, but has now fallen to around 50 million dollars. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">The Cuban government is planning to modify its foreign investment law to attract more foreign capital, knowhow and advanced technology, while stepping up promotion of its national products on the world market. -- NNN-Xinhua<o:p></o:p></span></div></div>

Cuba, India Seek Expanded Cooperation In Energy, Telecom, Tourism

HAVANA (NNN-Xinhua) -- India has expressed interest in expanding cooperation with Cuba in the sectors of energy, telecommunications and to...

India Seeks Stronger Economic Ties with Cuba

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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="direction: ltr; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">HAVANA (NNN-PRENSA LATINA) - India's Minister of Trade and Industry, Jyotiraditya Scindia's four-day visit here, was aimed at strengthening economic links with Cuba, its Ambassador to Cuba, Chinthapally Rajasekhar, said today. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="direction: ltr; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="direction: ltr; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span dir="LTR"></span>"It will be a stay to which we give great importance," the diplomat told journalists, referring to Scindia's visit beginning today, leading a delegation of nearly 20 business people. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="direction: ltr; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="direction: ltr; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span dir="LTR"></span>"There is goodwill, friendly relations between our countries, and during this visit we will explore what we can do together," said Rajasekhar, who announced the possibility of doing business in the fields of energy, tourism, infrastructure, biotechnology and the pharmaceutical industry. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="direction: ltr; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="direction: ltr; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span dir="LTR"></span>"We are looking for win-win links", he said as he also referred to the fields of services, computer sciences and in some areas of mutual interest. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="direction: ltr; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="direction: ltr; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Bilateral trade between Havana and New Delhi is estimated at US$40 million a year, he said. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="direction: ltr; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="direction: ltr; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">He noted that India sells Cuban medicine, light industry and plastic items, and imports from Cuba some medicine and services. "But that trade can grow," he stressed. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="direction: ltr; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="direction: ltr; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Scindia's agenda in Cuba includes meetings with officials from the ministries of Foreign Trade and Investment, Foreign Affairs and Basic Industry. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="direction: ltr; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="direction: ltr; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">On Thursday, he is scheduled to hold a business round with the Chamber of Commerce of Cuba. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="direction: ltr; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="direction: ltr; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span dir="LTR"></span>"We want to promote cooperation between both chambers and encourage business between India and Cuba," he said.  --NNN-PRENSA LATINA <o:p></o:p></span></div></div>

India Seeks Stronger Economic Ties with Cuba

HAVANA (NNN-PRENSA LATINA) - India's Minister of Trade and Industry, Jyotiraditya Scindia's four-day visit here, was aimed at str...

Cuba Tests Medication against Hepatitis B and C

<div style="color:; background-color:; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"">HAVANA (NNN-Prensa Latina): Cuba's Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology Center (CIGB) will carry out medical trials on a medication against chronic hepatitis B and C.<o:p></o:p></span></div>  <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></div>  <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"">This interferon has a broader effect and reduces the intake dosage, Hugo Nodarse, head of the CIGB Oncology Research Department, told Juventud Rebelde daily at the National Workshop on the Use of Biotechnological Products to Treat Viver Disorders, held on Friday in Havana's Center for Medical Surgery Research (CIMEQ).<o:p></o:p></span></div>  <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></div>  <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"">In this regard, Nodarse mentioned the successful administration of PEG-Heberón to treat hepatitis B and C, and opportunistic infections in AIDS/HIV patients.<o:p></o:p></span></div>  <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></div>  <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"">Specialist Pedro Lopez highlighted the successful three-decade research that resulted in a vaccine against hepatitis B, whose distribution eradicated the disease among children. -NNN-PRENSA LATINA<o:p></o:p></span></div></div><div></div></div>

Cuba Tests Medication against Hepatitis B and C

HAVANA (NNN-Prensa Latina): Cuba's Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology Center (CIGB) will carry out medical trials on a medication aga...

Fidel Castro Says Action against Protesters in Major Cities "Barbaric"

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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">HAVANA (NNN-PRENSA LATINA) - The leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro described as barbaric the police repression against protesters in major cities in the United States and Europe. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">They show "to the world the coward actions that are committed against the rights and the lives of the citizens of their own countries," Fidel Castro said in his latest reflection "The Wonderful World of Capitalism." <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">"The most important cities in the United States and Europe are the theatre of continued pitched battles between demonstrators and a well-trained and well-fed police, equipped with armoured cars and helmets, beating and kicking and throwing gases against women and men, twisting the hands and the necks of people, young and old," the revolutionary leader wrote. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">"How much longer these barbaric acts would last?" wondered Fidel Castro, adding that "these tragedies will continue to be seen, more and more, on television and in the entire press; they will be like the daily bread that is denied to those who have less." <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">After recalling some details of the discovery of the energy contained in the atom, developed by the United States after his discoverer delivered it, the leader of the Revolution noted that "that State imposes on the world the most brutal and dangerous tyranny ever known to our fragile species." <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">"The search for the political truth will always be a difficult task even in our times, when science has placed in our hands a huge amount of knowledge," he noted. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">"One of the most important was the possibility to know and study the fabulous power of the energy contained in matter," added the revolutionary leader. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">In another part of his reflection, Fidel Castro said the possibilities provided by an electronic shop in London, which will sell one-million-dollars and an individual submarine or a submarine for two persons. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">"Maybe it is our fault that not every citizen has its own private submarine at the beach, Fidel Castro noted. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">"It was them (the media), not me, who mixed up the Arab sheiks and the executives of the big transnationals with the soccer players. The latter, at least, entertain millions of persons and are not enemies of Cuba; I should state that very clearly," Fidel Castro wrote.  --NNN-PRENSA LATINA<o:p></o:p></span></div></div>

Fidel Castro Says Action against Protesters in Major Cities "Barbaric"

HAVANA (NNN-PRENSA LATINA) - The leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro described as barbaric the police repression against proteste...

Fidel Castro Says Action against Protesters in Major Cities "Barbaric"

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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">HAVANA (NNN-PRENSA LATINA) - The leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro described as barbaric the police repression against protesters in major cities in the United States and Europe. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">They show "to the world the coward actions that are committed against the rights and the lives of the citizens of their own countries," Fidel Castro said in his latest reflection "The Wonderful World of Capitalism." <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">"The most important cities in the United States and Europe are the theatre of continued pitched battles between demonstrators and a well-trained and well-fed police, equipped with armoured cars and helmets, beating and kicking and throwing gases against women and men, twisting the hands and the necks of people, young and old," the revolutionary leader wrote. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">"How much longer these barbaric acts would last?" wondered Fidel Castro, adding that "these tragedies will continue to be seen, more and more, on television and in the entire press; they will be like the daily bread that is denied to those who have less." <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">After recalling some details of the discovery of the energy contained in the atom, developed by the United States after his discoverer delivered it, the leader of the Revolution noted that "that State imposes on the world the most brutal and dangerous tyranny ever known to our fragile species." <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">"The search for the political truth will always be a difficult task even in our times, when science has placed in our hands a huge amount of knowledge," he noted. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">"One of the most important was the possibility to know and study the fabulous power of the energy contained in matter," added the revolutionary leader. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">In another part of his reflection, Fidel Castro said the possibilities provided by an electronic shop in London, which will sell one-million-dollars and an individual submarine or a submarine for two persons. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">"Maybe it is our fault that not every citizen has its own private submarine at the beach, Fidel Castro noted. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">"It was them (the media), not me, who mixed up the Arab sheiks and the executives of the big transnationals with the soccer players. The latter, at least, entertain millions of persons and are not enemies of Cuba; I should state that very clearly," Fidel Castro wrote. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>--NNN-PRENSA LATINA<o:p></o:p></span></div></div>

Fidel Castro Says Action against Protesters in Major Cities "Barbaric"

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</tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">GroundReport- </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">For<span style="background: white;"> most of his life, José Marti moved from place to place, collecting the experiences and knowledge that would influence his work as a writer, revolutionary and educator. He was passionate in every undertaking, whether organizing the Cuban independence movement, fiercely objecting dictatorships and government abuses in <st1:country-region w:st="on">Mexico</st1:country-region> and <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Guatemala</st1:place></st1:country-region>, or studying philosophy and law. His devotion to <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Cuba</st1:place></st1:country-region>’s freedom and his own free spirit resulted in a lifetime of intriguing achievements.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="background: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">Early Days<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">Born in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Havana</st1:city>,  <st1:country-region w:st="on">Cuba</st1:country-region></st1:place>, on Jan. 28, 1853, José Marti had his first foray into political activism at age 15, helping to set up an anti-colonial newspaper that led to his arrest within a year. Spanish authorities convicted Marti of anti-government activity, and handed him a six-year sentence of “hard labor in a quarry,” reports The My Hero Project. He served just three years, however, before being deported to <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Spain</st1:place></st1:country-region>. There, Marti entered the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype>  of <st1:placename w:st="on">Zaragoza</st1:placename></st1:place> to study law. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">In the years following his graduation from university, Marti’s rebellious, revolutionary ways were revealed. He was banished from <st1:city w:st="on">Mexico City</st1:city>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Guatemala</st1:country-region>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Spain</st1:country-region> and <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Venezuela</st1:place></st1:country-region> for opposing military leadership, government abuses, colonialist authorities and dictatorship. But along the way, he honed his philosophical standpoints, working as a journalist and literature professor, and spending some time in <st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">New York</st1:place></st1:state>, according to The My Hero Project.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="background: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">Notable Accomplishments<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">Throughout his life, Marti never lost sight of his ultimate passion: promoting Cuban independence. In doing so, he would take on various roles, including teacher, diplomat and poet. His first poetry volume, “Versos Libres” (Free Verses), was published in 1878. More than a decade later, Marti’s “Versos Sencillos” was published, the first poem of which became his most notable work and “an unofficial national anthem for <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Cuba</st1:place></st1:country-region>,” according to Bella Online. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">Although he was killed in 1895 during the Battle of Dos Rios in <st1:country-region w:st="on">Cuba</st1:country-region>’s war for independence from <st1:country-region w:st="on">Spain</st1:country-region>, Marti was “remembered as a national hero as well as <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Cuba</st1:place></st1:country-region>’s unofficial national poet.” <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Cuba</st1:place></st1:country-region> was eventually successful in the war, as well, says Bella Online. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">Marti is also praised for his varied interests and his ability “to move comfortably in the most diverse fields,” according to the Free Cuba Foundation. His writings reflect that worldliness and display “the universality and timelessness of his thought,” supreme among them that <st1:country-region w:st="on">Cuba</st1:country-region>’s freedom was crucial to the well-being of <st1:place w:st="on">Latin America</st1:place>.<o:p></o:p></span></div></div>

José Marti- The Cuban Poet and Revolutionary

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Ahmadinejad Lands in Cuba

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="background: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 8.0pt;">Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (right) responds to a cheering crowd from the balcony of the Carondelet presidential palace in <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Quito</st1:place></st1:city> Jan. 12, 2012 by showing a double-V sign, watched on by his Ecuadorian counterpart, Rafael Correa. <st1:country-region w:st="on">Ecuador</st1:country-region> was the final leg of Ahmadinejad’s five-day tour of four Latin American countries, which included <st1:country-region w:st="on">Venezuela</st1:country-region>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Nicaragua</st1:country-region> and <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Cuba</st1:place></st1:country-region>. Ahmadinejad began his Latin America trip shortly after <st1:state w:st="on">Washington</st1:state> imposed tougher sanctions on <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Tehran</st1:place></st1:city> over the nuclear programme. Photo courtesy agencies--- NNN Photo<o:p></o:p></span></i></div></td></tr>
</tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Cuba</st1:place></st1:country-region>, the latest stop on his Latin American tour. Ahmadinejad landed in <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Havana</st1:place></st1:city> Wednesday, where he was greeted by Cuban Vice President Esteban Lazo.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">The Iranian leader is expected to meet with Cuban President Raul Castro as well as with Fidel Castro during the brief, one-day stop. He is also expected to give a speech at the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename w:st="on">Havana</st1:placename></st1:place>.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><span style="background: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">Cuba</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="background: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">'s state-run media reported Ahmadinejad made a "V" for victory sign with his fingers as he greeted officials.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">The Iranian leader's visit comes as international pressure is mounting on <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Tehran</st1:place></st1:city> over its nuclear program. <st1:country-region w:st="on">Iran</st1:country-region> is facing growing sanctions over the program and tensions rose further Wednesday after a scientist who worked on <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Iran</st1:place></st1:country-region>'s nuclear program was killed in a bombing.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">Iranian officials have blamed the attack on <st1:country-region w:st="on">Israel</st1:country-region> and the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">United States</st1:place></st1:country-region>.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">President Ahmadinejad's visit to <st1:country-region w:st="on">Cuba</st1:country-region> is part of a four-nation Latin America tour that has already taken him to <st1:country-region w:st="on">Venezuela</st1:country-region> and <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Nicaragua</st1:place></st1:country-region>, where he attended the inauguration of President Daniel Ortega. After <st1:country-region w:st="on">Cuba</st1:country-region>, Ahmadinejad heads to <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Ecuador</st1:place></st1:country-region>.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">In recent years, the Iranian president has courted leftist, populist and anti-American Latin American leaders, particularly Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><st1:country-region w:st="on"><span style="background: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">U.S.</span></st1:country-region><span style="background: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS";"> officials have urged Latin American countries not to deepen their ties with <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Iran</st1:place></st1:country-region>. The <st1:country-region w:st="on">U.S.</st1:country-region> has called the tour a sign of desperation for <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Iran</st1:place></st1:country-region>, which has been heavily sanctioned over its nuclear program.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">A U.S. State Department spokeswoman accused the Iranian government of being "desperate for friends" and of what she called "flailing around" to find new allies.<span class="apple-style-span"> ---VOA News<o:p></o:p></span></span></div></div>

Ahmadinejad Lands in Cuba

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (right) responds to a cheering crowd from the balcony of the Carondelet presidential palace in Qui...

U.S. Obama office imposes tough trade sanctions against Cuba - trade official

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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><st1:city w:st="on"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">HAVANA</span></st1:city><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";"> (RIA Novosti)- U.S. President Barack Obama’s administration imposes tougher sanctions on companies trading with <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Cuba</st1:place></st1:country-region> in comparison with previous presidential administrations, a Cuban deputy trade minister said on Saturday.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">“The total sum of sanctions imposed in regard to physical and legal entities by the current [<st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">U.S.</st1:place></st1:country-region>] government exceeds $1.1 billion,” Cuban Vice Minister of Foreign Trade and Investments Orlando Hernandez Guillen said.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">The <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">U.S.</st1:place></st1:country-region> government measures are also directed against investors, who are not able to invest into the Cuban economy as, according to the embargo law, they may lose their right to work on the American market, he added.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">The <st1:country-region w:st="on">United States</st1:country-region> began its embargo on <st1:country-region w:st="on">Cuba</st1:country-region>, which has become the longest economic blockade in history, on October 19, 1960, after <st1:country-region w:st="on">Cuba</st1:country-region> nationalized the properties of <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">U.S.</st1:place></st1:country-region> citizens and corporations.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">The global community, including <st1:state w:st="on">Washington</st1:state>'s allies <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Canada</st1:place></st1:country-region> and the European Union, have long been opposed to the embargo. In 1996, <st1:state w:st="on">Washington</st1:state> toughened the sanctions further by barring third countries' commercial ships en route to and from the communist island from entering <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">U.S.</st1:place></st1:country-region> ports.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">Under Barack Obama, the <st1:country-region w:st="on">United States</st1:country-region> has loosened money transfer and travel restrictions on Americans with relatives in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Cuba</st1:place></st1:country-region>, but demanded political and economic reforms from the country as condition for lifting the embargo.<o:p></o:p></span></div></div>

U.S. Obama office imposes tough trade sanctions against Cuba - trade official

HAVANA (RIA Novosti)- U.S. President Barack Obama’s administration imposes tougher sanctions on companies trading with Cuba in comparison...

Cuban official denies rumors of Fidel Castro's poor health

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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">MOSCOW (RIA Novosti)- Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro is in good health, Cuban Attorney General Dario Delgado Cura said in an interview with Russian government daily Rossiiskaya Gazeta.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">Prominent Venezuelan columnist Nelson Bocaranda wrote in late August that the health of the 84-year-old Cuban revolutionary and former head of state has seriously deteriorated. He did not cite any sources.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">"Fidel is fine, despite all rumors," the Cuban official said in an interview published on Thursday. "He regularly writes articles about international issues and has recently published an autobiographic book."<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">Castro, who ruled the communist island for about 50 years, handed over the presidency to his younger brother Raul in 2008. He has rarely been seen in public since, triggering rumors about his poor health.<o:p></o:p></span></div></div>

Cuban official denies rumors of Fidel Castro's poor health

MOSCOW (RIA Novosti)- Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro is in good health, Cuban Attorney General Dario Delgado Cura said in an inte...

Cuba withdraws ambassador from Libya

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</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"The Republic of Cuba recognizes neither the Transitional National Council, not any other transitional authorities [in Libya]; it will only recognize the government that will be created in the country legitimately and without foreign interference," the country's Foreign Ministry said in a statement.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The statement accused NATO of killing "thousands" of civilians during its airstrikes on Libya and violating UN resolutions by attacking civilian facilities and supplying arms to rebels in Libya. The alliance has been trying to create similar conditions for a military intervention in Syria, which has also been hit by a popular uprising, it said.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The ministry urged NATO to immediately stop its military operation in Libya and let the Libyan people fulfill their right to "independence, self-determination and sovereignty over natural resources."</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">After months of fierce battles between loyalists of Col. Muammar Gaddafi and opposition forces backed by NATO aircraft, Libyan rebels say they now control "90 to 95 percent" of Libyan territory.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Gaddafi's whereabouts remains unknown, and the rebel authorities have set a Saturday deadline for his remaining loyalists to surrender or face a military assault.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The Transitional National Council has already been recognized as the legitimate power in Libya by some 60 countries. During an international conference on Libya held in Paris on September 1, world leaders agreed to release $15 billion in frozen Libyan assets for the country's interim authorities to help Libya return to normal life after months of violence.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
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Cuba withdraws ambassador from Libya

HAVANA (RIA Novosti)- Cuba has announced that it was withdrawing its diplomatic mission in Libya, reiterating that it does not recognize L...