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One could think that based on past performance the baseball competition of the 15th Pan American Games should be a walk for Cuba: Eleven titles in 13 tournaments including nine consecutive since the 1971 Cali Games, and six times undefeated.

The Cuban filmmaker, Enrique Pineda Barnet, National Film Laureate, donated his script payment and author's rights of Te espero en la eternidad (I Wait for You in Eternity), his latest film, to the development of young filmmakers in the country.

Cuba is participating with three stands from the Matanzas' Artisans Association at the week-long International Craftwork Fair in Lisbon, Portugal. The works by popular artisans from the Island have attracted hundreds of Lisbon residents who have praised this visual gift brought from across the Atlantic, said Cuba's Ambassador to Portugal, Jorge Castro Benitez.

Cuban Culture Minister Abel Prieto underscored the need to boost research on the indigenous cultures of Caribbean nations to face the hegemony of world power centers. We need to analyze and think of each detail related to our own identity, as a step towards to the safeguarding of indigenous traditions, and even the survival of the fair society we are currently building.

Nearly 250 Latin America and Caribbean experts show in this city Wednesday some alternatives for pre-school education in rural zones, on occasion of the International Workshop titled "Educating under Palm Trees." Ibelice Turino, coordinator of the event, told Prensa Latina that the aim is to bring visitors closer to the work carried out in three communities of this province, west of Havana, with children up to six years old.

Cuban People's Power National Assembly (Parliament) President Ricardo Alarcon and his Panamanian counterpart Elias Castillo are due to open in this capital Wednesday the 11th Inter-Parliamentary Meeting between both countries.

Experts from Havana are working on a new treatment against varicose veins in the lower limbs. Doctors at the Freyre de Andrade Clinical-Surgical Hospital noted that the new method is painless, ambulatory, less invasive, and has no medical restrictions for its use, as the patient is not anesthetized.

The Paradisus Princesa del Mar Hotel, in the Cuban beach resort of Varadero, has become one of the most demanded offers by the Spanish group Sol Meliá in the Caribbean Island. According to experts, the hotel offers 434 Junior Suites and Suites, in addition to the Royal Service on the upper floors.

It is known as "The Museum City of Cuba", the Santisima Trinidad city, one of the first seven towns founded by the Spanish conquerors (1514) that today still preserves its construction as if time did not pass by. For that reason, it was declared together with Valle de los Ingenios, World Heritage of Humankind in 1988.

One of the most worldwide-recognized views of Cuba is that of the mountains of Viñales valley. Nature has endowed exceptionally this site located 27 kilometers from the city of Pinar del Rio. Visiting this place is like getting inside Mother Nature. This most notable carsic valley of the country covers a surface of 132 kilometers and it holds the title of National Heritage and UNESCO declared it to be part of the Cultural Landscape of Mankind.

Cuba is a favorite destination to hold meetings and congresses in Latin America and the Caribbean, as it has an excellent infrastructure to guarantee the development of that tourist modality.