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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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13th Havana Theatre Festival

The Cuban National Council on Performing Arts (CNAE) is inviting artists from around the world to take part in the 13th Havana’s International Theatre Festival, dedicated to the 50 years of Cuban Theatre under the Revolution. Read More

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Literature for the 489th anniversary of the City of Havana to celebrate

The handing in of the awards of the Luis Rogelio Nogueras Competition will be part of the 489th birthday of the Village of San Cristóbal, organized by the Provincial Center of Literature and Book from the City of Havana. Read More

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