jueves, 11 de diciembre de 2008

Choosen a Cuban for World Organization of Theater

Havana, Dec 11. Carlos Alberto Cremata, director of the Cuban infantile company La Colmenita will represent Latin America in the Permanent Committee of the Childhood and the Youth of the World Organization of Theater.
In declarations published in the Juventud rebelde newspaper, the artist said that with this appointment "the important work is recognizing that Cuba has carried out in particular in favor of the theater and of the culture in general.
To only some hours that the team that drives left toward Spain and Portugal, Cremata said that the Committee in charge of the World Festivals of Theater made by children, and the Congresses World Drama in Education, knows and admires to La Colmenita.
In what subtracts of year, the grouping will remain in Spanish earth, where they will present its works The Martina Cockroach and The Cinderella according to the Beatles.
With numerous international and national prizes, La Colmenita was designated in October of 2007 as Ambassador of Good Will of the Fund of United Nations for the Childhood (UNICEF).

Finish details central that will open the harvest in Camagüey

Camagüey, Dec 11. The sugar power stationBatalla de las Guásimas, which will open the harvest in the county of Camagüey, finishes details after the tests carried out to begin to walk the milled in next days .
Punished with severity by the step of the hurricanes Ike and Paloma, in September and November, respectively, the central accelerated the preparations in repairs and investments to advance the started up by necessities of the Cuban economy.
The factory is almost ready and in conditions of making a good campaign, assured to the AIN Sergio Valdés Ruiz, general director of that sugar company.
That plant had foreseen initially to begin the season by the middle of January, but after “Ike” thought about the importance of begin on 19 in the current month to look for revenues as soon as possible in foreign currencies.
Possibly we make it before that date, expressed Valdés Ruiz.
The works at this time are concentrated on correcting flaws detected in the partial tests of teams and systems, tasks that will conclude in the next days.
The “ Batalla de las Guásimas” will process sugar cane of own plantations and of the entities Cándido González and Panama, which won't incorporate their power stations to the campaign.
Camagüey will carry out the mill with five geniuses, one less than in the precedent, as direct consequence of the damages of the meteors at hundred of hectares of reedbeds, among other reasons.
By:Lucilo Tejera Díaz

Cuba Favors Genuine Cooperation in Human Rights Field

HAVANA, Cuba, Dec 10 (acn) Cuban Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque today affirmed that his country favors authentic international cooperation in the field of human rights, under the principles of objectivity, impartiality and non-selectivity.

Addressing over one hundred foreign personalities and representatives of Cuban civil society, Perez Roque inaugurated the International Workshop titled “The Universal Declaration of Human Rights: 60 Years Later,” at Havana’s Convention Palace.

After stressing the significance of respecting diversity and understanding national and regional particularities, the Cuban Foreign Minister backed the right of every nation to choose its own economic, social and political system.

Perez Roque blasted the constant manipulation of the human right subject by several US administrations and their allies, who have used the issue as an instrument of blackmail and pressure against some countries which, like Cuba, defend their self-determination and independence.

He said that Cuba will again launch its struggle at the new UN Human Rights Council if once again the already discredited discriminatory and selective actions practiced by the former Human Rights Commission come back on the scene.

Felipe Perez Roque denounced torture at the detention center located on the US naval base in the illegally occupied Cuban territory of Guatanamo; he also demanded the immediate shutting down of the camp and he urged the Us government to extradite terrorist Luis Posada Carriles to Venezuela, as well as the release of the five Cuban antiterrorist fighters held for over 10 years in US prisons.

The event is being sponsored by the Cuban National Commission with the UN Education, Science and Culture Organization (UNESCO) and it was called by the Cuban and the Venezuelan Chapters of the Network in Defense of Humanity.

Some participants at the Human Rights workshop include US activist Cindy Sheehan, former US presidential candidate for the Green Party Cynthia McKinney; Brazilian priest Frei Betto, Puerto Rican nationalist leader Rafael Cancel Miranda and Spanish Javier Couzo and Luis Eduardo Aute, among other personalities.

Cuba por real cooperación en tema de los derechos humanos