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Next Aló Presidente will be in Santa Clara. Chavez, honoring Che, gives Venezuela doctors 60 percent raise

Venezuelan doctors working for the public health system will get a 60 percent pay raise in honor of Cuban revolutionary hero Ernesto ``Che'' Guevara, who was a trained physician. Read More

The Quinta Avenida Clock

The Tower formed part of a series of plastic art works such as the Fountain of the Americas that presides the wide artery lined with trees from the mouth of the Almendares River to a formerly popular beach in Marianao. Read More

New issue of Cuban Magazine for readers around the world

Its 50th issue, which covers a wide range of topics related to universal culture including popular religions, anthropology and history. Published by the House of the Caribbean in the eastern province of Santiago de Cuba, the magazine is a valuable reference source with articles written by renowned Cuban and foreigner scholars. Read More

Jamaica to face Cuba and Trinidad&Tobago in womens Olympic qualifiers

Cuba advanced as Group B winners with maximum nine points after defeating hosts the Dominican Republic 2-1 in the top of the table clash in Santo Domingo. Read More

Spanish director Fernando Trueba gave classes in Cuba

Fernando Trueba added his name to the list of celebrities from worldwide cinema who have visited San Antonio's International School of Cinema and Television. Trueba's visit was the best pretext to exhibit some of his films. The Glauber Rocha Theater, at the New Latin American Cinema Foundation Read More

Livestock producers in Cuba interested in purchase Iowa's ethanol byproducts

Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Bill Northey said Monday that on his first trip to Cuba last week he learned that Cubans are interested in importing distillers dried grains, also known as DDGs, which are produced after the starch is removed from the corn kernel to make ethanol. Read More

Cuban cigar aroma, taste and art

The artist Carlos Manuel Matalobos displays a special technique for designing antique and contemporary cigar brands artistically garnished with tobacco leaves crafted in the form of masks and god images. Whereas Miguel Ángel Couret exhibits the Producto-Arte-Objeto resembling a revolting electric fan in operation. Read More

Charanga Habanera will travel to Canada

Charanga Habanera, directed by David Calzado, will travel to Canada from November 5 to 12, they will continue showing its art in the VIVAMERICA Festival of Spain from November 14 to 18 Read More

Silvio Rodríguez joins italian tribute to Che Guevara

The work splits into two parts, a compact disc on artistic documentation and another on historical documentation. The first includes 12 songs sung by some of the most important representative exponents as much from the Italian song (Francesco Guccini, Roberto Vecchioni, Pino Daniele, Angelo Branduardi, Daniele Silvestri, Sergio Endrigo) as the Latin American one, represented by Caetano Veloso, Pablo Milanés and Silvio Rodriguez. Read More

Colombia and Cuba for energy cooperation

The Colombian delegation will have contacts with Cuban representatives as part of the mutual cooperation on rational use of energy and use of renewable energy between the Cuban Basic Industry and the Colombian Energy and Mining Ministry of Colombia. Read More