Cuban Vice President Carlos Lage said that the country's nickel industry is experiencing its largest investment of its history

On a trip to the northeastern province of Holguin, home to the island's most extensive nickel reserves, Lage said the mineral is currently Cuba's leading export revenue generator, adding that with the recent investments in the industry, production capacity and efficiency will increase, while a drop in costs is expected. Read More

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The Cuban film La Edad de la Peseta (The silly age) Wins Santa Barbara Award

The Cuban film La Edad de la Peseta (The silly age) won the Nueva Vision Award for the best Spanish-language film at the recently concluded 23rd Santa Barbara International Film Festival, California. Read More

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"Cuba is an example to achieve the solidarity in the higher education", said of High UN Official (UNESCO).

George Haddad, director of the International Institute for the Higher Education in Latin America, of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, Cultural organization (UNESCO), asserted in Havana that Cuba is an example to achieve the solidarity in the higher education. Read More

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Cuba Protects Biodiversity from the Bay of Cádiz to Los Caimanes National Park.

Studies to assess the situation of the biodiversity throughout the Cuban archipelago are part of an official strategy aimed at promoting sustainable development. Read More

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Claudio Magris, the Italian academic and writer at the Cuban's Book Fair.

One of the most important personalities at the XVII International Book Fair is the Italian academic and writer Claudio Magris. Magris was graduated from Germanist at the Turin University, an institution in which he was permanent professor of German Language and Literature. Read More

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"Ofelias", written by Aida Bahr, awarded the Alejo Carpentier Prize 2007 in the Short Story category.

Very few books written in Cuba reveal an in-depth analysis of womens inner world within her family and her daily environment as does the book entitled "Ofelias", written by Aida Bahr (image), awarded the Alejo Carpentier Prize 2007 in the Short Story category. Read More

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Cuba vs Key West for tourists?

For decades tour guides have successfully hyped this towns close proximity and historic ties to Cuba, playing up the Cuban cigar factories that once thrived, author Ernest Hemingways fascination with both islands and a shared history of fishing, rum-running and other tropical pursuits. Read More

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Forty Dominican students will study at the Latin American School of Medicine in Cuba

Forty Dominican students who will study in the Latin American School of Medicine (ELAM) were bid farewell by Dr. Roberto Gonzalez, Undersecretary of Higher Education. Read More

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Cuba will send doses of yellow fever vaccine to Paraguay

Cuba will send doses of yellow fever vaccine to Paraguay following an outbreak that has already killed two persons in the South American country, President Nicanor Duarte announced. Read More

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In Cuba will be seen an Lunar Eclipse on February 20

Weather conditions permitting, a total lunar eclipse will be visible throughout Cuba on the evening of Wednesday, February 20. Read More

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