Dayron Robles Gives Cuba Second Gold Medal at Beijing 2008

Cuba, Aug 21,- Cuban Dayron Robles got the gold today after scoring 12:93 in the 110-meter hurdles men at Beijing Olympic Games and gave Cuba its second Olympic title. Robles came in followed by US athletes David Payne and David Oliver, who got silver and bronze respectively. Robles was very close to breaking the Olympic record set at 12, 91 by Chinese Liu Xiang at Athens 2004. He became the second Cuban athlete to get the Olympic title in his sports modality after Anier Garcia, who made it at Sydney 2000.

Cuba News Agency News posted on 8/22/2008 2:28:00 PM

Week of German Theater Underway in Havana

HAVANA, Cuba, Nov 19,-The third week dedicated to the German theater is underway in Havana through November 23 with presentations by Cuban and German theater troupes on different stages in the Cuban capital as one of the highlights of the program German theater director Armin Petras, writ...

From England, Mike Leigh in the Havana Film Festival

Havana, November 19, - With prizes in Cannes and Venice, and nominations and awards in the Oscars, arrives the filmography of the British filmmaker Mike Leigh at the International Festival of the New Latin American Cinema, which in its 30th edition, will tribute him with a retrospective of...

Jagua Hotel: 50 years of excellence

In the 1950's, Cuba was the favorite recreational place of US citizens. Famous mafia magnate Meyer Lansky and his friends in the Fulgencio Batista government recognized the potential of Palacio del Valle's gardens. Its privileged location in the area of Punta Gorda, across Cienfuegos Bay, ...

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