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The links between higher education and social transformation are the focus of interest of academics gathered today at the XIV International Congress on Higher Education, taking place in Havana, Cuba.

Precisely on this topic, a forum will take place this Tuesday at the Convention Palace, venue of the conclave, in charge of the executive director of the Latin American Council of Social Sciences, Karina Batthyány, the member of the steering committee of CLACSO, María Isabel Domínguez, authorities of the Cuban Ministry of Higher Education and organizers of the congress.

U.S. writer Alice Walker, Pulitzer Prize winner for the fiction work "The Color Purple" (1983) and fighter for women's rights, reaffirmed here today the great affection she feels for Cuba.

Unveiling a bust of American novelist Langston Hughes in Old Havana, along with a delegation from the United States, this authoritative voice of world literature said that memories are powerful, referring to the tribute to the National Poet of Cuba, Nicolás Guillén.

This January 30 concluded in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, the Cuban Cigar Appreciation Week as a heritage of Cuban culture, an exhibition led by the Master Cigar Roller Yaquelin Sosa Cuellar, from Habanos S. A.

For seven consecutive days, the Cuban cigar maker demonstrated her talent and expertise, rolling cigars of different sizes and characteristics and amazed the spectators who followed her demonstrations in seven locations in the capital of Malaysia.

Three decades after the cities of Mobile (USA) and Havana (Cuba) were declared sisters, the exhibition "Cuba at the Exploreum" highlights the bonds of brotherhood between these cities. 
The exhibition, organized by María Conchita Méndez, a Cuban resident in Mobile, together with the Exploreum Science Center of that U.S. city, seeks to bring the public closer to some icons of Cuban culture.