The 11th Annual Vancouver Latin American Film Festival Shines Spotlight on ... Financial Post The 11th Vancouver Latin American Film Festival (VLAFF), the largest festival of Latin American cinema in Canada, proudly announced that Colombian film will be the spotlight of this year's festival. From August 30 to September 8, filmmakers from ... |
Portraits of Gentle Revolution at Vancouver's Latin American Film Fest TheTyee.ca Now entering its 11th year, Vancouver's Latin American Film Festival kicks off next Thursday and runs through Sept. 8. The fest features films that confront contemporary Latin American issues and politics or were made by Latin American filmmakers, some ... |
Amid Egypt's Chaos, a Glimmer of Economic Hope Businessweek (blog) The perceived riskiness of Egyptian debt, as reflected in the pricing of credit default swaps, is lower than that of Argentina, Greece, Cyprus, Venezuela, Pakistan, and Ukraine. The bottom line: ... Tourism has all but disappeared for the moment. Many ... |
Brazil hires thousands of Cuban doctors to work in needy areas Edmonton Journal Some 30,000 health care professionals are believed to be in Venezuela alone, which provides the island with about 92,000 barrels of oil a day worth an estimated total value of about $3.2 billion a year. All told ... By contrast, tourism, the official ... |
 Havana Times | Brazil defends plan to import physicians from Cuba GlobalPost Brasilia, Aug 22 (EFE).- Brazil's foreign minister on Thursday denied that the government's plan to hire 4,000 Cuban doctors to work in isolated areas has any "ideological aspect." The decision "was taken to improve public services and has no ... Cuba to Send 4000 Doctors to Brazil Brazil to Send Cuban Doctors to Underserved Regions Brazil contracts 4000 Cuban doctors |
 New York Times | In 'Una Noche,' Teenagers Flee Cuba New York Times A bright red sports car, a stripper and knee-length 24-karat gold chains: those accouterments define the sweet life in Miami in the feverish fantasies of Raúl (Dariel Arrechaga), a hotheaded, hormonally overcharged Havana teenager in “Una Noche.” With ... |
 Bloomberg | Taking a Family Vacation in Cuba Bloomberg Cuba is not the first place that comes to mind when you think of a typical family vacation—even when the family, as in our case, is rather creatively defined; in our imagination the country is equal parts Buena Vista Social Club and Our Man in Havana ... |
On Cuba, diamonds, Larry Summers, flying, the University of Arizona, forestry ... The Economist SIR – I enjoyed reading your article about my misfortunes, albeit many months after publication and in the company of fellow inmates at a Cuban high-security prison. I would ask you to correct the impression that you gave in the May 19th 2012 edition ... |
Bloomberg | Taking a Family Vacation in Cuba Bloomberg Most people traveling from Miami to Cuba are family; they are the only U.S. citizens who can make the trip without violating the moth-eaten Trading with the Enemy Act, which says, essentially, that Americans can't spend money in Cuba. They're the ones ... |
Coast Guard Photographer Manages To Find Some Beauty At Guantanamo Bay ... Huffington Post ... Guard Petty Officer 2nd Class Robert Colon at Guantanamo Bay on May 15, 2013. guantanamo bay. A U.S. Coast Guard C-130 Hercules aircraft assigned to Coast Guard Air Station Clearwater, Fla., sits parked on the tarmac in Guant?namo Bay, Cuba. |
Rieder: Al Jazeera America, intriguing new cable player USA TODAY On MSNBC, they were talking about one of those political sideshows that cable loves to obsess over, this one the right's desire to impeach President Obama for whatever. On Fox News Channel, there was a very high-decibel discussion of the charisma of ... |
Bloomberg | Taking a Family Vacation in Cuba Bloomberg Obama won big in Miami. Even Cuban-American hardliners who resist lifting the embargo support attempts to ease travel regulations. Before long Cuba will be a destination like any Caribbean island. And what could be more normal than a family vacation? |
 EFE | Raúl Castro promulga una ley para gestionar los bienes confiscados por delitos ... Diario de Cuba La ley, publicada este jueves en la web de la Gaceta Oficial, está firmada por Raúl Castro. En concreto, busca unificar en una sola norma la "responsabilidad" de las diferentes instituciones estatales ante los bienes ocupados en "procesos ... Cuba aprueba ley para distribuir bienes confiscados por corrupción Cuba promulga ley para gestionar bienes confiscados por corrupción |
 MiamiHerald.com | For dark-skinned Mexicans, taint of discrimination lingers MiamiHerald.com After all, Mexican tourism campaigns promote the nation's multicultural heritage and its heritage as a home of the Aztec and Mayan empires. The nation of 118 million people includes 15.7 million who consider themselves indigenous. Moreover, an ... |
Windows Phone is second most widely used mobile OS in Latin America: IDC NDTV "Reports show an important increase in the positioning of this operating system in Latin America. The market availability of new devices will be a factor in ensuring this trend endures over the next three months," said Oliver Flores, regional manager ... |
Dorel acquires Brazil's Caloi, Latin America's largest bicycle brand Canada NewsWire (press release) It is the largest bicycle brand in Latin America and is the leader in the Brazilian market. The purchase price was a high single digit multiple of Caloi's EBITDA. Sales in 2012 were close to R$273.5 million, a 22% increase over the previous year. The ... |
Brazil hires thousands of Cuban doctors KOB.com Some 30,000 health care professionals are believed to be in Venezuela alone, which provides the island with about 92,000 barrels of oil a day worth an estimated total value of about $3.2 billion a year. All told ... By contrast, tourism, the official ... |
 CTV News | Cuba still battling cholera a year after first cases reported NBCNews.com HAVANA - A year after the first cholera cases in decades were reported in Cuba, the country is still struggling with outbreaks in various provinces, health workers and residents told Reuters on Thursday. On Tuesday the United States issued a health ... US issues warning to travellers to Cuba over cholera US issues 'security message' for travellers to Cuba after 5 foreigners ... Cholera Warning for Cuba Issued by USA |
National Network on Cuba condemns US 'terrorist' bounty on Assata Shakur Workers World This act is doubly scurrilous as it implies that Cuba, a country that has suffered nearly 3,500 deaths from relentless U.S.-based terrorist attacks since its revolution for sovereignty in 1959, harbors “terrorists” because in the 1970s and 80s it gave ... |
Cholera In Cuba: US Travel Advisory Issued, Havana Silent On Risk The Inquisitr Cholera in Cuba has been sickening locals and travelers alike in alarming numbers this summer, with suspicion swirling that reporting on the outbreak has been suppressed to avoid harming tourism in Havana. Despite conflicting reports of Cholera in Cuba ... |
Cholera In Cuba: US Travel Advisory Issued, Havana Silent On Risk The Inquisitr Despite conflicting reports of Cholera in Cuba, the US diplomatic mission in Havana released a Cholera warning to US citizens who may live in or travel to the country advising certain precautions be taken to avoid infection. In the warning, posted in a ... |
US Issues Advisory for Cuba Over Cholera Cases ABC News According to the Pan American Health Organization there have been five confirmed cholera cases "associated with a history of travel to Cuba" in July and August: an Italian, two Venezuelans and two Chileans. At least three of them visited Havana ... |
Cuba: Love with Less Paperwork Havana Times HAVANA TIMES — While nearly 200 thousand people got married in Cuba in 1992, the number barely exceeded 50 thousand in 2012. These figures appear to show that today's generations of Cubans prefer common law partnerships over marriage. |
USA Must End with Double Standards, Priest Says in South Africa Prensa Latina 22 de agosto de 2013, 09:39Pretoria, Aug 22 (Prensa Latina) The US double-standard policy, especially in issues as antiterrorism and regarding Cuba, was questioned today by a South African personality, who said he still keeps hopes for real change. In ... |
EDITORIAL: A scramble for statehood Washington Times Barack Obama once imagined that he was already president of 57 states (and later imagined that Charleston, S.C., and Jacksonville, Fla., were on the Gulf of Mexico), so geography has become fungible. The five unhappy counties in Maryland cite ... |
The 11th Annual Vancouver Latin American Film Festival Shines Spotlight on ... National Post The 11th Vancouver Latin American Film Festival (VLAFF), the largest festival of Latin American cinema in Canada, proudly announced that Colombian film will be the spotlight of this year's festival. From August 30 to September 8, filmmakers from ... |
Havana Times | Brazil hires thousands of Cuban doctors to work in needy areas Washington Post Some 30,000 health care professionals are believed to be in Venezuela alone, which provides the island with about 92,000 barrels of oil a day worth an estimated total value of about $3.2 billion a year. All told ... By contrast, tourism, the official ... Brazil contracts 4000 Cuban doctors |
