Cuba plans 24-hour television channel in the first half of this year with foreign content

Cuba now has five state-run channels, one of which, Cubavision International, can only be seen over cable television. At the beginning of the year, it became Cuba's first channel to broadcast 24 hours a day. Read More

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Cuban National Ballet will travel in April to Egyp and Spain

The Cuban National Ballet (BNC, after its initials in Spanish), lead by the prima ballerina assoluta Alicia Alonso, will travel in April to Egypt as part of a tour that will then move to Spain, where it will end in the last days of May. Read More

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Cuban Institute of Radio and Television made the announcement to open TV channel with foreign content.

The move to provide more foreign content on Cuban TV comes at a time when Cuba's new president, Raul Castro, has begun lifting what he has called "excessive prohibitions" in the country. Cuba's state-run television broadcaster says it plans to launch a 24-hour channel with mostly foreign content in a move to provide Cuban audiences with more variety. Read More

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Cuba: Nominees to Cubadisco 2008 Announced

Over 100 discs were nominated to the International Fair Cubadisco 2008 Awards, which 12th edition will run in Havana from May 17-25, dedicated to Africa and its Diaspora, music and poetry. Read More

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CUBA is to extend services provided by its medical personnel to 81 countries during the year

CUBA is to extend services provided by its medical personnel to 81 countries during the year, announced Alberto González, director of the Ministry of Public Healths Central Cooperation Unit. González reported that work has begun to prepare new groups of collaborators who will travel to countries such as the Solomon Islands in the Pacific Ocean. Read More

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Dies the helmsman of the Granma yacht that carried Fidel Castro from Mexico to Cuba

Norberto Collado Abreu, the helmsman of the Granma yacht that carried Fidel Castro from Mexico to Cuba to launch his revolution in 1956, has died in Havana. Read More

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An urgent need for Cuba: Information literacy in health

Good practice should form the basis for the development of literacy, transferring positive experiences contributes to improving the quality of the process and encourage collaboration among the partners in the literacy program; communicate and share experiences in the process of literacy is the foundation for the program's success. Read More

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Elect Leaders: Cuban Writers and Artists Union (UNEAC)

Delegates to the Seventh National Congress of the National Cuban Writers and Artists Union (UNEAC) are to elect Wednesday the new executive committee of that institution, on the second day of the meeting, to be run until April 4. Read More

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Cuban Revolution leader Fidel Castro sent a letter to the 7th Congress of the UNEAC

Cuban Revolution leader Fidel Castro sent a letter to over 400 delegates gathered at the 7th Congress of the Cuban Union of Artists and Writers expressing that although he can not attend the forum he is aware of the concerns of all members of the organization. Read More

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Moments from the Romerías in Holgín Cuba

Under the slogan Patria es Humanidad (Homeland is Humanity) and in tribute to the 110th anniversary of José Martís crossing through the territory of Holguín, young people from here and there show their artistic expressions through the different cultural manifestations in the best stage of the world, the city of Holguín and in the happiest festivities: the May Romerías. Read More

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