Cuban authorities hope to expand in 2010 its charcoal exports to Europe based on marabú, a thorny shrub that propagates rapidly and that has become one of the principal obstacles for national agriculture, reported IPS. About a third of the arable land in Cuba is covered in marabú.
Read MoreCuba’s state-run television will broadcast today El Trencito (The Little Train), a three-dimensional animated cartoon of the trilogy Dados a la diversidad (Given to Diversity), a series that hopes to “make society reflect on issues such as sexual diversity, gender roles and discrimination.”
Read MoreThe 35th Vuelta a Cuba 13-day competition cycling tour of the island begins on Tuesday with stage one from far eastern Baracoa to the city of Guantanamo (153 kms.). A total of ten foreign teams are competing along with cyclists from the host country. Besides the Cubans, other top racers include the Canadian team with Keuen Lacombe, who won four stages of the event in 2009.
Read MoreCuban Vice President Esteban Lazo arrived to Haiti on Monday to meet with Haitian President Rene Preval and visit the Cuban medical brigade. For over a decade Cuba has maintained a commitment to health care assistance in Haiti that has also included the training of several hundred young Haitian doctors in Cuba.
Read MoreLaura Chinchilla, 50, the candidate of current President Oscar Arias Liberacion Nacional Party (PLN), won the presidential elections in Costa Rica on the first round on Sunday, reported the Cuban press. When she takes office, Chinchilla will become the Central American country’s first ever female head of state.
Read MoreDayron Robles recorded the top 60-meter indoor hurdles time of the year on Saturday, 7.48 seconds in Stuttgart, Germany. He needed every fraction to beat David Oliver of the USA who clocked 7.49.
Read MoreSpanish Minister of Education Angel Gabilondo will travel to Cuba next week to participate in the 7th University 2010 International Congress, announced the embassy of that European country. Gabilondo will be accompanied by the deans of several Spanish universities.
Read MoreAfter a 30-year absence from Cuban stages, the Russian Bolshoi Ballet returns to Havana for a performance on February 13th at the 5,000 seat Karl Marx Theater.
Read MoreRussian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov heads for Cuba next week to hold talks with Cuban leaders and attend the 19th Havana International Book Fair to which his country is this year’s special guest.
Read MoreBBC Mundo blogger in Havana, Fernando Ravsberg, reported Thursday on an unpleasant encounter with the police “for having drank a coffee and conversed with a [Cuban] journalism student who I had helped with his graduating thesis.”
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