Cuba’s First Trilingual Multimedia on Athletics

SANTIAGO DE CUBA, Cuba, Jan 21 (acn) A multimedia on Athletics
(Multiatleti), with over 170 track-and-field terms translated and spoken
in Spanish, Italian and English, was presented at the 11th International
Social Communication Symposium.

This program is meant to become a tool for the Physical Education
students, in order to pass them knowledge through concepts and specific
terminology of the different track and field events, backed up by images
to help a better understanding.

Roberto A. Averhoff, one of its creators, said that the new work tries
to relate in a didactic and profound way different subjects, as physical
education, basic gymnastic, physiology, biochemistry and psychology,
among others.

It also includes a short film for the most important terms where the
students can see what they read and have a clearer idea of some of the
operations in athletics, added Averhoff.

The multimedia is also important for the history of the sport since
includes a small review of the main athletes in this eastern Cuban
province.

Primera multimedia trilingüe de atletismo en Cuba

Fidel Castro In Good Health, Says Argentinean President

HAVANA, Cuba, Jan 22 (acn) Minutes before leaving Cuba on Wednesday,
Argentinean President Cristina de Kirchner said her official visit to
Cuba had the perfect end with a meeting with the leader of the Cuban
Revolution, Fidel Castro.

At the Jose Marti International Airport in Havana, where she was seen
off by Cuban President Raul Castro, Fernandez de Kirchner said Fidel
looked in good health and high spirits.

The Argentinean leader added that they spoke about many topics,
including the inauguration of US President Barack Obama, the situation
in Latin America and other international issues.

Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner concluded a three-day official visit to
Cuba where she arrived last Sunday accompanied by a delegation of
ministers, legislators, other officials and businesspeople.

Her agenda in the Caribbean nation included official talks with Raul
Castro and a meeting with the President of the Cuban Parliament, Ricardo
Alarcon. She also gave a key lecture at the Main Hall of the University
of Havana, participated in the 2nd Seminar on Business Opportunities
that was attended by Cuban and Argentinean businesspeople, and presided
over the signing of 11 bilateral agreements between Cuba and her country.

On Wednesday, she also visited the Havana-based Latin American School of
Medicine and met with the Argentinean students there.

The Argentinean President departed for Venezuela on Wednesday for a two-
day visit. There, she will meet with President Hugo Chavez and will sign
cooperation accords.

Fidel está muy bien de salud, afirma Presidenta argentina

Cuban Foreign Minister Visits Nicaragua and Guatemala

HAVANA, Cuba, Jan 22 (acn) Cuban Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque on
Thursday carries out an official visit to Nicaragua, where he will meet
with President Daniel Ortega.

According to Granma news daily, during this visit, that will serve to
further strengthen the excellent bilateral relations between both
governments and peoples, Perez Roque will also hold official talks with
his Nicaraguan counterpart.

Then, on Friday, the Cuban FM will travel to Guatemala to participate,
on behalf of the presidency of the Non Aligned Movement (NAM), in the
inauguration of the 2nd NAM’s Ministerial Conference on the Advancement
of Women.

Perez Roque’s agenda in Guatemala also includes meetings with President
Alvaro Colom and with other government authorities.

He will also meet with Cuban personnel currently making their
contribution in the Central American country.


Realiza Canciller cubano visita a Nicaragua y Guatemala

To 495 years of it foundation: Camagüey Cultural Patrimony of the Humanity

By Yanais Vega Bacallao

To 495 years of the foundation of the Village of Santa María del puerto del Príncipe, people of Camagüey will receive with pride, this February two, the official declaration, of an area of the Historical Center as Cultural Patrimony of the Humanity.

Also known as city of the earthenjar receives the deserved distinction in honor to its intertwined streets, its squares, facades, lathed wooden grills, its Main Theater and why not, its town.

This proclamation that the UNESCO grants is also a desert homage to the cacique Camagüebax, to who the city owes its current name.

Seated in our days among the rivers Tínima and Hatibonico, in the same heart of the bigger than the Antilles is one of the oldest demarcations in the country.

It was founded on February 2, 1514, in Tip of the Güincho, in the northern Bay of Nuevitas, but due to the conditions of the land don't propitiate to the agriculture and the shortage of water the inhabitants were forced to look for a more appropriate place.

In 1516 ,the village is established in the cacicazgo of Caonao, on the seashore of the river of the same name. Already for January 6, 1528, before a rebellion of Indians, it was settled down definitively in the current place.

For the defense and conservation of Historical and Cultural Patrimony, Camagüey conforms the fifth center historical Cuban included inside the category of Patrimony and it has been denominated specifically as: “ Historical Urban Center", Patrimony of the Humanity.”

Writers and artists, of yesterday and of today, form the list of those that made Camagüey rename. From soft and delicate gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda`s feather , until the quarter note and burning poetry of Nicolás Guillén that more than to index to this colonial village, have honored whole Cuba.