Cuba hosts from today the 20th International Congress of Orthopedics and Traumatology in Bayamo, Granma, with over 400 Cuban and foreign guests.
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The charismatic Colombian singer Juanes thanked the Cubans this Monday for giving him the opportunity to meet them and for sending together with him a message of peace out to humankind.
More than a million Cubans attended the Peace without Borders Concert held in Revolution Square in Havana. Despite the high temperatures the crowd enjoyed in the 5-hour long concert, while the rest of the world could watch by satellite.
President Morales is expected to meet with Chinese Peer Hu Jintao to negotiate economic and technical support for his project to put a Bolivian communication satellite into orbit.
The Revolution Square is expected to become a seething mass of people Sunday afternoon, with peace and music as leitmotiv for a unique five-hour concert by Colombian Juanes and 14 other artists, who will perform for 11 million Cubans.
The economic, financial and commercial blockade that US has kept for over 50 years against Cuba was decried Friday night by participants to the Contracorriente Ciudad Libre TV program in this Brazilian capital.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez meets Saturday with governors in San Juan de Los Morros, state of Guarico, to strengthen government.
The denunciation of physical tortures received in US military base in Guantanamo by one French citizen were received for the first time by Justice in France.
Cuban Permanent Representative to the UN, Pedro Nunez Mosquera, was elected unanimously on Thursday as deputy chair of the UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People.
Cuban President Raul Castro headed the official welcoming ceremony for his Croatian counterpart, Stjepan Mesic.
Cuba's Revolution is solid and unbeatable, with or without US trade and financial blockade, Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez ratified on Wednesday.
President Barack Obama signed an order extending for another year the law used to impose the US trade blockade on Cuba, despite calls to lift all unilateral economic sanctions against the Caribbean nation.