US Secretly Built 'Cuban Twitter' NewsFactor Network An investigation has revealed that an Obama administration project to create a "Cuban Twitter" sought to evade Cuba's stranglehold on the Internet with a primitive social media platform. Yet its users were neither aware it was created by a U.S. agency ... |
Calgary Herald | Mobsters' playground reborn as tourist-friendly hotel in Havana Calgary Herald Its rebirth is part of Cuba's latest bid to trade on its colourful pre-Communist past and attract tourist dollars to fund its socialist present. “It's a feeling of that era (at the Capri). I think in Cuba you feel that in general,” said Roberto ... |
Cuba's tourist arrivals up 7 pct in first 2 months of 2014 La prensa The Caribbean island earned $1.8 billion last year from tourism, its second-leading source of foreign exchange after services exports. International tourist arrivals to Cuba rose 7 percent annually in January and February to 636,146 travelers ... |
home calendar chinese finance in latin america: what happened in 2013? US-China Institute This event will coincide with the launch of an updated version of the Dialogue's online China and Latin America Finance Database, which is produced in collaboration with Global Economic Governance Initiative (GEGI) at Boston University. Our session ... |
Latin America Green News: wildfire controlled in Chile, energy saved in Costa ... Natural Resources Defense Council (blog) Latin America Green News is a selection of weekly news highlights about environmental and energy issues in Latin America. March 31st – April 4th, 2014. Chile. Authorities brought the wildfire that started on March 26th in Chile's Patagonian region of ... |
Social Media in Latin America: Brazil's Campaign Against Violence Toward ... Huffington Post The Internet has given new meaning to the notion that Latin Americans love to connect. The region has the fastest growing Internet population in the world and 97 percent of its users are on social media platforms. By comparison, in the U.S. only 67 ... |
The Idaho Statesman | Cuba's official media abuzz over 'secret Twitter' The Idaho Statesman The project, dubbed "ZunZuneo," slang for a Cuban hummingbird's tweet, lasted more than two years and drew tens of thousands of subscribers and sought to evade Cuba's stranglehold on the Internet with a primitive social media platform. First, the ... |
New Yorker (blog) | The Dangerous Absurdity of the Secret “Cuban Twitter” New Yorker (blog) An eye-catching A.P. story, published Thursday, revealed that, in 2010, the United States Agency for International Development (U.S.A.I.D.) covertly deployed a social-media program in Cuba in the hope of bringing about a Cuban Spring. The network ... |
Toronto Star | Will we lose our monarchs? The Recorder Every year, hundreds of millions of monarch butterflies — each so light that 50 together weigh barely an ounce — find their way on what may be the world's longest insect migration, traveling the length of North America to pass the winter in central ... The Butterfly Effect: Do Monarchs' Woes Signal Broader Problems? |
US Secretly Built 'Cuban Twitter' To Stir Unrest NewsFactor Network An investigation has revealed that an Obama administration project to create a "Cuban Twitter" sought to evade Cuba's stranglehold on the Internet with a primitive social media platform. Yet its users were neither aware it was created by a U.S. agency ... |
AP News in Brief at 5:58 p.m. EDT Kansas.com 1 speech in which President Raul Castro warned of "attempts to subtly introduce platforms for neoliberal thought and for the restoration of neocolonial capitalism." "Castro's denunciations of the U.S. government's destabilizing attempts against Cuba ... |
Raul Meets with the President of the Investigative Committee of the Russian ... Radio Cadena Agramonet Havana, Cuba, Apr 4.- The President of the councils of State and Ministers, Army General Raul Castro, met on Thursday afternoon with Alexander Ivanovich Bastrykin, President of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, who is on a visit to ... Cuban President Meets Top Russian Official |
Chatham Daily News | Hemingway put Cuba on the map Chatham Daily News Cuba, next to Key West, Fla., was one of Ernest Hemingway's favourite haunts and a place where he did a great deal of deep-sea fishing aboard his boat called Pilar. There are numerous photos of the writer hauling in huge fish while strapped into the ... |
US created Twitter-like service in Cuba, denies fomenting unrest Chicago Tribune WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government created a service similar to Twitter in Cuba in a "discreet" operation intended to promote democracy on the communist-ruled island, officials said on Thursday, but denied that the $1.2 million effort was aimed ... |
Cuban Art News | Our Girl in Havana: Cuba Reading List Huffington Post Cuba is ripe with stories; it has a history so utterly unique and dramatic that many people both Cuban and otherwise have brought its past to life with stunning and compelling narratives. There is no more immersive way to experience a country without ... Greek Film Festival for the First Time in Cuba |
Social Media in Latin America: Brazil's Campaign Against Violence Toward ... Huffington Post The Internet has given new meaning to the notion that Latin Americans love to connect. The region has the fastest growing Internet population in the world and 97 percent of its users are on social media platforms. By comparison, in the U.S. only 67 ... |
BSUR launches in Latin America with São Paulo office CampaignLive BSUR, the independent agency with offices in Amsterdam and Shanghai, has set up camp in Latin America with the opening of an office in the creative hub of São Paulo in Brazil. Jan Rijkenberg: the chief executive of BSUR. The agency will be headed by ... |
Latin America wants independence from 'selfish policy of US' - political analyst The Voice of Russia The inefficiency of the US betting on the monopolar setup and the global hegemony is best demonstrated on the example of Latin America. As in many other parts of the world, Washington's aggressive policy in that region that did not tolerate any ... |
$1 billion sovereign debt issue could buy Costa Rica time to fix fiscal woes Tico Times Ayales deflected criticisms, however, observing that other developing countries such as Chile and Mexico have seen similar rises and that Costa Rica is not the only emerging market paying more money to borrow. Max Soto, director of the University of ... |
Why Formula One Has Races In Eight Of The Ten Countries With The Highest GDP Forbes Nevertheless, there are notable omissions such as France, Mexico and South Africa. This is what seems to make it surprising that a small state such as Bahrain has a Grand Prix. In fact there is a very good reason for ... It is therefore perhaps no ... |
Radio Rebelde | Raúl Castro recibe a titular del Comité de Investigaciones de Rusia Últimas Noticias ÚN | EFE.- El presidente cubano, Raúl Castro, recibió este jueves a Alexander I. Bastrykin, titular del Comité de Investigaciones de Rusia, ente encargado de las principales indagaciones criminales en ese país, quien se encuentra de visita en la isla ... Se reúne Raúl Castro con dirigente ruso Recibe Raúl Castro a titular del Comité de Investigaciones de Rusia |
KCKCC Jazz Band raising money for Cuba trip The Kansas City Kansan In addition to attending the festival, the jazz band will have the opportunity to take a guided tour of the UNESCO World Heritage Site and the Havana Historical Centre; tour Cuba's National Museum of Fine Arts; visit the Institute Superior de Arte, the ... |
Cuba's tourist arrivals up 7 pct in first 2 months of 2014 Fox News Latino International tourist arrivals to Cuba rose 7 percent annually in January and February to 636,146 travelers, accounting for 21 percent of the 3 million visitors the government expects to receive this year. The number of foreign visitors in the year's ... |
SFGate | Cuba's Official Media Abuzz Over 'Secret Twitter' ABC News Revelations of a secret U.S. government program to set up a cellphone-based social network in Cuba are being trumpeted in the island's official media as proof of Havana's repeated allegations that Washington is waging a "cyber-war" to try to stir up ... Persistent US Efforts to Destabilize Cuba Denounced Spanish Company Willing to Report on anti Cuban network |
Forbes | Why The U.S. Government's Fake 'Cuban Twitter' Service Failed Forbes A more fundamental failure hit ZunZuneo, a social-change project in Cuba that the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) quietly created in 2009. The so-called “Cuban Twitter” shut down three years later when it failed to survive without ... |
Cuba's tourist arrivals up 7 pct in first 2 months of 2014 GlobalPost International tourist arrivals to Cuba rose 7 percent annually in January and February to 636,146 travelers, accounting for 21 percent of the 3 million visitors the government expects to receive this year. The number of foreign visitors in the year's ... |
Sol Kerzner out as Dubai buys 'significant' stake in Kerzner International BDlive Kerzner International Holdings operates globally under the One&Only and Atlantis brands — significantly in Dubai, with three resorts, along with two in the Bahamas and others in Mauritius, the Maldives, Mexico, South Africa and soon Australia. Debt ... |
