In order to take advantage of the seasonal ripening of coffee beans, a new coffee harvest has been started in the lower lands of Trinidad and Fomento range of mountains, where coffee is mostly grown in Sancti Spiritus.»

Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff requested on Tuesday at the UN to put an end to the U.S. economic, financial and trade blockade against Cuba, that has been affecting this country for decades.»

Cuban President, Raul Castro, saw off his Bolivian counterpart Evo Morales, who concluded on Monday a brief working visit to the Caribbean nation.»

Cuban voters had already held over 48,000 assemblies until Saturday, September 22, during the first stage of the Cuban general elections now entering its final week.»

The fourth National Population and Housing Census undertaken after the triumph of the Cuban Revolution ends Monday in Sancti Spiritus, and in the rest of the country, with the closure of the enumeration of about 163 000 households, communities, and work places where people reside permanently.»

Raul Castro, president of the Cuban Councils of State and Ministers welcomed Bolivian President Evo Morales Sunday evening. The Bolivian head of state is on a working visit to Havana, Cuban television reported.»

Cuba will officially close the information gathering stage of the 2012 Population and Housing Census, the number 18 since the first one conducted in the island in 1774 and the fourth of the revolutionary stage.»

Over 2000 health collaborators from Sancti Spiritus work in several countries around the world as a reaffirmation of the Cuban solidarity in this important sector.»

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Since last September 7th, the Cuban southern municipality of Trinidad hosts the exceptional art exhibition Trozos de existencia (Pieces of existence).»