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The Fernando Ortiz Foundation awarded the prize that bears the name of that outstanding Cuban intellectual to the UNESCO Regional Culture Office for Latin America and the Caribbean. The agency was recognized for its contribution to the project The Slave Route and its cooperation with continental initiatives.

An attorney from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security was the first person to testify in the trial against self-confessed terrorist Luis Posada Carriles, the Miami-based El Nuevo Herald reported. Gina Garrett-Jackson interviewed Posada when he entered U.S. territory illegally in 2005. During that conversation the accused denied his links with the bomb attacks in Havana but frequently avoided answering her questions.

The weather for the next three days will be influenced by a cold front that will hit on Wednesday, January 12. Starting Saturday we will feel the influence of a continental high pressure system. The arrival of another cold front is expected on Wednesday, January 19.

The Clear Channel Outdoor Company took down a billboard in the city of Miami that asked for the release of the five Cubans imprisoned in the United States charged with espionage, reported IPS. According to the Miami Herald, the U.S. company said that the billboard did not meet its standards and the decision to take it down does not reflect any political position.

Cuban Deputy Foreign Minister Dagoberto Rodríguez described as fruitful the fourth round of migration talks between the island and the United States “with the aim of advancing toward the establishment of more effective cooperation mechanisms in the fight against the illegal trafficking of emigrants,” according to the official declaration of the Cuban delegation.

Representatives of popular movements from Latin America, Europe and Australia will debate until tomorrow alternatives to give a boost to their demands in the midst of the international economic crisis, as part of the 9th International Workshop on emancipating paradigms being held in the Cuban capital.

The National Centre for Sex Education (CENESEX) issued a new announcement for university students interested in being trained in the promotion of sex education, according to a communiqué released in this capital. The persons who enroll will receive, starting next February, classes related to gender, sexual diversity, gender identity and sexual rights, among other subjects.