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Representatives of Cuban governmental, political and social organizations are visiting in Bolivia their countrymen and women on internationalist missions there and attend a ceremony for the triumph of the Cuban Revolution on January 1,1959.

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said on Saturday that he decided to drop plans to visit Nicaragua and Cuba. Lula said he would skip the inauguration of Nicaraguan President-elect Daniel Ortega in Nicaragua, and that he would also give up the planned visit to Cuban leader Fidel Castro.

Siglo Veintiuno newspaper elects its Personality of the Year. The solidarity and voluntary assistance provided by Cuban health workers in Guatemala has earned the brigade the 2006 Personality of the Year recognition from the editors, journalists and photographers of Siglo Veintinuno newspaper.

Chinese Health Minister Gao Qiang visited the China-Cuba Friendship Ophthalmologic Hospital in Xining, Qinhai and praised the dedicated work of Cubas medical personnel and the state-of-the-art technology used at the center.

Cuban singer song-writer icon Pablo Milanés termed as "extraordinary" the present time that Latin America leftist wing experiences at the time his recital held in Teatro Nacional de La Habana was over.

Taking a look back at the peoples' cultural traditions contribute to recovering the intangible heritage that relates oral traditions registering popular cultural expressions comprising the living memory essence.

Based on the premise that nobody is left unprotected in Cuba, some 23,790 families received more than 35,500,000 Cuban pesos in social security benefits in the eastern province of Las Tunas in 2006. This represents the largest sum of social benefits ever spent in Las Tunas.

His Excellency the Panamanian Ambassador to Cuba, Anel Omar Rodríguez Barrera visited on Thursday educational establishments in the municipality of Vertientes, some 38 kilometres from Camaguey city.

Vietnam and Cuba are making efforts to bring bilateral economic and trade cooperation on a par with their political relations, Cuban Ambassador to Viet Nam Jesus Aise Sotolongo said.

Haitian President Rene Preval returned to the country Friday from Cuba, where he said doctors told him he did not have prostate cancer. Haitian National Television broadcast images of Preval's arrival at the airport greeting the prime minister, Cabinet members and the police chief as he stepped out of a Cuban jet.

Mid-distance runner Zulia Calatayud and boxer Guillermo Rigondeaux were selected as Best Cuban Female and Male Athletes of 2006

Nickel retained its first place among Cuban exports in 2006, its earnings boosted by unprecedented high prices on the international market, although output was lower than the government had hoped.

Cuban renowned ethnologist Natalia Bolivar said Afro-Cuban religions are a key part of Cuba's national identity and their importance lies in solving human problems.

At least two Cubans continue missing Thursday, after the motorboat in which they were trying to illegally leave the country sank this week, part of a new people s smuggling operation towards the US.

Cuban Culture Minister Abel Prieto said the quantity and quality of existing cultural offers in the country is a priority of his sector in the face of 2007. The idea includes the creation of spaces for all kinds of music lovers, with a program meeting the requirements of each sector, the minister told Prensa Latina.