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Havana Film Festival Opens Tuesday

The 34th Havana Film Festival opens on Tuesday, December 4, at over a dozen theaters with 566 full length fiction movies, shorts and documentary and animated films showing from 46 countries. This year’s 11-day moviegoers’ marathon is dedicated to young filmmakers in general and Puerto Rico.

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Tribute to Cuba’s Abakua Martyrs

What was unusual was that for the first time there was collaboration between representatives of the Supreme Council of the Abakua Societies of Cuba and the government-sponsored Federation of University Students (FEU). (28 photos)

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Cuba to Stop Taxing Calls to USA

The Cuban government announced today that it will repeal a law passed under former President Fidel Castro in 2000 that imposed a 10 percent tax on every phone call made between the island and the United States.

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US Rejects Cuba’s Biopsy on Alan Gross

US authorities have no way of evaluating the results of the biopsy performed by Cuban doctors “and not one chosen by Gross or one from the US,” said State Department spokesperson Victoria Nuland at a press conference.

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Parliamentary Elections in February

Cuba’s Council of State of has called for elections to take place on February 3 of next year for delegates to the Provincial Assemblies of People’s Power and for deputies to the National Parliament. This would keep him in office until 2017.

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Cuba Recognizes Role of Catholic Church

Since 2010 the Church has been in dialogue with the authorities and “not only with President Raul Castro” on topics such as “the grave economic situation of the country, and the fears and demands of citizens,” but also “the aspirations and hopes” of Cubans.

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