1. PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITION LAUNCH EVENT
2. MAY DAY TOURS TO HAVANA – BOOK NOW
3. MEDIA REPORTS ON CSC DONATIONS TO HAITI MEDICAL BRIGADES
4. CUBA BLASTS US LEADERS FOR MEETING WITH DISSIDENTS
5. MUSIC FUND FOR CUBA – KEN GILL MEMORIAL CONCERT
6. 2010 FESTIVAL VOLUNTEERS NEEDED!
7. EXETER GROUP LAUNCHES WITH FILM SCREENING
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1. CELEBRATING CUBA:50 YEARS OF REVOLUTION – [...]
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“You see all of this here? They’ve set it all up. And every time we have a problem, there they are. They’re ‘doctors’ too, but doctors who take care of us.” That is how surgeon Suárez talks about the team of medical electronics technicians who set up Cuba’s five field hospitals in Haiti. In addition to this one that was readied in Arcahaie, about 20 km from Port-au-Prince, there are the four in Croix des Bouquets, Jacmel, Carrefour and Leoganne.
The team is made up of five Cubans, from Camagüey, Las Tunas, Matanzas and Havana, and since they arrived in Haiti, they have forgotten the fact that they come from different provinces, or that they have different specializations, or even their baseball rivalries.
Soulful Cuban hiphop singer Danay to perform in London direct from Havana, presented by HavanaCultura, at the Worldwide Music Awards hosted by Gilles Peterson this Saturday 6 February
1. CONCERT FOR HAITI SOLD OUT
2. SUPPORT THE CUBAN MEDICAL BRIGADES IN HAITI
3. HAITI’S FUTURE MUST LIE IN ITS OWN HANDS
4. CELEBRATING CUBA – 50 YEARS OF REVOLUTION – PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITION
5. OTHER FORTHCOMING EVENTS
Billy Bragg and Cuban band Son Mas are among the very special guests performing at the Concert for Haiti – a fundraising concert for the TUC Aid Haiti Earthquake Appeal on Wednesday 3 February at the TUC Congress House, London.
Why is there almost no media coverage of Cuba’s medical assistance to Haiti? The Cuban government has provided free health care to the Haitian people since 1998 as well as many full scholarships to its medical schools. It also should be noted that Cuban doctors work in all 10 of Haiti’s departments (administrative divisions). At the time the earthquake struck, 344 Cuban doctors were providing health service in Haiti along with over 500 local Haitian graduates of Cuban medical schools.
We Cubans understood that the most important thing at that moment was to save lives, and we are trained not only to cope with catastrophes like that, but also to cope with other natural catastrophes related to human health.
1. OLGA SALANUEVA DENIED HUMANITARIAN PAROLE TO VISIT US
2. ALBA COUNTRIES TO START USING NEW CURRENCY
3. CUBANS GET DOWN ON IT WITH KOOL & THE GANG
4. SADDLE UP FOR CSC CYCLE CUBA CHALLENGE 2010
5. FORTHCOMING EVENTS
As the result of a precipitous contraction in the Cuban economy, Cubans have recently experienced crippling energy cutbacks and other shortfalls that are reminiscent of the devastating hardships of the “Special Period,” and industries have continued to falter due to the evaporation of credit and investment flows which largely dried up after the break-up of the Soviet empire. In the first half of 2009, the Obama Administration launched a series of modest initiatives aimed at normalizing U.S.-Cuba relations, most recently exemplified by the loosening of restrictions on travel by Cuba-Americans, lifting controls on remittances, and giving the nod to U.S. telecommunication investments on the island. Though President Obama recently renewed the Trading With the Enemy Act, policy mitigations have prompted speculation that a greater volume of trade and investment is likely to be permitted in the future.
Come and celebrate Cuba’s National Day of Culture with London’s Cuban community, 24 October, 2009
New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin praised Cuba’s disaster response system on Tuesday, acknowledging that the islands’s socialist authorities ‘do a much better job than we do.’
The decision by a Miami court on Tuesday October 13 to reduce Antonio Guererro’s life sentence to 22 years imprisonment is the latest chapter in the ongoing legal battle to free a group of men known as the Cuban Five. Largely anonymous in the United States yet celebrities in their native Cuba, their conviction symbolizes the fraught relationship that exists between the two countries.
I would have liked to talk today about the exceptional Peace without Borders concert that took place in the Jose Marti Plaza de la Revolucion 24 hours ago, but brutal reality obliges me to write about a danger that is threatening not only peace but also the survival of our species.
Cultura y Cubania, coinciding with Black History Month, will be a week-long cultural event celebrating the richness of Cuban culture.
Taking place in prestigious London venues such as, Canning House, Bolivar Hall and Conway Hall, it showcases the work of some of the best Cuban Artists living in the UK today as well as that of important Cuban cultural figures.
President Obama has not taken any decisive steps to veer away from Washington’s benighted, near half-century trade embargo against Cuba. By refusing to take advantage of the opportunity to reject a longstanding and morally-bankrupt policy, which has achieved very few successes and which has been based on hypocrisy, double standards, and inconsistencies, President Obama has turned his back on the possibility of a new beginning for U.S. policy towards Latin America based on constructive engagement.
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Video: Thousands attend the “Peace without Borders” concert in Havana, Cuba, featuring Colombian singer Juanes and other international artists
Cuba is the only country in the world that has developed an extensive state-supported infrastructure to support urban food production. Functionally, this system was established in response to acute food shortages in the early 1990s, which occurred after the collapse of the Soviet Union, when the island was forced to find an alternative manner of cultivating crops. Havana has established and expanded on this innovative model since this time, and it continues to lead the island nation in its quest for self-sufficiency. The increasing prevalence of urban agriculture benefits the economy, environment, community and health of Cuban citizens.
Microsoft terminates Cuban access to its instant messaging service, which, at first glance, suggests an act of compliance at the behest of the U.S. government. The software behemoth chides Latin American leaders for undemocratic principles in an online smear campaign which might be better aimed at itself.
If the President’s words in Moscow are applied to relations with Cuba, and the US manifests the spirit of ‘mutual respect’ he so eloquently advanced in earlier visits to Turkey and France, the conflict between the US and Cuba is all but over. However, as Secretary Clinton’s interview reflects, some officials seem determined to fly the tattered flag of conditionality. They insisted Cuba respond to authorization of family travel disproportionately by freeing political prisoners and moving toward approved forms of democracy before the US took any other positive steps.
The big powers no longer pick and choose their favourite ‘human rights offenders’ for UN scrutiny, as they did under the old commission. The US tried to target Cuba (particularly during the administration of that great champion of human rights, George Bush Jr). For this reason, Cuba refused to fully cooperate. Since the restructuring in 2006, however, things have changed.
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