Showing posts with label Cuba. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cuba. Show all posts

Friday, July 29, 2011

Award-winning Film

A film about a deaf man in Cuba has won an award at a New York film festival. Habana Muda earned director Eric Brach a Special Jury Prize at NewFest. Habana Muda is the story of Chino, who struggles to raise two children with his wife, but also has a wealthy boyfriend in Mexico who works for a Deaf organization.

Monday, June 27, 2011

Implant Discussion in Cuba

The 8th Congress of the Cuban Society of Otolaryngology starts today with delegates from a variety of countries, including Germany, Argentina, Brazil, Italy, Spain, Mexico, El Salvador, Cuba and Portugal. Tomorrow's session will be devoted to such topics as cochlear implants. Cuban officials say more than 200 cochlear implant operations have been carried out in the country, nearly all of them on children.