Chinese vice president arrives in Havana for visit

<p style="text-align: justify;">HAVANA, June 4 (Xinhua) -- Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping arrived in Havana Saturday evening, kicking off his official visit to Cuba.Xi is paying the visit as a guest of Cuba's First Vice President of Council of State and Council of Ministers Jose Ramon Machado Ventura.In a written statement delivered at the airport upon his arrival, Xi said Cuba is an important country in Latin America and Caribbean region. Read More

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Cuban Ranchers Must Learn about Pastures, says Agriculture Executive

<p style="text-align: justify;">HAVANA, Cuba, Jun 4 (acn) Juan Francisco Ramírez, director of the Pasture and Forage Research Institute (IPF) in Villa Clara province,said Cuban ranchers must understand that growing quality pasture is needed to improve the raising of cattle. "The little use they give to the seed farms we have in this province (six) where we grow over 700 varieties of grass and leguminous plants, show their lack of knowledge about this" he told ACN news agency. Read More

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Cuba wins friends with food

<p style="text-align: justify;">Sat, 2011-06-04 19:36. It was like waking up in food heaven. Last weekend, The Waterfront Restaurant of The Hyatt Regency in Port-of-Spain played host to the Cuban Food Festival and what a gastronomic delight it was. Playing host to the media was Hyatt’s Neemah Persad-Celestine, who introduced diners to the creations of visiting Cuban chef Santiago Goutierrez Lezcano and Hyatt Executive Chef Fernando Franco. Joining the media for dinner were Cuban Ambassador Humberto Rivero Rosaria, Port-of-Spain Mayor Louis Lee Sing, Jim and Prof Jeanette Morris, ACS/AEC Director of Sustainable Tourism, ACS/AEC conference and protocol officer Marina CA Edwards. Read More

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Tourism Fair a Success, Say Cuban Authorities

<p style="text-align: justify;">Cuban authorities described as successful the results of the recently concluded International Tourism Fair FITCuba 2011, mainly in the fields of business and destination potentials.According to official figures released in a communiqué of the Tourism Ministry, at least 1,500 people from 45 countries visited the venue of the fair at the Morro-Cabana historic-military park.The event, held on May 2-7, was dedicated to Havana as a destination, to Mexico as Guest of Honor and to the multi-destination form of travel.The official delegation of Mexico was led by Tourism Minister Gloria Guevara. Read More

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Cuban painter to hold an exhibition in Berlin

<p style="text-align: justify;">By: Mary Luz Borrego. The young painter from Trinidad, in the Cuban province of Sancti Spíritus, Yudit Vidal Faife, is currently holding one of her paintings exhibited in the Magnificat Art Gallery, in Berlin, as part of the Art and Prison project, where another one of her pieces will be auctioned for the benefit of the prisons.Yudit is also involved with two paintings in the DIN A4 Project, by the Dutch artist Ernst Kraft, who is holding an itinerant exhibition of pieces in a A4 format aiming to join several artistic tendencies that he is showing around different cities in the world. Read More

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Major Award for Heberprot-P

<p style="text-align: justify;">It is no longer news that the Cuban injectable drug Heberprot-P has revolutionized the treatment of patients with diabetic foot ulcers. It is known that their use reduces the number of amputations of lower limbs, accelerates the healing of damaged tissue, reduces hospital costs and enables faster reintegration into society.However, despite many advantages, its application has not reached the expected dimensions. Read More

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Cuba Presents Key Principles on Ecological Economy to the UN

<p style="text-align: justify;">Cuba stressed the need for a different, more just and equitable world economic order as one of the key elements for the Ecological Economy concept, on Thursday in the United Nations.The Cuban Permanent Representative to the UN Pedro Núñez Mosquera presented this and other ideas during a debate about ecological economics presided over by the UN General Assembly President Joseph Deiss, the Prensa Latina news agency reported. Read More

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Cuban Handicapped Athlete Sets World Record in Ball Control

<p style="text-align: justify;">2011.06.04 - 14:09:15 / radiorebelde.icrt.cu. Havana, Cuba.- Cuban handicapped athlete Lazaro Curbelo Pupo set a new world record in ball control when he hit a football 183 times without letting it touch ground while carrying 105 pounds on his shoulders.This is the sixth such record for Curbelo, who suffers from dwarfism, and has become an expert on ball control with weights. Read More

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USA denies its Fishermen Attendance at Tournament in Cuba

<p style="text-align: justify;">2011.06.04 - 13:07:51 / radiorebelde.icrt.cu. Havana, Cuba.- Some 20 yachts of US fishermen will not participate in the 61st Ernest Hemingway International Marlin Fishing Tournament, because they were denied license to set sail for Cuba by their government. In a press conference held on Friday at the capital’s Hemingway Marina, Jose Miguel Diaz, Commodore of the Hemingway International Nautical Club, pointed out that the current US administration also limited the participation of 19 fishing amateurs. Diaz said that in spite of restrictions, the United States will be the most represented country at this new edition of the event, with five teams in competition. Read More

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Chinese Vice-President to Arrive in Cuba

<p style="text-align: justify;">2011.06.04 - 13:13:32 / radiorebelde.icrt.cu. Havana, Cuba.- Havana, Cuba.- Chinese Vice-President and member of the Standing Committee of the Communist Party Politburo Xi Jinping will arrive in Cuba tonight on an official visit. During his stay Jinping will meet with Cuban President and First Vice-President Raul Castro and Jose Ramón Machado Ventura, respectively, among other activities. Read More

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