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Juanes Concert On Without Sponsors

Posted By the Havana Times editor On August 31, 2009 @ 4:47 pm In Music, Recent Posts, Updates | No Comments

Juanes Peace Concert in Havana is set for September 20. Photo: Caridad

HAVANA TIMES, Aug. 31 - Colombian singer Juanes will not have foreign sponsors for his Sept. 20 Peace Concert in the Cuban capital, due to “tremendous pressure” surrounding the project, informed IPS on Monday.

Cuban artists Silvio Rodriguez, Amaury Perez, Carlos Varela, Van Van and Equis Alfonso are planning to represent Cuba on the same venue at the Plaza of the Revolution before an expected crowd of several hundred thousand.

Other guest foreign artists and bands expected to perform are Jovanotti, Hierbabuena, Calle 13, Olga Tañon and Julieta Venegas, noted IPS quoting Spain’s El Pais daily.

As the concert nears, EASA, a Costa Rican travel agency, is offering a tourist package for the “Juanes in Cuba” event with flights, lodging, a tour of the capital and transportation to the concert, reported the El Nuevo Herald of Miami.

For more on the Juanes Concert in Cuba See:

[1] Joanes Cuba Concert Three Weeks Away

[2] Joanes Cuba Concert Stirs Miami Pot

[3] Joanes to Twitter in Havana Despite Exiles

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[1] Joanes Cuba Concert Three Weeks Away: http://www.havanatimes.org/?p=13179
[2] Joanes Cuba Concert Stirs Miami Pot: http://www.havanatimes.org/?p=12656
[3] Joanes to Twitter in Havana Despite Exiles: http://www.havanatimes.org/?p=13004

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Dear friends,

 I wanted to thank you for your work and support to make the 20th Pastors for Peace Caravan to Cuba a success. 

We had about 60 folks attend our delicious rice and beans dinner prepared by our own members! We raised close to $1,000 (including the $200 pledged from our Treasury). Nancy, thanks for the rice; Marina for the salad, Michael for the drinks, Francine for the desserts, Ray for getting the utensils and for agreeing to MC the program, Millie for the CD's of Cuban music. Thanks also to Bette Hoover for opening her home for a bunch of the Caravanistas. We sent them off late this morning, after feeding them some healthy and not so healthy food. It was great to be a part of this travel challenge.

 Let Cuba Live!!

 Leslie

Thanks for joining us to welcome the “caravanistas” on their way to Cuba.They will challenge the U.S. blockade by bringing humanitarian aid, solidarity, and friendship to our friends in Cuba .

The event was Co-sponsored by:Howard County Friends of Latin America (HoCoFoLA), the Baltimore-Matanzas Sister City Association and the Maryland-Cuba Sister City and The Maryland-Cuba Friendship Coalition.

In Ecuador, High Stakes in Case Against Chevron

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By Juan Forero
Washington Post Foreign Service
Tuesday, April 28, 2009

LAGO AGRIO, Ecuador -- Deep in the northern Ecuadoran rain forest, next to pits filled with noxious sludge, a lawyer on his very first case argued that a U.S. oil company had deliberately fouled a swath of jungle nearly the size of Delaware during two decades of production.

Wearing a straw hat for the recent outdoor hearing, Pablo Fajardo was delivering the final arguments in a lawsuit that began in New York in 1993 against Texaco but is wrapping up here against Chevron, which bought Texaco in 2001. The stakes are high -- and so tinged with nationalism that Ecuador's President Rafael Correa has openly sided with the plaintiffs, 48 individuals representing tens of thousands of people in the region.

If the judge rules against Chevron, the company could face the largest damages award ever handed down in an environmental case, dwarfing the $3.9 billion awarded against ExxonMobil for the 1989 spill in Alaska.

A report by a court-appointed team last year concluded that pollution caused mainly by Texaco's Ecuadoran affiliate, Texaco Petroleum, had led to 1,401 cancer deaths in this stretch of Amazonian jungle. The team's leader, Ecuadoran geologist Richard Cabrera, reported finding high levels of toxins in soil and water samples near Texaco's production sites and assessed damages at up to $27.3 billion.

"This is a simple case," said Fajardo, 37, a former oil worker. "We ask, is there damage or not? If there is damage, who pays? And if there is payment, how much and to whom?"

Judge Overturns Florida's Ban on Academic Travel to Cuba

http://chronicle.com/news/index.php?id=5071&utm_source=pm&utm_medium=en

A federal judge has struck down a Florida law that restricts students, faculty members, and researchers at the state’s public colleges and universities from traveling to Cuba and four other countries that the U.S. government considers terrorist states.

The American Civil Liberties Union of Florida had challenged the law in court on behalf of the Faculty Senate at Florida International University, arguing that the statute violated faculty members’ First Amendment rights and impinged on the federal government’s ability to regulate foreign commerce.

The two-year-old law prevents students, professors, and researchers at public universities and community colleges in Florida from using state or federal funds, or private foundation grants administered by their institutions, to travel to Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan, and Syria. Those at private colleges in Florida are forbidden to use state funds for that purpose.

Please join us to welcome members of the 19th Friendshipment Caravan to Cuba

WHEN: Saturday, June 21 at 7:00 PM
WHERE: Baltimore Hostel, 17 W. Mulberry Street

WHAT: Simple Cuban dinner and program

DONATION: $10

For more information, please refer to the flier at this link: Download pastors08.pdf or call 410-366-8818

 

Local sponsors: Maryland-Cuba Friendship Coalition, Baltimore-Matanzas Sister City Association, Howard County Friends of Latin America

IF YOU LIVE IN COLUMBIA, please consider housing one or two members of the caravan the evening of June 21st. They travel with sleeping bags. All they need is space in a nice home and a simple breakfast before the leave the morning of the 22nd! Please respond to Michael Alicea at: bronxny711@verizon.net