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May 4th

Guatemalan Foreign Minister in Cuba

Guatemalan Foreign Minister Gert Rosenthal Koenigsberger arrived in this capital Thursday on an official visit to the island at the invitation of his Cuban counterpart Felipe Perez Roque. Read More

Cuba's answer to the Beatles: Film explores forgotten Los Zafiros

A year or so after the CD and subsequent movie "Buena Vista Social Club" became a sensation in the United States, bringing 1950s-style Cuban popular music to a 1990 audience that had never heard it, the same record company, Nonesuch, released other recordings by musicians heard on the "Social Club" recordings, as well as one made in the early '60s. Read More

Over 240 health workers back in Sancti Spiritus

Over 240 health workers from the Cuban province of Sancti Spiritus have already returned home during the last six months after having successfully fulfilled their missions in different Third World countries. Read More

May 3rd

First Latin-American cemetery outside a church

The funeral traditions have always distinguished the different civilizations throughout the history of humankind. Since far-off times this kind of rituals, including the burial, were carried out in religious temples. All human being would find there the ideal place for the eternal rest, the location inside the church depended on the social status of the dead person. This type of custom went to the detriment of the public health and the well development of the religious ceremony. Read More

Cuba to host Storyteller Festival

Artists from nine countries will attend the 9th International Storyteller Festival on May 7-12, with Asia and Africa as guests of honor. Read More

Cuba helps Panama Social Programs

The Panamanian Social Development Minister Maria Roquebert is visiting Cuba to examine the course of Cuban support of a literacy program in her country. Read More

Cuba Labor Heroes awarded in Havana

The Central Workers' Union of Cuba (CTC) awarded as Outstanding Hero Havana historian Eusebio Leal, along with another three prominent workers. Read More

UNE Art Gallery presents 'Cuba Hearts and Minds Past and Present' May 21 - July 22

The University of New England's Art Gallery presents "Cuba Hearts and Minds Past and Present" on display from May 21 - July 22, 2007 on the Westbrook College Campus in Portland. The opening reception is Tuesday, May 22, 5:00 - 7:00 p.m. preceded by a "Conversation with the Artists" from 3:00 - 4:30 p.m. The exhibition and reception are free and open to the public. Read More

May 2nd

Adolfo Guzman Awards Presented

The pieces Decirte cosas de amor (Telling you Things of Love), written by Roberto Novo and sung by Diana Fuentes, in song, and La arena (The sand), by Franklin Keyton and Pedro Lugo, in the dancing category won the great prizes of the 2007 Adolfo Guzman Music Contest. Read More

The first Cuban pirate, favorite of the English Crown

The Cuban archipelago was a strategic location for the pirate action. However, not only Cuba was victim of the vandalism of those foreigners that used to plunder the wealth of this young Spanish colony. This land also had its own killers. Diego Grillo was the first pirate to be born in this island who was very well known worldwid Read More