Latin American Athletes among First Guests of Paralympics Village

Beijing, August, 31- The Paralympics Games Village officially opened doors Saturday, with the delegations of Argentina, Brazil, Cuba, Colombia, Mexico and Venezuela among is first guests. "The conditions of the installation are excellent", Cuban Sports Institute Jose Luis Rivas (INDER) told Prensa Latina shortly after the arrival of the Cuban delegation. This will be the home for 7,000 athletes, coaches and officials from 148 countries until September 17, the day for the conclusion of the 13th Paralympics Games. The Village is the same having received participants in the recently concluded Olympic Games, now adapted to the characteristics of the new competitors .visually disabled, blind and physically disabled. The Latin American delegations were preceded by China, a delegation with 547 members, the biggest in its history. In the opening ceremony, International Paralympics Committee director Philip Craven and other officials participated and welcomed the new guests. Other national delegations are still arriving in Beijing, and the Paralympics torch is touring several Chinese cities, on the final stage to its inauguration

Latin Press News News posted on 9/1/2008 4:08:12 PM

Visitors record at Guardalavaca Breezes Hotel Complex

Holguin, January 5,-The 28 of December of the 2008 was marked as the great day of the Guardalavaca Breezes Hotel Complex, when obtaining that thousand 159 visitors spent the night in its 437 rooms. At 2.4 behaves the room occupation at the Guardalavaca Breeze Resort in the high season, w...

Cuba Projects 6 percent Growth in 2009

At the end of the year 2008, took place the Cuban Parliament Assembly at the Havana Conventions Center (Palacio de Convenciones). The Cuban minister for Planning and the Economy explained to Parliament the 4.3 percent growth in 2008 Notwithstanding a high level of uncertainty, Cuba expec...

Cuba Boosts Congress Tourism

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