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The prosecutor’s office presented a fax allegedly signed by Luis Posada Carriles that relates him to the terrorist attacks on Cuban tourist installations in 1997. The document had been objected to by the defense, but Judge Kathleen Cardone finally accepted its presentation. Posada is accused of lying to the U.S. immigration authorities after he illegally entered the US in 2005. His trial is taking place in El Paso, Texas.

The clocks in Cuba will move forward an hour at midnight Saturday as Daylight Savings Time 2011 begins on the island. As of Sunday March 20th the island will be -4 hours GMT instead of -5.

Cuba registers a marked increase in infant obesity, according to studies on children less than 11 years old at the National Centre for Medical Genetics and the Montané Museum of Anthropology of the Faculty of Biology of the University of Havana, it was reported at the Anthropos 2011 International Convention of Anthropology, which concludes today on the island.

The impact of cinema in Cuban rural communities will be the center of discussion of the 10th Jorge Villazón Cinema Meeting, to be held Mar. 24-31 in the town of San Fernando de Camarones, in the central province of Cienfuegos.

Cuba has today the largest number of specialists in first and second degree medicine in its history, Minister of Public Health Roberto Morales Ojeda affirmed. Morales recognized that there are still discipline problems in that sector, which lead to complaints from the population.

The 2004 Olympic Gold Medalist Odlanier Solis of Cuba puts his perfect record in professional boxing on the line Saturday in Cologne, Germany in a bout against World Heavyweight Champion Vitali Kliotschko, 39, of the Ukraine.

Cuba should “be prepared for that (US government) project that is so sinister and alien to an authentic cultural exchange” against Cuba, Minister of Culture Abel Prieto affirmed in a ceremony to pay tribute to a State Security agent who revealed alleged US plans to promote anti-government actions among intellectuals and artists.

Political prisoner Ricardo Librado Linares will be released in the next few days, with which only two of the 75 dissidents sentenced in 2003 will remain in prison, the Havana Archbishopric announced. Linares refused to accept the offer of leaving the country and traveling to Spain, according to the agreement of the Cuban authorities with the Catholic Church and the government of Spain.

The Council of Ministers of the European Union (EU) will not discuss the subject of relations with Cuba in its meeting next Monday and will postpone this analysis for the upcoming months, the press in Brussels reported.

A high pressure center located in the southern United States will be moving toward the east around the middle of the period to create nice weather conditions with light breezes and make the likelihood of rain low. The maximum temperatures will fluctuate between 28°C (82°F) and 29°C (84°F), and the minimum temperatures will be around 18°C (64°F).