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February 21st

Cuba's celebration of books draws millions

<p style="text-align: justify;">February 21, 2011, 12:26am. HAVANA (AP) – A river of people flows through the old colonial fortress, and the antics of clowns and music blasting from loudspeakers are interrupted only when an announcer summons the parents of a lost child. It's a festival all right, but a festival of books.The high walls of El Morro and La Cabana, which offer a spectacular view of Havana's bay, house a giant celebration that mingles literary chitchat with an exuberant popular fair where some 6 million visitors socialize, browse for sandwiches of sizzling pork and scramble for novels, essays and scientific tomes. Read More

Cuba Gears Up for Havana Drum Festival

<p style="text-align: justify;">Ozgur Tore. Sunday, 20 February 2011 20:20. Organizers of the Havana Drum Festival announced that the Guillermo Barreto in Memoriam International Drum Contest will take place from March 8 to 13.Supported by the Cuban Music Institute and the Ignacio Piñero Music Center, the event is open to Cubans and foreigners living in the island of any age.The event includes five categories: drum set, snare drums, African drums, bongos and African talking drums; each player is allowed to compete in up to two modalities. Read More

Playa Pilar at Ciego de Avila Province

<p style="text-align: justify;">Docarmo's impressions about the area. Last year, we took an excursion to the interior of the province of Ciego de Ávila, to see where Cuban people live. This year we chose to enjoy the sea for more time. We chose an excursion to the Pilar Beach (Playa Pilar), considered as one of the most beautiful beaches of Cuba. We went there by catamaran. During the trip, you (not me!) can do snorkelling to enjoy the varied marine life of coral reefs in the area. Playa Pilar was named after Hemingway's yacht. Read More

February 20th

The 21st century queen of Latin pop

<p style="text-align: justify;">Sun, Feb 20, 2011 10:26:49 IST.Sheenah Singh has gained the title of 21st century queen Of Latin pop by mixing the cultures of India, Brazil, and Cuba into one. Her music respresents the fusion of three different cultures and is pleasing to the soul. Read More

Aristide backers march amid talk of Haiti return

<p style="text-align: justify;">February 19, 2011. The Associated Press. A few thousand supporters of Aristide marched through Haiti’s capital Friday shouting they will derail a presidential runoff set for next month unless his leader returns. Read More

Over 500 Runners Registered for Havana Half Marathon

<p style="text-align: justify;">radiorebelde.HAVANA, Cuba. - Director of the Marabana-Maracuba project, Carlos Gattorno, said Friday that more than 500 people will run the traditional half marathon race (21 Km and 97.50 m) in Havana.Gattorno told ACN the Cacahual-Ciudad Deportiva circuit has been certified as the last stretch of the course had a few variations.This year runners will enter the Ciudad Deportiva sports center by the Boyeros Ave. instead of Santa Catalina St to make the final stage of the race more attractive and dynamic, Gattorno said. Read More

UN Agency Supports Modernization of Cuban Agriculture

<p style="text-align: justify;">2011.02.19 / radiorebelde.UN Agency Supports Modernization of Cuban Agricultur. Havana, Cuba.- Farmers from several Cuban provinces are benefiting from the Local Support Program for the Modernization of the Agricultural Sector (PALMA), boosted by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP).In addition to training in economic, legal, social, environmental management and also in gender, producers in the provinces of Pinar del Rio, Sancti Spiritus, Santiago de Cuba, Granma and Guantanamo receive support in terms of equipment and consumables, PALMA training coordinator Carlos Arteaga told ACN. Read More

Raul, Fidel Castro elected as delegates to Cuban party congress

<p style="text-align: justify;">English.news.cn&nbsp;&nbsp; 2011-02-20. HAVANA, Feb. 19 (Xinhua) -- Both Cuban leader Raul Castro and his brother, former leader Fidel, have been elected as delegates to the Sixth Congress of the ruling Communist Party of Cuba slated for Apr. 16-19, official TV reported on Saturday. Read More

Cuba-Argentina Joint Medical Project

<p style="text-align: justify;">HAVANA, Cuba, Feb 9 (acn) The participation of Cuban specialist Gustavo Kouri on Wednesday in the official presentation of the National Tropical Medicine Institute of Argentina (InMeT) was appreciated in that country.The director of the "Pedro Kouri" Tropical Medicine Institute met in Buenos Aires with the Health Minister of that Andean nation, Juan Manzur, the www.cubaminrex.cu web site reported. Read More

Cuba and Haiti Strengthen Cultural Exchanges

<p style="text-align: justify;">2011.02.19 - 13:44:06 /radiorebelde.Cuba and Haiti Strengthen Cultural Exchanges. Havana, Cuba.- Marie Laurence Jocelyn Lassegue, Culture and Communications Minister of Haiti, expressed on Friday in this capital her satisfaction for the strengthening of cultural bonds between her country and Cuba. Read More