Resolution
against US Blockade of Cuba Circulates in the United Nations
HAVANA, Cuba
(acn) A declaration rejecting the almost 50-year-old US economic
blockade of Cuba, which was recently approved in the Summit for
Unity of Latin America and the Caribbean held in Mexico, began to
circulate in the United Nations today as an official document.
US
Personalities Ask Washington to Grant Visas to Wives of Cuban
Antiterrorist Fighters
HAVANA, Cuba (acn)
Fourteen US personalities asked the White House to grant visas to
the wives of two of five Cuban antiterrorist fighters who remain
unjustly imprisoned in the United States since 1998.
The
Santiago Alvarez in Memoriam Documentary Festival: already in Full
Swing
SANTIAGO DE CUBA,
Cuba (acn) the 11th edition of the Santiago Alvarez in memoriam
International Documentary Festival was inaugurated in this city,
dedicated to the 50th
anniversary of Cuba’s Film Library and of the Latin American
Newsreel of the Cuban Film
Institute (ICAIC), declared as Memory of the World by UNESCO.
US Blockade
against Cuba Condemned in Uruguay and Ireland
HAVANA, Cuba (acn)
Uruguay’s La Republica newspaper denounced and condemned
Washington’s blockade against Cuba, and the same condemnation was
expressed by the Irish Sinn Fein Party.
Relatives of Terry Fox to Visit Cuba
HAVANA, Cuba (acn)
Relatives of Canadian Terry Fox will visit Cuba for the first time
to participate at the XII Marathon that bears his name to be held
next March 20 all over the
country.
Havana
Will Host Int’l Festival of Electroacoustic Music
HAVANA, Cuba (acn)
The 13th International Festival of Electroacoustic Music ‘Primavera
de la Habana’ (Havana’s Spring) will take place in the Cuban capital
on March 15-21.
UN
Chief in Haiti Praises Cuban Doctors Work
HAVANA, Cuba (acn)
Edmond Mulet, head of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in
Haiti (MINUSTAH) described as extraordinary the work of Cuban
doctors in that Caribbean
country hit by an earthquake last January 12.
Victor Hugo
Letters to Cuban Freedom Fighters Exhibited in Havana
HAVANA, Cuba (acn)
The facsimiles of two letters from the French writer Victor Hugo
to Cubans during the XIX century independence wars are being
exhibited for the first time in
this city in the house named alter him in the historical center.
