Anything can happen, but Cuba is the favorite

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. Read More

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Cuban filmmaker makes donation

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. Read More

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Cuba present at Lisbon Craftwork Fair

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. Read More

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The need to study indigenous cultures was stressed by Abel Prieto, Cuban Culture Minister

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. Read More

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Cuba cultivates rural education

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. Read More

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Cuba-Panama parliaments meet

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. Read More

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Treatment against varicose veins

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. Read More

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Attractions of Paradisus Princesa del Mar highlighted

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. Read More

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Trinidad: "The Museum City of Cuba"

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.<br /> Read More

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Viñales: One of the most worldwide-recognized views of Cuba.

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. Read More

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