Cuba to Set Up Municipal Assemblies for New Mandate
Havana - The Municipal Assemblies of People''s Power will be set up in Cuba on December 17 for a new mandate that will run for two and a half years, Granma newspaper reports today.
Cuban parliament to hold ordinary session on December 21
The President of the Cuban national People´s Power Assembly (parliament) Esteban Lazo Hernandez convened this Friday the Tenth Ordinary Session of the Eighth Legislature for next December 21.
9th Congress of Microbiology and Parasitology Kicks Off in Cuba
During the meeting, which will run until December 9, there will also be a Seminar on HIV/AIDS in Cuba as well as the International Symposium on Chromoblastomycosis.
In a press conference, the president of the Congress, Guadalupe Guzmán, explained that one of the objectives is to update and exchange on the role of microbiology and parasitology in the confrontation of high impact diseases such as infectious, emerging, and re-emerging and the forgotten ones.
Advances in the knowledge of infectious bacterial, mycotic, viral and parasitic diseases; its diagnosis, epidemiology, and pathology, as well as the situation in Cuba and in the world are among the main objectives, she said.
Symposium in Cuba Focuses on Water as Therapeutic Agent
Havana - The use of water as therapeutic agent centers the 3rd International Symposium on Medical Hydrology aimed at debating among national and foreign specialists on this issue.
Cuba: Second Round of Municipal Elections Going on Today
Havana - The second round of the municipal elections for the delegates to the municipal assembles of the Popular Power in Cuba is going on Sunday in 1,103 circumscriptions of the 12,515 existing in the island.
Cuban Minister stands out Strong Relations between Cuba and Syria
Rodrigo Malmierca, Cuba´s Minister of Foreign Trade and Foreign Investment, highlighted the close Syrian-Cuban relations, which he described as fraternal.
Culture
The Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba (UNEAC) issued a statement on Tuesday rejecting recent remarks by Peruvian-Spanish writer Mario Vargas Llosa, in which he blamed social outbreaks in the continent on Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua and promoted an internal uprising in Cuba.
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One of the actions, in correspondence with this objective, is aimed at exchanging ideas on the current perspectives of contemporary Cuban animation, which takes place at the International Film and Television School (EICTV) in San Antonio de los Baños, from 9 to December 13th.
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Havana - Cuban intellectual Abel Prieto was appointed president of Casa de las Américas, the center's website La Ventana reported today.
Prieto, former minister of Culture and currently serving as director of the Marti Program Office and president of the José Martí Cultural Society, was nominated for the post by Alpidio Alonso, current Culture Minister.
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