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Root Vegetable Production to Increase in Cuba

<p style="text-align: justify;">2011.09.05 - 11:34:17 / radiorebelde.icrt.cu / Havana, Cuba.- Even with the serious drought period that has been affecting the island since a year ago, mainly in its central and western regions, the root vegetable production will increase up to a 14 % by the end of the current year 2011 in comparison with last year´s same type of production. Read More

'Opening' of Cuba makes a Jewish Scrabble-lover feel more at home

<p style="text-align: justify;">By Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times. September 5, 2011. Reporting from Havana. He carries a dictionary under his arm and wears a very large Star of David around his neck. His name is Fidel Babani, but you can call him Señor Scrabble. Babani, in addition to being an active member of Cuba's tiny Jewish community, is president of the also small, but growing, Cuban Scrabble Assn. Read More

Coat of Arms of Las Tunas City Conferred to Carlos Alberto Cremata

<p style="text-align: justify;">2011.09.05 - 08:33:28 / radiorebelde.icrt.cu / Las Tunas, Cuba.-&nbsp; Las Tunas city´s coat of arms was conferred to Carlos Alberto Cremata Balmerti, scriptwriter, artistic director of the Cuban Television and graduated in Pedagogical Sciences degree of theater direction, who is also author of over 50 scripts of the local TV series entitled ´Y dice una mariposa´ and ´Cuando yo sea grande. Read More

First Birthday of Los Galanes Aztecas Mariachi Band

<p style="text-align: justify;">2011.09.05 - 08:46:54 / radiorebelde.icrt.cu / Santa Isabel de las Lajas, Cienfuegos, Cuba.-&nbsp; Through many cities and towns of the Cuban archipelago, the Cuban public enjoys the performances of the Los galanes aztecas Mariachi group from Cienfuegos province that will be celebrating in September 2nd its first anniversary of being created. The group was formed thanks to the initiative of Sander Monzón Pérez, who has achieved the great acceptance of the Mexican music from that municipality in Cienfuegos which has spread into other Cuban regions. Read More

Cuban "Union Poligrafica" Produces over 16 Million Notebooks for New School Year

<p style="text-align: justify;">HAVANA, CUBA, Sept 5 (acn) The director of the printing enterprise "Union Poligrafica", in Cuba, Mirla Diaz Fonseca, announced that this company produced more than 16 million notebooks for the new school year. Diaz told ACN that this institution also manufactured 7.8 million workbooks and more than 4.1 million text books oriented to different teaching levels in the country; as well as nearly 400,000 materials such as tabloids, pamphlets, and other teaching materials. Read More

Trinidad Village: Created from Honey and Sugar Cane Syrup

<p style="text-align: justify;">2011.09.05 - 11:24:39 / radiorebelde.icrt.cu / Trinidad, Sancti Spíritus, Cuba.- The Santísima Trinidad village was founded during the first days of January of the year 1514, thus dating back some 497 years. Besides, its climate and proximity to the sea as well as the fertility of its lands made of that village a coveted goal and those who settled in it favored, with the beginning of the 18th century, an economic expansion that will leave its mark forever on this site as an architectural jewelry. The urban architecture, which is well-adapted to the tropical temperature and the shining light of the Caribbean, can be watched in stately homes, parks and churches. Read More

Cuba’s Leinier Dominguez and Lazaro Bruzon Advance to Fourth Round of World Chess Cup

<p style="text-align: justify;">2011.09.05 - 12:25:35 / radiorebelde.icrt.cu / Cuba’s Leinier Dominguez and Lazaro Bruzon Advance to Fourth Round of World Chess CupHAVANA, CUBA.-&nbsp; Cuban Grand Masters (GM) Leinier Dominguez and Lazaro Bruzon advanced on Monday to the fourth round of the World Chess Cup that is under way in the Russian city of Khanty-Mansiysk. Dominguez, the best Latin American player with an ELO rating of 2,719 points, beat Russian GM Igor Lysyj (2 629) with a final score of 5-4. Read More

Cuban Exhibition on Afro-Descendents in Buenos Aires

<p style="text-align: justify;">By: Ileana Ferrer Fonte.&nbsp; 11:45Buenos Aires, Sep 5 (Prensa Latina) Photographer Roberto Chile's exhibition, "Afro-Descendants-Guanabacoa-Cuba," opens on Monday at the Nestor Kirchner Casa Patria Grande center, and will be open for a week. The show, which premiered in June at the Casa America center in Madrid, comprises 40 black and white photos taken this year in the Havana municipality of Guanabacoa, and was declared here to be of social and cultural interest on the proposal of Peronist legislator. Read More

Cuba Beats the U.S. to Defend NORCECA Volleyball Championship Title

<p style="text-align: justify;">2011.09.05 - 12:20:35 / radiorebelde.icrt.cu / HAVANA, CUBA.-&nbsp; Cuba edged the United States in five sets (25-23, 29-27, 25-27, 19-25, 15-8) on Saturday to claim the gold medals and remain champions of the Men’s North, Central American and Caribbean (NORCECA) Volleyball Championship that took place in the Puerto Rican city of Mayaguez. The Cuban attack was led by Wilfredo Leon with 31 points while Fernando Hernandez contributed 17 units to the winners’ cause. Read More

Cuba celebrates its saint for first time in years

<p style="text-align: justify;">New pictures show the Castro government in Cuba is relaxing its stance on processions by allowing one to take place for the first time in nearly sixty years. A statue of the country’s patron saint will be carried from Madruga in the east of the island to the capital Havana with festivities carrying on until December.2011 euronews. Read More