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National Soccer Commissioner of Cuba, Rene Perez, confirmed that the Cuban Federation of that sport is open to any proposal to hire players for foreign teams.»

Sancti Spiritus cycling cup against terrorism and for the return of the Cuban Five is held this year with the satisfaction of a dream come true.»

Cuban President Raul Castro received this Thursday afternoon Uruguay’s Vice-President-elect Raúl Fernando Sendic Rodríguez who is in Cuba on an official visit.»

Bolivian President Evo Morales said today shortly after being sworn in for 2015-2020 that it is a huge thrill to lead the country for another five years.  »

The attractive places located north and south of the province of Sancti Spiritus and the quality service in its facilities, consolidate the territory as one of the main destinations in Cuba for the practice of ecotourism.»

Prominent Cuban artist Marta Jimenez Oropesa, winner of the National Radio Prize, known among other things by her role as Rita of the radio program Alegrias de sobremesa, died in Havana, this Wednesday, at the age of 95.»

Cuban Health Ministry announced the death from malaria on Saturday of Cuban nurse Reinaldo Villafranca, who was working with the internationalist medical brigade that is fighting the Ebola virus in Sierra Leone.»

The International Committee for the Freedom of the Cuban 5 invites all who have been part of the struggle to free the Five to join this celebration.»

About a thousand members of solidarity-with-Cuba groups came to Sancti Spiritus during 2014, which exceeded the number of foreign visitors received in the previous year, said sources of the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP).»

Cuban doctor Felix Baez, who overcame the Ebola virus he got in Sierra Leone, returned to that Western African nation to continue fighting the disease along his comrades of the Henry Reeve international medical brigade.»