Cuba News

Capablanca Chess Tournament Kicks Off
Powered by "Cubasi.com" - (May 8, 2008)
The drawing of lots by elite chess players will focus the opening ceremony of the 43rd Capablanca Memorial International Chess Tournament, scheduled for Wednesday evening

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St Vincent and the Grenadines PM visits Cuba
Powered by "Cubasi.com" - (May 7, 2008)
He would be meeting with Cuban government leaders to strengthen bilateral relations, especially in the areas of healthcare, construction and energy saving initiatives

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Cuban President Receives Jamaica Premier
Powered by "Cubasi.com" - (May 6, 2008)
Golding is making an official visit to Cuba and he put a flower offering at the base of the monument to Cuban National Hero Jose Marti at Havana Revolution Square

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FIT CUBA, New Offers
Powered by "Prensa Latina" - (May 5, 2008)
Culture-Tourism integration is to take center stage at the International Tourism Fair -FITCUBA 2008, scheduled to kick off next Monday at the Morro-Cabana Park across Havana Bay.

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Mexican Documentaries, Project “Ambulante”
Powered by "Cubasi.com" - (May 2, 2008)
Next Thursday, May 8, Havana’s Charles Chaplin Hall will host the opening of project “Ambulante”, real documentary festival, promoted in Mexico by two young filmmakers

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May 1: Unit, Stability, and Victory
Powered by "Cubasi.com" - (May 1, 2008)
Our people is already in march of the combatant town on May 1st.

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Torrijos Thanks Cuba, Remembers Dad
Powered by "Prensa Latina" - (April 30, 2008)
On this fifth visit to the Island, the statesman recalled support by Cuba and other Latin American countries to help Panama recover sovereignty over the canal which they now try to modernize.

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More than a Hundred Children Songs to Cubadisco 2008
Powered by "Cubasi.com" - (April 29, 2008)
The XII International Fair Cubadisco 2008 will take place in this capital from May 17-25 and will be dedicated to Africa and its Diaspora, the music and the poetry.

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Cuban and Brazilian Information Institutions will Sign Agreement
Powered by "Cubasi.com" - (April 24, 2008)
Carmen Sanchez Rojas, Director of the Cuban IDICT, announced that she will sign the accord with her Brazilian counterpart, Emir Suadien, during the last day of sessions of the INFO 2008 Congress that is underway at the Convention Center in Havana with the participation of experts from 15 countries.

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Substituted Minister of Education in Cuba
Powered by "Granma" - (April 23, 2008)
The Cuban Council of State, on a proposal of the Communist Party Central Committee Political Board, has appointed Ana Elsa Velazquez Cobiella as new Education Minister

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New Transport Services Favor Cubans
Powered by "Cubasi.com" - (April 21, 2008)
The initial impact of the recovery of urban transportation service is already helping move more than 460,000 Cubans a day in 396 new omnibuses incorporated to main urban routes

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Honoris Causa Doctorate to Eusebio Leal in Perú
Powered by "Other sources" - (April 18, 2008)
Havana City Historian Eusebio Leal received on Wednesday an Honoris Causa Doctorate granted by the Ricardo Palma University of Peru during a ceremony held in Lima

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Cuban Oil: First Million Tons in First Quarter
Powered by "Cubasi.com" - (April 17, 2008)
Cuba achieved the first million tons of oil of the extraction plan expected for the first quarter this year, which means an increase in efficiency in the field.

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Anatoly Karpov to Play at Cuban University with a a gigantic 4,000 chess board simultaneous match
Powered by "Cubasi.com" - (April 16, 2008)
Russian chess Grand Master and former world champion Anatoly Karpov will take part in a gigantic 4,000 chess board simultaneous match on April 21 at the University of Computer and Informatics Sciences (UCI) in Havana

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Low-Budget Film Festival Opens in Gibara
Powered by "Other sources" - (April 15, 2008)
The International Film Festival of Gibara opened on Monday with the traditional opening parade

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