Every year, the International Festival of New Latin American Cinema pays homages to various directors, actors and issues. This time (Dec. 2-12) these will be rendered to two institutions: the Audiovisual Media Faculty of the Superior Institute of Art (Havana) and the National Film Board of Canada.”
Read MoreSpain’s Sol Meliá chain will open the Buenavista Hotel in December, the 25th on the list of hotel installations managed by that company in Cuba, Juan Carlos López, city hotel sales head of the Marketing Department on the island, announced. The new five-star, 105-room all-inclusive is located on Cayo Santa María, on the northern central coast.
Read MoreCuban specialists will share their experiences on ecological and sustainable agriculture with more than 700 colleagues from 16 countries during the 7th Scientific Congress of the Agricultural Sciences Institute (ICA), to be held at the headquarters of this center in San José de las Lajas, south of the island’s capital, from November 23 to 26,
Read MoreCuban musician Chucho Valdés will make a tour of Spain with his Mensajeros Afrocubanos group, during which he will perform in the International Jazz Festival of Barcelona, that event’s webpage reported. Valdés, who just won the Latin Grammy Award for his CD El ultimo trago, will return to the island in December to direct the Jazz Plaza Festival (Dec. 16-19).
Read MoreThe Council of Ministers of Cuba approved the Economic Plan and State Budget for 2011 during a meeting held this weekend, the island’s state-run press reported today. That strategy, which has to be approved by parliament, begins a five-year period marked by the so-called updating of Cuban socialism.
Read MoreCuba’s insurance authorities have published a complete list of the foreign travel policy sellers that are valid for visiting the island. Here is an explanation on how to explore the list.
Read MoreFor the first time in its history Cuba received more than two million tourists from January to October, the National Office of Statistics announced. In the last 10 months, 2,068,409 visitors came to the island, which represents a 3.4 per cent increase as compared to last year.
Read MoreCuba, like many underdeveloped nations, loses a number of professionals and athletes each year. Many emigrate in search of improving their economic situation or for family or emotional reasons. Some leave legally while others take the illegal route.
Read MoreForty-three per cent of Cubans are obese or overweight, Jorge Pablo Alfonso Guerra, president of the Cuban Society of Nephrology, said when presenting his book on obesity in the central city of Sancti Spíritus.
Read MoreBaseballdecuba.com has published the full calendar for the upcoming Cuban baseball season that gets underway on November 28th with a game between last season’s champ Industriales and runner-up Villa Clara.
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