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World champions Driulis Gonzalez and Yurisel Laborde as well as young Idalis Ortiz gave Cuba three titles in the first day of competitions of the Pan American Judo Championships that began on Thursday in Miami, United States, and which grants tickets for the upcoming Beijing Olympic Games in China.

Six detainees currently at Guantanamo have appeared before a military judge, and five of those have joined the boycott, which is expected to spread as more suspected terrorists are arraigned.

A huge Cuban visual arts exhibition without precedents, called ¡CUBA! Arte e historia de 1868 hasta nuestros días (CUBA! Art and history from 1868 to our days) is being successfully exhibited at the Fine Arts Museum from Montreal, Canada) since January 29, 2008.

Spanish media outlets are denouncing new actions undertaken by the United States to obstruct the improvement of relations between Cuba and Europe.

Representatives from the Cuban and Canadian Foreign ministries held official talks this week and agreed on the good status of bilateral relations between the two countries.

Cuban women and men’s judo selections are ready to participate in the Pan-American Championship to kick off May 8, in the US city of Miami.

It had come into being in 1943 as a means of combating Nazi submarines and protecting navigation routes during the Second World War. It was decommissioned in 1950, when it became superfluous.

As a way to break media silence, the work "Desde la soledad y la esperanza," was launched in the 34th International Book Fair running in this capital, dedicated to five Cuban anti-terrorist fighters unfairly imprisoned in United States.

Next Thursday, May 8, Havana’s Charles Chaplin Hall will host the opening of project “Ambulante”, real documentary festival, promoted in Mexico by two young filmmakers, actors Gael García Bernal and Diego Luna.

I strongly take exception to the harsh and aggressive tone of the April 28 editorial bashing Cuba and elevating Colombia as "democratic.

The leader of the Cuban Revolution denounces the plans of the United States to divide Bolivia by facilitating control by transnational corporations over basic industrial sectors. He points out that this is being accomplished through a media campaign and with the support of some sectors of the military, who are opposed to the social transformations initiated by President Evo Morales for the benefit of the people.

The President of the Cuban Parliament, Ricardo Alarcon de Quesada, said on Friday that the world should renew its solidarity with five Cuban anti-terrorist fighters who remain unjustly imprisoned in the United States.

US-based networks broadcast 1,889 hours of programs to the Island through 30 medium and short waves, FM and TV channels every week Cuba Denounces US Radio, TV Aggression

Conditions are more isolating than many death rows and maximum-security prisons in the United States, said Jules Lobel, a law professor at the University of Pittsburgh who is an expert on U.S. prison conditions.

The speaker of the US House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi said the US economic blockade of Cuba “has failed and should be lifted".