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In Cuba: 2008 Adolfo Llauradó acting award

Adolfo Llauradó (Santiago de Cuba, 1941 – Havana, 2001) is one of the main figures in contemporary Cuban performing art. Read More

Cuban musical group Buena Fe in Spain

Cuban musical group Buena Fe, still basking in the success caused in Cuba by its latest CD, Catalejo, was invited to Spain by newly incepted company Liam Producciones, which also works in that country with Cubans Pablo Milanés and Raúl Torres. Read More

Dreaming and Making Dreams Come True: Cuban moviemaker Enrique Pineda Barnet

Cuban moviemaker Enrique Pineda Barnet directed the best Cuban musical ever filmed here: La bella del Alhambra (The beauty of the Alhambra), which won the Goya Award, among other prizes. Although the film was not the first to assume the challenge of making a musical it certainly was the first expression of a true aesthetic delight.<br /> Read More

Cuba Joins Regional Rio Group

Cuba is a full member of the Rio Group as agreed by Foreign Ministers of the regional <br /> organization during a meeting in Zacatecas, Mexico.<br /> Read More

Telephone, TV Services Restored in Santa Cruz del Sur, Camagüey, Cuba

All communication services including television, radio and telephone have been re-established in this municipality on the southern coast of Camaguey province, where category 4 Hurricane Paloma made landfall last Saturday. Read More

1st Festival of Low Budget Films by Humberto Solas is being held in Cienfuegos, Cuba

The 1st Festival of Low Budget Films by Humberto Solas is being held in Cienfuegos on November 20 to 23, and will be held every year in a difference Cuban province. Read More

No Children Die from Diabetes in Cuba

“Cuba can proudly proclaim that none of its children who have diabetes die from the disease for lack of medical care or insulin,” Dr. Oscar Diaz, director of the National Institute of Endocrinology told Granma newspaper. Read More

26th National Pediatrics Conference in Havana

One of the factors that has increased the total of Cuban children reaching pre-school age to 99% is the systematic work of the 3,000 pediatricians and 600 neonatal specialists working throughout the country, according to Fernando Domínguez Dieppa, president of the Cuban Pediatrics Society and organizer of the 26th National Pediatrics Conference that began yesterday in Havana. Read More

Cuba, as first country of the world to elaborate cosmetics from organic Spirulina algae

Cuba, as first country of the world to elaborate cosmetics from organic Spirulina algae, a <br /> microscopic blue-green algae that exists as a single celled organism turning sunlight into life <br /> energy, has increased those lines with new products of high quality. Read More

Cuba trade worth $32 million to US farmers in Virginia

Trade between Cuba and farmers in the US state of Virginia, has grown from less than $1 million to more than $32 million in just six years. Read More