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November 5th

Cintio Vitier: Film about Lezama Praiseworthy

I think its praiseworthy the effort, mainly keeping in mind that Lezama, like Marti, was not a show man Read More

Renny Arozarena, protagonist of "El Benny" awarded as best actor at the International Festival in Madrid Móstoles

This recognition enrolls the large list of awards obtained by this film: Best Opera Prima at the 28th Habana Film Festival, 2006; Best Opera Prima and Popularity Prize at the 9th International Movie Festival of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, 2007; among others Read More

The bilingual Nicolás Guillén

"A Bilingual Anthology" begins with writings from his youth, taken from "Cerebro y corazón". Then there are poems taken from "Motivos del son" (1930) and "Sóngoro cosongo" (1931), two paradigmatic books, both in the authors bibliography and in the context of Cuban and Hispanic-American poetry of that era. Read More

Equis Alfonso will direct film

The famous Cuban musician Equis Alfonso has planned to shoot a feature film for 2008. Read More

"The Sleepless Eye" literary award to writer Ricardo Alberto Pérez Estévez for his lifetime work

The poet, translator and essayist from Jaruco had previously received awards like "David 1989", "The Critics 1993, "The Gazette of Cuba 2001 and 2003", "Nosside Caribbean 2005" and the "Nicolas Guillen National Poetry Award 2007." Read More

Inaugurated an exhibits with artworks donated by plastic artists for the José Martí National Library

Under the title Imágen y posibilidad: plástica cubana, the exhibits is opened at El Reino de este mundo Gallery from this library, these artworks will take part of the public spaces of this institution. Read More

Brazil defeated Cuba at FIVB World Cup 2007

Brazil edged the Cubans 25-19, 19-25, 25-17, 19-25, 15-11 in an out-and-out thriller. After a four-set battle, Brazil stayed ahead from the first point of the tiebreaker. Read More

Third National Meeting "The radio in the community" in Yaguajay municipality

The program of the event includes theoretical debates, listening of programs coming from municipal radio stations, as well as Lectures about Community Radio and exchange of experiences among young radiomen from different province of the country. Read More

19th National Meeting of Soneros Groups in november at Mayari, Holguin Province.

This event will gather in this oriental city some of the most outstanding cultivators of this genre and some Mexican and Venezuelan bands will be invited. Read More

November 4th

Turquino Plan. An unprecedented projetct

Pinar del Rio has achieved some advances, for instance the infant mortality rate is now of one percent; children have free education since elementary school to university. Not everything is perfect; there is some dissatisfaction with transportation and housing repairs, as well as gastronomic and commercial offers. Read More