Cuba, Denmark launch direct flights Global Times The fortnightly flight will last throughout the winter tourism season and operate every other Wednesday, allowing a greater number of international "consumers of sun and sand, nature and culture" to visit Cuba, the ministry said. The Copenhagen ... |
AFP | Ex-Black Panther pleads not guilty in 1984 Cuba hijacking Reuters MIAMI (Reuters) - A former member of the Black Panther Party who hijacked a U.S. plane and forced it to fly to Cuba nearly 30 years ago pleaded not guilty on in U.S. federal court on Wednesday to charges of air piracy. William Potts, 56, made his ... Man Who Admits Hijacking Plane To Cuba Pleads Not Guilty In Miami Court Man charged in 1984 hijacking to Cuba pleads not guilty Black Panther, back from Cuba, pleads not guilty to hijacking |
Latin America's English proficiency 'very low' MercoPress “Latin America is the weakest of all regions, with an average English proficiency score barely surpassing the low proficiency cut-off,” the report states, putting the low scores down to, “the poor quality of public education across Latin America ... |
Archaeological Tourism Bourse to kick off tomorrow in Paestum ANSAmed ... the head of the Campania regional council Stefano Caldoro and Councillor for Culture and Tourism Pasquale Sommese. Information on Venezuela, the country guest of honor of this year's Bourse, will be given by Ambassador Julian Isaias Rodriguez Diaz. |
AFP | Ex-Black Panther pleads not guilty in 1984 Cuba hijacking Reuters MIAMI Nov 13 (Reuters) - A former member of the Black Panther Party who hijacked a U.S. plane and forced it to fly to Cuba nearly 30 years ago pleaded not guilty on in U.S. federal court on Wednesday to charges of air piracy. William Potts, 56, made ... Man Who Admits Hijacking Plane To Cuba Pleads Not Guilty In Miami Court Man charged in 1984 hijacking to Cuba pleads not guilty Black Panther, back from Cuba, pleads not guilty to hijacking |
Cuba's Jardines del Rey Resort Celebrates 20th Anniversary Radio Cadena Agramonet Ciego de Avila, Cuba, Nov 13.- Jardines del Rey, one of Cuba's most popular tourist destinations, is celebrating two decades of operations, during which it has received 3.5 million visitors. Located in the cays north of Ciego de Avila, 490 kilometers ... |
Washington Post | South America v Asia play-off is another FIFA farce Yahoo Lifestyle UK (blog) The old play-off between the winner of Oceania's qualifying pool (i.e. Australia) and a North or South American team used to be a highlight of the international football calendar. With the Aussies always a competitive force, matches against the likes ... Uruguay Earns Advantage Over Jordan With Victory In First Leg Of World Cup ... |
Washington Post | FP Passport: Can The Castro Regime Ban 3D Movies... And Survive? Foreign Policy (blog) Ever since Raul Castro took over the reins in Cuba, the regime has been loosening its grip on the economy, allowing for some private ventures. This journey into the third dimension appeared to be the latest example. The note itself cited economic ... Cubans heartened by possible reversal of 3-D ban |
AFP | Man Who Admits Hijacking Plane To Cuba Pleads Not Guilty In Miami Court Fox News Latino A man who admitted having hijacked an airliner from the U.S. to Cuba almost two decades ago pleaded not guilty in a Miami courtroom on Wednesday to federal air piracy charges. William Potts has said in interviews he decided to return from Cuba last ... Man charged in 1984 hijacking to Cuba pleads not guilty Ex-Black Panther pleads not guilty in 1984 Cuba hijacking Black Panther, back from Cuba, pleads not guilty to hijacking |
Tough Call: Sketches Under The Sun Bahamas Tribune Over centuries they had migrated north from Venezuela to the greater Antilles, where they created the Taino culture, arriving at the end of their journey in the Bahamas about 600 AD. It is thought that some 40,000 ... But in the 1860s tourism became an ... |
Geo-Located Tweets Reveal International Patterns of Human Travel MIT Technology Review Tweeters here are less mobile than those in Indonesia, Venezuela, Saudi Arabia and indeed everywhere else. ... In the end, they compared their results with global tourism statistics and say there was a close enough correlation to validate their results. |
Christian Science Monitor | Venezuela to businesses: Everything must go - or else. Christian Science Monitor Alan Highton, a middle-aged Barbadian who emigrated to Venezuela 30 years ago, says he's ready for extreme measures should the government attempt to expropriate the small tourism business 20 hours from Caracas that he's spent years building up. |
Cuba reconsiders ban on home cinemas and video game salons Globalnews.ca “It's extraordinary because the government made a very clear decision, and now it seems it's being walked back,” said Philip Peters, a longtime Cuba analyst and president of the Cuba Research Center. “That's not something that happens every day.”. |
Havana Times | Cuba Elected to UN Human Rights Council Havana Times HAVANA TIMES – The General Assembly of the United Nations elected Cuba along with 13 other nations to join the Human Rights Council for the coming period. The Council will begin its functions in 2014 with 13 countries from Africa , 13 from Asia ... Cuba and Mexico Among 14 New Members of UNHRC Cuba says election to UN Human Rights Council 'a new victory' for the people Cuba Elected Member of UN Human Rights Council |
Printmaking experience in Cuba inspires graduate student Red and Black Rather than staying in Athens for the summer, Mike Levine, a third year masters of fine arts candidate from Glastonbury, Conn., took his art to Cuba in order to expand his repertoire as a printmaker. “I got into printmaking at my undergrad university ... |
China's Latin America presence not a threat: US official Global Times The United States does not see China's increasing engagement in Latin America as a threat and the two countries' presence in the region is not a zero-sum game, a US official said in Beijing on Wednesday. Roberta Jacobson, Assistant Secretary of State ... |
Canadian visas send the wrong message to Mexico The Globe and Mail If it were, people would be using that claim from dozens of countries around the world, including (in this hemisphere) Venezuela, Brazil and some of the Central American countries where murder rates are higher than in Mexico. Nor were Mexicans' claims ... |
Garbage Piling Up in Madrid Wall Street Journal On Tuesday a couple of tourists from Venezuela visiting Madrid's dirty downtown said they had to point their cameras upward to avoid capturing images of the filth around them. Madrileños, as the city's 3.3 million residents are known, seemed ... |
Cuban dissidents enthusiastic after meeting with Obama Cuba Headlines At that meeting, Obama said that he had begun to see changes in Cuba and added that the United States needs to be "creative" in its relationship with the Caribbean island. Back in Cuba, Soler, the leader of the Ladies in White dissident group, told Efe ... Fabiola Santiago |
The Guardian (blog) | Young Latin Americans embrace the internet – and start shopping The Guardian (blog) Young populations enthusiastically embracing mobile technology are giving Latin America the potential to become a digital El Dorado as online retailing begins to take off. Recent figures suggest that online retail sales growth is outstripping more ... |
Cuban leaders eye new port as economic lifeline Las Vegas Sun Simply swapping one port for another, however, won't be enough to right Cuba's rickety economy, which relies heavily on food and other imports while making most of its foreign income from tourism, nickel mining and the export of services such as tens ... |
Cuba's Jardines del Rey Resort Celebrates 20th Anniversary Prensa Latina 12 de noviembre de 2013, 18:28Ciego de Avila, Cuba, Nov 12 (Prensa Latina) Jardines del Rey, one of Cuba's most popular tourist destinations, is celebrating two decades of operations, during which it has received 3.5 million visitors. Located in the ... |
