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La Sierra Maestra is the most important mountain system in Cuba where we can find the highest mountain called Pico Real del Turquino 1972 meters above the sea level. It is located in the southeastern coast next to the Caribbean Sea and extends from Granma, Santiago de Cuba to Guantanamo .

La celebración del Día de las Madres es toda una tradición en Cuba. A través de www.tusupermarket.com usted puede enviar, en tan señalada fecha, las esperadas flores, los cakes, perfumes y cestas con confituras, entre otras variadas ofertas especialmente preparadas para ese dia

Alejandro Garcia Caturla, whose 102 anniversary of birth was commemorated last March 7, was among the outstanding personalities that defined the Cuban expression in music. Caturla was more than a composer, lover, director, good father, singer, transgressor, writer, a man of principle, journalist, revolutionary and lawyer.

Havana Historian Eusebio Leal was granted the Sebati-Ter International Award in the category of Architecture for his work in favor of the restoration and preservation of Old Havana.

Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa was made an honorary member of the Cuban Association of Economists and Accountants (ANEC) at the during the opening session of the Tenth International Conference on Globalization and Development Problems in Havana.

"La Casa de la Amistad" in the populous Lurin municipality in Lima was inaugurated with the attendance of Cuban Ambassador Luis Delfin Perez, who congratulated the leadership, led by journalist and historian Augusto Rivas.

A Spanish language edition of a book on Canadian-Cuban relations by Canadian researchers John M.Kirk and Peter McKenna was presented at the Friendship House in Havana as a symbol of the excellent ties existing between the two nations.

During the morning session of the XVII International Book Fair, attended by Esteban Lazo, member of the Political Bureau of the Party, the old engineer, Alberto Perret Ballester placed in the hand of the readers the book, "El azúcar en Matanzas y sus dueños en La Habana".

The Cinco Palmas Monument Group, which is to remember the historic event that took place in that specific part of the Sierra Maestra in 1956, is being made in the province of Santiago de Cuba by the Caguayo Foundation.

The 9th International Documentary Film Festival in memory of Santiago Alvarez, is set for March 6-11 in Santiago de Cuba with 27 works in competition from around the world.

To get an idea of the magnitude of the growth, the number of deliveries in 2007 was 47.6 percent higher than those of 2006. Meanwhile, at the end of January, statistics showed a 59 percent increase with regard to the same period of the previous year.

Cuban scientists from nine institutions met this week to analyze the possibilities to produce ethanol from sugarcane byproducts and other alternative sources without sacrificing food.

HUGE celebrations in Cuba marking the unveiling of a memorial to Pope John Paul II are being hailed as an important milestone in the Churchs emergence from the shadow of communist control.

Whatever the cause of Sergio Corrieris painful death, it took, without our consent, a man who as an actor, intellectual, government employee or simply friend, won over several generations of Cubans beginning with his lead role in Tomás Gutiérrez Aleas Memorias del subdesarrollo.