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Touring Sunny Cuba: Dead Crabs, a Sick Driver, Fading Fidel
In the Caribbean town of Gerona, on Cuba's Isle of Youth, a festival is under way. Horse-drawn carts and bicycle taxis take revelers to open fields, where young Cubans drink beer and gather in circles to talk.

Parents walk hand-in-hand with their children, stopping on a bridge to chat with old friends or to play traditional fair games like tossing the ring over the bottle.

01 Jun 2005 by admin

Cuba to switch computers to Linux, dumping Windows
Cuba will gradually switch to the open-source Linux operating system for its state computers, eliminating its exclusive use of Microsoft Windows, the government daily Juventud Rebelde reported Tuesday.

Roberto del Puerto, director of the state office of information technology, told the daily that Cuba already has about 1,500 computers using the Linux system, a free operating system whose technical data is open for public viewing.

24 May 2005 by admin

Cuban telephone service
Cuba is replacing analogue telephone technology with digital services, as part of a strategy to improve telephony on the Caribbean Island.

According to executives from Empresa de Telecomunicaciones de Cuba S.A. (ETECSA), more than 130,000 phone lines will be digitalized in Cuba.

Technological conversion will involve both telephone lines and 242 plants throughout the country.

24 May 2005 by admin

Santiago de Cuba tourism
Santiago de Cuba has many attractions to develop tourism in the territory.

Local tourism authorities noted the existence of 3,600 rooms distributed in 23 hotels, one third of which are four- and five-star establishments.

According to statistics, an annual average of 115,000 vacationers have visited Santiago de Cuba over the past five years, so the city has become the country's second major destination.

The Antonio Maceo International Airport, which can receive medium- and large-size planes, has contributed to boosting tourist arrivals in the province.

The airport receives flights from Canada, France, Italy, Spain and the Caribbean region, and many tourists arrived by boat.

The region's main tourist markets are France, Canada, Germany, Spain, Italy and Holland, among others.

24 May 2005 by admin

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