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The 19th Conference of Philosophers and Social Scientists of the US and Cuba came to an end after five days Friday at the University of Havana with approval of a resolution calling for "the restoration of relations that would benefit North America, Cuba and the rest of the international community."

Representatives from 13 countries take part in the 40th running of the National Cucalambe Festival, starting Monday evening in eastern Las Tunas province through July 1. Puerto Rico brings the largest delegation, including singer Danny Rivera, the Mapeyé National Orchestra, and a member of the Hermanos Sanabria group.

Lawmakers from both the Republican party and the Democratic party are working on a new policy to expand trade with Cuba.

Some Canadian, French and British critics of Michael Moore have accused the U.S. filmmaker of painting a too rosy picture of the public health care systems of their countries while trying to expose his own nations shortcoming in his latest documentary SiCKO. But in Havana, where Moore shot a sequence of his film, the movie was given the highest marks and the filmmaker given support by the authorities.

Now, after knowing of his death, in his home in Massachusetts, where he lived after retiring as a professor at the University of Yale, where he had a fruitful career, we feel moved, not only because of the intellect that has died, but also, and above all, because he was a human being of an extraordinary kindness and wisdom that we knew and from whom we received advice and encouragement.

The Fauna Refuge of the Maximo river, housing the largest population of pink flamingos in the Caribbean, was awarded the Annual National Environment Prize by the Cuban Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment and the Academy of Science of Cuba.

Cuba finished second at the Diving Grand Prix, the last of the 2007 season, held in Rostock, Germany. China finished first in the Grand Prix with 8 gold, 3 silver and 1 bronze medal. Cuba finished second with 1 silver and 2 bronze medals followed by Canada, Germany, Russia, Australia and Mexico.

The Central Intelligence Agency attempted to assassinate Cuban President Fidel Castro as well as other personalities and foreign leaders under orders from the White House. What was already presumed and denounced will now be corroborated in the content of documents to be declassified next week.

Obsessions, death and pardon are explored by El Publico theater group in the 1677 Jean Racine tragedy Phaedra, which Cuban director Carlos Diaz says "represents powerful passion that overrides reason."

Cuba"s Foreign Investment and Economic Collaboration Minister Marta Lomas reported to the Cuban Legislature"s International Relations Committee on the course of several programs of the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas (ALBA) on Monday

The director of the National Institute of Medical Genetics in Cuba, Dr. Beatriz Marcheco Teruel, said the island is willing to contribute to the development of the specialty in Latin America. Dr. Marcheco recalled that over 100,000 Cuban health workers are serving in 103 nations around the world and noted that the medical genetics program has not yet been fully implemented in the region despite the recommendations made by the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) and the World Health Organization (WHO).

Despite other names preceded the process of creation of this genre, pianist Damaso Perez Prado (1916-1989) from Matanzas is the singer and composer that really structured Mambo.

Prime Minister Gonsalves made the point that neither of the two nations needs any member of CARICOM as its defender. "We are building mature relationships with them," he said.

The Cuban government was ready to transfer the sugarcane-based ethanol-making technology to Nigeria, said Elio Olivia, the Cuban Ambassador to Nigeria, here on Monday.

During a speech at the 3rd International Meeting "Territory and Life" held last weekend in the Spanish city of Oviedo, the Cuban ambassador to Madrid, Alberto Velazco, said that the world consumes a lot more than 90 million oil barrels per day.