Visit Cuba next Week: Anatoly Karpov Russia's former World Champ

Antoly Karpov, Russia's former World Champ will arrive in Cuba next Monday, April 14, on the invitation of local sports authorities. Read More

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Low-Budget Cinema Fest In Gibara, (Cuba) From 14-21 April

The 6th annual Low-budget Film Festival will take place from 14-21 April in the fishermens town of Gibara, in the Cuban eastern province of Holguín. According to Humberto Solás, an outstanding Cuban filmmaker and the president of the organizing committee, low-budget cinema is not a dogma or a scheme, but a resource in its own means. Read More

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Nigerian Culture Minister Adetokumbo Kayode to 2008 International Cubadisco Festival

Nigerian Culture Minister Adetokumbo Kayode confirmed on Friday he will attend the 2008 International Cubadisco Festival, to be held next month in Havana. Read More

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The agenda of the Social movements it includes: The Cuban Five

The injustice against the Cuban Five, who were in the U.S. trying to stop terrorism against Cuba and the world, was the center of one of the most passionate moments of the 7th Hemispheric Meeting against Free Trades Agreements. Read More

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Hemispheric Encounter against Free Trade Agreements Concludes on Friday at Havanas Convention Center

The 7th Hemispheric Encounter against Free Trade Agreements (FTA) concludes on Friday at Havanas Convention Center with positive results for unity and action after five days of sessions. Read More

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Cuban musician Adalberto Álvarez received the tribute for his 35 years of artistic life in Rome.

The Cuban musician Adalberto Álvarez Zayas, received the tribute for his 35 years of artistic life from the Italian-Latin American Institute (IILA in Spanish) in Rome. Read More

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The Prima Ballerina Assoluta Alicia Alonso and the Cuban National Ballet in Egypt

The prima ballerina assoluta Alicia Alonso, general director of the Cuban National Ballet, assured in front of the Egyptian Pyramids of Ghiza that she aims to live for 200 more years in order to give expression to all of the projects and dreams that she has still to do. Read More

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Abe Osheroff, Veteran of Abraham Lincoln Brigade, Dies at 92, he to teach engineering in Cuba

Ran a candy store for many years and was the last secretary-treasurer of the Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade. Mr. Veltfort went on to teach engineering in Cuba and organize a drive to donate ambulances to the leftist government of Nicaragua in the 1980s. Read More

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A historic encyclopedia about Latin American and Caribbean music (megaproject sponsored by UNESCO) in Havana

Argentine researcher Malena Kuss of the International Musicological Society Board of Directors will launch the second volume of a historic encyclopedia about Latin American and Caribbean music in Havana on April 18. Read More

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Casa de las Américas calls for the year 2009 the 50th edition of its Literary Award.

Casa de las Américas calls for the year 2009 the 50th edition of its Literary Award. On this occasion there will be able to compete unpublished pieces in the genres or categories of novels, testimonial literature and literature for children and young people. Read More

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