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Havana Weather for Feb. 23-29

Rain on Sunday and Monday, good weather over the rest of the period. Maximum temperatures will fluctuate between 27°C (81°F) and 30°C (86°F), reaching 32°C (90°F) on Friday. The minimum temperatures will range between 19°C (66°F) and 21°C (70°F).

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Cuba Makes Patent Registration Easier

Cuba eased requirements on the registration of patents issued to local inventors while it banned some scientific applications, such as human cloning, published the island’s Gaceta Official yesterday.

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Cuba Chosen by Chavez for New Surgery

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is set to undergo additional surgery this weekend in Cuba. “Everything is set there, it’s safer, because they’re the same doctors who operated on me before. They’re even familiar with the incision from that operation,” said the president.

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Rocky Road for Cubans in Ecuador

The lack of guarantees for Cubans who came to Ecuador following that country’s elimination of visa requirements for 130 nationalities in 2008 were reported this past weekend by the website Café Fuerte.

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Cuba Tests Show Chavez Needs New Surgery

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez announced on Tuesday that he would need more surgery in the area where he had a cancerous tumor removed last summer. He was in Havana, Cuba over the weekend for tests that revealed a “small lesion.”

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Cuba Rap Festival Returns to Alamar

Announced on short notice, the Cuban Rap Festival returns to Alamar, a heavily populated city on the eastern outskirts of Havana, this coming weekend February 24-26. The event’s promoter, Rodolfo Rensoli, told HT that on this occasion the program will be including more than 50 groups.

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Cuban Jurists Congress Ends Today

The seventh congress of the Union of Jurists of Cuba, being held since yesterday, concludes today at the Havana Convention Center. The meeting was attended by the heads of the Attorney General’s Office and the Supreme Court.

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