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Asociación Cubana de Producción Animal

Founded in 1974, the Cuban Association of Animal Production, (ACPA), services the producers, researchers, teachers and technicians dealing with animal science and husbandry. ACPA encourages sustainable development programs in animal production and industrial processing, working to improve community living standards, strengthen food security, and environmental protection. To further these goals, their activities include both technological and academic research on improving animal production, and practical programs to develop animal production. ACPA’s 400 grassroots organizations disseminate technological research, run training programs and other projects such as breeding centers which provide start-up materials for families to become small animal producers for family consumption, as well as on a cooperative and collective level. Their events include agricultural and livestock fairs and rodeos as well as scientific and technological conferences such as the combined International Commercial Agropastoral Fair and Pan-American Milk Congress held this March, which focused on feeding, reproduction and handling of calves, buffaloes, rabbits, birds, and pigs. ACPA’s projects go beyond animal production, as it strives to addresses the problems in food production brought about by the US embargo and the Special Period on various fronts: urban gardening, organic agriculture, soil management, reforestation, water supply, and even housing construction. In the past ten years, ACPA has developed over 42 projects with NGOs from Europe and Canada.

Contact Information: Teresita Lambrana Alvarez, Secretary of Projects and International Relations, Asociación Cubana de Producción Animal, Calle 10 #351, e/ 15 y 17 Plaza, Vedado, Cuidad de Habana, Código Postal 12300; telephone: 53.7.37.802, 38.159, 30.2375, 30.1482; fax: 53.7.33.5366; dwhhacpa@ip.etecsa.cu.

Instituto Cubano de Amistad con Los Pueblos

The Cuban Institute for Friendship Between People (ICAP) was founded in 1960 to strengthen the bonds of friendship and solidarity between the peoples of the world. From the beginning, ICAP helped coordinate the International Brigades which came from around the world to support Cuba through aid in agriculture, construction and other parts of the economy. Now they continue to facilitate visits and exchanges between friendship organizations. The Institute organizes delegations for international groups to visit Cuba. The Casa de la Amistad, or Friendship House, run by ICAP, organizes social and cultural events and exchanges. ICAP also receives and distributes humanitarian aid from international solidarity groups.

Contact Information: Javier Dominquez Martínez, Head of United States Desk, Instituto Cubano de Amistad con Los Pueblos, Calle 17 #301, e/ H y I, El Vedado, Cuidad de Habana; telephone: 53.7.55.2420, 55.2421; fax: 53.7.33.3185; icap@ceniai.inf.cu; http://www3.cuba.cu/ICAP.

Cuba and the United States: A Chronological History

“Whether one reads it as a history, or keeps it handy as a ready reference,...this is a book that no serious student of U.S.-Cuba relations can afford to be without.”

—Philip Brenner, American University

This chronological history is an invaluable resource for scholars, teachers, journalists, legislators, and anyone interested in international relations, offering an unprecedented vision of US-Cuba relations. Using exceptionally wide research, historian Jane Franklin relates, month by month, the developments involving the two neighboring countries from the 1959 Cuban revolution though 1995. An introductory section chronicles the history of Cuba form the time of the arrival of Christopher Columbus.

Designed to be used in many ways, this book may be read as narrative history or consulted as a reference guide to a wide range of topics. The chronological method establishes historical context, organizes a maximum amount of information, and conveys the interconnectedness of lesser-known occurrences with major developments. Widely-discussed episodes such as the Bay of Pigs invasion or the Missile Crisis are shown to be part of a continuum of events.

Historian Jane Franklin has been a contributing editor to Cuba Update, the journal of the Center for Cuban Studies, since 1979 and was co-editor from 1984 to 1990. In addition to Cuba and the United States, she is author of Cuban Foreign Relations 1959-1982, and co-author of Vietnam and America: A Documented History. She has published numerous articles, poems and film reviews and has lectured extensively about Cuba, Vietnam, Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Panama, and is a frequent commentator about Cuba on radio and television.

420 pages, index, glossary. ISBN 1-875284-92-3. US $21.95/A$29.95/£12.95. (Ocean Press 1997. Order from LPC/InBook, 1436 West Randolph St., Chicago, IL 60607; telephone: 1-800-243-0138; fax: 1-800-334 3892; or through Amazon.com.)