Renowned US guitarist, record producer and founder of the legendary British band Roxy Music, Phil Manzanera, will play at the opening of the 14th International Havana Cigar Festival from February 27th through March 2nd in Havana.

Manzanera is scheduled to perform during the welcoming concert at Havana's Karl Marx Theater, along with artists such as Cuban singer Augusto Enriquez.

Radio News Cuba. Special weekly audio news summary published by the Cuban Radio System from February 12th to 19th 2012.

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Cuban deputy foreign minister Dagoberto Rodriguez urged Spain´s foreign minister Jose Manuel Garcia-Margallo to better pay attention to Spain´s domestic affairs instead of meddling in Cuba internal issues.

In response to statements by Garcia-Margallo to the Sunday edition of El Mundo newspaper, Rodriguez said that the Spanish foreign minister used disrespectful and interfering expressions related to human rights and the state of law in Cuba.

"It is not in Cuba, where the followers of Franco are. It is better that you look around," the Cuban foreign minister noted in his statements posted on the webpage of the Cuban Foreign Ministry.

At the fortress of San Carlos de la Cabaña, at the east of Havana, the 21st International Book Fair, wound up its presentation in Havana on February 18. As of February 22, the event will now continue in 8 Cuban provinces and it will finish its travels in the Eastern province of Santiago de Cuba on March 4.

In a ceremony attended by the Ministers of Culture of Cuba, Abel Prieto, and Venezuela, Pedro Calzadilla, the president of the Cuban Book Institute, Zuleika Romay, reported that over 270,000 people visited the event, in all the cultural spaces, with sales of more than 600,000 books.

Romay reviewed the first 11 days and stressed the meeting of the leader of the Revolution, Fidel Castro, with hundreds of intellectuals, as one of the most prominent and historical events of this 21st edition of the International Book Fair.

The president of the Cuban Book Institute said that Caribbean cultures showed many different literary expressions through the voices and books of prominent writers.

The next International Book Fair that will take place in 2013, will be dedicated to the sister nation of the Popular Republic of Angola.

One of the most transcendental moments at the 21st International Book Fair Cuba 2012 was the presentation of the book The Cuban Five. Who are they? Why they have been unjustly sentenced? Why they should be released?. The book includes articles published in the US socialist newspaper "The Militant", which deal with the case of five heroes sentenced in the United States over 13 years ago for fighting terrorism.

Mary Alice Walters, director of the Pathfinder publishing house, was in charge of the presentation in the José Lezama Lima pavilion, at the Fortress of San Carlos de la Cabaña, where the personal exhibition "Aves por la Unidad" (Birds for Unity), by Antonio Guerrero, one of these fighters, for freedom and justice was also shown.

With a call to support the campaign for the release of political prisoners in the U.S., the Occupy Wall Street movement (OWS) today also supported the cause of the Five Cubans imprisoned in that country.

Members of Occupy Oakland, California, one of a group of branches spread throughout the nation, called for a National Day of Occupation for Prisoners on Monday, February 20, near San Quentin prison, north of San Francisco.

The president of the Association of Cuban Writers and Artists (UNEAC), Miguel Barnet, said on Wednesday that the declaration of rumba as Cultural Heritage of the Nation is an unprecedented event that paves the way for the recognition of the richness and variety of the people's cultural heritage.

At the venue of UNEAC in Havana and accompanied by the president of the National Council of Cultural Heritage, Gladys Collazo, Barnet gave details of the process through which rumba became the first musical-dance expression to receive such acknowledgement.

With the participation of Cuban intellectual and politician Armando Hart and the Havana City Historian Eusebio Leal Spengler, the presentation of a commemorative plaque to José Francisco Martí Zayas-Bazán (Ismaelillo), son of our national hero Jose Marti, was inaugurated at the Marti Studies Center (CEM), based in the Vedado neighborhood, Havana city.

Some 96 years after "El Ismaelillo" moved to the big mansion with his wife Maria Teresa Fernandez-Criado, their residence at that time, the plaque was unveiled by the outstanding figure of Eusebio Leal, who gave the opening address.

On February 14 the Radio Rebelde national station broadcast a special program dedicated to Antonio (Tony) Guerrero, Fernando Gonzalez, Rene Gonzalez, Ramon Labañino, four of the Five Cubans imprisoned in the United States for fighting against terrorism. The Cuban people had the opportunity to listen to the voices of these anti-terrorists during the broadcast. This way, a bridge of love between the Cuban anti-terrorists and their relatives and the island was built.

Intellectuals, journalists and social activists called for the use of alternative media and people to people contacts to reinforce the struggle for the return to Cuba of the five anti-terrorist fighters held in the U.S. since 1998.