Cuban president Raul Castro met on Friday with visiting Japanese minister Keiji Furuya, who heads Japan-Cuba Friendship Parliamentary League.»

The historic leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro, attended the inauguration of an Art Studio in a Havana neighborhood that has been revived and is now a flourishing cultural area, with restored and painted homes, paved streets and their boulevards filled with flowers.»

Sancti Spiritus Frederich Cepeda was the first selected for the round to come. Ismel Jimenez will play for the current champions of Villa Clara, Eriel Sanchez will be in Matanzas, and Yunier Mendoza in Santiago de Cuba.»

Cuba will extend a new management model for the taxi service agencies giving services in Convertible Cuban Pesos (CUC, equivalent to US dollars in Cuba) experimentally applied since 2010 in Havana.»

Thirty-five years after its foundation, the staff members of Sancti Spiritus Escambray newspaper, ratified this January 4th their commitment to the call made by the country’s top leadership towards the improvement of professionalism in the journalistic exercise.»

“The infant mortality rate in Cuba, at 4.2 percent per 1,000 live births, shows that regional strategies and plans on this issue are fulfilled”, said Roberto Alvarez, head of Maternal and Child Department from Public Health Ministry.»

The Cuban literacy campaign method Yo Si Puedo (Yes, I Can) started its national application in Argentina, in agrcultural communities.»

When the 53rd Cuban Series ends on Sunday its qualifying stage, Sancti Spiritus baseball club, known as Los Gallos (Roosters), will be writing one of its most sad pages in history. »

Cuba will face Mexico in the opening of the Caribbean Series baseball in its edition of 2014, scheduled to take place in the Venezuelan island of Margarita from 1 to 8 February, reported organizers.»

The resorts found at Trinidad-Sancti Spiritus tourist destination have joined the initiatives launched in Trinidad, to celebrate the half-millennium of its foundation.»