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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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Anthony Boadle | Reuters
Carlos Varela, a Cuban musician barred from the United States by the Bush administration performed in Washington on Thursday and had lunch with a White House official in a new sign of a thaw in U.S.-Cuba relations.
Singer-songwriter Carlos Varela, whose songs capture the disenchantment of young Cubans, was given a three-week visa by the Obama administration, which has sought to improve ties with Cuba’s communist government.
Varela met the White House official for lunch at a Washington restaurant, according to the organizers of his trip, the…
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On December 3rd, 1979 it was opened at the Chaplin Movie Theater in Havana the first issue of one event which, in time, will be recognized as the biggest and most significant cinematographic gathering in the Latin-American space: The international Festival of the New Latin-American Movie.
Three decades after that day, the festival will celebrate, between the 3rd and 12th December this year its thirtieth first edition, now consolidated as the most important cinematographic event in Latin-America and mandatory rendezvous for those that in the…
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Cuba opened an outdoor museum which exhibits steam locomotives that have been completely restored.
Cuba was the first country in Latin America to have a railroad due to its valuable sugar industry.
The locomotives 1112, 1308, 1311 and 1138 were made by the American Baldwin Locomotive Works company in the years 1878, 1900, 1904 and 1908, respectively, and are now located in front of the Central Railway Station, in the historic center of Old Havana.
The museum was officially opened on November 19 which was the 172nd anniversary of the first railway travel from…
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Scanned from the book Album Azul de Cuba, compiled and edited in exile by Aurelio Garcia Dulzaides in Miami Florida in 1965.
Since the foundation in Cuba of the independent republic to its fall into communist hands, the country obviously progressed as statistics and history indicate. In other words, from May 20th 1902 to December 31st 1958 the growth took place with notable speed and efficiency. It is surprising how the Cuban people evolved spiritually and materially in less than fifty years of independence and self-government. On the other hand, after January 1st 1959 its relapse has been both…
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