The 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.”
Read MoreSeven young US doctors who studied medicine on scholarships in Havana arrived at the Cuban field hospital in Croaix des Buquet, Haiti yesterday to lend a hand in the treating of Haiti’s earthquake victims.
Read MoreMembers of Denmark’s Moto-Mundo Bike agency, which coordinates motorcyclists’ trips to world tourist destinations, will tour Cuba for two weeks starting next February 7, announced Adolfo Prieto, president of the Latin American Motorcycles Association Club (LAMA), a group whose members are classic motorbike aficionados.
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