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Inhabitants and scientists of Sierra del Rosario, in Pinar del Rio province, work together to preserve a curious exponent of woodpecker, currently scarce in other regions of the country.

Suchel Camacho S.A., Cuba's major perfumes and cosmetics company, contributed with 60 million pesos to the domestic economy in 2007, by making twice their target for the period.

Spanish producing companies are preparing a documentary on the last Cuban slave, Esteban Montejo, who died in 1974 after living 114 years.

The Sucu-suco Festival, dedicated to the Cuban musical genre which identifies the Isle of Youth closed the Week of the Isle of Youth culture recently held.

More than 500, 000 Cuban convertible pesos invested the Association of Agricultural and Forest Technicians (ACTAF) in development projects for the ecological and sustainable urban agriculture.

Several hundred persons turned out last week at Havanas Pabellon Cuba for the presentation of a new Cuban edition of the book One Hundred Years of Solitude by Nobel Laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

The album, named Chiquilín, is the most recent release of the EGREM record company and was presented in Havana at the Kart Marx Theater.

The Computer and Electronics Youth Clubs of Ciego de Ávila increased their services with the inauguration of a digital library. The new facility provides the users with free access to more than 4,800 volumes.

Intellectuals from Cuba have qualified the 2007 as a year of valuable cultural debates, which will have its continuity in the 2008.

The presidents Daniel Ortega, from Nicaragua, and Alexander Lukashenko, from Byelorrussia, sent congratulation messages to the president from Cuba, Fidel Castro, for the 49th anniversary of the triumph of the Revolution.

The driving forces of the biotechnology suggest the expansion in the cultivation of soya bean "as measure for the successful adoption of transgenic technology by the farmers", according to press media.