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Cuba makes efforts to boost its economy to cope with the current world crisis and, for this, it foresees a larger promotion of its exports and cut its imports substituting them with national made products.

The 19th International Book Fair underway in the central province of Sancti Spiritus was attended Thursday by Cuban Culture Minister Abel Prieto, who corroborated that the event goes beyond its commercial value and is turned into a cultural celebration.

The oldest school for the blind in Cuba in the capital arrived at its 85th year of founding with popular recognition and that has graduated thousands of persons.

The Santiago Álvarez Office from the Cuban Institute of Art and Cinema presented the project named Primavera Documentaries. Project which aims to promote artistic aptitudes towards that genre on children and youngsters of the community.

La provincia de Guantánamo afronta una intensa sequía meteorológica, afirmó Rolando Baza, especialista del Centro Provincial de Meteorología, quien tuvo en cuenta reportes de lluvia y el actual llenado de las presas.

Cuba will start the next March 5th its 49th national immunization campaign against polio and in the two projected stages more than half a million children will be immunized.

La producción de más de 50 mil frascos de Trofin Vital, resulta uno de los principales compromisos de los trabajadores del Centro de Inmunología y Biopreparados de la ciudad cubana de Holguín para el presente año.

Prime Minister of Grenada, Tillman Thomas, will meet with Cuban President Raul Castro, on the occasion of his official visit to this country as of Sunday, media outlets reported. The visitor's agenda will also include laying a wreath at the monument to Cuban national Hero Jose Marti (1853-1895).

Cubans continued exercising their constitutional right to appoint candidates directly for elections, to be held in April.

Over 1 900 physicians from the central Cuban province of Sancti Spiritus are currently working in more than 40 countries under the cooperation agreements signed with different nations.

Cuban Dayron Robles, 110 hurdler Olympic champion, will compete in the Lievin Indoor athletics Meeting in Pas-de-Calais, France.

Tillman Thomas, primer ministro de Granada, llegará este domingo a Cuba, en visita oficial, cumplimentando una invitación del General de Ejército Raúl Castro Ruz, presidente de los Consejos de Estado y de Ministros.