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January 14th

Cuba Hosts International Conference on World Challenges and Marti's Thinking

This event will follow in the footsteps of the first conference held in 2003, which gave birth to the World Council of the Jose Marti Project, said Armando Hart Davalos, president of the José Martí Cultural Society. Read More

Book on Athletes with Physical Challenges Launched in Cuba

For the first time, the history of the exploits of Cuban athletes with physical challenges has been compiled; it is entitled «The Forging of Willpower». Read More

Cuban music triumph in France with Camerata Romeu

Their performance was followed by long applauses that priced the debut of this special orchestra in France. Read More

Guantanamo detainee Sami al-Hajj 'to be released'

Sami al-Hajj has been held as an ''enemy combatant'' by the US forces since 2001. He has never been charged. He is one of about 20 prisoners who have carried out hunger strikes in protest of their imprisonment and treatment at the US jail. Read More

National Award of Social Sciences to be delivered

The 2007 National Award of Social Sciences will be oficially given to a Rolando Rodríguez García the 15 of Febraury 2008 as part of the activities of the XVII Havana International Book Fair. Read More

Cuban Electoral Tools Up and Running

On election day, Cubans will vote for 1,201 delegates to the 14 provincial assemblies, renewable every 2.5 years, and 614 parliamentary deputies, who will assume their posts for five years. Read More

January 13th

Cuba and Chile Inaugurate Direct Flights

The first flight, an IL-96 Cubana jetliner, took off from the Chilean capital with 230 passengers on board. Read More

The XVII International Book Fair Cuba 2008.

The most extraordinary literary meeting, will be officially inaugurated at San Carlos de la Cabaña Fortress on February 13. Read More

To «Change All That Must Be Changed» in Cuba

I find that politics is not defined as techniques in sloganeering or rhetoric, or as the dividing line between those who formulate and establish laws and those that obey them. Read More

Evocation of Guillén in the 40th anniversary of El gran Zoo

In 2008 it will be 50 years from the publication of the book La paloma de vuelo popular (The dove of popular flight) and this celebration will be one of the pretexts of the March Colloquium dedicated to Guillen. Read More