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Los diez secuestradores norteamericanos ya tienen quienes los defiendan. Pese a que fueron sorprendidos in fraganti al intentar cruzar la frontera haitiano-dominicana llevándose a treinta y tres menores de edad sin documento alguno y que mintieron a las autoridades asegurando que eran huérfanos, de pronto son unos angelitos de Dios, según El Nuevo Herald y El País.

The President of the Palestinian National Authority (PNA), Mahmoud Abbas, met on Saturday with Cuban concurrent ambassador Otto Vaillant, who presented his host with his accreditation letter as the island’s representative before the occupied Palestinian territories.

Cuban GM Leinier Dominguez described his performance at the recently held Corus Chess tournament, the year’s first Grand Slam, as good and said he was with the mind set on his next undertaking.

The cultural magazine Lettres de Cuba is already online with the second number of the current year, and as it is already usual we offer our readers a variety of very interesting texts accompanied by a selected set of artistic images.

The text Conversación en Las Terrazas, by the Cuban writer Reynaldo Gonzales, will be one of the newness of the Boloña Publishing House at the Havana 2010 International Book Fair, dedicated to this author.

Everything is ready for the official inauguration on February 11 of one the country’s most popular cultural events, the 19th Havana International Book Fair, to be held at the Morro-Cabaña Complex.

La trigésimo quinta vuelta ciclística a Cuba comienza a pedalear este 9 de febrero desde Baracoa, Guantánamo, hasta el día 21. La vuelta llega a Pinar del Río el 20 de febrero.

La Delegación Provincial del Ministerio de Ciencia, Tecnología y Medio Ambiente en Sancti Spíritus reconoció recientemente a un grupo de centros e instituciones científicas del territorio que sobresalieron por sus aportes concretos en ese campo durante el 2009.

In order to taking experiences about the Cuban educational system, a German delegation of Thor Heyerdahl school-ship, is visiting Pinar del Rio since January 29.

Con el objetivo de tomar experiencias y retroalimentarse sobre el sistema educacional cubano, desde el pasado 29 de enero, se encuentra en Pinar del Río una delegación alemana, integrante del buque escuela Thor Heyerdahl.

The Centennial Elvira Cape Reference Library, the one who keeps the largest collection of documental of the eastern region of the country, celebrates the 3rd  International Workshop of the Advisory Council against disasters and emergencies on heritage.

Several scientific institutions from the central Cuban province of Sancti Spiritus were recently acknowledged by the local office of the Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment (CITMA) because of their contributions in 2009.

Stars of the famous Russian Bolshoi Ballet will perform in the Karl Marx Theater in this capital, along the National Ballet of Cuba (BNC), in an evening that will take place on February 13th.