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Cuban popular music will be present at 14 festivals of Europe in the voice of Sierra Maestra Conjunct.

Choral Society of Bolivia made a special performance in La Paz, where they sang classical pieces of Cuban music

The XII International Festival of Poetry, devoted to Africa and the Caribbean will be held in Havana from May 28 to June 2

The Cuban painter, Octavio Irving, won "La Joven Estampa" Awards 2007, an event sponsored by Casa de las Americas, with his painting sequence "Persistencia de las formas".

Differently to what usually happens during those events where market and fashion trends prevail, the Awards Committee of the International Disk Fair was characterized, once more, by its cultural excellence, after granting the Grand Prix to two works that denote the great interest of the Cuban recording companies to keep on being at the top level.

A high-tech hydroelectric plant is being built at the Cuban town of Rio Grande, in the mountainous zone of the eastern province of Santiago de Cuba.

Intense rains fallen in the last hours in the northeastern city of Banes and eastern city of Camaguey provoked serious damage in dwellings, but there was no report of human losses.

About 250 agribusiness people from 23 US states are expected to take part in a three-day negotiation round with Cuban marketing firm Alimport in Havana as of Monday, Director General of the firm, Pedro Alvarez, informed during the weekend.

A non-official meeting on the prevention of hurricanes was carried out in Monterrey, Mexican state of Nuevo Leon, with the participation this week of experts from Cuba and United States.

Trying to assimilate and expand power generation through the force of winds, Cuba will build three windfarms in 2077, for a gradual take off of that energy, according to government authorities.

Captain Mariano Barberan and Lieutenant Joaquin Collar were the pilots of the Cuatro Vientos spacecraft. They traveled 4533 miles over the Atlantic Ocean, throughout it widest part on board of that large Hispano-Swiss Breguet of 850 HP.