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As fruit of the Energy Revolution and of the prevention of the leader Fidel Castro, Cuba faces with better conditions the high international prices of the fuel, said today Yadira García, minister of Basic Industry.

La Sierra Maestra is the most important mountain system in Cuba where we can find the highest mountain called Pico Real del Turquino 1972 meters above the sea level. It is located in the southeastern coast next to the Caribbean Sea and extends from Granma, Santiago de Cuba to Guantanamo .

Business people from several countries show increasing interest in participating in the EXPOCARIBE Business Fair to take place in Santiago de Cuba in June, to celebrate the 15th anniversary of the second largest business event in Cuba.

The Tenth International Conference on African and Afro-American Culture comes to a close last Thursday with the presence of more than a hundred researchers and representatives from Angola, Nigeria, Togo, Senegal, Burkina-Faso, the Congo, Colombia, Venezuela and Cuba.

The director of films like Lucia, Cecilia, Honey for Oshún, Cuba Neighbourhood, among others, also said that the Festival will keep its alternative venues in the cities of Santiago de Cuba and Holguín. This edition will have an itinerant status; ¨like an experiment, the city of Camagüey will receive us one day after the Festival is over in Gibara¨.

The production of plates for cracking towers in Cuba will substitute imports of these parts and accessories for all the oil refineries of the country and those linked to the regional ALBA integrating project.

Right-hander Ismel Jimenez led Sancti Spiritus on Sunday to their second win against Pinar del Rio in the Western Division semifinal of the play offs of the 47th Cuban national baseball championship.

The Cuban archipelago, one of the fastest-growing tourist destinations in the Caribbean, benefits from a national scenario rich in history from the Spanish colonial period.

Preserving the Tumba Francesa Slave Dance (French Drum), a well-defined, and quite unique music and dance tradition still practiced in Cuba, was the first issue to discuss at the 7th International Congress of Cultural Patrimony.

The Telesur TV channel aims to help Latin American nations to rediscover each other and boost regional unity, said representatives of the network participating on the jury of a documentary film festival in Santiago de Cuba.

The 28th Caribbean Festival or Feast of Fire, held annually in the Cuban eastern city of Santiago de Cuba, will be dedicated in 2008 to the Mexican Caribbean.

The Cinco Palmas Monument Group, which is to remember the historic event that took place in that specific part of the Sierra Maestra in 1956, is being made in the province of Santiago de Cuba by the Caguayo Foundation.

The 9th International Documentary Film Festival in memory of Santiago Alvarez, is set for March 6-11 in Santiago de Cuba with 27 works in competition from around the world.

Called La Caridad de Oriente (The Eastern Charity) and with a membership descendant from the slaves, the group will open a photographic exhibition of René Silveira at the Museum of Cuban Historic Environment, located in one of the oldest buildings of the Americas.

One of Cuba's greatest exponents of naïf painting, Ruperto Jay Matamoros, passed away in Havana over the weekend, one month before his 96th birthday.