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      <title> Roberto Gonzalez, one of the Defense Lawyers of The Five, in a Critical Condition</title>
      <pubDate>Sat, 25 Feb 2012 13:39:35 -0500</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Roberto Gonzalez, one of the members of the legal team of the five Cubans condemned in the United States, is in a critical condition at a Havana hospital after a hard struggle against cancer, which he has been suffering from for several years now.]]></description>
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      <title>  Photographic Exhibition in Honor of Sandino Inaugurated in Villa Clara</title>
      <pubDate>Sat, 25 Feb 2012 13:38:53 -0500</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[A photographic exhibition to honor Augusto Cesar Sandino on the occasion of the 78th anniversary of his assassination, was inaugurated on Friday at the
office of the Cuban Institute for Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP) of central Villa Clara province.]]></description>
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      <title>  Peace Boat to Visit Cuba in March</title>
      <pubDate>Sat, 25 Feb 2012 13:38:22 -0500</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[The Peace Boat cruise ship will arrive in Cuba on March 1st as part of a world tour carrying hundreds of activists against the nuclear threat and for the preservation of the environment.]]></description>
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      <title>Raul Receives Chavez in Havana</title>
      <pubDate>Sat, 25 Feb 2012 13:37:54 -0500</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[ After intense days of emotions and visible expressions of support of his people, the Venezuelan head of state, Hugo Chavez, arrived smiling at Havana’s Jose
Marti International Airport on Friday night, where he was received by Army General Raul Castro, President of the councils of State and Ministers.]]></description>
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      <title>  International University Congress Kicks Off in Havana</title>
      <pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 14:12:34 -0500</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Education Ministers, heads of multinational organizations and personalities which include a Nobel Peace laureate will participate in the “University 2012” 8th International Congress of Higher Education that kicks off this Monday in Havana city.]]></description>
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      <title>  Head of Angolan Parliament Receives Leader of Cuban Workers</title>
      <pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 14:12:09 -0500</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[The president of the Angolan Parliament, Antonio Paulo Kassoma, met on Sunday in Luanda with Cuban parliamentarian and General Secretary of the Cuban Workers’ Confederation (CTC) Salvador Valdes Mesa, who is there on a working visit.]]></description>
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      <title>  Four Medals for Cuba at World Cups of Judo</title>
      <pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 14:11:41 -0500</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[The Cuban national judo teams won four medals (one gold, one silver, and two bronze) at the World Cups of the sport held over the weekend in Oberwart, Austria (men’s), and in Budapest, Hungary (women’s).]]></description>
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      <title>Fidel Castro Meets with Participants at Book Fair</title>
      <pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 14:11:13 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.cubanews.ain.cu/2012/0213Fidel-Castro.htm</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Cuban Revolution leader Fidel Castro had a 9-hour long meeting with scholars, writers and intellectuals attending the 21 International Book Fair, underway in Havana.]]></description>
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      <title>Women Int’l Federation Asks Obama to Release the Cuban Five</title>
      <pubDate>Mon, 6 Feb 2012 15:24:58 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.cubanews.ain.cu/2012/0206Obama-Five.htm</link>
      <description><![CDATA[The Women’s International Democratic Federation meeting in Almada (Portugal) asked U.S. President Barack Obama to do justice to the five Cuban anti-terrorist fighters unfairly imprisoned in his country for fighting terrorism against Cuba.]]></description>
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      <title>Raul Castro Arrives in Havana </title>
      <pubDate>Mon, 6 Feb 2012 15:22:14 -0500</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[The Cuban President Raul Castro arrived in Cuba Monday morning, February 6, after attending fruitful working sessions of the 11th ALBA Summit that took place in Caracas, Venzuela. ]]></description>
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      <title>ALBA Summit Praises Fidel Castro’s Struggle for the Poor  </title>
      <pubDate>Mon, 6 Feb 2012 15:20:52 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.cubanews.ain.cu/2012/0206Fidel-Castro.htm</link>
      <description><![CDATA[The Prime Minister of Dominica, Roosevelt Skerrit, said on Sunday that the leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro, “has always fought for poor, for those who do not have a voice.”]]></description>
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      <title>Raul Castro Presides Over National Conference of the Cuban Communist Party</title>
      <pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 10:51:40 -0500</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[The First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Cuban Communist Party (CC-PCC), President Raul Castro, presides over the First National Conference of this political organization that began on Saturday morning at Havana’s Convention Center.]]></description>
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      <title>Oldest Piece of Indigenous Christian Art to be Shown in Cuba</title>
      <pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:11:39 -0500</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Cuba has borrowed from the Vatican’s Missionary Ethnological Museum the oldest piece of indigenous Christian art of the New World to be exhibited for a year at the Museum of the City in Havana. ]]></description>
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      <title>  National Conference of the Cuban Communist Party Begins on Saturday</title>
      <pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:11:14 -0500</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[The First National Conference of the Cuban Communist Party (PCC) begins on Saturday, January 28, with the purpose of assessing the work of this political organization, as agreed during the Fourth PCC Congress held in April 2011. The beginning of the meeting will coincide with the 159th anniversary of Cuban National Hero Jose Marti’s birthday.]]></description>
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      <title> The Genius of Chavez</title>
      <pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:10:26 -0500</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Reflections by Comrade Fidel Castro
Cuba President Chavez presented his annual report on activities carried out in 2011 and his program for 2012 to the Venezuelan Parliament. After thoroughly carrying out the formalities required by this important activity, he addressed the official state authorities, members of parliament from all parties, and supporters and opposition members who had come to the Assembly to participate in the country’s most solemn act. ]]></description>
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      <title> Cuban Academy of Sciences Inducts New Foreign Corresponding Members</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 15:18:17 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.cubanews.ain.cu/2012/0126Cuban-Academy.htm</link>
      <description><![CDATA[A group of foreign personalities were recently inducted as Corresponding Members into the Cuban Academy of Sciences during the latest plenary session of this organization, for their contribution to the development and promotion of science in the Caribbean nation.  ]]></description>
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      <title> Largest Cuban Coffee-producing Province Finishes Harvest</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 15:17:58 -0500</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Farmers in eastern Santiago de Cuba province harvested 1.6 million 28-pound cans of coffee cherries, thus fulfilling their commitment, though they are still far from its true potential, according to specialists.]]></description>
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      <title> The Fruit that Did Not Fall</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 15:17:41 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.cubanews.ain.cu/2012/0126Fidel-Castro.htm</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Cuba found itself forced to fight for its existence against an expansionist power located a few miles off its coast that had declared the annexation of our island and that believed our destiny was to fall into their lap like a piece of ripe fruit. We were condemned to cease to exist as a nation. ]]></description>
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      <title> Cuba Denounces Increase of U.S. Radio and Television Aggressions </title>
      <pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 15:26:54 -0500</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Cuba denounced on Monday the increase of U.S. radio and television broadcasts against the island at the World Radiocommunications Conference held in Geneva. ]]></description>
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      <title> Paraguayan President Met with Cuban Ambassador to Asuncion </title>
      <pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 15:26:20 -0500</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[President Fernando Lugo met on Monday in the seat of the Paraguayan government in Asuncion with the Cuban ambassador to that South American nation, Bernardo Guanche.]]></description>
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      <title>  UNESCO Assistant Director-General for Education to Visit Cuba in February</title>
      <pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 15:26:02 -0500</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Qian Tang, the Assistant Director-General for Education of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) will participate in the International Congress University 2012, scheduled for February 13-17 in Havana.]]></description>
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      <title> U.S Government Urged to Remove Cuba from State Sponsor of Terrorism List</title>
      <pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 17:33:15 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.cubanews.ain.cu/2012/0120Terrorism-List.htm</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Journalist Jeffrey Goldberg has urged the U.S. Government to remove Cuba from the State Department’s annual State Sponsor of Terrorism List alleging that the Caribbean nation’s inclusion undermines the seriousness of this list.]]></description>
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      <title>  Oil Drilling Rig in Cuban Territory for Deep-Water Prospecting </title>
      <pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 17:32:18 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.cubanews.ain.cu/2012/0120Oil-Drilling.htm</link>
      <description><![CDATA[A mobile offshore-drilling rig, the Scarabeo 9, arrived in Cuban waters on Thursday with the purpose of resuming deepwater oil prospecting in the coming days some 22 miles off the Cuban coasts, in the country’s Exclusive Economic Zone of the Gulf of Mexico.
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      <title> President Abdelaziz Bouteflika Met with Visiting Cuban Health Minister in Algiers</title>
      <pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 17:32:03 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.cubanews.ain.cu/2012/0120Abdelaziz-Bouteflika.htm</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika met on Thursday in Algiers with Cuba’s Public Health Minister Roberto Morales Ojeda, who is visiting that African nation as part of several activities to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Cuba and Algeria and bilateral cooperation in the health sector.]]></description>
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      <title>  Cuba: More than 1,000 Subsidy Requests Taken on First Day </title>
      <pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 15:17:25 -0500</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Municipal Housing Administration Offices across Cuba accepted more than 1,300 applications for subsidy, out of nearly 5,000 requests, on the day the measure came into force for people in need of repairing or buiding a house. ]]></description>
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      <title>  Cuba to Host Pan American Convention on Engineering </title>
      <pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 15:16:21 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.cubanews.ain.cu/2012/0117Pan-American.htm</link>
      <description><![CDATA[The National Association of Construction Architects and Engineers of Cuba (UNAICC) announced that Havana’s Convention Center will host the 33rd Pan American Convention on Engineering in April 2012.]]></description>
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      <title> Brazilian FM Announces Visit of Dilma Rousseff to Cuba</title>
      <pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 15:15:59 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.cubanews.ain.cu/2012/0117Dilma-Rousseff.htm</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Antonio de Aguiar Patriota, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the
Federative Republic of Brazil, currently in this capital, announced on Monday that the president of his country, Dilma Rousseff, will soon pay a visit to the Caribbean island.]]></description>
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      <title>  Pour le levé de rideau des activités du Prix Casa de las Américas, Galeano présentera l’un de ses derniers livres</title>
      <pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 12:33:21 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.cubainfo.ain.cu/2012/0117Galeano.htm</link>
      <description><![CDATA[L’un des auteurs les plus respectés d’Amérique Latine, Eduardo Galeano, a inauguré, le lundi 16 janvier, à La Havane, le début des activités du cinquante-troisième Prix Littéraire Casas de las Américas (Maison des Amériques).]]></description>
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      <title> Cuban Delegation Ends Visit to South Africa </title>
      <pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 15:23:53 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.cubanews.ain.cu/2012/0116Cuban-Delegation.htm</link>
      <description><![CDATA[The Secretary General of the African National Congress (ANC), Gwede Mantashe, bid farewell to a delegation from Cuba that participated in festivities for the South African political party’s centenary. ]]></description>
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      <title>  Havana Ballet Festival 2012 to Be Marked by Both Tradition and Novelties </title>
      <pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 15:23:33 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.cubanews.ain.cu/2012/0116Ballet-Festival.htm</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Being “Tradition and New Paths” the main theme for this year’s International Ballet Festival of Havana, scheduled for October 28 thru November 6, the event is expected to bring a parade of classic and modern ballet choreographies to the Cuban capital. ]]></description>
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      <title>  Cuba: Eduardo Galeano Inaugurates Casa de las Americas Literary Prize </title>
      <pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 15:23:12 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.cubanews.ain.cu/2012/0116Eduardo-Galeano.htm</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Uruguayan writer and journalist Eduardo Galeano inaugurated in the Cuban capital on Monday the 53rd Casa de las Americas Literary Prize during a ceremony attended by personalities such as Culture Minister Abel Prieto; the President of the Cuban National Assembly, Ricardo Alarcon; the President of the Jose Marti Cultural Society, Armando Hart; and the president of the Havana-based Casa de las Americas cultural center, Roberto Fernandez Retamar.]]></description>
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      <title>  LA PAIX MONDIALE TIENT À UN FIL</title>
      <pubDate>Sat, 14 Jan 2012 17:38:22 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.cubainfo.ain.cu/2012/0114reflexiones.htm</link>
      <description><![CDATA[J’ai eu le plaisir, hier, de converser calmement avec Mahmoud Ahmadineyad que je n’avais plus vu depuis septembre 2006, voilà plus de cinq ans, quand il était venu à La Havane participer à la Quatorzième Conférence au sommet du Mouvement des pays non alignés qui avait élu Cuba pour la seconde fois à la présidence de cette organisation pour la durée prévue de trois ans. Santa Clara.]]></description>
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      <title> World Peace Hanging by a Thread</title>
      <pubDate>Sat, 14 Jan 2012 17:29:02 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.cubanews.ain.cu/2012/0114Fidel-Castro.htm</link>
      <description><![CDATA[A Yesterday I had the satisfaction of having a pleasant conversation with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. I had not seen him since 2006, more than five years ago, when he visited our country to participate in the 14th Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement of Countries in Havana. During the summit, Cuba was elected for the second time as president of the organization for a three-year term.
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      <title>  Jamaican Donation Enriches Cuban Orchid Garden Collection </title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 16:21:03 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.cubanews.ain.cu/2012/0112Orchid-Garden.htm</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Orchids coming from Jamaica enrich today the collection of Soroa’s Orchid Garden, the largest of its kind in Cuba, which includes some five hundred native and exotic varieties, confirmed experts.]]></description>
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      <title>Santiago de Cuba Welcomes First Cruise Ship for this Season </title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 16:20:34 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.cubanews.ain.cu/2012/0112Cruise-Ship.htm</link>
      <description><![CDATA[The arrival in Santiago de Cuba of the Braemar ship sailing from Jamaica on a Caribbean cruise marked the beginning of the season of this tourism modality in the eastern city of the island this year. ]]></description>
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      <title>Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Concluded Official Visit to Cuba</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 16:20:06 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.cubanews.ain.cu/2012/0112Mahmoud-Ahmadinejad.htm</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Cuba’s President Raul Castro bid farewell on Thursday morning to his Iranian counterpart Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who concluded a one-day official visit to the Caribbean nation at the invitation of the Cuban government. ]]></description>
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      <title> The Seattle Teacher’s Union Sponsors Art Exhibit by Antonio Guerrero</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:42:16 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.cubanews.ain.cu/2012/0111Antonio-Guerrero.htm</link>
      <description><![CDATA[The American Federation of Teachers Local 1789 of Seattle, Washington, is hosting, since January 3, a beautiful exhibition of paintings by Antonio Guerrero, one of the five Cubans unfairly incarcerated in the United States for over 13 years now. ]]></description>
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      <title>  Chinese Ambassador to Cuba Received Award Granted by University of Havana</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:41:52 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.cubanews.ain.cu/2012/0111Chinese-Ambassador.htm</link>
      <description><![CDATA[The Chinese ambassador to Cuba, Li Yuqin, received on Tuesday the plaque ‘280th Anniversary of the Foundation of the University of Havana’ from the hands of Gustavo Cobreiro, the rector of this higher education center.]]></description>
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      <title>  Iranian President Begins Official Visit to Cuba</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:41:01 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.cubanews.ain.cu/2012/0111Official-Visit.htm</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Iran’s President Mahmud Ahmadinejad arrived on Wednesday morning in Havana to begin an official visit at the invitation of the Cuban government.
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      <title> Ramiro Valdes Heads Cuban Delegation to Daniel Ortega’s Swearing-In Ceremony in Nicaragua</title>
      <pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 12:33:53 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.cubanews.ain.cu/2012/0110Ramiro-Valdes.htm</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Commander of the Revolution and vice president of the Councils of State and Ministers Ramiro Valdes Menendez heads the Cuban delegation that traveled to Nicaragua to participate on Tuesday in the swearing-in ceremony of Daniel Ortega.]]></description>
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      <title> Int'l Committee Decries WaPo’s Lies on the Cuban Five Case </title>
      <pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 12:33:28 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.cubanews.ain.cu/2012/0110Cuban-Five.htm</link>
      <description><![CDATA[The International Committee for the Freedom of the Cuban Five decried The Washington Post this Monday for publishing an editorial full of lies and inaccuracies regarding the case of the five Cuban anti-terrorist fighters, who are serving outrageous sentences in the U.S., Prensa Latina reported.]]></description>
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      <title>  The Best President for the United States</title>
      <pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 12:33:09 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.cubanews.ain.cu/2012/0110Fidel-Castro.htm</link>
      <description><![CDATA[A well-known European news agency yesterday published from Sydney, Australia that a group of Australian researchers at the University of New South Wales announced the creation of an electrical cable ten thousand times thinner than a strand of hair, capable of carrying as much
electricity as a traditional copper cable.]]></description>
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      <title>Cuban Jazz Maestro Chucho Valdes on Tour around the U.S in January</title>
      <pubDate>Fri, 6 Jan 2012 16:37:05 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.cubanews.ain.cu/2012/0106Chucho-Valdes.htm</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Cuba’s multi-Grammy Award winner Chucho Valdes and his band —the Afro-Cuban Messengers— will begin in January a tour around the United States that includes performances in New York City and Philadelphia.
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      <title> On the 5th for The Five: Italian Association Sends Messages to Obama </title>
      <pubDate>Fri, 6 Jan 2012 16:36:32 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.cubanews.ain.cu/2012/0106The-Five.htm</link>
      <description><![CDATA[The Italy-Cuba National Friendship Association sent on Thursday letters, e-mail messages and a large number of texts by way of social networks to US President
Barack Obama, in favor of the five Cuban heroes unfairly condemned in that northern country. ]]></description>
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      <title>  The March Towards the Abyss</title>
      <pubDate>Fri, 6 Jan 2012 16:35:23 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.cubanews.ain.cu/2012/0106March-Towards.htm</link>
      <description><![CDATA[It is not a matter of being optimistic or pessimistic, knowing or not knowing elementary things, of being responsible or not for events. Those who would like to be thought of as politicians should be thrown onto the trash heap of history when, as the norm goes, they have no idea about everything or almost everything related to it in that activity.  ]]></description>
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      <title> Argentinean President’s Surgery Successful</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 5 Jan 2012 15:22:13 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.cubanews.ain.cu/2012/0105Argentinean-President.htm</link>
      <description><![CDATA[The operation carried out on Wednesday on Argentinean President Cristina Fernandez for her thyroid cancer was successful, according to the local Cronica TV television channel.]]></description>
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      <title>  VP Esteban Lazo Heads Cuban Delegation to Swearing-In of New Jamaican Prime Minister</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 5 Jan 2012 15:21:28 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.cubanews.ain.cu/2012/0105Esteban-Lazo.htm</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Vice President Esteban Lazo heads the Cuban delegation that traveled to Jamaica to participate in the swearing-in ceremony of Portia Simpson Miller, who on Thursday takes the oath of office as Prime Minister of Jamaica for the second time during a ceremony at King’s House, in Kingston.]]></description>
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      <title> New International Effort for the Release of the Cuban Five</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 5 Jan 2012 15:21:11 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.cubanews.ain.cu/2012/0105Cuban-Five.htm</link>
      <description><![CDATA[The International Committee for the Freedom of the Cuban Five urged activists in solidarity with the five Cuban antiterrorists unjustly imprisoned in the United States to send messages or call U.S. President Barack Obama on January 5 demanding the release of these five men, who were arrested in 1998 and given harsh sentences for trying to prevent terrorist attacks against Cuba.]]></description>
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      <title> Cristina Fernandez Undergoes Surgery for Papillary Carcinoma </title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 4 Jan 2012 18:19:49 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.cubanews.ain.cu/2012/0104Cristina-Fernandez.htm</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Argentinean President Cristina Fernandez will be operated on for a papillary carcinoma on the thyroid gland’s right lobe on Wednesday, which was detected on December 22 during a routine medical checkup. ]]></description>
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      <title> Cuba: Regulations on Plan of Subsidies Published by Official Gazette </title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 4 Jan 2012 18:19:31 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.cubanews.ain.cu/2012/0104Official-Gazette.htm</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Cuba’s Official Gazette published on Wednesday the regulations that will soon come into force regarding a plan to subsidize the construction and repair of private homes.]]></description>
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      <title> Cuba: Number of Fixed and Mobile Telephone Lines Increased in 18.5% in 2011</title>
      <pubDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2011 15:45:31 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.cubanews.ain.cu/2011/1227Mobile-Telephone.htm</link>
      <description><![CDATA[The number of fixed and mobile telephone lines in Cuba increased in 18.5% in the year 2011, Juventud Rebelde newspaper reported on Tuesday.]]></description>
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      <title> U.S. Administrations Earmarked Over $200 Million for Subversion Plans against Cuba Since 1997</title>
      <pubDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2011 15:44:53 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.cubanews.ain.cu/2011/1227Subversion-Plans.htm</link>
      <description><![CDATA[U.S. administrations since 1997 have earmarked more than $200 million for subversion plans against the Cuban government, reads an article published on Tuesday by the www.cubadebate.cu website.]]></description>
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      <title> Cuba Supporters from Australia, New Zealand to Arrive in Havana </title>
      <pubDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2011 15:44:39 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.cubanews.ain.cu/2011/1227New-Zealand.htm</link>
      <description><![CDATA[The 29th Southern Cross Brigade of Solidarity with Cuba coming from Australia and New Zealand is expected to arrive in Havana December 28 where they will participate in festivities for the 53rd anniversary of the triumph of the Cuban Revolution. ]]></description>
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      <title>  Cuba Marks 50 Years of Eradication of Illiteracy</title>
      <pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 15:56:42 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.cubanews.ain.cu/2011/1223Cuba-Marks.htm</link>
      <description><![CDATA[The 50 anniversary of the proclamation of Cuba as a free of illiteracy territory was celebrated on Thursday at the Ciudad Escolar Libertad, La Habana, in the presence of literacy teachers from all over the country.]]></description>
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      <title>Bloody Christmas: days of horror in 1956</title>
      <pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 15:55:54 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.cubanews.ain.cu/2011/1223Bloody-Christmas.htm</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Rafael Orejón Forment would be the first in the list of the 23 youngsters that were murdered and massacred by the end of December 1956 on the north coast ofthe former province of Oriente, in an operation luanched by the Batista dictatorship under the code name “Christmas Gift” that passed into History as the Bloody Christmas.]]></description>
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      <title>First Graduation in Cuba from Oil-Related Program Takes Place in Cienfuegos </title>
      <pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 14:48:13 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.cubanews.ain.cu/2011/1223First-Graduation.htm</link>
      <description><![CDATA[CIENFUEGOS, Cuba, Dec 23 (acn) In response to the Camilo Cienfuegos oil refinery’s expansion projects, in the central region of Cuba, the first graduation from oil-related training programs offered by the 5 de Septiembre Polytechnic School will take place Friday. ]]></description>
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      <title>Cuba: Economic Plan and State Budget for 2012 Approved, 3.4% GDP Growth Foreseen </title>
      <pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 14:45:36 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.cubanews.ain.cu/2011/1223Economic-Plan.htm</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Cuba’s Economic Plan and State Budget Law for 2012 were approved on Friday during the Eighth Ordinary Period of Sessions of the Seventh Legislature of the Cuban National Assembly (Parliament) at Havana’s Convention Center.]]></description>
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      <title>  Cuba: Number of Self-Employed Workers Exceed 357,000</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 17:49:13 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.cubanews.ain.cu/2011/1222Self-Employed.htm</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Cuba’s Deputy Minister of Labor and Social Security Jose Barreiro Alonso announced on Wednesday that the number of self-employed workers in the Caribbean nation now exceed 357,600, which represents a significant increase compared to last year.]]></description>
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      <title>  Cuba Reduces Imports Slightly, Calls for Further Efforts </title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 17:48:50 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.cubanews.ain.cu/2011/1222Reduces-Imports.htm</link>
      <description><![CDATA[In a meeting of the Cuban parliament’s standing commission on Economic Affairs, Cuba’s First Deputy Minister for Foreign Trade and Foreign Investment, Antonio Carricarte, insisted on the need for investments and contractual relations to be developed with discipline and rigor. ]]></description>
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      <title>Cuba Announces Reduction in Price of Construction Materials</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 15:44:19 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.cubanews.ain.cu/2011/1222Announces-Reduction.htm</link>
      <description><![CDATA[A reduction of 20-30 % in the price of 122 types of construction materials was announced on Wednesday by the First Deputy Minister of Domestic Trade, Odalys Escandell, during a working session of the Services Commission of the Cuban National Assembly (Parliament).]]></description>
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      <title>Members of Cuban Parliament Meet in Plenary Session</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 15:18:31 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.cubanews.ain.cu/2011/1222Cuban-Parliament.htm</link>
      <description><![CDATA[After two days of meetings as part of the twelve permanent commissions of the Cuban National Assembly (Parliament), on Thursday, the members of the legislative body begin their work in plenary sessions to discuss and assess key social and economic issues.]]></description>
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      <title>  Cuban University Students Celebrate Alicia Alonso’s Birthday </title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 17:44:27 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.cubanews.ain.cu/2011/1221Alicia-Alonso.htm</link>
      <description><![CDATA[On the 91st birthday of Cuban prima ballerina
Alicia Alonso, the University Students Federation of Cuba hosted a tribute
to this icon of the Cuban ballet at the Havana-based institution’s Aula Magna. ]]></description>
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      <title> Portuguese Intellectuals Ask Obama to Send The Five to Cuba</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 17:43:53 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.cubanews.ain.cu/2011/1221Cuban-Five.htm</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Nearly one hundred and fifty Portuguese intellectuals demanded justice to be done in the case of the five Cuban antiterrorists unfairly condemned in that northern country, in a message sent to US President Barack Obama.]]></description>
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      <title>  Cuban Experts Call for Greater Integration of Environmental Programs </title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 16:30:32 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.cubanews.ain.cu/2011/1221Cuban-Experts.htm</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Specialists of the Parliamentarian commission on Energy and Environment agreed on the need for programs fighting climate change to be better interconnected both at a national and regional level. ]]></description>
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      <title> Cuba Boosts Use of Sugarcane Biomass to Generate Electricity</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 15:50:05 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.cubanews.ain.cu/2011/1221Cuba-Boosts.htm</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Members of the Cuban National Assembly (Parliament) discussed on Wednesday the potential of sugar mills in the Caribbean nation to generate electricity using industrial biomass, a natural material obtained during the cane sugar production process.]]></description>
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      <title>Ricardo Alarcon: Hard Work and Discipline, Key to Overcome Difficulties</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 15:48:25 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.cubanews.ain.cu/2011/1221Hard-Work.htm</link>
      <description><![CDATA[The president of the Cuban National Assembly (Parliament), Ricardo Alarcon, congratulated the Cuban people and said that hard work and discipline are key factors to face and overcome any difficulties in the year 2012.]]></description>
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      <title>   Cuba-US.: the Swap policy </title>
      <pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 16:18:56 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.cubanews.ain.cu/2011/1220Cuba-US.htm</link>
      <description><![CDATA[The news, although they didn’t come as a surprise to anyone decently familiar with the US hostile approach to Cuba, is still a warning of how powerful the Miami reactionary sectors are, and of their influence upon the US government that allows them to impose at least part of their bitter criteria.]]></description>
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      <title>Salvadorian Education Minister Thanks Cuban Support in Literacy Campaign</title>
      <pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 16:16:51 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.cubanews.ain.cu/2011/1220Salvadorian-Education.htm</link>
      <description><![CDATA[El Salvador’s Vice President and Ad Honorem Education Minister, Salvador Sanchez Ceren, thanked Cuba for its help in proclaiming Comacaran as the first municipality free of illiteracy of the Central American country. ]]></description>
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      <title>Cuba Declares Official Mourning for Kim Jong-il</title>
      <pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 16:15:55 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.cubanews.ain.cu/2011/1220Official-Mourning.htm</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Cuba declared three days of mourning after the death of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il, who passed away last weekend.
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      <title>  Cuba: New Credit System Comes Into Effect Today </title>
      <pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 16:15:36 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.cubanews.ain.cu/2011/1220New-Credit.htm</link>
      <description><![CDATA[A recently approved credit system allowing the granting of loans to small-business owners, private farmers and those looking to repair or rebuild their homes has come into effect in Cuba, this Tuesday, December 20. ]]></description>
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      <title>  Foreign Relations Top on the Cuban Parliament’s Agenda for 2012</title>
      <pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 16:13:05 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.cubanews.ain.cu/2011/1220Cuban-Parliament.htm</link>
      <description><![CDATA[The Cuban National Assembly (Parliament) announced on Tuesday that further expanding international relations and links with parliamentary bodies around the world will be a top priority on its agenda for the coming year.]]></description>
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      <title>  Int’l Jazz Plaza Festival 2011 Ended in Havana</title>
      <pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 15:59:47 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.cubanews.ain.cu/2011/1219Jazz-Plaza.htm</link>
      <description><![CDATA[The 27th International Jazz Plaza Festival 2011 concluded on Sunday night at Havana’s Mella Theater with the performances of maestro Frank Fernandez and Joaquin Betancourt’s Jazz Band.]]></description>
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      <title>  Lizt Alfonso: Cultural Ambassador of the UN</title>
      <pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 15:58:52 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.cubanews.ain.cu/2011/1219Lizt-Alfonso.htm</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Cuban dancer and choreographer Lizt Alfonso has been appointed a Cultural Ambassador of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF). ]]></description>
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      <title> Three Cubans Inducted into Hall of Fame of CAC Athletics Confederation</title>
      <pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 15:14:01 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.cubanews.ain.cu/2011/1219Athletics-Confederation.htm</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Cuba’s World and Olympic medalists Ioamnet Quintero (women’s High Jump), Aliecer Urrutia (men’s Triple Jump) and Yoel Garcia (men’s Triple Jump) were inducted into the Hall of Fame of the Central American and Caribbean Athletics Confederation (CACAC) during a ceremony held on Sunday at Havana’s Melia Cohiba Hotel.]]></description>
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      <title>  Raul Castro Receives Delegation of the Vatican </title>
      <pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 15:13:49 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.cubanews.ain.cu/2011/1219Raul-Castro.htm</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Cuban President Raul Castro met on Sunday in this capital with a delegation of the Holy See, now on an official visit to the island to coordinate the next trip to the Caribbean island of Pope Benedict XVI, scheduled for early 2012. ]]></description>
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      <title>Working Commissions of Cuban Parliament to Meet Next Week  </title>
      <pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 15:46:26 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.cubanews.ain.cu/2011/1216Cuban-Parliament.htm</link>
      <description><![CDATA[The twelve working commissions of the Cuban National Assembly (Parliament) will meet on Tuesday and Wednesday, December 20-21, to discuss the results of the annual work of its nearly 400 members.]]></description>
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      <title> U.S. Congress Drops Bid to Restrict Travel and Remittances to Cuba</title>
      <pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 15:34:14 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.cubanews.ain.cu/2011/1216Restrict-Travel.htm</link>
      <description><![CDATA[A bid to restrict travel and remittances to Cuba proposed by congressman Mario Diaz-Balart (R-FL.) was dropped from the spending bill —currently under discussion at the U.S. Congress— following protests by organizations and Cuban-Americans in the United States who overwhelmingly and strongly expressed their support of unlimited travel to the Caribbean nation.]]></description>
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      <title>Cuba: New Record of Tourist Arrivals Set in 2011</title>
      <pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 14:58:52 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.cubanews.ain.cu/2011/1216Tourist-Arrivals.htm</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Cuba is concluding the year 2011 with a new record of foreign tourist arrivals, which confirms the tourism sector as one of the main sources of hard currency income for the economy of the Caribbean nation.]]></description>
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      <title> Cuban-Americans in the U.S. Reject Bid to Restrict Travel and Remittances to Cuba</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 15:09:06 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.cubanews.ain.cu/2011/1215Cuban-Americans.htm</link>
      <description><![CDATA[ Cuban-Americans living in the United States and organizations favoring the improvement of relations between the two countries have urged the U.S. Congress to reject a bid to restrict travel and remittances to Cuba.]]></description>
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      <title>  Photos on Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez On Display in Havana  </title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 14:55:30 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.cubanews.ain.cu/2011/1215Fidel-Castro.htm</link>
      <description><![CDATA[John Kirk, professor of Latin American Studies of the University of Dalhousie, Canada, who has been to Cuba more than 70 times on solidarity missions, received on Wednesday the Medal of Friendship granted by the Council of State. ]]></description>
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      <title>State of war... in sports?</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 16:40:48 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.cubanews.ain.cu/2011/1214State-war.htm</link>
      <description><![CDATA[ Chris Easton, the former executive director of INTERPOL reponsible for preventing football threats by gamble scammers said that “sports is in a state of war”, during an interview with a German news outlet.
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      <title>  Wild Dogs Threaten Cattle Raising in Central Cuba</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 16:39:25 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.cubanews.ain.cu/2011/1214Wild-Dogs.htm</link>
      <description><![CDATA[A group of scientists working for the Cuban Environmental Agency started a study on wild dogs, whose attacks on cattle herds in central Cienfuegos province have grown recently.]]></description>
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      <title>  Nobel Prize for Chemistry Extols Cuban Scientific Potential</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 13:37:24 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.cubanews.ain.cu/2011/1214Cuban-Scientific.htm</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Peter Agre, a recipient of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry recipient, said today in Havana that Cuba has a lot to teach to the world, especially in aspects related to public health, which constitutes a priority for the country.]]></description>
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      <title>Cuban Deputies to Discuss Economic and Budget Plans for 2012 </title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 13:37:10 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.cubanews.ain.cu/2011/1214Cuban-Deputies.htm</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Debates at the Eighth Session of the Cuban People’s Power National Assembly summoned for December 23 will focus on economic and juridical matters.]]></description>
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      <title>Cuban Eliades Ochoa Nominated for Grammy Awards 2012</title>
      <pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 17:04:01 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.cubanews.ain.cu/2011/1213Eliades-Ochoa.htm</link>
      <description><![CDATA[The Cuban traditional music shines again in the hands of legendary trova music player Eliades Ochoa who has been nominated for the Grammy Awards 2012 in the Best World Music Album category for his record Afrocubism.]]></description>
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      <title>Папа Бенедикт XVI посетит Кубу и Мексику до Пасхи           </title>
      <pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 15:02:05 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.ain.cu/idiomas/ruso/2011/1213Papa-Benedicto.htm</link>
      <description><![CDATA[«Я намерен провести апостольское странствование в Мексику и на Кубу до начала Святой Пасхи», - заявил сегодня Папа Римский, Бенедикт XVI, во время службы в честь Девы Марии Гваделупской, покровительницы Мексики, которая почитается 12 декабря.
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      <title> Hotel Facilities in Cuban Province Set Ready for High Tourist Season</title>
      <pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 14:16:05 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.cubanews.ain.cu/2011/1213Cuban-Province.htm</link>
      <description><![CDATA[The central Cuban province of Villa Clara has set ready its hotel facilities, with more than 5,000 capacities, for the present high tourist season from December through April next year.  ]]></description>
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      <title> Communist Parties Demand Lifting of the U.S. Blockade Against Cuba </title>
      <pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 14:15:39 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.cubanews.ain.cu/2011/1213Communist-Parties.htm</link>
      <description><![CDATA[HAVANA, Cuba, Dec 13 (acn) Among resolutions passed by the 13th Meeting of Communist and Workers Parties held in Athens, capital of Greece, participants expressed the need to bring the economic, financial and commercial blockade imposed by the United States against Cuba to an end. ]]></description>
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      <title>Pope Benedict XVI Confirms He Will Visit Cuba before Easter</title>
      <pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 14:05:30 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.cubanews.ain.cu/2011/1213Pope-Benedict.htm</link>
      <description><![CDATA[HAVANA, Cuba, Dec 13 (acn) Pope Benedict XVI confirmed on Monday that he is planning to visit Cuba and Mexico before Easter next year.]]></description>
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      <title>  Cuba: Mexican Movie Wins First Prize at Havana’s Int’l Film Festival</title>
      <pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 14:02:16 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.cubanews.ain.cu/2011/1212Film-Festival.htm</link>
      <description><![CDATA[The 33rd International Festival of the New Latin American Cinema concluded in Havana on Sunday night with the awards ceremony at the Karl Marx Theater, where the Mexican movie ‘El Infierno’ received the First Prize of the event in the category of Best Fiction Feature Film.]]></description>
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      <title> Trade Unionists of the Americas Demand Release of the Cuban Five</title>
      <pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 14:01:24 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.cubanews.ain.cu/2011/1212Cuban-Five.htm</link>
      <description><![CDATA[A text demanding the immediate and unconditional release of Gerardo Hernandez, Ramon Labañino, Fernando Gonzalez and Antonio Guerrero —who along with Rene Gonzalez are internationally known as the Cuban Five— will be delivered to the office of U.S. President Barack Obama and to the U.S. embassy in Mexico.]]></description>
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      <title>   President Raul Castro in Havana after Attending Cuba-CARICOM Summit</title>
      <pubDate>Fri, 9 Dec 2011 15:07:12 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.cubanews.ain.cu/2011/1209Cuba-CARICOM.htm</link>
      <description><![CDATA[President Raul Castro arrived at Havana’s Jose Marti International Airport on Friday after participating in the Fourth Cuba-CARICOM Summit that took place in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago.]]></description>
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      <title>Camaguey People Pay Tribute to John Lennon</title>
      <pubDate>Fri, 9 Dec 2011 12:24:49 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.cubanews.ain.cu/2011/1209John-Lennon.htm</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Admirers of John Lennon in the Cuban province of Camaguey paid tribute to the musician and peace activist, one of the founders of The Beatles, in the 31st anniversary of his death.]]></description>
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      <title>Raul Ratifies Cuba’s Solidarity Commitment to CARICOM</title>
      <pubDate>Fri, 9 Dec 2011 12:19:51 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.cubanews.ain.cu/2011/1209Raul-Ratifies.htm</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Cuban President Raul Castro ratified on Thursday in the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago the commitment of his country and government to support and strengthen relations with the member nations of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM).]]></description>
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      <title>CARICOM Demanded End of U.S. Economic Blockade of Cuba</title>
      <pubDate>Fri, 9 Dec 2011 11:57:33 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.cubanews.ain.cu/2011/1209Economic-Blockade.htm</link>
      <description><![CDATA[ The leaders of the member nations of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) demanded on Thursday the end of U.S.’s almost 50-year-old economic, financial and trade blockade of Cuba.]]></description>
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      <title>Hollywood Specialists to Cooperate with Cuban Peers in Restoration of Old Films</title>
      <pubDate>Fri, 9 Dec 2011 11:35:27 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.cubanews.ain.cu/2011/1209Hollywood-Specialists.htm</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Preservation experts from Hollywood will cooperate with their Cuban peers in the restoration of a group of old movies, including some by the late Tomas Gutierrez Alea, the most universal of all Cuban filmmakers and author of ‘Memories of
Underdevelopment’ (1968) and ‘Strawberry and Chocolate’ (1993).]]></description>
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      <title> Cuba to Participate in Costa Rica’s Annual Cycling Tour</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 8 Dec 2011 14:40:40 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.cubanews.ain.cu/2011/1208Cycling-Tour.htm</link>
      <description><![CDATA[A seven-men squad led by Arnold Alcolea will represent Cuba at the 47th Cycling Tour of Costa Rica, scheduled for December 16-28.]]></description>
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      <title> WHO, PHO Ponders Cuban Biotechnological Achievements </title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 8 Dec 2011 14:40:07 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.cubanews.ain.cu/2011/1208Cuban-Biotechnological.htm</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Dr. Jose Luis Di Fabio, the representative in Cuba of the World and Pan American Health Organizations extolled this Wednesday in Cuba the island’s progress in the development of biotechnological products and noted that such attainment has had a huge
positive impact in the Cuban’s quality of life.]]></description>
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      <title>  Cuba: The Self-employed Will Be Able to Publish Yellow Page Ads  </title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 8 Dec 2011 14:39:53 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.cubanews.ain.cu/2011/1208Self-employed.htm</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Cuba’s Telecommunications Company ETECSA announced the recent approval of the inclusion of a section on the Yellow Pages for the advertisement of activities of the self-employed sector. ]]></description>
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      <title> Cuba to Participate in Costa Rica’s Annual Cycling Tour</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 8 Dec 2011 13:57:21 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.cubanews.ain.cu/2011/1208Cycling-Tour.htm</link>
      <description><![CDATA[A seven-men squad led by Arnold Alcolea will represent Cuba at the 47th Cycling Tour of Costa Rica, scheduled for December 16-28.
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      <title>Seychelles’ Health Minister Thanks Cuban Doctors for their Collaboration </title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 8 Dec 2011 12:07:13 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.cubanews.ain.cu/2011/1208Health-Minister.htm</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Seychelles’ Health Minister Erna Athanasius thanked Cuban health specialists working in her country for their contribution to the implementation of social programs implemented by the government of president James Michel. ]]></description>
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      <title>WHO, PHO Ponders Cuban Biotechnological Achievements </title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 8 Dec 2011 12:01:45 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.cubanews.ain.cu/2011/1208Cuban-Biotechnological.htm</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Dr. Jose Luis Di Fabio, the representative in Cuba of the World and Pan American Health Organizations extolled this Wednesday in Cuba the island’s progress in the development of biotechnological products and noted that such attainment has had a huge positive impact in the Cuban’s quality of life.]]></description>
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      <title>Young Cuban Student Wins Spelling Contest</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 8 Dec 2011 11:55:04 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.cubanews.ain.cu/2011/1208Cuban-Student.htm</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Carlos Jaime Jimenez, a student of the Olga Alonso Pre-University 
Institute in the city of Fomento, Sancti Spiritus province, became on Wednesday the winner of First Prize at the 2011 Spanish American Spelling Contest.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 8 Dec 2011 11:49:30 -0500</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Some 30 pieces by Pablo Picasso, Joan Miro, Marcel Duchamp and other influential creators of international renown are on display since December 5 at the Trista Gallery of the city of Trinidad, in this province.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 8 Dec 2011 11:40:31 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.ain.cu/idiomas/ruso/2011/1207raul-trinidad-tobago-avb.htm</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Президент Кубы Рауль Кастро Рус, прибыл в среду в Тринидад и Тобаго в сопровождении других официальных лиц, для участия в четвертом Саммите Куба-КАРИКОМ, запланированного на 8 декабря.]]></description>
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      <title> Raul Castro: I Bring to Trinidad and Tobago Our Eternal Gratitude (PHOTOS)</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 8 Dec 2011 11:38:47 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.cubanews.ain.cu/2011/1208caricom-cuba.htm</link>
      <description><![CDATA[President Raul Castro began on Wednesday his first official visit to Trinidad and Tobago, where he arrived heading the Cuban delegation to the Fourth Cuba-CARICOM Summit that was inaugurated on Thursday morning in Port-of-Spain.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 7 Dec 2011 16:47:58 -0500</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Italian filmmaker Angelo Rizzo reiterated on Monday his full support
for Cuba, a country he confessed he loves with all his heart because it’s an example of humanism and solidarity.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 7 Dec 2011 16:47:29 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.cubanews.ain.cu/2011/1207Film-Festival.htm</link>
      <description><![CDATA[The film "Juntos para siempre" (Together forever), by Argentinean Pablo Solarz, is competing in the 33 rd International Festival of Latin American Cinema of Havana, in the category of opera prima.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 7 Dec 2011 12:10:05 -0500</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Cuba’s progress in the field of clinical trials is being exhibited at the Fifth International Workshop on Clinical Trials that began on Wednesday at Havana’s Convention Center with the participation of representatives from over a dozen countries.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 7 Dec 2011 12:09:52 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.cubanews.ain.cu/2011/1207Viet-Nam.htm</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Cuba and Viet Nam signed a cooperation agreement worth five million dollars for the buy/sale and distribution of Cuban pharmaceutical products in this Asian country in 2012.
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      <pubDate>Wed, 7 Dec 2011 12:08:20 -0500</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[President Raul Castro heads the Cuban delegation that will participate in the Fourth Cuba-CARICOM Summit that will take place on Thursday, December 8, in Port-of-Spain, the capital of Trinidad and Tobago.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 6 Dec 2011 16:33:25 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.cubanews.ain.cu/2011/1206Cuba-Reiterates.htm</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Cuba reiterated on Monday in Geneva, on behalf of the Non-Aligned
Movement (NAM), its support for the Biological Weapons Convention and its strengthening, so these weapons are never used.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 6 Dec 2011 16:32:59 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.cubanews.ain.cu/2011/1206Literature-Award.htm</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Nersys Lopez, a writer from westernmost Pinar del Rio province, was announced as the recipient of the 2011 National Literature Award, for her narrative and poetic work mainly for children.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 6 Dec 2011 16:31:29 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.cubanews.ain.cu/2011/1206Further-Strengthen.htm</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Upon presenting his credentials in Beijing, the new Cuban ambassador to China, Alberto Blanco, and the President of that country, Hu Jintao, reaffirmed the willingness to further strengthen bonds between both nations in all fields. ]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 6 Dec 2011 14:27:23 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.cubanews.ain.cu/2011/1206Cuban-Five.htm</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Organizations of Cuban émigrés in Miami carried out a conference to clarify the current situation of the five Cuban antiterrorists, unfairly condemned in the US since 1998.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 6 Dec 2011 14:26:55 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.cubanews.ain.cu/2011/1206Latin-America.htm</link>
      <description><![CDATA[With the official foundation of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC), this new organization faces a huge challenge as it undertakes its journey.]]></description>
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      <title>Int’l Sports Convention Kicks Off in Havana</title>
      <pubDate>Tue, 6 Dec 2011 14:26:16 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.cubanews.ain.cu/2011/1206Sports-Convention.htm</link>
      <description><![CDATA[ The Fourth International Convention of Spots and Physical Activity (AFIDE 2011) began on Tuesday at Havana’s Convention Center with the participation of more than 400 delegates from 29 countries.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 5 Dec 2011 13:59:53 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.cubanews.ain.cu/2011/1205National-Ballet.htm</link>
      <description><![CDATA[The Cuban National Ballet, led by prima ballerina assoluta Alicia Alonso, departed for Canada where they will dance the famous “Nutcracker”, according to a press release by the company.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 5 Dec 2011 13:59:20 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.cubanews.ain.cu/2011/1205Human-Rights.htm</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Cuba condemned foreign intervention in Syria and forewarned on the possible consequences for the Middle East and the rest of the world before the United Nations Human Rights Council.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 5 Dec 2011 13:58:55 -0500</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Cuban President Raul Castro arrived on Sunday in this capital from Venezuela, where he headed the island’s delegation to the summit in which the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) was established.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 2 Dec 2011 13:49:29 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.cubanews.ain.cu/2011/1202Raul-Castro-CELAC.htm</link>
      <description><![CDATA[“If it works and is successful, the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) could be regarded as the greatest event of the last 200 years of semi-independence in Latin America,” said President Raul Castro on Friday upon his arrival in Caracas, Venezuela, heading the Cuban delegation that will participate in the foundational meeting of this organization. ]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 2 Dec 2011 12:50:54 -0500</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Cuba must be removed from the U.S. State Department’s list of terrorism-sponsoring countries, as its inclusion lacks grounds and harms bilateral relations, said experts in Washington.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 2 Dec 2011 12:50:27 -0500</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Cuban Politburo member Esteban Lazo met on Thursday afternoon with the General Secretary of the National Council of Churches of Christ in the United States, Reverend Michael Kinnamon, and his accompanying delegation, composed of leaders of different religious denominations of that country.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 2 Dec 2011 12:49:39 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.cubanews.ain.cu/2011/1202Raul-Castro.htm</link>
      <description><![CDATA[President Raul Castro is heading the Cuban delegation that arrived this Friday in Caracas, Venezuela, to take part in the foundational meeting of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 1 Dec 2011 12:10:22 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.cubanews.ain.cu/2011/1201Cuban-Five.htm</link>
      <description><![CDATA[A delegation of US religious leaders met on Wednesday in this capital with wives of the five Cuban heroes condemned in the United States for fighting terrorism.]]></description>
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