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The Buenos Aires municipality of Lujan hold an meeting marking the first graduation of 25 people who learned how to read and write with the Cuban method Yo Si Puedo (Yes, I Can), as part of a program that started in July.

Cuban Higher Education Minister Juan Vela concludes a five-day official visit to Angola. There he met with several government officials and toured across the country.

Carlos Lage Davila, vice-president of Cuba, traveled several economic and social institutions of the eastern province of Las Tunas, affected by the last natural disasters and appreciated how much the territory has advanced as regards recovery.

Cuba will begin in 2009 the production of contact lenses of permeable gas, a modern technique that improves the quality of the patients’ vision.

The EXPOHOLGUIN Group convened to the 10th Holguin Trade Fair-2009, to take place in the Exhibition Center in this city from January 27 to 31, to raise awareness of the commercial potential and the impact of improved quality.

For the first time the Fair will be dedicated to a province, in this case to Sancti Spiritus, that has two of the first towns created by the Spanish colonizers in Cuba: the city of Sancti Spiritus and Trinidad, which historic centre and its Valle de los Ingenios are declared by UNESCO as Cultural Patrimony of Mankind.

About ten proposals of Cuban designers in the category of Graphic, Industrial and Fashion are representing the island in the I Iberian American biennial Exhibition, to be held until the next 15th of February in Madrid.

A glowing Raúl Castro, Cuban president, strolled arm in arm with Dmitry Medvedev, his Russian counterpart, through the restored colonial district of Havana late last week, topping off a remarkable diplomatic effort by Moscow to mend relations with its former cold war ally.

Guanahacabibes, a peninsula with no few legends and natural treasures, will soon be graced by a modern visitor’s centre, to be located at Cuba’s westernmost point.

The ceremony of beatification of Father  Olallo, a Hospitaler of the Order of St, John of God, will take place on Saturday in the eastern Cuban city of Camaguey.

The Bellamar Cave, in the Cuban western province of Matanzas, offers new options to domestic and foreign tourists.

The book “Project Censored 2009”, compiling important news stories censored by the US mainstream media over the past two years, will be launched next Monday at Havana’s Jose Marti International Journalism Institute. 

The Cuban composer José María Vitier directed the Philharmonic Orchestra of Mexico City in the premiere of the opera Santa Ana, at the Esperanza Iris Theatre, in the Historic Centre of the Mexican capital city.