Namibia: Cuban Band in Fatal Accident

<p style="text-align: justify;">Kenya Star. Wednesday 11th May, 2011. Windhoek - The vivacious Cuban salsa band that is touring Namibia was involved in a fatal vehicle accident on Monday.The accident claimed the life of one of the seven musicians of the Almendra Salsa band.The accident happened on Monday afternoon along the Okahandja-Karibib road, when the official vehicle of the Cuban Ambassador to Namibia, Carlos Manuel Roger Lago, left the road. Read More

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The World Germany’s Lower Saxony Interested in Agricultural Cooperation with Cuba

<p style="text-align: justify;">Germany’s Lower Saxony Interested in Agricultural Cooperation with CubaGert Lindemann, Minister of Agriculture, Food, Consumers’ Protection and Regional Development of Lower Saxony, the second largest German federal state, met on Tuesday with the Cuban ambassador to Berlin, Raul Becerra.According to a note from the Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MINREX), Lower Saxony —Germany’s most developed state in the agricultural sector — has reiterated its interest in participating, along with the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, in projects of cooperation with the Cuban Ministry of Agriculture. Read More

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Cuba-Venezuela Projects Benefit Animal Health

<p style="text-align: justify;">2011.05.08 - 17:37:24 /radiorebelde.icrt.cu. Havana, Cuba.- Cooperation projects between Cuba and made it possible to train South American producers, technicians and specialists in the control of pests and diseases affecting animals and plants.These exchanges favor mutual assimilation of technologies and the obtaining of new products and services of high added value, asserted on Friday Master of Sciences Tania Rivas, of the National Center for Plant and Animal Health (CENSA), one of the Cuban institutions participating in the program since 2005. Read More

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Zacatecas Thanks Cuba for Operation Miracle

<p style="text-align: justify;">By Ileana Ferrer Fonte. 12:51Zacatecas, Mexico, May 8 (Prensa Latina) The Zacatecas state legislature thanked Cuba for its contribution to the Operation Miracle program, via which 4,800 patients have received free eyesight restoration surgery since 2007.Lawmaker Blas Avalos presented a certificate of recognition to Cuban Consul Luis Quirantes, conferred by the State Legislature. Read More

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Russian Culture Honored in Santiago de Cuba

<p style="text-align: justify;">By: Raquel Maria Garcia Alvarez. 00:02Santiago de Cuba, May 7 (Prensa Latina) A two-day event to pay tribute to Russian culture will be held in this city, some 540 miles southeast of Havana, on May 13-14.The event will mark the 50th anniversary of friendly relations between Cuba and Russia, organizers said.A highlight of the event will be the inauguration of a photo exhibit, including images of St. Petersburg through the years, the Great Patriotic War, the current Russian Federation, the Army and the first astronaut Yuri Gagarin. Read More

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Guatemala Reaffirms Ties with Cuba

<p style="text-align: justify;">By: Osmany González Tocabens.Guatemala City, May 7 (Prensa Latina) The peoples of Guatemala and Cuba reaffirmed their historical ties of friendship in a meeting organized by the city council of the capital.The meeting was headed by Mayor Alvaro Arzu, who during his term as president reestablished diplomatic bilateral relations with Cuba in 1998, broken off years earlier by Guatemala. Read More

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CPC delegation leaves for visit to Cuba, Venezuela

<p style="text-align: justify;">The delegation, headed by executive vice president of the Party School of the CPC Central Committee Li Jingtian, pays the visit at the invitation of the Communist Party of Cuba, the Venezuela government and the United Socialist Party of Venezuela. Read More

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FAO Expresses its Concern in Cuba on World’s Rising Food Prices

<p style="text-align: justify;">2011.05.04 - 21:57:59 / radiorebelde.icrt.cu. FAO Expresses its Concern in Cuba on World’s Rising Food Prices. Havana, Cuba.- As said by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in Cuba, food prices have climbed up 37% from December 2010, until March 2011.A FAO representative to Cuba, Marcio Porto, affirmed on Wednesday in the International Seminar on Plant and Livestock Health (SISA 2011) that food prices will continue rising during the year, even though the value of some products like sugar have fell down. Read More

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Cuba Hosts Int´l Seminar against Foreign Military Bases

<p style="text-align: justify;">By. Ileana Ferrer Fonte. 09:17Havana, May 3 (Prensa Latina) The Cuban Peace Movement will host delegates from 36 countries on Wednesday at the 2nd Seminar for the Abolition of Foreign Military Bases.The objective of this meeting, to be held in the eastern province of Guantanamo, is to condemn the interference of the world's most powerful countries in the sovereignty of the peoples, Granma newspaper reported. Read More

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Iran, Cuba discuss radio, TV interaction

<p style="text-align: justify;">Goal is 'the reflection of first-hand, authentic news'. An Iranian functionary and a Cuban communications official met Monday in Havana to discuss "bilateral media cooperation, particularly in the reflection of first-hand, authentic news," the Iranian news agency IRNA announced. Read More

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