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Cuban First Vice President Jose Ramon Machado Ventura met in this capital with Cyprus President Demetris Christofias, and Paraguay's President-Elect Fernando Lugo.

The Ministry of the Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces (MINFAR) announced on Friday that the ‘Capitan Miranda’ School Sailing Ship of the Uruguayan Navy will arrive in Cuba on Saturday for an official visit until May 27th.

The publication Chilanguía, from the Cultural Secretary of Mexico City, highlighted the intense life of the José Martí Cultural Center from this capital during its 32 years of existence.

The meeting will be attended by some 250 delegates from Cuba and Latin American and European countries.

The famous choreographer and Prima Ballerina Assoluta Alicia Alonso will receive the Gold Medal of Merit in Fine Arts from the Spanish Council of Ministers, which every year awards personalities or entities that contribute to the promotion and spreading of art, culture and artistic heritage.

First Vice President Jose Ramon Machado Ventura heads the Cuban delegation that will participate in the Fifth Latin America-Caribbean-European Union Summit that will take place on Friday and Saturday in Lima, Peru.

A two-day meeting to follow up on the accords of the First Cuba-Honduras Joint Commission begins Thursday in Havana, according to Granma newspaper.

Cuba will join the celebrations for the International Museum Day, next May 18, with different activities in the close to 300 institutions of that sort in the Capital.

The XII Edition of Barriocuento 2008 will last until next Sunday. The venues of the event will be the Casa de Africa and Casa de la Obra Pía, in Old Havana.

Cuban Record Industry hopes to boost the preservation of patrimonial values, forgotten by transnational and which constitutes the greater wealth of regional culture.

A new Cuban Cultural Guide was launched recently at the 28th International Tourism Fair of Havana.

Santa Clara will receive the IV International Symposium on Arterial Hypertension that will take place on May from 26 to 29 it is promoted by the Medical Sciences University Seraph Ruiz de Zárate” and the Central University ”Marta Abreu” from this city, to the meeting will attend noted experts from Cuba and other nations

Cuba and Antigua and Barbuda signed on Tuesday a Memorandum of Understanding that will serve as a legal framework for the free eye-surgery program Operation Miracle that has already benefited 1,182 patients from the neighboring Caribbean nation.

Cuba requested on Tuesday that the issue of the current world food crisis be included in the agenda of the Fifth Latin America-Caribbean-European Union Summit, whose stage at the level of experts began yesterday in Lima, Peru.

Ricardo Alarcón, president of the Cuban Parliament, attended the meeting in the International Institute of Journalism José Martí, where they pay homage to who represents the perseverance in the exercise of writing about the truth and who was the last reporter murdered in Cuba, victim of the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista.