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Cuba Hopes to Boost Coconut Production

Specialists from the Centre for the Development of El Salvador Mountain, in the eastern province of Guantánamo, are introducing new technologies in the cultivation of coconut, whose production has nose-dived in the last 20 years, the local press reported. The aim is to raise the results in coconut plantations through a management that is “more sustainable based on the use of local resources and adapted to the specific conditions of each area,” said Albaro Blanco Imbert, researcher with that scientific center.

Legendary Cuban actress dies

Actress María de los Angeles Santana, one of the legends of Cuban television, cinema and theatre, passed away in the island’s capital at the age of 96. Santana was awarded the National Theatre Prize in 2001 and of Television in 2003 for the work of a lifetime.

Cuba to have Telecommunications Law

Cuba will have its first telecommunications law in 2011, Wilfredo López, director of Regulations and Standards of the Ministry of Informatics and Communications, affirmed. According to the official, the legislation will establish frameworks on the use of the radio spectrum, the social role of telecommunications and the rights of operators, be they public or private.

Orientales Win Cuba All-Star Game 15-13

Cuba’s annual baseball all-star game proved disastrous for pitchers and a field day for hitters, a reflection of the regular season in which batting has stood out over pitching. The game was tied 8-8 after nine innings and in the tenth the Orientalesscored seven times only to struggle to contend Occidentales who scored five before taking the loss.

Ladies in White Against Hunger Strike

The Ladies in White asked Alejandrina García, wife of political prisoner Diosdado González, to end her hunger strike, after the renewal of the releases of the dissidents tried in 2003, according to statements to the accredited foreign press on the island, reported IPS.

Cuba on Computerized Health Systems

Cuba will present its experiences and perspectives on the computerization of the health system during the 8th International Congress of Computer Science in Health, to be held starting Monday in the Cuban capital. The island hopes to present during the event its advances in areas such as telecommunications, electronics, medical equipment and automation, reported IPS.

UN Presents Biodiversity Project in Cuba

United Nations specialists will present today in Cuba a project to conserve agricultural biodiversity in six biosphere reserves on the island, announced Lázara Raymond, a Ministry of Science, Technology and the Environment official. The initiative’s aim is the conservation and sustainable use of the traditional genetic patrimony of those rural areas, reported IPS.

Cuba Gov. Fears Opposition via Internet

The Cuban government fears the emergence of an opposition movement on the Internet, which uses social networks like Facebook to organize actions against it similar to those that occurred in Ukraine, Iran and most recently in Egypt and Tunisia, according to a video published on the Vimeo platform. The material, allegedly screened for officers of the Ministry of the Interior and the Armed Forces, claims that the United States wants to encourage access to the Internet on the island, beyond the state restrictions, to promote dissident activities, reported IPS.

Cuba Renews Campaign for Cuban Five

Cuba renewed the international campaign to ask for the release of the Cuban Five imprisoned in the United States charged with espionage, the local press reported. The International Committee to Free the Five urged persons interested in the case to write to President Barack Obama so that he pardon the Cubans, who are considered heroes on the island, reportó IPS.

US Rejects Sentence against Alan Gross

The U.S. Department of State rejected the 20 year prison sentence requested for U.S. agent Alan Gross, imprisoned in Cuba since December 2009, in a communiqué released in Washington. The White House insists that Gross is innocent and was only helping the Caribbean country’s Jewish community.