Hemispheric Encounter against Free Trade Agreements Concludes on Friday at Havanas Convention Center

The 7th Hemispheric Encounter against Free Trade Agreements (FTA) concludes on Friday at Havanas Convention Center with positive results for unity and action after five days of sessions. Read More

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Cuban musician Adalberto Álvarez received the tribute for his 35 years of artistic life in Rome.

The Cuban musician Adalberto Álvarez Zayas, received the tribute for his 35 years of artistic life from the Italian-Latin American Institute (IILA in Spanish) in Rome. Read More

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U.S. Naval Base in Cuba: Lawyer Questions how U.S. Soldier Died

A grenade that killed a U.S. soldier in Afghanistan in July 2002 could have been thrown by American forces rather than a young Canadian charged in a Guantanamo war crimes court with murder, a military defense lawyer said on Friday. Read More

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The Prima Ballerina Assoluta Alicia Alonso and the Cuban National Ballet in Egypt

The prima ballerina assoluta Alicia Alonso, general director of the Cuban National Ballet, assured in front of the Egyptian Pyramids of Ghiza that she aims to live for 200 more years in order to give expression to all of the projects and dreams that she has still to do. Read More

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Opens in Havana: Branch of ALBA Bank

According to a note from the Central Bank of Cuba published on Thursday by Granma news daily, the new branch, the first inaugurated outside Venezuela, was established as part of the signing of the Constituent Agreement of the Bank with the presence of representatives from Venezuela, Nicaragua, Bolivia and Cuba. Read More

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Cuban ambassador to Berlin filed a protest rejecting the visit to the German capital of Caleb McCarry

Cuban ambassador to Berlin, Gerardo Peñalver, filed a protest on Wednesday rejecting the visit to the German capital of Caleb McCarry, who is the Bush administration's Cuba Transition Coordinator in charge of designing and implementing a plan to dominate the Cuban people by force and establish an occupying government in the country. Read More

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Mexican tour-operators expect to send 100, 000 vacationers to Cuba this year

Mexican tour-operators expect to send 100, 000 vacationers to Cuba this year, according to a communiqué released by the office of the Cuban Tourism Ministry in Mexico. Read More

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A historic encyclopedia about Latin American and Caribbean music (megaproject sponsored by UNESCO) in Havana

Argentine researcher Malena Kuss of the International Musicological Society Board of Directors will launch the second volume of a historic encyclopedia about Latin American and Caribbean music in Havana on April 18. Read More

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Casa de las Américas calls for the year 2009 the 50th edition of its Literary Award.

Casa de las Américas calls for the year 2009 the 50th edition of its Literary Award. On this occasion there will be able to compete unpublished pieces in the genres or categories of novels, testimonial literature and literature for children and young people. Read More

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Donates 400 Bicycles to Cuban Children Norwegian Child

Kristian is convinced that he has done something both useful and difficult. Thats why he looks so satisfied, with his tiny freckles dancing on the still round face of a child that hasnt yet reached puberty. Read More

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