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In the region of the Sierra Maestra in the eastern province of Granma there are different courses of information technology being taught that stimulate the knowledge and use of free software, apart from the creation of computer programs.

Artemisa, Manzanillo in Granma, and Morón in Ciego de Ávila are the three municipalities that take in the 972 young people that so far are members of this plan. A number that is part of the 11,200 students all over the country who are part of the Futuro project, lead by the Havana University of Information Technologies.

The secretary of the Executive Committee of the Council of Secretaries recognized the importance of import substitution and expanding national production.

The mountainous Cuban municipality of Guama will be the first in the country to be fully supplied with electricity produced by 17 hydro-electric generators.

A mis entrañables compatriotas, que me hicieron el inmenso honor de elegirme en días recientes como miembro del Parlamento, en cuyo seno se deben adoptar acuerdos importantes para el destino de nuestra Revolución, les comunico que no aspiraré ni aceptaré- repito- no aspiraré ni aceptaré, el cargo de Presidente del Consejo de Estado y Comandante en Jefe.

An earth tremor measuring 3.8 on the Richter scale was in four Cuban eastern provinces.

The work is part of a new project named Raíces (Roots) to deck out the city to mark the 495th anniversary of its foundation on November 5, 1513.

Over 40 earth tremors in the country's south-eastern zone in the last few hours concern Friday experts and people from that region.

The skilful sculptor, who used to carve small pieces of wood into animals in Minas del Frio, in the Sierra Maestra mountain range, has been using a chisel and a hammer for this work.

The Cuban Singer Silvio Rodríguez, the promoter of the tour, received a diploma that declares him a Distinguished Guest of Granma, given by the Provincial Assembly of the Popular Power.

The celebrations started, last January 15th, with a varied sample of the initial work of the institution, which began its work on that same date in 1993 and was officially inaugurated on the following July 12th.

Unpublished photos of the Cuban leaders Fidel Castro, Ernesto Che Guevara (1928-1967) and Camilo Cienfuegos (1932-1959), will be exhibited in this city, capital of the eastern province of Granma.

The first group of students from the first Cuban course on Mexican traditional music graduated in the eastern province of Granma province as Mariachi musicians.

Detecting which and how many young people in Cuba do not study or work seems an endless story.

Residents of the surrounding communities are taking time off from their usual activities to pick beans before they fall and help bring in the harvest.