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It is a sovereign, central European country and member of the European Union. It is organized as a federal parliamentary republic and its capital is Berlin. Its territory, formed by sixteen federal states, borders the north with the North Sea, Denmark and the Baltic Sea; To the east with Poland and the Czech Republic; To the south with Austria and Switzerland, and to the west with France, Luxembourg, Belgium and the Netherlands

The territory of Germany covers 357 thousand 22 square kilometers in extent and has a temperate climate. With more than 82.2 million inhabitants, it represents the largest population among the member states of the European Union and is home to the third largest group of international emigrants. After the United States, Germany is the second most popular migration destination in the world.

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Born with the name of Angela Dorothea Kasner, is a German physicist and politician who has been the chancellor of her country since 2005.

In 2016 she was considered by the magazine Forbes like the most powerful woman of the world by tenth occasion according to the annual list of the publication.

Merkel has been president of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany since 2000, while also serving as deputy of the Bundestag, lower house of the German parliament, where she represents a group of districts including West Pomerania and Rügen, as well as the town of Greifswald .

From the beginning her government has focused on maintaining German productivity and continuing its economic and political strengthening in the European continent, with a notable rapprochement with Russia and a clear predominance over the European Union.

Merkel has chaired the G8 and was also the President of the European Council, being the second woman in history to hold both positions, only preceded in that merit by the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Margaret Thatcher.

In domestic matters she carried out a Health System Reform in Germany and focused on the energy development of her country, defending the use of nuclear energy, as well as promoting programs for the fortification of alternative energy sources in the German country.

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Inaugurated in 1979, the Havana International Convention Center is the foremost institution specializing in events and congresses in Cuba. The facility is located only 20 minutes from downtown Havana, in a residential area in the western part of the city and extends over an area of 60 000 square meters. The center is surrounded by exuberant vegetation which harmonizes with the tropical greenery of its interior gardens.

The Havana International Convention Center organizes, promotes and hosts congresses, conventions, symposia, conferences, national and international meetings, fairs and exhibitions. It has an extensive network of official agencies throughout Latin America, North America and Europe which, in conjunction with associations or companies interested in these services promote and market the activities organized for each of the international events and fairs programmed during the year.

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In late 1961 and early 1962, and led by the head of the Revolutionary Guidance Commission, first of the Integrated Revolutionary Organizations, and after the United Party of the Socialist Revolution, Cesar Escalante Dellundé, steps were taken to the institutionalization, which culminated in the signing of Law 1 030, which validated the creation of the Cuban Institute of Broadcasting, on May 24, 1962. In 1975 the name underwent a change and became known as the Cuban Radio and Television Institute (ICRT), with the same attributions.

Radio

The first station that transmitted in Cuba was the 2LC of Luis Casas Romero, on August 22, 1922. October 10, 1922, first transmission of the PWX, is officially considered like the inauguration of the broadcasting in Cuba, the inaugural speech of the then President of the Republic Alfredo Zayas was broadcasted, in Spanish and English for the American people. Since its beginnings until the decade of the thirty the radio maintained a programming based fundamentally in the information and the entertainment. On February 24, 1959, Radio Rebelde, station of the Revolution broadcasted from the Sierra Maestra. By the end of 1959 there were 156 radio repeaters in the country. With the triumph of the Revolution in 1959, changes in the radio take place. In 1960, the Free Broadcasters Front (FIEL) was created, which provided the Cuban State with the facilities and operation of its services. On May 1, 1961 the International radio station Radio Habana Cuba was inaugurated. After the revolutionary triumph the state has worked so that the radio signal could be captured throughout the national territory and reflects the socioeconomic development, with a network of national, provincial, municipal and local broadcasters that make up the Cuban Radio Subsystem. The National Radio Network has 69 radio stations and 82 municipal studios distributed throughout the country.

TV

During the first half of the 1940s in the 20th century, several commercial television channels were inaugurated in the USA. A fact that very soon had repercussions in Cuba for the existence of a strong, vast and successful radio system with commercial objectives, which even reached an incipient concentration of stations in which they would later be important national multimedia groups, also boosted by the excellent relations between the US electronic signatures and the main executives and radios companies located in Havana, reflecting the intimate political relationship from the Government itself.

Paradoxically, chance wanted the first demonstration of television in our country to be carried out by a Cuban marriage, independently of the entire structure of existing radio power, who became, without thinking, sponsors and protagonists of this historical event. The story began for them when traveling to New York for their honeymoon. There they were dazzled by this invention and made the decision to take the first steps with executives of American television stations, to develop a television exhibition in Havana.

On October 24, 1950, the first television channel was officially inaugurated, which established regular television transmission operations in Cuba. With this, our country, along with Mexico and Brazil in the same quarter of 1950, integrated the founding trilogy. On October 12, the test transmission period began with fixed views and interviews that were held until the inauguration day at the Presidential Palace (now the Museum of the Revolution). The ceremony was transmitted by a mobile remote control unit that sent the signal to the plant and from there to the TV receivers already existing in the city of Havana. The first televising programs were the Baseball games from the Cerro’s Stadium and the shows carried out from the rented theaters that were conjugated with a reduced number of programs of the musical, humoristic and commercial wedges genres produced in sets. Thanks to this operative solution that broke the traditional molds in TV, the support of the programming of Channel 4 was solved, in its first stage of transmission.

After creating our television system (since 1960 for public service purposes and in terms of culture, education, training and information for the whole society), Televisión Cubana currently has four national channels (two of them specialized in educational topics), 15 territorial tele centers (in all provinces and the special Municipality of Isla de la Juventud), an international signal Cuba vision International (www.cubavision.cubaweb.cu) and TV Serrana a community video producer based in the Sierra Maestra east of country. It is born as an important option Multivision, which covers more than 50 percent of the national territory.

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Organization with cultural and artistic aims that selectively and voluntarily the most important writers, artists, intellectuals and promoters of all Cuba, young people up to 35 years.

Since its creation the AHS is committed to the work of its associates, all young people with a truly revolutionary culture linked to the life of the Cuban people, to which the organization is primarily responsible. That is why the objectives of work are related to stimulating artistic and literary creation among its members and fostering spaces for theoretical discussion on the participation of the intellectual avant-garde.

For more than twenty years the organization has functioned as an interface between the areas of greatest aesthetic risk within artistic and literary production and the different entities of the institutional system of culture, a relationship that has been concentrated through concrete promotional alternatives and through the creation of spaces for theoretical discussion that guarantee the formal and conceptual framework appropriate for the most revolutionary of art and literature carried out by young people.

Young writers, artists and cultural promoters up to the age of 35 may be members of the AHS who accept these statutes and are approved for admission. When the associate arrives at the age of 36, he or she will cease as a member; except those holding management positions in the AHS, who will remain until the end of their term.

Those interested in joining the Association will submit a written request to the corresponding Provincial Directorate, with an artistic-literary curriculum and a sample of their work. The manner in which the process of entry will be carried out is established in the regulations of the Organization.

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It is one of the 11 municipalities of Mayabeque province, located in its northern part and characterized for its beaches. It is of singular importance the exploitation of the tourism in this zone, in which camping bases like Los Cocos, Peñas Blancas, Las Caletas, among others, can be found along its coast.