President Dilma Rousseff honors
José Martí in Plaza de la Revolución.
Brazil highlights its relations with Cuba
BRAZILIAN President Dilma Rousseff began the second day of her official visit to Cuba by honoring José Martí, Cuba’s national hero. Accompanied by Cuban Deputy Foreign Minister Rogelio Sierra, Rousseff placed a wreath at the foot of the monument in Havana’s Plaza de la Revolución.

- Raúl receives Brazilian President

Brazilian and Cuban Presidents
visit Mariel Port
IN the afternoon of January 31, President Raúl Castro Ruz accompanied Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff to the port facility of Mariel. There they were given an account of the investment process and the strategic importance of this future container terminal, both for Cuba and the region.


Our responsibility is
to promote greater democracy
in our society, beginning by
providing an example within
he ranks of the Party
Speech by Army General Raúl Castro Ruz, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and President of the Councils of State and Ministers, closing the 1st National Conference of the Party, in the International Conference Center, January 29, 2012, "Year 54 of the Revolution"
- Raúl presides over Communist Party Conference

CUBA
• COMMUNIST PARTY OF CUBA FIRST NATIONAL CONFERENCE
A profoundly democratic process
- Resolution outlining work objectives approved by National Conference
• EDUCATION IN CUBA
Figures speak for themselves
• Cuba: 2.7 million tourists in 2011


Our America
• The Orinoco Oil Belt
• Daniel Ortega sworn in as President
 of Nicaragua
• THE MALVINAS
21st century colonial enclave


INTERNATIONAL
• Spain behind bars
• "We want our right to independence to be respected"
• PALESTINIAN-ISRAELI CONFLICT
Israel seeks to erase Palestinian identity


CULTURE
• Silvio Rodríguez at the Fine Arts Museum
• 200th anniversary of the assassination
of Aponte to be commemorated
• Zuleica Romay wins Casa Prize


SPORTS
• Cuban judokas dominate Arlon tournament
• DAYRON & ANTÚNEZ
Cubans preparing to attack London hurdles
• 50 YEARS AGO
A new baseball is born

 Cuba: Reform or Revolution
– a book for the battle of ideas
THIS is essentially a book for battle, for the fight against Cuba’s adversaries, according to intellectual Rolando González, a José Martí scholar and current rector of the Institute of Art, upon introducing the most recent work by renowned Cuban researcher, essayist and journalist Enrique Ubieta Gómez, Cuba: ¿revolución o reforma? In Havana’s Casa del ALBA Cultural.

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Torchlight march for Martí and Cuba
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• Mariela Castro: "The United States government is preoccupied with the LGBT movement in Cuba"
• Cuba condemns U.S. radioelectronic aggression
• Tensions heighten: UK increasing military presence around the Malvinas
• 3,000 Cuban benefit from regenerative therapy
• Cuba exceeds electricity generation tenfold since 1959
• Raúl receives Brazilian Foreign Minister
- Cuba and Brazil: excellent bilateral relations
• Molecular Immunology Center
increases exports
• Antonio Guerrero in Marianna,
Florida prison