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Some 8,094,419 Cubans casted their votes on Sunday to choose the delegates to the Legislative Assemblies of the country's 169 municipalities, according to the latest report by the National Electoral Commission (NEC).
The Jose Marti Association (APJM) demanded on Saturday that the Portuguese government favored greater interaction with the civil society in that country that supports Cuba, victim of an unprecedented media discredit campaign organized in Europe.
The Workers'' Central Union of Cuba (CTC) will hold an online interactive forum on Friday, to discuss the situation of five Cuban anti-terrorist fighters unfairly imprisoned in the US almost 12 years ago. According to organizers, the debate will be available at
http://foro.jovenclub.cu/ between 10:00 and 12:00 local time.
The second stage of the 49th National Vaccination Campaign against poliomyelitis is starting on Friday in Cuba, which should immunize more than 500,000 children against that disease, once it has been concluded. In this stage, some 362,525 under three-year-old toddlers will receive a second oral dose (two drops), while 143,080 nine-year-old children will have the anti-polio vaccine reactivated.
Cuban voters and authorities are shaping final details for a successful holding of elections on Sunday, April 25.
Cuban Vice President Esteban Lazo is leading his country's delegation to the World Peoples' Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth, which continues on Wednesday in Cochabamba, Bolivia.
A workshop on free software and computing and communication technologies will be in session on Tuesday in the framework of the International Congress of Information, Info''2010, to be held until Friday.
Cuban President Raul Castro considers his visit to Venezuela as highly satisfactory since he held a working meeting with host President Hugo Chavez and attended the ninth ALBA Summit and the celebrations for the independence bicentenary.
The People's World Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth begins on Tuesday with a mass event at the Sebastian Ramirez de Tiquipaya Stadium, 12 kilometers (7,4 miles) of Cochabamba.
The member countries of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA) agreed on Tuesday in Venezuela to strengthen integration and sovereignty for the construction of the socialism.
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