miércoles, 28 de enero de 2009

Editorial of Camagüey will present The Villager

Camagüey, Jan 28. The most complete investigation about Ignacio Agramonte´s death contains one of the books with which will be presented the editorial The Villager, in the anniversary 495 of this town.

Attributed to the Office of the Historian of the City of Camagüey (OHCC), the entity will have its promotional act February two, during the celebration of the birthday of the traditional date of the foundation of the Village of Santa María del Puerto del Príncipe, at the moment the capital of the county.

Elaborated by a community of authors, “Ignacio Agramonte and the combat of Jimaguayú” is the result of a study on the fall in the hero's combat, its exemplary behavior and courage.
The other text is “ Historical Urban Center of Camagüey. "

World Patrimony”, of the doctor Lourdes Gómez, one of the main Cuban authorities in connection with the built patrimonial environment.

The work approaches elements like the values that justify the concession of the status of Cultural Patrimony of the Humanity to the oldest part in the town.

Both books will begin to circulate in the presentation of the editorial The Villager, denominated with the alias of Gaspar Betancourt Cisneros, one of the good known ones public personalities of Camagüey of the XIX century. Inserted in the Week of the Culture dedicated to the date, the promotional program of publishing will also include the magazine Senderos, of the OHCC, and to the 7th volumeof workbooks of the Camagüey history, compilation in charge of the master Elda Cento.

President Raul Castro Arrives is in Russia for Official Visit

HAVANA, Cuba, Jan 28 (acn) Cuban President Raul Castro today arrived in Russia to begin an official visit next January 30, at the invitation of his Russian counterpart Dmitri Medvedev.

The Cuban Head of State was welcomed at the Vnukovo Airport, in the outskirts of the capital Moscow, by Deputy Foreign Minister Serguei Riabkov.

During his stay in Russia, Raul Castro will hold official talks with President Medvedev and with other top government Russian officials.

The visit to Russia by the Cuban Head of State takes place in the context of excellent bilateral friendship and cooperation relations between Moscow and Havana.

Russia has been the third country, after Venezuela and Brazil, and the first European nation to have been visited by Raul Castro, since he was elected Cuban President.

(Presidente cubano Raúl Castro llega a Rusia)

Organization of Ibero-American States Highlights Cuban Education

HAVANA, Cuba , Jan 28 (acn) The Secretary General of the Organization of Ibero-American States (OIS), for Education, Science, Culture, Alvaro Marchesi Ulastres said Cuba is an example on education.

Marchesi made the statement during the Pedagogia 2009 International Education Congress underway in Havana, where he gave a special lecture about the organization’s educational goals for Ibero-America in 2021.

The official talked about results of global studies that show Cuba as nation with the highest educational performance in the learning of math for six grade students.

He highlighted the effort of Cuban experts in the field, and noted their contribution to the erradication of illiteracy in Venezuela and Bolivia in the years 2006 and 2008, respectively.

Likewise, Marchesi praised the Nicaraguan government’s commitment to eradicate illiteracy by July this year with the collaboration of Cuban teachers.

The OIS secretary general analyzed the educational problems of the region, where only 50 percent of 5-year-old children go to school, while malnutrition affects 7 million of Ibero-American children.

In Cuba pre-school teaching for 6-year-old children is universal and 99 percent of those from zero to five years of age receive educational attention in kindergartens and through a program of non- formal education.

During the first working session of the Congress on Tuesday at Havana’s Convention Center, more than 3,000 delegates from 44 countries discussed pedagogy prospects for the 21st century and theoretical and methodological fundamentals of citizen’s moral education, among other
topics.

(Resalta organismo internacional logros de educación cubana) -Daydee Díaz
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Today, educators of the world make honor to José Martí

By:Yamile Castro Ibarra

Havana, Jan 28 (AIN) Coinciding with the Cuban National Hero José Martí`s 156 birthday the Congress Pedagogy 2009, will surrender today tribute to the inspiring of Fidel when proposing an education for all.

The Message to the town of Cuba of Armando Hart, director of the Office of the Martian Program , which is foreseen to begin this day, will be one of the ways to honor the intellectual author of the Moncade.

This Tuesday was published by the press the call of Hart to the children and young to transmit the thought of Martí, in which expressed, "you the youths, heirs of a Cuban cultural tradition, can transmit to the whole world that the roads of the Cuban Revolution are in the ideas marti`s"

Ena Elsa Cobiella, Cuban minister of the sector, in the inaugural speech of the eleventh edition of the biggest appointment in educators of the world, said that the Cuban teachers are buried in completing José's command Martí of making that the knowledge and the culture are patrimony of all without exception.

She also remembered that in the adverse moments after the assault to the barracks Moncada, on July 26 of 1953, the historical leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro, defined that he would make the revolution when it triumphed, included the education.

The achievements of Cuba in these 50 years of victories are not more than the execution of the program of the Moncada - it expressed - the best way to surrender homage to the author of The age of gold.

The Educational and humanist thought forum José Martí, that also will sesion this Wednesday in the appointment, will be good to perfect the bond between the ideary of Martí and the pedagogy.