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More than 850 persons who underwent eye surgery in Cuba have benefited from the spectacles laboratory established at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation

Cuba will send its best athletes to Rio de Janeiro, confirmed Jose Ramon Fernandez, president of the Cuban Olympic Committee, who went to a meeting of the Executive Committee of the Pan American Sport Organization in this Brazilian city.

Pablo Milanés, founder of the Cuban Nueva Trova musical movement will leave for Montevideo in April in order to give a concert in the Peñarol Palace

More than 200 artists, teachers and students from across Latin America and Europe will attend the event, said organizing committee president Ramona de Saa in a press conference.

Cuban filmmaker Tomás Piard, director of Itaca is successfully unwrapping his cinematographic project El viajero inmóvil

ARTEX S.A, recently announced the nominated titles for the upcoming Cubadisco 2007 to be held in our country on May

March 29, marks the 17th anniversary of the Cuban Program of medical treatment for child victims of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear accident and its aftermath. It is a page of love, dedication and humanism.

Participants to the 5th edition of the International Choir Festival América Cantat, will have the opportunity of enjoying since March 30th until April 7th of a wonderful professional, cultural, and social exchange.

Cuba currently has over 12,000 integral therapists in the health sector, chiefly trained in new health programs of the Revolution.

Cuban President Fidel Castro criticized "the sinister idea of turning food into fuel," which was definitively established as an economic line of the US foreign policy.

Spain s Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos is expected to start a visit to Cuba on April 1, invited by his Cuban counterpart Felipe Perez Roque, Granma newspaper reports on Thursday.

Major League Baseball gave us Van Lingle Mungo, Mickey Klutts, Urban Shocker and Calvin Coolidge Julius Caesar Tuskahoma McLish. Many a big leaguer has been known as much for his screwball name as his prowess on the diamond.

Cuban province of Sancti Spiritus reports an unemployment rate of 0,9%, the lowest in the history of this territory only preceded by Las Tunas province's rate. Youth and women are assigned a priority for employment and education in this central territory, and at present moment, every person able to work is already employed.

To widen its variety of tropical fruits, Cuba is now experimenting to grow peaches. Small parcels (2.47 acres) have been planted from western Pinar del Rio province to Granma in the eastern part of the island in order to collect enough seeds for nurseries. Plantations have already flowered throughout the country.

Historical links between Cuba and Mexico will be strengthened with the celebration of a cultural week on the culture of the Mexican northern state of Coahuila, from April 21 to 28.