Cuban mountain range soaked by Noel's heavy rains

Granma's Civil Defense Council is taking the necessary actions to avoid human losses and bring down as much as possible the material damage. Read More

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Beijing-2008's Paralympics, Cuba assures 16 participants

So far Cuba has eight athletes classified: one in judo, four in athletics, three in table tennis and one in swimming. Read More

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Call to e-protest US anti-Cuba policy

Prensa Latina reproduces the petition text as follows: Stop the attack on Cuba! Respect Cuban Sovereignty! Read More

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Cuba invited to Second World Baseball Classic

While a formal decision hasn't been made, it appears the second WBC will be played in March 2009. Details are likely to be announced at the winter meetings Dec 3-6 in Nashville, Tennessee. Read More

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Tomas Piard, the silent independent

His start and successful career is a sort of recognition to those Cuban filmmaker-to-be who comply with these characteristics: outsider, self-centered, not professional or gregarious. At present he is deep in the filming of a movie about the poet Jose Lezama Lima, a real tour de force for any director due to the apparently iconoclast singularity of the writer. Read More

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Cuba received volunteers of Chinese Olympics

The Chinese volunteers were welcomed at Cojimar's Pedagogic Conventions Center east of Havana and the ceremony was presided by Cuban Sports Institute president Alberto Juantorena. Read More

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Mala leche Case

Changes yes; changes for the good of all Privileged by the taste of young Cubans, the group directed by Nassiry Lugo marked his maturity with the record Alma sin bolsillo. Read More

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Garcia Marquez calls for release of the Cuban Five

There are now six Nobel laureates who have added their name to the October 12 call issued by the In Defense of Humanity Network Read More

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Heavy rain in eastern Cuba, and still is raining in Santiago

Noel left Cuba, but still today there is rain in eastern Cuba, mainly in Santiago de Cuba. Although there is not a single death in the whole territory reported the material damage caused to housing, agriculture and infraestructure is huge. Read More

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Becoming a Doctor on Isla de la Juventud

The Jose Maceo Grajales Faculty of Medical Sciences was one of the first to be created on the Isla de la Juventud. With some 408 young students from Bolivia, East Timor, Colombia and Venezuela, it concluded the first academic year with a 100 percent graduation. Read More

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