| Sun 5 Sep 2010 |
The Hardest Life: Surviving Cuban Jail
Newsvine | During their seven years in Cuban prisons, former prisoners say they were confined to tiny windowless cells, fed inedible food and abused psychologically. | ... |
Censored News: BP refinery releases toxics, wasted billions in Iraq, CIA secretly funds Afghans
The Examiner | Below are key excerpts of important news articles which include revealing information on the uncontrolled release of tons of toxic chemicals at a BP refinery, the "waste" of billions of dollars by US contractors in Iraq, reports of secret payments ... |
Father of Senate Candidate Rubio Dies
Yahoo Daily News | The father of Marco Rubio, the Republican Senate candidate in Florida, died Saturday night, Rubio's campaign announced. He was 83. | Mario Rubio had been suffering from emphysema and lung cancer. He died in a Miami hospital with his wife of 61 ... |
Chile marks 40th anniversary of election of left-wing icon Allende
m&c | Santiago de Chile - Chile observed Saturday's 40th anniversary of the presidential election of Salvador Allende, who was the first Marxist national leader in Latin America to take power by democratic means. | He squeaked into offi... |
Remembering the 2010 Baseball season
Toledo Blade More than a half million people. | Fifty seven Mud Hens. | Who knows how many hot dogs. | Gallon after gallon of beer. | Crystal Bowersox, Dean Cain, and one phenom from Cuba. | With another season almost in the books for the hometown team at Fifth T... |
Chavez denies new Venezuelan food card leading to rationing, US may face similar situations
The Examiner | The people of Venezuela are having a bit of trouble believing President Hugo Chavez when he says that food cards won’t be used for rationing. Their skepticism is anything but irrational. Over the past year there have been reports of water rationi... |
Irreverent Cuban movie promises zombie revolution
The Guardian | PAUL HAVEN | Associated Press Writer= HAVANA (AP) — What would you do if your entire city was taken over by flesh-eating zombies and communist leaders insisted it was nothing but a plot by U.S-backed dissidents to destabilize the government? | If... |
Cuba's first zombie movie is hoped to liven things up in the nation
The Dallas Morning News | HAVANA - What would you do if your entire city was taken over by flesh-eating zombies, and communist leaders insisted it was nothing but a plot by U.S-backed dissidents to destabilize the government? | In Havana, Cristian Jauregui, a Mexican makeup... |
Inside Baseball: Rocket-armed Chapman takes baseball by storm
Philadelphia Daily News | By Frank Fitzpatrick | Inquirer Staff Writer | Nothing excites the baseball mythmaking machine like a rocket arm. | And when that arm emerges not from some baseball academy but from the mysterious mists, the myth is enhanced. | Think of Bob Feller,... |
50 years later, 'Pedro Pans' reflect on pivotal Cuba-to-U.S. trip
Philadelphia Daily News | By Michael Matza | Inquirer Staff Writer Maria Josefa Guerra walked to the Pan Am gate amid the hustle and heat of Havana's Jose Marti Airport. It was January 1961. The 10-year-old and three of her siblings were flying alone. | The children - the y... |
Zombies, Cuba: A revolutionary combo for a movie
Denver Post | A makeup artist trains others in applying that zombie look for the film "Juan de los Muertos." ( Javier Galeano, The Associated Press ) | HAVANA — What would you do if your entire city was taken over by flesh-eating zombies and communist lead... |
Little Havana shop owners hope to lure tourists
Herald Tribune | MIAMI - Back in July, Corinna Moebius opened a store that sold locally produced crafts with the hope of drawing in some of the hundreds of tourists that visit Little Havana each week. AC = 1234 | --> | The tourists never came, though, and her savin... |
U.S. cultural exchange opens door to mother-and-son Cuban painters
The Miami Herald | CONCILIATORY ART: `Art opens doors and roads,' Cuban painter Flora Fong says. `It's a conciliatory element, it reaches the soul.' She's exhibiting her work along with her son Li Domínguez Fong, also a painter, at the Coral Gables' Cernuda Ar... |
Cachao in spotlight again on PBS special
The Miami Herald | The master of Cuban bass lives on. Cachao: Uno Más, the Andy Garcia-produced film about Israel ``Cachao'' Lopez, the Cuban bass player and composer who invented the mambo, will air on PBS' American Masters series at 9 p.m. Sept. 20, the firs... |
Resistance to the regime is here to stay
The Miami Herald | So Fidel Castro went back to college. Or, more precisely, to the iconic front steps of the University of Havana, where the hemisphere's longest ruling dictator delivered his first public speech after a four-year hiatus from mass rallies and other p... |
CUBS IN BRIEF: Castro keeps building his case
Chicago Sun-Times | Starlin Castro continues to make a case for the Rookie of the Year Award. On Saturday, he had a single and double to raise his average to .321, which ranks third in the National League. | Castro, 20, is the first Cubs rookie to have six consecutive... |
Europe has jobs - for dancers and sheepshearers
The Boston Globe | LONDON - Sheepshearers for Britain, judo teachers for Spain, goldsmiths for Holland. European nations are finding some surprising gaps in their job markets, and competing to woo overseas workers with in-demand skills. | Nations across the continent... |
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