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• Arts and Culture
• Asia
• Caribbean
• international
• personalities
• Photography
• 05 / 23 / 2009

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The photo exhibit features Cuban men, women and the elderly, musicians, bakers, acrobats, plumbers, ballet dancers, school children and Navy officers –all immersed in their respective tasks.

Cuba ´s Ambassador José Fernández de Cossío stressed that Salas is at the peak of his artistic career. He emphasized that the exhibit reflects the reality of today´s Cuba .

Dr. Yoshikazu Morita, Rector of the Kyoto University of Foreign Studies, took the opportunity to praise the free, high-quality Cuban health system. He stressed that Cuba has fully demonstrated over the last 50 years what a small, poor and blockaded nation can do to benefit its people.

He noted that Cuba registers significant advances also in the fields of education and sports, which have earned the Caribbean nation well-deserved world prestige.

(Cubarte)