Cuban Grammy Winner Chucho Valdés Announces 2009 Concerts

Cuban pianist Jesus (Chucho) Valdes announced on Friday during the Panama Jazz Festival that he will perform tours in South Korea, Australia and China, where he was invited to perform in Beijing, Hong Kong and other cities, Xinhua news agency reports. Read More

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Exhibition Pequeño Planeta to unite children from Cuba, Canada and the United States

The exhibition Pequeño Planeta (Small Planet) with more than sixty drawings done by children from Canada, the United States and Cuba, was inaugurated in the Luis Díaz Oduardo Cultural Workshop, in the Vista Alegre neighborhood of this city. Read More

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Actor Playing Fidel Castro Praises the Cuban Revolutionary Leader

Mexican actor Demian Bichir, who in recent films on Ernesto Che Guevara plays the role of Fidel Castro, praised the historical leader of the Cuban Revolution on Thursday and spoke highlight of the achievement of such a genuine social project. Read More

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Indigenous movie exhibitions Miradas Cruzadas in Havana

From January 15th to 21st, 2009 the Muestra Itinerante Miradas Cruzadas: Cine Indígena Latinoamericano y Canadiense (Crossed Sights Itinerant Exhibition: Latin American and Canadian Indigenous Cinema) will come through Havana. Read More

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Argentinean President Arrives to Cuba

Argentinean President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner will arrive in Cuba on Sunday to begin an official visit at the invitation of Cuban President Raúl Castro Ruz. Read More

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Succesful season of Cuban documentaries in Peru

The season of Cuban documentaries “Los caminos de la revolución” (The Roads of Revolution) in tribute to the 50 anniversary of the Cuban Revolution continue with great public assistance in the Peruvian capital. Read More

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A hundred titles for children and young people in the Cuban literary festival

The Gente Nueva publishing house will sell more than a hundred Cuban and foreign titles, for children and young people, in the coming 2009 International Havana Book Festival, which is to start here on February 12. Read More

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Cuba's Fidel Castro "working and writing": Chavez

Fidel Castro is &quot;working, writing and following the world situation,&quot; his friend Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez said on Friday after a prolonged silence from the 82-year-old former Cuban leader fueled speculation that his health was declining.<br /> Read More

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Cuba’s Vast Underwater Heritage

Cuba has 2,820 shipwrecks registered, as well as 120 archaeological sites and a collection of some 5,000 objects taken from those sites. Read More

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Cuba to Host Documentary Encounter

Documentary filmmakers from Latin America, Europe and Australia will gather in Havana during the coming week to analyze the new directions of a genre that has enjoyed lately a reborn. Read More

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