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The story told by Marisela Moreno impacted the audience. ¨I taught classes of performing arts to a boy having serious personality problems. The boy lived amid an eternal hell: In his house, his mother betrayed his father and had affairs with other men in front of him. His father got drunk and hit his mother when arriving from work¨. ¨The boy reproduced that violence; he had a different problem every day and hit the girls. I wouldn't say he became a saint, but his interaction with us and the workshops changed his attitude. After leaving school he wrote me a very affectionate letter.¨

Cuban pianist Frank Fernández was selected to represent Latin American in the upcoming celebration for the 140th anniversary of Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow as Internet website frankfernandezpianista.com reported. Fernández was selected to perform among a group of notable graduates of the prestigious Music School considered Mecca of the musicians from all over the world.

Over 350 thousand Cubans are working today in the Urban Agricultural Movement with the objective to increase the still depressed supply of agricultural products in the Caribbean nation. The movement appeared in 1994 and is also implemented in Venezuela, based on an ecological approach with the substitution of fertilizers and pesticides by organic fertilizer and biological controls against plague.

More than 500 publishers from 82 countries will participate at the 16th International Book Fair in Cuba (FIL), which will cover 40 cities, and opens at the San Carlos de la Cabana Fort in Havana on February 8. In the announcement news conference, FIL President Iroel Sanchez explained this fair will have 135 exhibitors, 82 of them foreigners, a never before registered figure, attesting perhaps that word has spread of Cubans love for books.

"Long Live Cuba" is the title of a new image campaign at the Madrid International Tourism Fair (FITUR), revealed the Tourism minister Manuel Marrero Cruz.

The world premiere of the film "Madrigal", by outstanding Cuban film director Fernando Pérez, will take place in the non-competitive section of the Berlinale Special of the coming Berlin International Film Festival, Germany, country where the filmmaker is now.

New videos and photos of Cuban President Fidel Castro meeting with his Venezuelan counterpart Hugo Chávez were shown on national television Tuesday evening.

Cuban writer Alberto Abreu received the Casa de Las Americas 2007 Prize in the category of artistic-literary essay on Thursday. Abreu, a narrator and art critic, won the award unanimously for his essay Los juegos de la escritura o la (re) escritura de la Historia (The games of writing or re-writing history).

Dr. Naranjan S. Dahlla, director of the International Academy of Cardiovascular Sciences (IACS) headuartered in Canada, praised Cuba's development in this medical specialty.

Cuban multi-champion Ivan Pedroso is now in condition to extend his chain to 18 consecutive years jumping over eight meters, in a season in which he will defend his Pan American crown in the long jump in the Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro.

Sight restoring eye surgeries have begun in Santiago de Cuba at the new ophthalmology service of the Juan Bruno Zayas General Hospital. The facilitys state-of-the-art equipment is at the service of the population free of charge, as are all other types of care.

The school where Fidel Castro and his brothers Raul and Ramon studied was re-inaugurated after being renovated as a gesture of respect for Cubas national hero Jose Marti on the 154 anniversary of the independence leaders birth

New Chinese Yutong buses have been involved in a number of accidents of which the main cause has been the irresponsibility of their drivers

The highest distinction of the government of Guinea Bissau, the Amilcar Cabral medal, was received by Esteban Lazo as representative of the Cuban president. It was delivered by the prime minister of Guinea Bissau, Mr. Aristides Gomes

Popular orchestra of danceable music Los Van Van, belonging to the artists catalog of ARTex`s Clave Cubana, will be involved around February and March in an ample artistic-commercial project around Europe.