The Uruguayan film El baño del Papa (The Popes Toilet) won the Glauber Rocha 2007 award issued by Prensa Latina news agency at the Havana Film Festival. The jury also gave special mention to Mexican director Carlos Reygadas for Luz Silenciosa (Silent Light).
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The president of Cuba, Fidel Castro, sent a letter to the Informative Round Table of the Cuban Television and Radio, concerning the new commitments contracted in the United Nations (UN) by the Caribbean island. Read More
This is the second time that Garcia Bernal visits the island, in June 2004 he attended the premiere in this capital of "Diario de Motocicleta" (Motorcycle's Diaries) by Brazilian Walter Salles Read More
A homeopathic product to prevent an outbreak of Leptopirosis and Hepatitis Type A, is administered for the first time at large scale in Cuba. The product had been tested on smaller populations with high effectiveness. Read More
The president of the International Festival of the New Latin American Films holding its 29th event assured that it is a complex world which we confront and that forces us to rethink it. Read More
The new health institution features a state-of-the-art technology and is provided with four surgery theaters, a cornea bank and an outpatient clinic, among other facilities. Read More
"This is an open film and, you, the audience, have to somehow finish it. It is meant to spark debate, to create an atmosphere of uncertainty and internal confrontation. Read More
The sport teaching system in Ciego de Ávila province, besides allowing for the integral and free shaping of 3 372 student-athletes and improving the material conditions for the healthy practice of exercises, perfects its sport schools Read More
Cuba's Even Fontaine was elected chairman of the UN System's Joint Inspection Unit (JIU). It is the highest position taken on by a Cuban official within the international organization.
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