Hotel Nacional de Cuba awarded

<div align="justify"> El Hotel Nacional de Cuba was awarded the Excellency Award 2010. The same was granted by the travel agency Thomas Cook in correspondence with the customer feedback and the various inspections carried out by this during the year. </div> Read More

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Brilliant performance by Carlos Acosta in Japan

<div align="justify"> Monica Mason, director of the Royal Ballet said it is a pride of her company to have the presence of Carlos Acosta, the Cuban dancer, who was presented yesterday at the Tokyo Bunka Kankan Great Theater of Japan. </div> Read More

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ALBA Members Agree to Create Permanent Commission

<div align="justify"> HAVANA, Cuba, Jun 25 (acn) Participants in the 10th Summit of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA) agreed to create a Permanent Commission of the organization.<br /> </div> Read More

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A cultural evening as part of the 3rd Annual International Che Guevara Conference

<div align="justify"> Saturday night of the conference will be a special evening about the struggle for freedom of the 5 Cuban heroes held in US prisons. </div> Read More

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Agriculture Committee to Vote on Freedom Travel to Cuba on Wednesday, June 30

<div align="justify"> A few weeks ago you were informed about H.R. 4645, the latest version of the &quot;Freedom to Travel to Cuba&quot; Bill, now known as the &quot;Travel Restriction Reform and Export Enhancement Act&quot; that will be voted on in the House Committee on Agriculture on June 30! </div> Read More

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Teatro Buendia with Goodman Production

<div align="justify"> I was interviewing a Cuban director named Flora Lauten, and a writer named Raquel Carrio, over the telephone. </div> Read More

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Oil Spill Diplomacy: The Response from the Americas

Booming operations continue in the Gulf of Mexico as part of the cleanup effort from the BP oil spill. Read More

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Cuba supports Syria's bid for the Golan, restates backing of Palestinians' rights

<div align="justify"> From a dispatch from the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA): In a statement to SANA ahead of President Bashar al-Assad's upcoming visit to Cuba, Chargé d'Affaires at the Cuban Embassy in Damascus Pedro Estevez Pineiro described the visit as &quot;historic,&quot; adding that it will help strengthen bilateral relations between the two countries. </div> Read More

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Social order needs change: South Africa-Cuba

<div align="justify"> Pretoria - South Africa and Cuba agreed on Friday that more had to be done to change the world's social order to enable a response to poverty, disease and underdevelopment, the international relations department said. </div> Read More

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Fernández to discuss Cuba at Museum

Dr. Damian Fernandez, former director of the Cuban Research Institute at the Florida International University and provost of Purchase College, will present Utopia/Dystopia Read More

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