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January 4th

Sucu-suco Festival held in Isle of Youth

The Sucu-suco Festival, dedicated to the Cuban musical genre which identifies the Isle of Youth closed the Week of the Isle of Youth culture recently held. Read More

Agricultural and Forest Technicians Receive International Help for Different Projects in Las Tunas

More than 500, 000 Cuban convertible pesos invested the Association of Agricultural and Forest Technicians (ACTAF) in development projects for the ecological and sustainable urban agriculture. Read More

Garcia Marquez Book Draws Big Turnout

Several hundred persons turned out last week at Havanas Pabellon Cuba for the presentation of a new Cuban edition of the book One Hundred Years of Solitude by Nobel Laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Read More

New Cuban Childrens Music CD Presented

The album, named Chiquilín, is the most recent release of the EGREM record company and was presented in Havana at the Kart Marx Theater. Read More

Computer and Electronics Youth Clubs Increase Services in Ciego de Ávila

The Computer and Electronics Youth Clubs of Ciego de Ávila increased their services with the inauguration of a digital library. The new facility provides the users with free access to more than 4,800 volumes. Read More

Cuban Intellectuals Consider the 2007 As a Year of Important Cultural Debates.

Intellectuals from Cuba have qualified the 2007 as a year of valuable cultural debates, which will have its continuity in the 2008. Read More

Fidel Castro Receives Messages for 49th Anniversary of the Revolution.

The presidents Daniel Ortega, from Nicaragua, and Alexander Lukashenko, from Byelorrussia, sent congratulation messages to the president from Cuba, Fidel Castro, for the 49th anniversary of the triumph of the Revolution. Read More

The Agrofuels, an Attack against the Life

The driving forces of the biotechnology suggest the expansion in the cultivation of soya bean "as measure for the successful adoption of transgenic technology by the farmers", according to press media. Read More

January 3rd

Another Year of Books

Hundreds of titles published, millions of copies sold, fairs and book and literature festivals, important international prizes for Cuban writers: year 2007 has finished in Cuba with a positive outcome regarding literature. Read More

Three writers won the Carpentier award

The Cuban writers Margarita Mateo, Gina Picart and Alberto Garrandes won the 2008 Alejo Carpentier award, the most important competition for unpublished texts in Cuba. Read More