The Estado de SATS online initiative, coordinated by physicist Antonio Rodiles, will be showing documentary “Awakening” (Despertar) on April 20 following its exclusion from the recently concluded Exhibition of Young Filmmakers festival.
Read MoreThe oldest hydroelectric plant in Cuba is reaching its centenary as it goes through a renovation effort that will make it the largest generator in western Pinar del Rio province.
Read MoreThe Low-Budget Cinema Festival (Spanish: El Festival de Cine Pobre), held annually in the eastern Cuban town of Gibara (Holguin), is beginning its tenth edition today, which will run through April 22 with over 110 works in the competition.
Read MoreA large group of signers have sent an open letter to Ecuadorian president Rafael Correa praising his stand to not attend the “Summit of the Americas,” which took place over the weekend.
Read MoreThe dance company Danza Contemporanea de Cuba will debut a work by Israeli choreographer Itzik Galili as part of the cultural program organized by the London Olympics.
Read MoreFour Cubans aboard a raft in the Gulf of Mexico were rescued on Saturday by personnel of the Mexican navy, announced the National Immigration Institute.
Read MoreThe social worker Andres Carrion Alvarez, who was detained and roughed up just before the Mass of Benedict XVI in Santiago de Cuba on March 26, was released late Friday, reported the website of the Miami-based “Radio Marti.”
Read MoreVenezuelan president Hugo Chavez made his sixth trip to Cuba in two months on Saturday, to continue his radiotherapy treatment against cancer. On this occasion, Chavez plans to stay for over a week in Havana, unlike the last three visits when he arrived on Saturday and returned home on Wednesday evening.
Read MoreThe Summit of the Americas ended without a final declaration, with Cuba and the Malvinas Islands being the chief apples of discord.
Read MoreA half century of attempts from Washington to bring down the Castro government in Cuba through an economic embargo, travel ban and diplomatic isolation is under attack from friends and foes alike at the VI Summit of the Americas in Cartagena, Colombia.
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