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No olvido cuando, en 1979, recién estrenado en la vida periodística y laboral (que no eran exactamente lo mismo), el Centro de Información del Instituto Cubano del Arte e Industria Cinematográficos (ICAIC) me pidió colaborar con un evento que debutaba: el Primer Festival Internacional del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano.

La biotecnología de cubana, concebida, creada e impulsada por el líder de la Revolución, Fidel Castro, realiza desde hoy en esta capital su congreso Agrobiotecnología 2008 para debatir los más recientes avances científicos en esa rama.

The Buenos Aires municipality of Lujan hold an meeting marking the first graduation of 25 people who learned how to read and write with the Cuban method Yo Si Puedo (Yes, I Can), as part of a program that started in July.

Cuban Higher Education Minister Juan Vela concludes a five-day official visit to Angola. There he met with several government officials and toured across the country.

Carlos Lage Davila, vice-president of Cuba, traveled several economic and social institutions of the eastern province of Las Tunas, affected by the last natural disasters and appreciated how much the territory has advanced as regards recovery.

Cuba will begin in 2009 the production of contact lenses of permeable gas, a modern technique that improves the quality of the patients’ vision.

The EXPOHOLGUIN Group convened to the 10th Holguin Trade Fair-2009, to take place in the Exhibition Center in this city from January 27 to 31, to raise awareness of the commercial potential and the impact of improved quality.

For the first time the Fair will be dedicated to a province, in this case to Sancti Spiritus, that has two of the first towns created by the Spanish colonizers in Cuba: the city of Sancti Spiritus and Trinidad, which historic centre and its Valle de los Ingenios are declared by UNESCO as Cultural Patrimony of Mankind.

About ten proposals of Cuban designers in the category of Graphic, Industrial and Fashion are representing the island in the I Iberian American biennial Exhibition, to be held until the next 15th of February in Madrid.

A glowing Raúl Castro, Cuban president, strolled arm in arm with Dmitry Medvedev, his Russian counterpart, through the restored colonial district of Havana late last week, topping off a remarkable diplomatic effort by Moscow to mend relations with its former cold war ally.

La solidez científica y ética de los investigadores del Panel Intergubernamental para el Cambio Climático —entre ellos 12 cubanos—, los hizo merecedores, junto con el ex vicepresidente norteamericano Al Gore, del Premio Nobel de la Paz 2007

En un acto sin precedentes en la historia fue elevado a la gloria de los altares en Camagüey el beato Olallo.