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Cuban tourism grew 2.1 percent in the number of arrivals from January to May 2009

A prominent Cuban neurosurgeon said she had received permission to leave Cuba, 15 years after breaking ranks with former leader Fidel Castro over the communist-ruled nation's healthcare system.

Air France, one of Europe's major airlines, is flying to and from Cuba using Boeing 777-300ER planes, which are equipped with state-of-the-art technology.

The Juan Sebastián de Elcano training ship of the Spanish armada was officially welcomed this morning in the port of Havana on its third visit to this city since the Cuban Revolution came to power in 1959.

Havana’s Morro Cabaña Complex – a colonial fortress enjoying the status of a world heritage site – will be the venue of Cuba’s International Tourism Fair (FITCUBA 2009) from May 4th to 8th this year.

Because there are human cases associated with an animal influenza virus, and because of the geographical spread of multiple community outbreaks, plus the somewhat unusual age groups affected, these events are of high concern.

The Cork Palm was declared National Monument in 1989. Today it can be found at Soroa Orchid Garden and at the local botanical garden.

If this law is approved probably hundreds of American people will visit Cuba by yachts or plains, as tourists.

Cubans applauded on Tuesday the passage of a bill by the U.S. Congress that would ease some travel and trade restrictions against the communist island, but said they hope for more changes under President Barack Obama.

Cuban President Raul Castro held talks on Sunday in Algiers with his Algerian counterpart Abdelaziz Bouteflika after visiting a memorial to the country's war of independence, the APS news agency reported.

The Cuban National Office of Statistics (ONE) announced on Sunday that a record number of 2,348,340 visitors arrived in the Caribbean nation in 2008.

The airline TACA will begin flying directly between Lima (Peru) and Havana (Cuba) in the first trimester of 2009.

Teams from 12 countries will meet at the 59th Ernest Hemingway International Marling shing Tournament in June.

The British photographer JOBO will be capturing landscapes from the Cuban geography with his camera. Viñales and Trinidad will be his preferred scenarios, which he frequently heard mentioned with much admiration by several colleagues.

In Baracoa, the first city founded by the Spanish colonizers in Cuba there is a hotel facility whose name has a special meaning.  Everybody knows it as La Rusa hotel, however, this was not the name given by its first owners when they came from Europe after a long pilgrimage caused by the triumph of the October Revolution.