Havana, Cuba - The XVII Ernest Hemingway International Colloquium, dedicated to the 93rd and 90th anniversaries of the 1954 Nobel Prize for Literature's The Sun Also Rises and Farewell to Arms, respectively, will open its doors today in the International Hall of the capital's Iberostar Riviera Hotel.

The opening words of the event will be given by Gladys Collazo Usallán, president of the National Council of Cultural Heritage, organization in charge of its coordination, together with the Ernest Hemingway Museum of Finca Vigía.

Paris - The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) welcomes the Latin American and Caribbean Week to celebrate the region''s cultural diversity, Deputy General Director Edouard Matoko said on Tuesday.

Some years ago, in an article titled "Tiene lágrimas negras," I commented in the pages of this newspaper about the deplorable state of Julio Rosas municipal library in San Antonio de los Baños township.

Havana - Over 90 poets from 25 nations signed a declaration expressing their condemnation of the interventionist policy implemented by the US government against Cuba.

Paris - UNESCO recognized the Havana restoration work reaching its 500th Anniversary in the presence of Eusebio Leal, historian of Havana.

With the aim of promoting environmental protection, the photographic exhibition ''Instante Natura'', by  the Ariguanabo Speleological Group, will be inaugurated on June 5, at the José Rafael Lauzán Municipal History Museum, located in San Antonio de los Baños.