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More Protected Areas in Cuba

About 253 protected areas are identified in Cuba, from which 105 are effectively managed to guarantee the conservation of nature and cultural resources. Read More

Haiti prompts meeting of top Cuban, US officials

Cuba's foreign minister met with a top U.S. State Department official to coordinate medical help for quake-ravaged Haiti, one of the highest level encounters in years between the Cold War enemies, officials said Thursday.<br /> Read More

Cuba starts vaccination against A/H1N1 flu

Cuba started Thursday a two-phase vaccination campaign against the A/H1N1 flu virus, said the Health Ministry.<br /> Read More

Announcing Inaugural Volga Ironman Cuba presented by Cerveceria Bucanero

The Cuban Triathlon Federation is proud to announce the biggest triathlon ever to come to the Antillean islands: Volga Ironman Cuba, to be contested on 10 October 2010, the 142nd anniversary of Cuba's declaration of independence from Spain. Read More

Ars Longa in the 49 Week of Religious Music in Cuenca

Ars Longa, the group of Old Music, took part last 28th of March with a unique concert dedicated to the American baroque in the 49 edition of the Week of Religious Music of Cuenca, a prestigious event held during the Holy Week in this city of the Spanish area of Castilla-La Mancha. Read More

The 3rd Biennial of Oral Narrative will be held in Cuba

Storytellers from all over the island will attend here the III National Biennial of Stage Oral Narrative Cuenta cuentos, indicated the organizers of the event. Read More

Google re-establishes the blog of the Cuban intellectual, blocked for three days

The blog “La Isla desconocida” (The unknown island), of the Cuban writer Enrique Ubieta was visible again in its usual address, after almost four days blocked. Read More

Healing body and heart, the Cuban style

The governments of Cuba, Brazil, and Haiti signed a trilateral accord on March 27 to rebuild the public health system in Haiti. Read More

US family finds traces of slave-trade past in Cuba

James DeWolf Perry VI's great-great-great-great-great-grandfather used African slaves to grow coffee on this rocky hillside outside Havana,Madruga town  and to him its thorny weeds and small sugar plots feel haunted. Read More

Air services shouldn't pay Cuba legal judgment

Declaring U.S.-to-Cuba charter flights a vital national interest,the Justice Department is opposing a Cuban-American woman's attempt to make air charter companies pay a $27 million judgment she won against Cuba's government. Read More