The President of the Cuban Friendship Institute Kenia Serrano said the activity of movements of solidarity with Cuba during this year 2011 was extraordinary and is on the rise. Serrano mentioned as a particular fact the increase in 2011 of the efficiency of actions for the release of the Cuban »

A team of Cuban boxers will train in Europe for the 2012 London Olympics, said National Boxing Federation President Alberto Puig.»

Since the beginning of the year, when the process of reorganizing began in Sancti Spiritus, more than 800 health services have been given order to in the Cuban central province. Thus, medical care has reached communities in a more appropriate way.»

Debates at the Eighth Session of the Cuban People’s Power National Assembly summoned for December 23 will focus on economic and juridical matters. The Economic Plan and State Budget drafts for 2012 will be placed for consideration and approval to the deputies.»

Cuban and U.S. experts meet in this capital on Wednesday to seek opportunities for cooperation in research on biological and environmental sciences, enabling technologies, and scientific policy.»

Scheduled to begin on Thursday, the international jazz festival in Cuba will be attended by a large delegation of U.S. professors, headed by saxophonist Neil Leonard, pianist Joanne Brackeen, who are professors at Berklee College of Music, in Boston.»

In a conference on the current situation of eolian energy in Cuba, Engineer Fernando Medinilla said there are some barriers for its development, including the high total cost, especially in the beginning, the environmental impacts and the planning of electrical systems.»

Pope Benedict XVI confirmed that he is planning to visit Cuba and Mexico before Easter next year. The pontiff made the announcement as he celebrated mass in St. Peter’s Basilica in honor of the Virgin of Guadalupe, one of the most revered figures of Roman Catholicism in Mexico.»

After two months of work on an urban segment of the capital Sancti  Spiritus,  the movement of trains along the branch that links the Central Railroad with the city of Sancti Spiritus and the coastal area of Tunas de Zaza, south of the province, has been restored.»

The Association of Cuban residents in Ukraine on Tuesday demanded the end of the U.S. criminal blockade and the release of four Cuban antiterrorist fighters, unjustly held in that northern nation, and the return of a fifth to the island. A statement approved during a national meeting of the organization »