martes, 23 de diciembre de 2008

Cuba Will Participate in Expo Shanghai 2010

HAVANA, Cuba, Dec 23 (acn) Cuba will be present in Expo Shanghai 2010 that will take place in this Chinese city with a pavilion of 500 square meters located in an area reserved for Latin American countries.

The announcement was made by the Cuban ambassador in China, Carlos Miguel Pereira, who added that Cuba is working hard to prepare its exhibition for this important event that will be attended by more than 150 countries.

During a ceremony to sign a contract that accredits the Caribbean nation’s participation in Expo Shanghai 2010, Pereira recalled that Cuba was one of the first countries to confirm its attendance and that a National Organizing Commission was created for this purpose.

For his part, Hong Hao, head of the Coordinating Bureau of the event,also recalled that 2010 will mark the 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Cuba and China.

Hao added that Expo Shanghai 2010 will be an excellent opportunity to explore common businesses and to strengthen cooperation in several sectors.

The exhibition, which will take place between May and October 2010, will include more than 20,000 activities and it is expected to draw the attention from nearly 70 million visitors, according to the organizers of the event.

Hot welcome in Athens to the National Ballet of Cuba

Havana, Dec 23.The National Ballet of Cuba (BNC) was warmly welcomed in their first presentation in Athens, Greece, after 25 years of absence.

In the Room Tanti, the main of the Cultural Complex Megaron, the public enjoyed the work Don Quijote, with scenery of Salvador Fernández, and interpreted day for the new generation of dancers, refers today Granma Newspaper.

The first claps were for the dance body, but the most lingering were for Viengsay Valdés and Romel Frómeta, Regina Hernández, Amaya Rodríguez and Aymara Rodríguez.

The audience, foot setting, shouted Alicia Alonso, when when concluding the function she appeared in the scenary escorted by Frómeta and the dancer Javier Torres.

The BNC will remain in Athens until next day 30, in a dance season that includes, also, the ballet Giselle.

Pioneers have reissued liberation of the towns for 50 years

By.Eduardo Luis Martin

Santa Clara, Dec 23. With the symbolic taking of Placetas and Manicaragua for the pioneers, today the fight will have been remembered for 50 years of the Rebellious Army, against the forces of the tyranny in those towns of Villa Clara.

The emancipatory geste well-known for Campaign of The Villages that the Commandant Ernesto Guevara directed in the central region of Cuba, began October 27, 1958 with the attack to the barracks of Güinía of Miranda in the hills of the Escambray to those that followed other actions.

For these days the small ones with their uniforms green olive , the bracelet of the Movement July 26 and Cuban flags, stage assaults to the old rural guard's barracks and park of the police that defended the régime that wrong governed to the country before 1959.

The pioneers reissued the fight liberated by the Column Eight Ciro Redondo in the town of Báez and the taking of the barracks of Zulueta, in charge of forces directed by the Commandant Camilo Cienfuegos in the north front of Las Villas.

The municipalities of Remedios and Caibarién will also carry out respectively the days 25 and 26, the symbolic takings and acts for the Anniversary 50 of the revolutionary victory, and starting from the 28 the recall of Santa Clara's Battle will begin with the assault of the different combat places in the city.

The new generations will sustain meetings with members of the Association of Combatants of the Cuban Revolution who will talk about the liberation war in which participated and the internationalists missions played by the Cubans in other lands.