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Daily Archives: January 9, 2012

After the claustrophobic feeling of having no internet for two weeks, catching up with events will not be easy, adding the softness of these days. I will summarize in three stories that remained me with me like feedback after the holidays. Saga North Korea is one of my favorite fears. The North Koreans are my [...] Continue reading
Niegan beneficios penales a recluso por denunciar asesinatoLunes, 09 de Enero de 2012 00:25Dania Virgen GarcíaSan Miguel del Padrón (PD) En la prisión de Quivicán, en la provincia Mayabeque, al recluso Norberto Muñoz Palomino l... Continue reading
As a 19 year old kid I was deployed to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba for 11 months in 2002. As an aspiring film maker I took along an old Nikon FG to try and document my first taste of the real world out of Continue reading
… Chile, Cuba y Venezuela aparcan sus diferencias y avanzan en el diseño de la Celac  … asumirá después (Cuba), fijó un completo cronograma de trabajo. … pro témpore a Cuba, y aprovechar ... Continue reading
La gira que el presidente iraní, Mahmud Ajmadineyad, realiza por cuatro naciones latinoamericanas –Venezuela, Nicaragua, Cuba y Ecuador– constituye un abierto desafío de los gobiernos anfitriones a la advertencia emitida el pasado viernes por Washington, por conducto de la vocera del Departamento de Estado, Victtoria Nuland, en el sentido de que las naciones de la región deben “abstenerse de profundizar sus vínculos” con la... Continue reading
Yesterday, two pleasant women from Madrid appeared in my house. One of them follows Bad Handwriting, and the other came with her because she didn’t want to come alone. After the introductions and making arrangements with the driver of the Soviet-made Lada car that brought them, they told me they had been in Cuba since [...] Continue reading
Proyectiles balísticosLunes, Enero 9, 2012 | Por Pablo Pascual Méndez PiñaLA HABANA, Cuba, enero, www.cubanet.org -Mientras caminaba por la Habana Vieja, Félix López, un pinareño con 55 años, poeta de afición y ... Continue reading
HAVANA -- Cuban revolutionary icon Fidel Castro said Monday that a "robot" would be better in the White House than President Barack Obama -- or any of the Republicans candidates in the ... Continue reading
A review by the US Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement and the US Coast Guard of a mobile offshore drilling unit bound for Cuban waters found the vessel generally complies with existing international Continue reading
Mark Cuban is unhappy with the NBA, again (Getty Images) With the lockout-shortened 66-game season precluding many out-of-conference games this year, the NBA's league office had to be ... Continue reading
Cuba y sus reformas09-Ene 05:45 am|El NacionalRaúl Castro, en efecto, ha anunciado discretas reformas. No se puede decir que el presidente Castro no vea el problema y trate de ocultarlo.Quien lo oculta es el hermano mayor, el que prefiere hablar d... Continue reading
U.S. officials said Monday a rig operated by Spain's Repsol YPF SA that is expected to drill offshore Cuba in the coming months complies with international and U.S. safety standards. "U.S. personnel found Continue reading
Una muy reciente antología de poetisas cubanas, realizada por Milena Rodríguez Gutiérrez, tiene una rara cualidad: ella se excluye, pudorosa, de la "breve muestra" final, donde con generosidad —excesiva— incluye algunas de las nacidas después d... Continue reading
Harina en mal estadoLunes, Enero 9, 2012 | Por Moises Leonardo RodriguezLA HABANA, Cuba, 9 de enero (Moisés Leonardo Rodríguez, www.cubanet.org ) –La respuesta a las quejas de los clientes por la mala calidad del pan de venta liberada en Ca... Continue reading
9 (Reuters) - A Chinese-built drilling rig to be used in the first major exploration for oil in Cuba's offshore waters looks good to go, U.S. officials said on Monday after a safety inspection of the massive platform docked in Trinidad and Tobago. The Continue reading
The deepwater drilling rig that Spanish oil giant Repsol will use for planned oil exploration off Cubaâ??s coast is getting a clean bill of health from U.S. officials.The United States has no regulatory Continue reading
U.S. Coast Guard Personnel from the U.S. Coast Guard and the U.S. Department of the Interiorâ??s Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement completed a review of the mobile offshore drilling unit Continue reading
The new year dawns under a cloudy sky, the temperature a little low, the humidity high and my allergies so bad that I have a headache. I go out to take a bus from my house to see my mother. After some hours I head to the house of a friend who lives on my [...] Continue reading
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En conversación con Radio Martí, el senador brasileño Eduardo Suplicy habló sobre las gestiones que se realizan para que la bloguera cubana pueda visitar Brasil Continue reading
Agencias - DDC Sao Paulo El senador del Partido de los Trabajadores visitó al expresidente en el h... Continue reading
HAVANA, Cuba, Jan 7 (acn) The Latin American and Caribbean Continental Students Organization (OCLAE) will bring its main leaders together in this capital from February 13th through the ... Continue reading
HAVANA, Cuba, Jan 7 (acn) The Order of Solidarity, granted by the Council of State was given on Friday to Liu Yuqin, ambassador of the ... Continue reading
It is less than three weeks until the First National Conference of the Communist Party of Cuba, and it seems that almost no one cares about what will happen there. Perhaps we haven’t lost the habit of events like these coming accompanied by billboards, posters, TV spots, heroic exploits of labor dedicated to them, and [...] Continue reading
Agencias Santiago de Cuba La mayoría de las casas se compran con ayuda de los familiares en el ex... Continue reading
Tags: Cubans, Immune system, Diseases Havana: People in Cuba are immune to dozens of illness that kill millions of people in the rest of the world, health experts in the Communist-ruled nation have Continue reading
Publicado el lunes, 01.09.12Las dictaduras son lo que sonGina MontanerMadrid – Las cosas son lo que son. Eso quiso decir la autora estadounidense Gertrude Stein cuando escribió Rosa es una rosa es una rosa es una rosa en su poema "Sacred Em... Continue reading
… como Venezuela y Cuba, ante la posibilidad de que se extienda en la región el supuesto programa nu … Cuba http://noticias.terra.es/2012/mundo/0109/actualidad/chavez-aclara-que-ni-venezuela-ni-iran-son-paises-guerreristas.aspx... Continue reading
… se traslade a Cuba y Ecuador. … Cuba http://noticias.terra.es/2012/mundo/0109/actualidad/ahmadineyad-asegura-que-pese-al-imperialismo-estara-siempre-junto-a-chavez.aspx - 58KB Continue reading
… por Nicaragua, Cuba y Ecuador. … Cuba http://noticias.terra.es/2012/mundo/0109/actualidad/chavez-dice-que-a-el-y-a-ahmadineyad-les-toca-frenar-la-locura-imperialista.aspx - 59KB Continue reading
Federal officials, having completed a long-awaited inspection of a mobile offshore rig that will drill in Cuban waters near Florida, determined it generally meets international and U.S. standards, an Continue reading
The US Department of the Interior's Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) and Coast Guard (USCG) have completed an inspection of offshore drilling rig Scarabeo 9 in the lead-up to oper... Continue reading
U.S. officials said Monday a rig operated by Spain's Repsol YPF SA that is expected to drill offshore Cuba in the coming months complies with international and U.S. safety standards. This area of the Continue reading