Cuban filmmaker Ian Padron will open the 13th edition of the Havana Film Festival (April 12-20) with his award-winning film Habanastation, which will be seen for the first time by the New York public.
Read MoreGranma’s Alfredo Despaigne cracked home runs number 34 of the current Cuban baseball season setting a new league record in the second inning on Tuesday night April 3 (2012), in Havana’s Latin American Stadium. Later in the game he also belted No. 35.
Read MoreState-owned enterprises in the central Cuban province of Sancti Spiritus are implementing a project to promote the gradual clean-up of the Yayabo River.
Read MoreAmerican socialist Omari Musa will give an address today about Malcolm X at the Eighth International Nicolas Guillen Symposium and Festival of Music and Poetry, which is being held here in Havana until April 6.
Read MoreAs of February, the number of self-employed workers in Cuba reached 371,200 workers, according to statistics from the Ministry of Labor and Social Security. The most common are those engaged in food preparation and food sales, which represent a sixth of the total number of small business operations.
Read MoreThe Eighth International Nicolas Guillen Symposium and Festival of Music and Poetry opens today in Havana. Topics include “The Race Question in Literature and Art,” “Great Anti-racist” Figures” and “Forms of Rebellion in Africa.”
Read MoreCuban physician Jeovany Vega Jimenez ended his hunger strike on Sunday after being reauthorized by Cuban authorities to practice medicine. Jimenez Vega as well as Dr. Rodolfo Martinez Vigoa had been prohibited from practicing their professions after the two of them protested to the Ministry of Public Health asking for a review of their salaries.
Read MoreThe exhibit “Engravings of the New China” (1949-2009) was opened on Saturday by the Chinese ambassador, Zhang Tuo, at the San Francisco de Asis Convent in Old Havana.
Read MoreVenezuelan President Hugo Chavez arrived in Cuba on Saturday night from Caracas. He was met at the airport by Cuban President Raul Chavez. He will immediately begin a second round of radiotherapy in his battle to defeat cancer.
Read MoreCuban clocks will be moved forward an hour at midnight tonight to begin Summer Time and make optimum use of the solar light to save energy.
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