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Hispanic y Latino News :: November 20th, 2009 Edition :: 5 Minutes to Empowerment
Democrats and Republicans deployed their heavy artillery Thursday in a heated congressional hearing to debate a bill seeking to end the travel ban to Cuba.
Part of a Cuban blogger’s essay that advocates lifting the ban on U.S. travel to Cuba was read aloud at a House Foreign Affairs committee hearing. – Yoani Sánchez
CAFÉ TACVBA Bring Their Special 20th Anniversary Tour Back To The United States With Dates Beginning November 19th
Hispanic y Latino News :: November 19th, 2009 Edition :: 5 Minutes to Empowerment
Obama answers top Cuban blogger – Yoani Sanchez
El español Alejandro Sanz, el cubano Jencarlos Canela y el puertorriqueño Victor Manuelle, en ese orden, debutan esta semana en los tres primeros lugares de la lista de Top Latin Albums de Billboard.
The Cuban band Septeto Nacional de Ignacio Piñeiro can legitimately claim to be inventors of salsa. But it last played in the United States when Franklin D. Roosevelt was president, and there was no telling when it might be able to return — until the very slightest hint of a thaw in cultural relations between the United States and Cuba quietly brought the band to New York early this month.
70% of Cuba’s Farmland Threatened by Erosion
Who seriously wants the Cuban trade embargo?
Hispanic y Latino News :: November 18th, 2009 Edition :: 5 Minutes to Empowerment
PODER-ABC* Business Awards Celebrates Leadership Excellence in the Americas
Report: Cuba’s human rights as abused under Raúl Castro as Fidel
Master M.C. Makes Sunset Urban Debut with “Mezclando Estilos”
The Cuban ties that bind, 50 years on – Visiting her father’s homeland under newly relaxed travel restrictions is both invigorating and saddening.
Poll: Cubans ‘frustrated’ over life in Cuba – A poll conducted in Cuba shows residents unhappy with their government and pessimistic about the economy.
Hispanic y Latino News :: November 16th, 2009 Edition :: 5 Minutes to Empowerment
Supporters of tough U.S. sanctions against the Cuban government have given more than $10 million to congressional campaigns over the last seven years
Hispanic y Latino News :: November 13th, 2009 Edition :: 5 Minutes to Empowerment
Fidel Castro’s long goodbye – The ailing former leader of Cuba remains true to his word: ‘I am a revolutionary, and revolutionaries do not retire.’
Cuban blogger’s husband out to avenge her assault – Yoani Sanchez
Hispanic y Latino News :: November 11th, 2009 Edition :: 5 Minutes to Empowerment
Cuban man executed Tuesday for Houston slaying
SEPTETO NACIONAL IGNACIO PIÑEIRO DIRECT FROM CUBA: 2 SHOWS – Thursday November 19th at 8pm & 10:30pm (2 Shows) – NYC
Utilísima Arrives in the United States: A New TV Programming Option for the Hispanic Woman
Hispanic y Latino News :: November 10th, 2009 Edition :: 5 Minutes to Empowerment
The pitcher who helped Cuba defeat the Baltimore Orioles in the United States a decade ago is in stable condition after his face was crushed with a blunt object while trying to stop a fight. -Norge Luis Vera
Photographer’s work helped defuse Cuban Missile Crisis – RIP William B. Ecker
Vatican official seeks more access to Cuban media
Cubans Warily Test Their New Freedom To Criticize
Cuba’s blogosphere has taken on a decidedly harsher face in recent months, an act of online defiance in the face of government retribution.
US State Dept ‘deplores assault’ on Cuban bloggers
Hispanic y Latino News :: November 9th, 2009 Edition :: 5 Minutes to Empowerment
AT&T’S RALPH DE LA VEGA NAMED WORLDWIDE CHAIRMAN OF JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT
Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez detained, beaten on way to march
CNN’s Rick Sanchez Interviews Juanita Castro: “While you were still in Cuba and your brother was beginning a Marxist revolution, you were not only cooperating with the CIA, but you were protecting CIA agents who were inside Cuba at the time.”
OMARA PORTUONDO’S “GRACIAS” WINS THE LATIN GRAMMY FOR BEST CONTEMPORARY TROPICAL ALBUM
CALLE 13 Sweep The LATIN GRAMMY Awards – The Critically Hailed Duo From Puerto Rico Win All Five Awards For Which They Were Nominated
Hispanic y Latino News :: November 6th, 2009 Edition :: 5 Minutes to Empowerment
Miami sports agent who aided in defections freed from jail – Juan Ignacio Hernández Nodar, a Miami sports agent who served 13 years for trying to help Cuban baseball stars defect, will fly home Friday.
Hispanic y Latino News :: November 5th, 2009 Edition :: 5 Minutes to Empowerment
Cuban Tomas Regalado was elected mayor of Miami with a pledge to control spending, limit property-tax increases and curtail development
Hispanic y Latino News/Info :: November 4th, 2009 Edition :: 5 Minutes to Empowerment
Could the U.S.-Cuba Travel Ban End Soon?
Legendary Omara Portuondo to become first Cuban national on stage at Latin Grammys
After 76 years, a return engagement for Cuba’s Septeto Nacional
Hispanic y Latino News/Info :: November 2nd, 2009 Edition :: 5 Minutes to Empowerment
‘Sin Social’, an Independent Latin Film, Recent Winner of the Platinum Reel Award at the Nevada Film Festival, Premiers on November 20, 2009
Ten Thousand Dives Under the Sea – Spotlight on Scuba-Mex Dive Shop in Paamul, Q.R. Mexico
Hispanic y Latino News/Info :: October 28th, 2009 Edition :: 5 Minutes to Empowerment
Statement by Sarah Stephens, Center for Democracy in the Americas, UN Vote on Cuba embargo – After UN Embargo Vote, Obama Should Push Further, Faster on Cuba Policy Reforms
Independent bloggers school opens in Cuba
Hispanic y Latino News/Info :: October 27th, 2009 Edition :: 5 Minutes to Empowerment
The Case of the Cuban Five: American Justice as a Political Weapon
BS&F Partner and ABA President-Elect Stephen N. Zack Named to HISPANIC BUSINESS Magazine’s Top 100 Influentials 2009 List
Hispanic y Latino News/Info :: October 26th, 2009 Edition :: 5 Minutes to Empowerment
U.N. Vote to Condemn (Obama’s?) Embargo on Cuba
Fidel Castro’s younger sister, Juanita, now living in Miami, reveals in a Univisión-Noticias 23 report on her new book that she worked with the CIA while living in Cuba.
Hispanic y Latino News/Info :: October 17th, 2009 :: 5 Minutes to Empowerment
Más mujeres en estructuras de poder de Cuba
Cuba allows U.S. access to jailed dual citizens – While Cuba recently gave a State Department official permission to visit jailed U.S.-Cuban citizens, travel restrictions remain in place.
Sacerdote cubanoamericano es nuevo obispo en Colorado – Fernando Isern
Country of Origin Profiles: Browse detailed demographic and economic profiles of Hispanics in the United States by their countries of origin.
Miami-Beach Florida’s Mayor Matti Herrera Bower’s 19 Day Countdown to Mayoral Re-Election – city’s first female and Cuban-American Mayor
A steep drop in U.S. payments for telephone calls to Cuba may have been caused by Cuban Americans’ growing travel to the island, the U.S. economic crisis or increased Internet communications
MISS TEEN FLORIDA LATINA 2008, SAYDELIS RODRIGUEZ ES ESCOGIDA POR LA ORGANIZACION MISS FLORIDA LATINA COMO LA IMAGEN OFICIAL DE IT COSMETICS
Hispanic y Latino News/Info :: October 14th, 2009 :: 5 Minutes to Empowerment
A small Miami-based company said the U.S. government has given it permission to lay the first optical communications fiber from the U.S. to Cuba. That could drastically cut the cost of calling the island nation and make the Internet more accessible to Cubans.
A Cuban blogger who has become an international sensation for offering frank criticism of her country’s communist system said she was denied government permission Monday to travel to New York to receive a top journalism prize. – Yoani Sanchez
U.S.-Cuba travel picking up steam – Bills in Congress to allow all travel to Cuba are increasingly drawing support among U.S. lawmakers and the public — but they still face an uncertain future.
Faced with a deep recession, Cuba tries socialism lite – scaling back socialism in an attempt to save it
One of the Cuban Five defendants, initially sentenced to life in prison for espionage conspiracy, saw his term reduced to 22 years. The judge rejected an even lighter sentence recommended by prosecutors.
Luis Armando Pena Soltren: Hijacker Arrested At JFK Airport 40 Years After Diverting Plane To Cuba
Hispanic y Latino News/Info :: October 12th, 2009 :: 5 Minutes to Empowerment
Cuban public health authorities reported the first three deaths from the AH1N1 flu virus on the island and said that to date 621 cases of the disease have been confirmed.
Yoani Sánchez: ‘‘Mi vida está en otra Cuba, no en otra parte”
Cuban expatriate Dafnis Prieto shakes up the drum world – arguably the hottest percussionist in jazz and Latin music today
Hispanic y Latino News/Info :: October 9th, 2009 :: 5 Minutes to Empowerment
Yahoo! En Espanol Reveals the Most POPular Searches for September
Jose Luis Rodriguez, President and CEO of Hispanic Information and Telecommunications Network, Inc. Announces the preview and launching of a new television series ‘ENLACE CUBA’
REVOLUCION WINS HISPANIC PUBLIC RELATIONS ASSOCIATION’S CAMPAIGN OF THE YEAR FOR AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION PROGRAM
Cuba loses $149 million annually in agricultural exports due to the 47-year-old U.S. economic embargo against the communist-ruled island, officials said.
Hispanic y Latino News/Info :: October 7th, 2009 :: 5 Minutes to Empowerment
Alex Cuba brings his musical fusion to Chicago
Love child turned critic, a daughter of Fidel Castro told a Widener University audience Monday that lifting 50-year embargoes imposed by the United States would do little to help suffering people in Cuba. – Alina Fernandez
According to Carmelo Mesa, a Cuban economist who’s a visiting professor at Tulane University in the United States, Venezuela bankrolled Cuba to the tune of $9.4 billion last year. This includes $2 billion to take account of the cost of subsidizing Venezuelan oil exports to Cuba. Venezuela sends oil to Cuba at a “preferential” price of just $27 a barrel.
American Bar Association Diversity Commission Names 2010 Spirit of Excellence Awardees including Francisco Angones
Hispanic y Latino News/Info :: October 5th, 2009 :: 5 Minutes to Empowerment
Voting Begins for the MillerCoors 2009 Lider of the Year
Eduardo Matías López Ferrer, abogado cubano residente en México, lleva dos décadas asesorando legalmente y ofreciendo albergue y apoyo a los indocumentados cubanos que llegan al país por diferentes vías
Legal travel to and from Cuba is booming, even though the Obama administration has not officially changed any rules regarding nonfamily travel to the island.
Pianist Alfredo Rodriguez’s journey of note – With enthusiastic backers like Quincy Jones on his side, the young musician made the tough decision to defect from Cuba. Performing at the Bowl’s Gustavo Dudamel concert is just the beginning.
Hispanic y Latino News/Info :: October 2nd, 2009 :: 5 Minutes to Empowerment
Nostalgia Corner: Why the Bolero Was Censored in Cuba
Who’s Really Hurt by America’s Travel Ban to Cuba?
A poll showed that most Cuban-Americans now approve of the concert that Juanes put together in Havana.
Hispanic y Latino News/Info :: September 30th, 2009 :: 5 Minutes to Empowerment
A senior American diplomat has held unannounced, high-level talks in Havana with the Cuban government, three State Department officials told The Associated Press on Tuesday, raising hopes for a thaw in long-icy relations.
U.S. Businesses Court Increasingly Affluent Hispanic Consumers – Companies aim products and services at growing Hispanic population
Hispanic y Latino News/Info :: September 29th, 2009 :: 5 Minutes to Empowerment
