CUBAN REVOLUTION

Cuban Revolution leader Fidel Castro was awarded on Thursday China´s Confucius Peace Prize in acknowledgement of his efforts to solve international crisis and conflicts.»

Rural women have new opportunities for participation, which is in accordance with the socioeconomic project being implemented in the country.»

The Cuban people and government pay tribute today to Reserve Army Corps General Sixto Batista Santana, who passed away Sunday in Havana from a painful disease.»

President Raul Castro during the Revolution 55th anniversary commemoration»

President of the Councils of State and Ministers, Army General Raul Castro Ruz, will give the keynote speech on occasion of the 55th anniversary of the triumph of the Revolution major commemoration. The ceremony, to be started at 6:00PM today, will be held at the historic Parque Cespedes (Cespedes Park), located in front of the city council headquarters. It was »

Cuba will celebrate the advent of the 55th anniversary of the Revolution with popular dances, concerts, and other recreational, heritage, patriotic, and historic activities.»

The symbolic Victory Caravan recalling the east-to-west trip by Fidel Castro and the rebel army upon the 1959 revolutionary triumph arrives in Havana on Tuesday to conclude its nationwide trip as it happened 54 years ago.»

The prime ministers of Jamaica, Portia Simpson Miller, and Antigua and Barbuda, Winston Baldwin Spencer, sent messages of congratulations to Cuban President Raul Castro, on the occasion of the 54th anniversary of the triumph of the Revolution.»

Raul Castro, along with other Cuban leaders and the people of Santiago de Cuba paid tribute this July 30th to Frank Pais and those fallen in defence of the Revolution.»

Cuban President Raul Castro presided over the major commemoration of the 59th anniversary of the attacks to the Moncada and Carlos Manuel de Cespedes garrisons, which was held at Mariana Grajales Revolution Square, in the Cuban city of Guantanamo.»