Topic: Jose Marti

Prominent Cuban dissident defiant after detentions

HAVANA (Reuters) - A well-known Cuban dissident vowed on Friday to defy the threat of another arrest after he was detained for the second time in less than 24 hours in central Santa Clara province.Guillermo Farinas, a psychologist and writer, garnered international ...
WEDNESDAY 17 . . MIX: Closing celebration for the fifth annual Latin American Cultural Week with spoken word artist David González, the Pedro...

Santiago de Cuba

Santiago de Cuba,the capital of Oriente province. It lies in a mountainous area on Cuba's southeastern coast, about 470 miles (756 km) southeast of...
Prior to the "Remember the Maine" fervor and the resultant Spanish-American War, however, Cuba's Jose Marti was drumming up support for his Cuban Revolutionary Party wherever he could find it.. Convicted of treasonous acts against the Spanish government in Cuba in ...

There Will Always Be Blood

Benjamin Franklin, Abraham Lincoln, Am- brose Bierce, Mark Twain, even Jose Marti grace the first third of this anthology of fifty pieces. The collective guilt that cements this ritual is summed up by editor Harold Schechter in his introduction. As a sequence ...
Friday Zvi Dance at LaGuardia Performing Arts Center Movie night at Bistro Les Minots - Les Visiteurs International Guitar Night Queens Theatre in the Park Saturday January 23: The Queens Family Room at Queens Museum of Art Continuing Events More art exhibits at ...

Cintio Vitier

Cintio Vitier, Cintio also spelled Cynthio (b. Vitier began as a writer of extremely difficult, hermetic poetry. With the advent of Fidel Castro's revolution, Vitier radically changed his poetic style. Vitier compiled three anthologies of Cuban poetry, and his study Lo ...
The Southern Europe VC market has grown quickly thanks to stock market development and the move towards a single currency. Southern Europe lagged behind its Northern European counterparts when the venture capital phenomenon first reached Europe in the 1970s. Today, however, venture ...

Private equity in Spain - 2001 update

The Spanish private equity market continues to grow, following the record E2.35bn funds raised in 2000. The money now available should be enough to sustain increasing levels of investment throughout the next two years, according to this report by Professor Jose ...

Private equity in Spain 2001

The level of funding for Spanish private equity firms fell in 2001. Investments in start-up companies suffered a sizeable fall, decreasing from 17.8 per cent of overall investments in 2000 to just over half that level last year. Jose Marti provides ...