Salsa World Congress Announces Press Conference

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (ots-PRNewswire) - On Wednesday, April 14, via simultaneous satellite transmission from Puerto Rico to more than 30 countries and major cities worldwide, the Congreso Mundial de la Salsa (Salsa World Congress) will hold a press conference gathering more than one thousand participants from several nationalities. The international event will take place in the Tropicoro Hall at the Hotel San Juan, in San Juan. The organizing committee extends this invitation to the foreign press, requesting them to join this unprecedented broadcast from the Island of Enchantment. World-renowned and award-winning Salsa celebrities and dancers will attend the press conference, joined by top Bacardi executives, the event's sponsor, and by the participating countries' consular representatives in San Juan. The Salsa World Congress is the only convention organized for professional dancers and lovers of this tropical genre. This year, the congress has taken a higher profile with the creation of the World Tour, which will visit cities in Asia, Europe, the United States, Central and South America, and the Caribbean. The satellite transmission will take place on Thursday, April 15, 1999. The satellite information is as follows: Free Signal Worldwide. Satellite: GE 2, Transponder 18, Analog. USA Domestic Feed: April 15, 1999, 3:00 p.m. Miami Time Re-Feed: April 16, 1999, 9:00 a.m. Miami time Satellite: Intelsat 806, L-Band: 1301 FEC: 3/4, Latin America, North Europe Feed: April 15, 1999, 9:00 p.m., Paris Time Re-Feed: April 16, 1999, 3:00 p.m. Paris Time For more information on the transmission, please contact: jesus_espinoza@hotmail.com. ots Original Text Service: Congreso Mundial de la Salsa Internet: http://www.newsaktuell.de Contact: Richard Goenaga or Damarisse Martinez, both from Congreso Mundial de la Salsa, 787-648-5645, 7878-484-0503 or 787-274-1601, or e- mail, salsacongress@yahoo.com Subscribers please note that material bearing the slug "PROTEXT" is not part of CTK's news service and is not to be published under the "CTK" slug. Protext is a commercial service providing distribution of press releases from clients, who are identified in the text of Protext reports and who bear full responsibility for their contents. PROTEXT