Educators from Southern Camagüey were awarded

0 A group of educators from Santa Cruz del Sur received the acknowledgements of their local peers, in representation of the thousands of Cubans that participated 50 years ago in the 1961 heroic deed.  It took place at the educator’s party, where retired people were also awarded since they came back to schools in response to the revolution call. Likewise,

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Viñales Nacional Park, Cuban Ecotourism Paradise

1 Pinar del Rio, Cuba, Mar 17. -Viñales Nacional Park, famous for its jurassic mogotes (Karst mountains), receives every year thosands of Cuban and foreign visitors, who go over caves and roads, surrounded by living fossils, such as palma corcho (cork palm). One of the most outstanding options for tourists is Santo Tomas, one of the largest cave systems in

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Cuban Youth Honor Jose Marti

3 Havana, Jan 28. – Thousands of young Cubans, accompanied by Cuban First Vice President Jose Ramon Machado Ventura, staged the traditional March of the Torches on Thursday night to honor national hero Jose Marti on the 158th anniversary of his birth. Holding up torches, participants paraded from the Havana University staircase to Central Park in the capital. At the

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Seismic Swarm Marks New Year in Chile

0 Santiago de Chile, Jan 4. -Thousands of people in coastal areas of southern Chile woke up Monday fearing new aftershocks of the 6.9-magnitude earthquake that hit the country on Sunday. Though the National Emergency Office ruled out the possibility of a tsunami resulting from the strong tremor in La Araucania region at 17:20 local time, coastal residents decided to

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Cuban Vice President Visits Venezuela

0 Caracas, Jan 3. -Cuban First Vice President Jose Ramon Machado Ventura begins a working visit to Venezuela on Monday and will focus on the assistance Cuban collaborators are giving to thousands of landslide and flooding victims. Machado was received by Foreign Minister Nicolas Maduro, President of the National Assembly Cilia Flores, and Cuban Ambassador Rogelio Polanco. The vice president

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