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Look at me: Brazilian Photography in Cuba

The most important exhibition of Brazilian photography in the Island in the last decade will be presented from March 15th to April 2nd in the Photographic Library of Cuba. Look at Me - A Window to Brazilian Photography, comprises nearly 62 works of 13 outstanding contemporary artists whose aesthetic shift between the documentary and the conceptual actions Read More

"Manolito Simonet y su Trabuco", tours around Peru

Danceable music group Manolito Simonet y su Trabuco, belonging to Clave Cubana`s catalog, ARTEX S.A, will jumpstart a tour around Peru since March 17 until April 2 to have diverse presentations at different places from Lima. Read More

Chile lawyer to defend cuban singer

Cuban singer Silvio Rodriguez reported that the Chilean lawyer Eduardo Contreras will be his defender in a lawsuit against him from that country. "Now I have legal council with Eduardo Contreras, who advised my friend Gladys Marin in the first dispute against (Augusto) Pinochet, in 1989", the poet and composer reported to Prensa Latina. Read More

Cuban Film Triumphs at Cartagena, Colombia Festival

The Cuban film La Edad de la Peseta (The Silly Age) directed by Pavel Giroud, obtained an award over the weekend at the 47th Cartagena Cinema and Television Festival. Read More

Uruguay, Cuba plan teaches to read

A literacy campaign for adults based on the Cuban program "YO SI PUEDO" will start in Uruguay on Monday with attention to a total of 280 people, it was known here Sunday. One of the organizers, Yamandu Ferraz, said the plan is coordinated by the Ministry of Social Development (MIDES) and the National Administration of Public Teaching. Read More

Argentines donate sculpture

Workers at the Argentinean Ernesto Che Guevara Museum in Alta Gracia donated a replica of the Cuban-Argentine guerrilla's statue to Cuba. The work was brought to the island for the Havana International Book Fair and exhibit, Ismary Fernandez, specialist of the Che Sculpture Complex in Santa Clara, told Cuban TV. Read More

Silvio Rodriguez cancells concert in Chile over tickets prices

Cuban singer-songwriter Silvio Rodriguez cancelled his concert scheduled for Friday in the town of Talca, 255 kilometers South of Santiago de Chile, in protest of the high prices of the tickets that ranged from $80 to $110 US. Read More

Brazil, Cuba register record trade volume in 2006

Trade between Brazil and Cuba amounted to a record high of 374.85 million U.S. dollars in 2006, the Brazilian Ministry of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade said on Wednesday. Read More

Cuba-Venezuela scientific exchange to benefit all of Latin America

Hector Navarro, Venezuelas minister of Science and Technology, detailed the initiatives related to his wide area of work. «We are not only thinking about how to solve the problems of Cuba and Venezuela, explained Venezuelan Minister of Science and Technology Hector Navarro. «Heeding the ideas of ALBA (a Latin American integration initiative), we are considering the positive impact every agreement we sign will have on all our countries,» he asserted. Read More

Cuba-Venezuela agree on projects for $1.5 billion US

Raul Castro presided the final session of the Cuba-Venezuela Intergovernmental Commission meeting in Havana Read More

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