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If you like old Cuban postcards, history and architecture, you are in for a real treat.
A new coffee table book titled Havana Revisited: An Architectural Heritage, by Cathryn Griffith, will be released next month.
It features more than 350 colored postcard images of Havana next to a recent color photograph of the same subject from the same viewpoint giving the reader a perfect comparison of old Havana and today’s Havana.
The result is stunning imagery based on years of research and preparation encompassing Cathryn Griffith’s collection of more than 600 postcards…
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By Celeste Mackenzie | Canadian Press
If you venture into Old Havana, you can’t miss the many art galleries among the elegant arches and columns of the restored colonial streets. And, if you’re lucky, you may just come upon some of Cuba’s top artists at work there, or at least minding the shop.
Given their often reasonable cost and ease of transport, I’m always on the lookout for prints in Havana. Just roll them up and pop them in a poster tube you’ve brought from home.
Now more than ever might be the time to buy Cuban art: the United…
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Tom Fawthrop | Al Jazeera
Among the many donor nations helping Haiti, Cuba and its medical teams have played a major role in treating earthquake victims.
Public health experts say the Cubans were the first to set up medical facilities among the debris and to revamp hospitals immediately after the earthquake struck.
However, their pivotal work in the health sector has received scant media coverage.
“It is striking that there has been virtually no mention in the media of the fact that Cuba had several hundred health personnel on the ground before any other country,” said David Sanders, a professor…
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Thousands of people from Suriname have recovered their sight thanks to Operation Miracle, a free-of-charge eye surgery program created Fidel Castro and carried out by the joint efforts of Cuba and Venezuela.
The fist stage of program was started in Suriname on October 10, 2005. During this stage, almost 3000 Surinamese people undergone eye surgery in Cuban hospitals in Havana and in the central province of Cienfuegos.
During the second stage of the program, a group of ten Cuban eye doctors went to Suriname in 2007 to work at the Slands Hospital in Paramaribo where they have performed almost…
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Registration is now open for the second annual Montecristo Cup Pro-Am golf tournament to be held at the Varadero Golf Club from April 22nd to 24th, 2010.
This event is open to professional and amateur golfers worldwide. The updated schedule is available online at TheMontecristoCup.com and now includes a practice round on Thursday, April 22nd for all registered players. The opening reception will follow later in the evening.
Three days of Pro-Am golf in Cuba
A single entry fee of £100 offers golfers a two-person team-play competition on Friday April 23rd for the Esencia Cuba…
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Reuters | Jeff Franks
Twenty-four patients in Havana’s main mental hospital died of hypothermia this week, a Cuban human rights group said on Thursday, in what it called an act of negligence.
Elizardo Sanchez, spokesman for the independent Cuban Commission on Human Rights, said the patients were not properly protected from temperatures that dipped into the low 40s (about 5 or 6 Celsius) during an unusual, extended cold snap on the tropical island.
“The people were not covered up and many windows and doors at the hospital are broken, so they were not protected,” he told Reuters.…
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Prensa Latina
Members of the Henry Reeve Contingent of Doctors Specialized in Disaster Situations and Serious Epidemics are in some Haitian localities to take care of the victims of the earthquake that took place on Tuesday.
The medical brigade, which has experience in China, Pakistan, Guatemala, Indonesia and Bolivia, joined the rest of the health staff that was located there, which is helping citizens since the beginning of the tragedy.
Cuban authorities sent medicines, saline solutions and blood serum, food and provisions as part of the solidarity aid.
More than one thousand patients were seen and 19 operations were carried…
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Rob Sequin | Havana Journal
The The Rich Mix Winter/Spring Retrospective photo exhibit and movie screening event will take place in London England from January 27 through February 27 at 35 - 47 Bethnal Green Road.
Rich Mix puts together a selection of films and photography that explore the recent history of Cuba, taking a look at the island 50 years after its Revolution.
Cuban Stories in photographs
by Angel Gil, Helena Smith and Claire Boobbyer
Three photographers come together to celebrate and explore life in Cuba,…
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By TYLER KEPNER | New York Times
The winning bidder for Aroldis Chapman, a hard-throwing Cuban pitcher, is a midmarket team with nine losing seasons in a row. The Cincinnati Reds, of all teams, took a financial risk Monday for the potential reward of an ace starting pitcher.
“This is a very significant deal for this organization,” Reds General Manager Walt Jocketty said Monday at a news conference in Cincinnati. “If you look at the size of the market that we are here in Cincinnati, we have to take some bold moves from time to…
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From February 22nd to the 26th 2010, Cuba will once again host the largest international meeting for Habanos Cuban cigar aficionados.
As every year since 1997 the Habanos Cigar Festival renders tribute to Habanos cigar brands, particularly to Cohiba and Romeo & Julietta. This year will feature an event specially themed for Women. Attendees will have the chance to enjoy new vitolas that Habanos S.A. will be launching to the world market throughout 2010 and to experience first hand the centuries old secrets of deep-rooted Cuban cigar making traditions.
Habanos S.A invites all Cuban…
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