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Cuban First Vice President Jose Ramon Machado Ventura met in Peru

Havana News - 5 hours 15 min ago
Cuban First Vice President Jose Ramon Machado Ventura met in this capital with Cyprus President Demetris Christofias, and Paraguay's President-Elect Fernando Lugo.

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School Ship ‘Capitan Miranda’ of Uruguayan Navy will Visit Cuba

Havana News - 5 hours 22 min ago
The Ministry of the Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces (MINFAR) announced on Friday that the ‘Capitan Miranda’ School Sailing Ship of the Uruguayan Navy will arrive in Cuba on Saturday for an official visit until May 27th.

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Cuba’s National Statistics Office presented a new publication Thursday entitled Cuba’s Environmental Panorama 2007

Havana News - 5 hours 30 min ago
Cuba’s National Statistics Office presented a new publication Thursday entitled Cuba’s Environmental Panorama 2007 as part of activities leading up to World Environment Day on June 5.

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Brazilian Troupe at Havana’s Theater Season

Havana News - 5 hours 36 min ago
The exquisite sensitivity and humor of circus performance was brought to Havana’s Mella Theater by Brazil’s Udi Grudi Comic Musical Theater.

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Cuban pianist Robertico Carcasses: Five Years of Timba-Funk

Havana News - 5 hours 43 min ago
Last week, Cuban pianist Robertico Carcasses celebrated five years at the helm of the Interactivo project that mixes jazz, rock and rap; for which he deserves to be called a pioneer of timba-funk.

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Uxi, a Cuban magazine dedicated to Free Software and Open Codes by the University of Information Sciences

Havana News - 5 hours 47 min ago
Uxi is the name of a Cuban magazine with an electronic format published by the Universidad en las Ciencias Informáticas (University of Information Sciences) (UCI in Spanish), which is accessed free of charge and its contents are in Spanish.

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"Love in Times of Cholera" of Garcia Marquez Novel on Film in Havana, Cuba

Havana News - Fri, 2008-05-16 12:36
The version for the big screen of the novel "El amor en los tiempos del colera" (Love in Times of Cholera) by Colombian writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez, 1982 Nobel Literature Prize, attracts the attention of film buffs in Havana.

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In Havana, Cuba: Cuban Translators Hold Symposium

Havana News - Fri, 2008-05-16 12:21
Veteran and young members of Cuba’s main translating entity: ESTI (Team of Translation and Interpreting Services), are participating in a three-day symposium in Havana as part of activities to commemorate the 35th anniversary of this organization that offers its services in more than 15 languages.

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250 delegates in 2nd World Meeting on Women, Gender and the Law Begins in Havana

Havana News - Fri, 2008-05-16 12:08
The meeting will be attended by some 250 delegates from Cuba and Latin American and European countries.

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Prima Ballerina Assoluta Alicia Alonso to receive the Golden Medal of Merit in Fine Arts from Spain

Havana News - Fri, 2008-05-16 12:01
The famous choreographer and Prima Ballerina Assoluta Alicia Alonso will receive the Gold Medal of Merit in Fine Arts from the Spanish Council of Ministers, which every year awards personalities or entities that contribute to the promotion and spreading of art, culture and artistic heritage.

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Carribean Awards for Cuban Radio

Havana News - Fri, 2008-05-16 11:42
Cuban Radio achieved six awards at the competition called every year by the Caribbean Broadcasting Union (CBU) to stimulate the best productions of that media in the region.

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Cuba will join the celebrations for the International Museum Day

Havana News - Fri, 2008-05-16 11:38
Cuba will join the celebrations for the International Museum Day, next May 18, with different activities in the close to 300 institutions of that sort in the Capital.

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XII Edition of Barriocuento 2008 will last until next Sunday in Cuba

Havana News - Thu, 2008-05-15 11:13
The XII Edition of Barriocuento 2008 will last until next Sunday. The venues of the event will be the Casa de Africa and Casa de la Obra Pía, in Old Havana.

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Committee on Food and Agriculture as the “apple of the National Assembly’s eye” in Cuba

Havana News - Thu, 2008-05-15 10:56
Alarcón added, “We have to really achieve a quantitative and qualitative leap in food production; a leap like those that are remembered for all eternity. In our case, it must represent a great challenge to human capacity, organization, creativeness and responsibility of all the people who have something to do with food security.”

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Havana to Open International Fair Cubadisco 2008 this Weekend

Havana News - Thu, 2008-05-15 10:50
Cuban Record Industry hopes to boost the preservation of patrimonial values, forgotten by transnational and which constitutes the greater wealth of regional culture.

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New Cultural Guide Launched at Cuban Tourism Fair

Havana News - Thu, 2008-05-15 10:41
A new Cuban Cultural Guide was launched recently at the 28th International Tourism Fair of Havana.

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Cuba and Antigua and Barbuda Sign Memorandum of Understanding

Havana News - Thu, 2008-05-15 10:08
Cuba and Antigua and Barbuda signed on Tuesday a Memorandum of Understanding that will serve as a legal framework for the free eye-surgery program Operation Miracle that has already benefited 1,182 patients from the neighboring Caribbean nation.

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Cuba Takes World Food Crisis Issue to Fifth Latin America-Caribbean-European Union Summit

Havana News - Thu, 2008-05-15 09:57
Cuba requested on Tuesday that the issue of the current world food crisis be included in the agenda of the Fifth Latin America-Caribbean-European Union Summit, whose stage at the level of experts began yesterday in Lima, Peru.

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In the Havana Chinese Quarter

Havana News - Wed, 2008-05-14 10:13
The Chinese Quarter of Havana is more than a group of small and narrow streets situated in the same core of Centro Habana municipality. It is a small city with geographical boundaries in the area around the Aguila and Dragones streets.

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Director of U.S Project Censored Exchanges With Cuban Journalists during Havana Conference

Havana News - Wed, 2008-05-14 09:37
The director of U.S Project Censored, Peter Philips, is in Cuba attending a three-day conference to mark the 50th anniversary of the murder in Havana of Ecuadorian Journalist Carlos Bastidas and Freedom of the Press Day, an event called by UNESCO.

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