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Havana, Cuba_ The Cimarron Theater Company and Havana's Theater Center will present today the Caliban Distinction 2016 to the multi-state Telesur channel, for preserving and reinforcing Latin American and Caribbean culture, Prensa Latina reports.

Havana, Cuba_ Cuba will join up 800 megawatts to its electric power system between 2022 and 2024 with a state Russian credit of up to 1,200 billion Euros, in a project to be executed in an eight years term.

Havana, Cuba_The Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs rejected the attack against the constitution and democracy in Brasil, which has turned former president ,, into target of legal and parliamentary attacks, which are unjustifiable and disproportionate, Prensa Latina reported.

Havana, Cuba_ Army General Raúl Castro Ruz presided a meeting to review nationwide sanitation measures to combat the spread of viruses transmitted by Aedes mosquitoes at the Ministry of Public Health, Prensa Latina reports.

Habana, Cuba_ Cuba will be presenting applications, equipment and systems of the Information and Communications Technologies universe (TIC but the Spanish initials) as well as from the telecommunications, developed by Cuban enterprises, during the 16th International Fair Informatics 2016 to begin next March 14th, Prensa Latina reports.

Havana, Cuba_ The second imported case of Zika virus was diagnosed in Cuba, corresponding to a Cuban health collaborator who was working in Venezuela. The patient is a Cuban nurse aged 51, resident of the city of Manzanillo, in Granma province, who was collaborating in the state of Táchira, Venezuela, and arrived in the country on February 23, 2016, Radio Reloj published.