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According to Prensa Latina news agency, the country has assigned considerable resources to the purchase of new equipment and spare parts.

The head of the Cuban Parliament, Ricardo Alarcon, met in Havana with the President of the Banco Cooperativo de Credito of Argentina (Argentina’s Cooperative Credit Bank), Carlos Heller.

Visiting Panamanian President Martin Torrijos Espino will be officially welcomed on Wednesday during a ceremony at the Palace of the Revolution in the Cuban capital. Torrijos arrived on Tuesday in Havana for an official visit at the invitation of his Cuban counterpart, Raul Castro.

Cubans mark May Day on Thursday with huge celebrations and parades throughout the island under the Slogan ''Unity, Firmness and Victory'', which underscores the full support by the Cuban people to their Socialist Revolution and its leadership, Fidel Castro and Raul Castro.

Havana’s Jose Marti Revolution Square is ready for central celebrations in the capital city with the participation of half a million people, who will stage a march organized by labor organizations, work centers and municipalities.

30 de Noviembre sugar mill, the major in the territory, is now among the first 15 ones in the country that have accomplished the economic plan of the present harvest.

Pictures of the Cuban Five, antiterrorists and political prisoners in the United States, appear included in a mural that was unveiled in the Park of San Pedro de Macorís, Dominican Republic, as part of the Cuban Traveling Book Fair in that nation.

From the 109 000 pensioners and retired persons in this province, 107 156 are current beneficiaries because of an increase in social security pensions, what was recently approved in the Island.

US-based networks broadcast 1,889 hours of programs to the Island through 30 medium and short waves, FM and TV channels every week Cuba Denounces US Radio, TV Aggression

UNESCO’s representative in Cuba Herman Van Hoof, says the use of informatics in Cuba is admirable, speaking at a round table during the International Congress on Information recently concluded in Havana.

World-famous Cuban dancer, Carlos Acosta, dances the lead role in a new ballet inspired by Fiodor Dostoyeski´s novel ‘The Idiot’.

The Cuban flora has inspired artist Jorge Duporté, who has created beautiful stained-glass windows.Duporté, who has a gallery-workshop in the community Las Terrazas, has participated in 50 exhibitions.