Mayor of Rotorua confirms interest in promoting ties with Cuba
March 9, 2017. - During a meeting with Cuban Ambassador Mario Alzugaray, Rotorua Mayor Steve Chadwick confirmed her city's interest in promoting closer ties with Cuba. The meeting took place within the framework of the celebration of the Aotearoa Cuba Festival, an event that brings together core representation of Cuban music and dance in New Zealand.
Cuban rhythms give tropical flare to dancing festival in New Zealand
Rotorua, March 5, 2017.- With the presence of more than a dozen Cuban artists based in the South Pacific, took place the 2017 edition of the Aotearoa Cuba Festival. Enthusiasts and followers of Cuban music in New Zealand gathered in Rotorua, an eminently touristic city famous for its geothermal activity and its innumerable geysers.
Listen to Cuban Ambassadors Interview with Free FM
On February 27th, Ambassador Mario Alzugaray gave an interview to Radio FM program Turn Left with Craig Wills. Listen to the interview in the following link.
http://www.accessradio.org/player.aspx?pid=faac03df-a915-46dd-8bde-f4360...
The Association of Caribbean States looking to strengthen cooperation
In the lead up to the First Association of Caribbean States (ACS-AEC) Cooperation Conference, Cubaminrex took the opportunity to speak exclusively with Carlos Rafael Zamora Rodríguez, Cuban Foreign Ministry interim director general for Latin America and the Caribbean
Rotarians in Wellington shows sympathy for Cuba
Wellington, February 15, 2016. Members of the Rotary Club in Plimmerton and Lower Hutt showed satisfaction at the prospect of expanding their knowledge on Cuba, a geographically distant country that nevertheless shares with New Zealand several common elements, given by their island nation condition.
The opportunity was the result a couple of presentations by Cuban ambassador, Mario Alzugaray, which covered the central elements of the history of his country, as well as the current situation and development prospects of the Caribbean nation.