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Festival in Cuba to Help Identity Aspirations of Martinica

Santiago de Cuba, May 9 (Prensa Latina) The 32th International Festival of the Caribbean, to be held in this city of eastern Cuba on July 3-9, devoted to Martinica, will favor the identity aspirations of that island that is currently an overseas depart... Read the rest of this entry »

OAS Secretary General to Visit Ecuador

Quito, May 9 (Prensa Latina) Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa will meet next Thursday with Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), Jose Miguel Insulza, confirmed the presidential press. Read the rest of this entry »

Perfecting the investment process in Matanzas

The investment program in Matanzas is not as good as it should be. However, the actions that have been implemented to start it up, according to the needs of the country, are significant. Read the rest of this entry »

Criticism is rewarded in Matanzas

Matanzas is ready to receive some days full of letters with the edition of the Orlando García Lorenzo Criticism Prize convoked by the subsidiary of the UNEAC from May 9th to May 11th. Read the rest of this entry »

National acknowledgement for Matanzas

The National Association of Small Farmers (ANAP, in Spanish) , in Matanzas, was acknowledged by its national institution for its results in several spheres. Read the rest of this entry »

Bahamas Holds General Elections

Nassau, May 7 (Prensa Latina) Some 172,000 Bahamian voters are called on Monday to vote in the general elections in the country, where two political organizations have the greatest possibilities to take office. Read the rest of this entry »

France: Hollande, a Triumph with European Scope

Paris, May 7 (Prensa Latina) After 17 years of conservatives governments, the triumph of the Socialist Party (SP) candidate Francois Hollande in the presidential elections is considered today a political change in France with European scope. Read the rest of this entry »

Vietnam for Reducing Gap between Rich and Poor

Hanoi, May 7 (Prensa Latina) Vietnam´s Communist Party secretary general, Nguyen Phu Trong, has stressed the goal of reducing the rift between rich and poor people, during one of meetings of the country´s top officials with voters, prior to the sessi... Read the rest of this entry »

New Era Begins for Argentinean State-owned Oil Company

Buenos Aires, May 7 (Prensa Latina) Nine decades after its founding, the re-nationalized YPF oil company on Monday will begin a new work stage that, according to President Cristina Fernandez, will allow it to become a thoroughly modern and competitive ... Read the rest of this entry »

Cuba, Mexico Hold Inter-Parliamentary Meeting

Havana, May 3 (Prensa Latina) Cuba and Mexico on Thursday will hold an inter-parliamentary meeting to analyze bilateral, Latin American and international issues, legislator Ramon Pez Ferro stated. Read the rest of this entry »

Wife of One of Cuban 5 with Busy Uruguay Agenda

Montevideo, May 2 (Prensa Latina) Olga Salanueva, spouse of Rene Gonzalez, one of the Cuban Five, on Wednesday will continue meetings with Uruguayan organizations in the campaign for the release of the five Cuban antiterrorist fighters unjustly held in... Read the rest of this entry »

Cuba Hosts International Forum on Organic Agriculture

Havana, May 3 (Prensa Latina) Experts from 22 countries will attend the 9th International Meeting on Organic and Sustainable Agriculture, which will be held here from May 21 to 24, an official source reported. Read the rest of this entry »

Over Three Million Cubans Attend May Day March

Havana, May 2 (Prensa Latina) More than three million people marched in the 15 Cuban provinces in the celebrations on Workers International Day, in support of socialism and the updating of the island''s socio-economic model. Read the rest of this entry »

Actions to pay homage to Marxism’s professors begin today

The actions to commemorate the Marxism-Leninism's Professors' Day begin today and will extend to next May 9th, at the Pedagogical University Juan Marinello Vidaurreta, of Matanzas city. Read the rest of this entry »

Solidarity with Cuba Displayed in Workers Day

Camaguey, Cuba, May 1 (Prensa Latina) Students from 70 countries from different centers of higher education in Cuba displayed on Tuesday their solidarity with Cuba, during the celebration of the International Workers Day. Read the rest of this entry »

Demonstrators from Minks Demand Release of Cuban Five

Minsk, May 1 (Prensa Latina) The demand for the release of the five Cuban antiterrorist figthers unfairly condemned to prison in U.S. Read the rest of this entry »

May Day Parade starts in Matanzas

In a dawn of joy and patriotic and revolutionary fervor, thousands of matanceros get ready to begin the May Day parade, from the City of Bridges, capital of Matanzas province, where the working class is organized in compact blocks according to their La... Read the rest of this entry »

Matanceros aspire to higher prospection of oil

The workers of the Enterprise of Oil drilling and Extraction, of Matanzas, closed the first trimester of the year with the production of 383 thousand tons, with which they accomplished a five percent growth. Read the rest of this entry »

Ecuadorian Poets in Cuban Event

Havana, Apr 26 (Prensa Latina) Young Ecuadorian poets will speak about their country´s contemporary literature during a cultural week devoted to that country, opened in this capital on Wednesday. Read the rest of this entry »

Cuban Ballet Crowns the History of Chinese Grand National Theater

Beijing, Apr 26 (Prensa Latina) The next presentation of the Cuban National Ballet (BNC) in our main hall will crown the history of the Grand National Theater of China, the director of the Programming Department of the host institution, Li Zhixiang, sa... Read the rest of this entry »

Cooperativism in China Debated at Havana Meeting

Havana, Apr 26 (Prensa Latina) Cooperativism in China is one of the issues that some 160 jurists, judges and lawyers from 13 nations are debating in this capital at the 8th International Congress on Agrarian Law. Read the rest of this entry »

Girón: an encouraging triumph

Girón itself is a word that evokes the noise of grazing airplanes, the whistle of bombs and explosions of trench mortars, the smell of salt and gunpowder... That accent on its "o" has to do with the militiamen. Read the rest of this entry »