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Elizabeth Palmeiro: «Obama, Free the Cuban 5»

<p style="text-align: justify;">"I ask U.S. President Barack Obama to listen to the worldwide clamor for freedom" for the five Cuban antiterrorist fighters unjustly imprisoned in that country. Read More

Cuban Weight Lifters Travel to Turkey

<p style="text-align: justify;">HAVANA, Cuba.-&nbsp; A Cuban six man weightlifting team will depart for Antalya, Turkey, aiming at including themselves among the top eight teams at the World Championships to run from September 18 through the 30. Read More

Invitation: Silvio Rodríguez

<p style="text-align: justify;">Havana. September 14, 2010. I believe that the Cuban Revolution dignified our country and Cubans. And that the revolutionary government has been the best government in our history. Read More

Prime Minister of the Commonwealth of Dominica on an Official Visit to Cuba

<p style="text-align: justify;">HAVANA, Cuba, Sep 14 (acn) Roosevelt Skerrit, Prime Minister of the Commonwealth of Dominica, arrived in Cuba on Tuesday morning, heading a governmental delegation to attend the 3rd CARICOM-Cuba Ministerial Meeting, to be held in Havana. Read More

Cuba Walks Away with Three Bronze Medals at World Judo Championships

<p style="text-align: justify;">2010.09.13 - 16:09:28 / [email protected]. HAVANA, Cuba.- Cuban judokas walked away with three bronze medals during the World Judo Championships that concluded on Monday in Tokyo, Japan. Read More

Rice Sowing and Harvest Set New Record in Central Cuban province

<p style="text-align: justify;">CIEGO DE AVILA, Cuba.- Farmers from Ciego de Avila province, in central Cuba, has sown some 5,850 hectare of rice, and harvested a similar number of tons of the grain this year up to this date, both new records for the territory. Read More

Chinese company provides border inspection equipment

<p style="text-align: justify;">The Cuban customs system signed an agreement in Beijing with China Light Industrial Corporation for Foreign Economic &amp; Technical Cooperation (CLETC) for the purchase of $1.48 million worth of border security inspection equipment. Read More

Zenén Calero: Theatre and Design… or Vice Versa

<p style="text-align: justify;">The particularity of Bertolt Brecht resides in that it promotes and exhibits stage designs in its room and also functions as a Center for Studies in Scenic Design in Cuba. In order to reconstruct the story of Cuban scenery, exhibitions have been developed of masters such as Raúl Oliva, Eduardo Arrocha, María Elena Molinet and Salvador Fernández. Read More

June, August Hottest in Cuba since 1951

<p style="text-align: justify;">09/13/2010. Cuba sweated through its hottest June and August since 1951, and the forecast is for this year to be the hottest worldwide, according to a Monday report in the newspaper Granma. August had extreme maximum and minimum temperatures, very significant figures for this month, the article said. Read More

AP: Cuba to cut 500,000 gov't workers; reform salaries

<p style="text-align: justify;">HAVANA. " Cuba announced Monday it will cast off at least half a million state employees by mid-2011 and reduce restrictions on private enterprise to help them find new jobs" the most dramatic step yet in President Raul Castro's effort to radically remake employment on the island. Read More