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An anti-communist militant who fired a bazooka at a Polish freighter walked free with impunity in this sultry subtropical U.S. city, and Cuban Americans favoring closer ties with their homeland could once expect to be firebombed here.

After a top commander admitted this week that there is a hidden prison on an illegal US Navy base in Guantanamo, Cuba, the director of a tireless watchdog group tells Prensa Latina about how it exposes lawless violations of human rights in the alleged War on Terror.

Politics, culture and sports take center stage in Cuba this February, beginning with a Chinese New Year celebration, a coast to coast cycling competition, international jazz festival, mammoth book fair and, yes, the election of the next Cuban president.

An exhibition of stamps was recently inaugurated at the Philatelic Association of Cyprus to commemorate the 155th anniversary of the birth of Cuban National Hero Jose Marti.

The debate on subjects that have been taboo in the Cuban society, such as the transsexualism, the homosexuality and the family violence, made the difference in the Regional Workshop Gender and Communication that was carried out in this eastern province of Las Tunas, to 670 kilometers to the east of Havana.

Organizers of the 6th University World Forum 2008 are getting ready to meet over 4000 delegates from 75 countries on Monday.

Cuba and Mexico will exchange experience in university education during the eleventh meeting of university rectors from both nations to be held today.

India will help promote Latin American culture with the 1st Latin American Film Festival at the Old Studio theater of the Media Communications Research Center (CICM).

Cuban television revealed an official call to set up the Peoples' Power National Assembly February 24 and start a new Legislature.

The Provincial Assembly of Peoples Power and the Cuban Communist Party in this province granted the distinction "Huésped de Honor" (Honorable Guest) to Michelle Claverie - member of French-Cuban Friendship Association in Toulouse - as recognition to her solidary work with Cuba and the Cuban Five.

From a danzón to a symphony, according to your whim, in the paintings Diana Balboa shows us in her exhibition "Diapasón", open till March at La Acacia Gallery, in Havana.

It will be represented at the event in Havana by a delegation of more than 200 people, including some 50 writers.

Organizers of the 11th Congress of High School Students (FEEM) invited Cuban President Fidel Castro and First Vice president Raul Castro as honor delegates.

The documentary "Hombres sobre cubierta" (Men on deck), based on a trip made by singer-songwriter Silvio Rodriguez to Playa Giron, will be screened during the seventh New Cuban Filmmakers Festival to take place from February 26 to March 2.