Cuban scientist, Roger Vega, expert on climate change and agriculture was elected vice president of the International Society of Agricultural Meteorology.
Archive - Jan 5, 2009
In Cuba: Van Van Still in the Party
This year 2009 comes for Cubans as a year of very special birthday, opening with the most important of the anniversaries: the half century of the Revolution that has changed all our lives and it will close in December with the 40th birthday of an emblematic Cuban band of popular music: Los Van Van.
Submitted by nesy on Mon, 2009-01-05 14:55.
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In Cuba: José Martí Art Instructors Brigade in 50th Anniversary Guerilla
The José Martí Art Instructors Brigade (BIAJM in Spanish) is undertaking until next January 8th, 2009 one of the greatest cultural routes of these last five years since that movement was constituted: the 50th Anniversary Brigade.
Submitted by nesy on Mon, 2009-01-05 14:33.
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Cuba to let construction of pvt homes
Cubans will be permitted to build their own homes and do so using private funds, President Raul Castro announced on Sunday, in the latest reforms to back off the hardline communism of the past five decades.
Submitted by nesy on Mon, 2009-01-05 14:23.
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Announcing 7th International Humberto Solás Low-Budget Cinema Festival
It will not be enough to produce a liberating and independent cinema in the face of market pressures and its corresponding ideologies; it will not be enough that we produce works of identity, sometimes breaking the rules and experimental or often within the golden rules of dramatic writing or that drown us in the messianic role of forerunners.
Submitted by nesy on Mon, 2009-01-05 14:11.
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Novelties in the Cubadisco 2009 award
In its XIII edition, expected to take place from May 16 to 24, 2009, Cubadisco will have Puerto Rico as its Guest of Honor, a country to which we are linked through historic and cultural links, it will be dedicated to “Music and Children” and we will deal with different themes related to the “Southern Music.”
Submitted by nesy on Mon, 2009-01-05 14:11.
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More than 400 proposals in the next Havana Biennial
More than 400 proposals from 32 countries are being analyzed by specialists from the Wifredo Lam Contemporary Art Center, who are already working on the preparation of the X Havana Biennale, which will be 25 years old next year.
Submitted by nesy on Mon, 2009-01-05 14:05.
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Aumentan producciones de ganado menor en Ciego de Ávila, Cuba
Con las ventas al Estado de 46 000 litros de leche de cabra y más de 300 toneladas de carne ovina y caprina, los productores avileños de ganado menor sobrecumplieron sus planes del año.
Submitted by nesy on Mon, 2009-01-05 03:37.
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La producción de la medicina natural en el oriente de Cuba
La provincia de Guantánamo, en la zona oriental de Cuba, alcanzó en el 2008 una producción superior a los dos millones de frascos de fármacos naturales.
Submitted by nesy on Mon, 2009-01-05 03:36.
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El litoral de la ciénaga de Zapata es el mayor y mejor conservado humedal del Caribe insular
El litoral de la ciénaga de Zapata, mayor y mejor conservado humedal del Caribe insular, aparece salpicado por tramos de bahías en miniaturas denominadas caletas.
Submitted by nesy on Mon, 2009-01-05 03:19.
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Sol Meliá en Cuba alista ofertas para el 2009
La cadena española Sol Meliá, con amplia presencia en Cuba, alista sus ofertas para enfrentar la demanda del sector turístico durante el 2009 en la isla.
Submitted by nesy on Mon, 2009-01-05 03:09.
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Gobierno teme a nueva administración en EE.UU. afirma opositor
El gobierno cubano teme "a lo que puede significar una administración distinta en los Estados Unidos a las administraciones anteriores", sostuvo Manuel Cuesta, representante del opositor Arco Progresista, un grupo de tendencia socialdemócrata.
Submitted by nesy on Mon, 2009-01-05 03:03.
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Government fears new U.S. administration, affirms opposition member
The Cuban government fears “what an administration in the United States that is different from the previous administrations could mean”, said Manuel Cuesta, representative of the opposition Arco Progresista, a group with a social-democratic leaning.
Submitted by nesy on Mon, 2009-01-05 02:34.
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Sol Meliá Cuba Prepares 2009 Offers
The Spanish hotel chain Sol Meliá is preparing its 2009 offers in Cuba to meet the demand from the tourist sector.
Submitted by nesy on Mon, 2009-01-05 02:27.
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Panamanian President Reiterates Friendship Relations with Cuba
After arriving in this capital city on Saturday, Panama 's President Martin Torrijos said he came to reiterate bilateral friendship relations with Cuba on the occasion of the 50th Anniversary of the Revolution.
Submitted by nesy on Mon, 2009-01-05 02:27.
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