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Cuban children, adolescents and youths already enjoy the holiday period, after the academic year in the different teachings. There are many ways of having fun in these months of July and August, although in spite of the high temperatures that falls on our surroundings.

"It is not an embarrassment for anyone to lose to Cuba in any of the competitions because the island has a tradition of 50 years at least, in sports competitions", said the Brazilian Head of State during an interview published in different Brazilian dailies.

"The recognition received from the top leadership of the Revolution is, first of all, a commitment to continue, and to improve our work in every sphere", said Miguel Acebo Cortiñas, member of the Central Committee and first secretary of Cuban Communist Party in the province of Sancti Spiritus when referring to the celebrations for the 54 anniversary of the Moncada garrison attack.

The Cuban youth have always played a leading role in the history of revolutionary Cuba. For that reason Julio Martinez, the first secretary of the Cuban Young Communist League (UJC by its abbreviation in Spanish), stated that the Young Communist League will be discussing ways to work more efficiently and use work styles that allow the members to get closer to Cuban young people

The authenticity of the Cuban rumba group Los Muñequitos de Matanzas received raving audience reviews at the recently concluded Montreal 2007 Jazz Festival. The legendary group from the northwestern Cuban province of Matanzas performed before thousands of people, giving the best of their traditional repertoire while showing that rumba is alive in todays Cuban music.

Silvio Rodriguez, a famous Cuban singer and song writer, is going on an unusual tour: hes visiting Cuban prisons as part of an initiative to promote human values and virtues. His aim is to help transform Cuban penitentiaries into real schools of salvation, instead of warehouses that stockpile, punish and ultimately produce more proficient criminals and offenders.

More that 23,000 teachers graduated from the higher pedagogical institutes in Cuba. Among the new teachers are the first 4,827 secondary school «Generalist Teachers.»

Vietnam's ambassador to Cuba, Pham Tien Tu was awarded the Cuban Friendship Medal by the Council of State in a ceremonyheld at the Foreign Relations Ministry (MINREX) in Havana.

Some 10.000 Venezuelans have been treated in the Havana-based Cira Garcia Hospital since Cuba and Venezuela began implementing a health cooperation agreement in 2001. According to the head of the department of medical records in the healthcare institution, Antolín Lovaina Gil, 950 Venezuelan patients have undergone aesthetic, orthopedic or brain surgery.

The Political Bureau of Cuba's Communist Party Central Committee chose the Eastern province of Camagüey as the venue of main celebrations to mark National Rebelliousness Day.

The Lizt Alfonso Ballet Troupe and their dance musical titled "Vida" (life) were highly acclaimed in a recent series of performances at Toronto's Royal Alexandra Theater during the Luminato Festival of Arts and Creativity 2007.

The 31st ordinary Assembly of the Latin American Episcopal Council (CELAM) began in Cuba on Tuesday as leaders of that organization thanked the Cuban government for the chance to hold the meeting on the island and its efforts towards its successful development.