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Servando Cabrera (Havana, 1923-1981), painter of fundamentally figurative style, is one of the most important representatives in the Cuban plastic arts of the XX century.

These are the differences with systems where the purchase of candidates and votes prevail, as well as indifference of the people when voting.

Sunday brought the closing Carnival celebration that typically included the big float drives, lots of musicians playing on stages, congas and comparsas in the streets.

Premiere on television of the documentaries Entrevistando a Fidel (Interviewing Fidel) and Momentos con Fidel (Moments with Fidel)

Cuba's most recognized and beloved singer/composer Benny Moré, " The King of Rhythm", will be honoured on occasion of his 88th birth anniversary with special activities to take place in Havana from August 19th.

Works is underway dredging berths at the Camilo Cienfuegos Oil Refinery to increase capacity to receive 228 meter long crude oil tankers with up to 70,000 tons displacement and a keel depth of 11.9 meters.

Extending along more than 100 kilometers from the limits of Playa Borracho beach in the province of Santiago de Cuba to Punta de Maisi, Cubas easternmost point, the coastal strip of southern Guantanamo Province has such a harsh climate it has earned the name of the Cuban semi-desert.

Luis Gonzalo Pedraza is 96 years old, but continues to surprise himself. What was apparently unachievable is now in his grasp, "at this late stage in life." Only he knows how much time he has had to wait, how hard the path.

Celia Guevara was four years old when her Argentine-born father was killed in Bolivia in 1967, took her oath at the Argentine consulate in Havana.

A tropical depression in the eastern Atlantic has the "potential" to become tropical storm and its projected path places it in the Caribbean within 5 days, as a category 2 hurricane.