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Habano Festival, a Look at Cigar Factories

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Participants at the 20th Habano Cigar Festival are visiting Partagás and La Corona factories, to learn more about the manufacture of the most famous Premium cigars in the world. Both industries are located in the central area of this capital, in humble neighborhoods, where tradition and history enrich and follow the knowledge about how to roll a cigar in the best possible way.

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Habanos, First Line on Experts’ Debate

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The beginning of debates and exchanges of experiences on the Cuban tobacco industry favors today the opening of the International Seminar during the 20th edition of the Habano Cigar Festival.

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A celebration of the best tobacco in the world

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Over the years the Habano Festival has maintained its celebratory spirit, honoring the best tobacco in the world; and has not only become the leading event showcasing high quality Cuban cigars but is also recognized as the ideal place for habano lovers from around the world to come together.

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Composer of Cuba’s national anthem honored

Monumento Perucho Figueredo

This eastern city’s residents and invited guests gathered yesterday, February 18, to honor the patriot Pedro Figueredo, composer of the music and lyrics of Cuba’s national anthem, on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of his birth. Alongside the bust of Figueredo, at the foot of the statue of Carlos Manuel de Céspedes in the

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What makes this book necessary are the people who inhabit it

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A journey from grief to hope is offered through the pages of the book Hasta Siempre Fidel, according to Cuban Minister of Culture, Abel Prieto. The volume bears testimony to the Cuban people’s pain during the nine days of national mourning following the death of the historic leader of the Revolution, Fidel Castro.

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Juan Carlos Roque dissects the Buena Vista Social Club

Buenavista Social Club

THE Buena Vista Social Club was a very popular Havana dance hall in the 1940s and 50s, but that name is now known throughout the world as a Cuban musical phenomenon. It was a project born 20 years ago, under the direction of Juan de Marcos González, former director of the Sierra Maestra group, with renowned U.S. guitarist Ry Cooder as producer.

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Higher Education and the 2030 Agenda to be discussed in Havana

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Faced with the challenges of meeting the goals of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in the education sector, and in the context of the centennial of the Argentine university reform of 1918, Cuba will once again host researchers, academics and university professors, at the 11th International Congress of Higher Education, Universidad 2018, which will run February 12 through 16, in Havana’s International Conference Center.

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The country celebrates its good fortune

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Cuba continues celebrations for another anniversary of the Revolution, a tribute to the hard-working people who have made it possible. After a January 1 when all of Cuba danced, the Ministry of Culture and local institutions announced the continuation of performances by children’s choirs and concert bands.

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From where the palms grow

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In this landscape, where slender palms grow, alongside intense colors that were never for sale, a human canvas was painted marked by the hopes of those who took up arms and worked hard: men-children with unkempt beards and hair falling onto their rebellious shoulders, young women made powerful by their strong souls and fierce pride.

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Alicia defies time

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Alicia – our Alicia – on this island of hers there is no need to use her surname, celebrated her 97th birthday surrounded by the affection, admiration, and respect, not only of her compatriots, but of the entire legion of admirers across the four corners of the world.