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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.

Chinese Deputy Trade Minister Wei JianGuo and Cuban Government Minister Ricardo Cabrisas said in Havana that they had set up a commission to work on joint investments in various sectors.

Cuba signed up to import more U.S. food products this week but said payment procedures introduced by the Bush administration in 2005 were hindering trade and forcing it to make deals with other countries. Cuba has been importing food like rice and chicken from the United States since 2000, when cash-only food sales were permitted as a exception to the U.S. trade embargo, turning Cuba's ideological foe into its top foreign supplier.