martes, 3 de febrero de 2009

Cuban Health Workers in Suriname Defend their Theses

HAVANA, Cuba, Feb 3 . Three Cuban health professionals, members of the José Martí Column One Medical Brigade now working in Suriname, defended their theses for their master’s degrees at the headquarters of the Ministry of Public Health in that South American nation.

The Minister of Health in Suriname, Celsius Waterberg, and Cuba’s ambassador to Paramaribo, the capital, Andres Gonzalez, presided over the activity.

The teaching director of the Cuban Medical Brigade, Alexis Hernandez, pointed out that the three collaborators dedicated this achievement, performed for the first time by Cubans in Suriname, to the 156th anniversary of the birth of Cuba’s National Hero José Martí, celebrated
on January 28.

The theses were: Community participation in some aspects of sexuality in adolescents, by Mildred Ramos; Nutritional Energy Malnutrition in children under 15 year-old, by de Kenia Morales; and Behaviour of High Blood Pressure in the elderly, by Eddy Millan, head of the Cuban Medical Brigade in Suriname.

The members of the examining board, headed by Rafael Corona, explained the legal aspects inherent in master’s degrees and underlined the importance of carrying out these educational exercises, especially amid Cuba’s international medical cooperation.

The activity was also part of celebrations for the 50th anniversary of the triumph of the Cuban Revolution, by the Cuban voluntary workers in
that nation.

(Discuten tesis cooperantes cubanos de salud en Suriname)

Cuban VP Meets President of Hungarian Communist Party

HAVANA, Cuba, Feb 3. Cuban Vice President Esteban Lazo met on Monday in Havana with Gyula Thurmer, President of the Hungarian Communist Workers’ Party, who is visiting the Caribbean country at the invitation of the Cuban Communist Party (PCC).

According to Granma news daily, during the meeting, both leaders spoke about topics such as the current international situation caused by the deep economic crisis.

In this regard, Lazo gave the visitor details about the efforts made by the Cuban Government and the PCC to maintain the social and economic development of the country in spite of the devastation and huge economic losses caused by three hurricanes in the last months of 2008.

The Cuban official also thanked Thurmer for the Hungarian Communist Workers’ Party’s rejection of the US economic blockade of Cuba and for their solidarity with the five Cuban anti-terrorist fighters who remain unjustly imprisoned in the United States.

For his part, Thurmer congratulated the Cuban people on behalf of his Party for the 50th Anniversary of the Cuban Revolution.

Also present in the meeting was Fernando Remirez de Estenoz, head of the Foreign Relations Department at the PCC’s Central Committee.


(Reciben a Presidente del Partido Comunista Obrero Húngaro)

Ricardo Alarcon Praises Achievements of Bolivarian Revolution

HAVANA, Cuba, Feb 3 . The President of the Cuban National Assembly (Parliament), Ricardo Alarcon, offered the closing remarks of a ceremony to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the Bolivarian Revolution held on Monday afternoon at the theater of the Ministry of the Revolutionary Forces that was presided over by Cuban Vice-President and Revolution Commander Juan Almeida Bosque.

During his speech, Alarcon said that the celebrations in Cuba for the 10th anniversary of the Bolivarian revolution were taking place “under the image and thoughts of Commander in Chief Fidel Castro, the most loyal follower of the ideals of Jose Marti and Simon Bolivar.”

The Cuban legislator added that when Hugo Chavez assumed power in Venezuela exactly ten years ago after he won the presidential elections with the overwhelming support of the people, he was putting an end to decades of corrupt governments at the service of foreign monopolies to which they gave away Venezuela’s oil, iron and other natural resources, while the Venezuelan people lived in abject poverty.

“When Chavez assumed power, most of the people were unemployed, they lacked medical services and education and 80% lived in poverty,” Alarcon recalled.

“Under his Administration, people’s life has changed substantially: UNESCO declared the country free from illiteracy in December 2005; unemployment and poverty have decreased significantly; elementary education has expanded and thousands of youths from low-income families have been given access to university education, just to mention a few examples,” the Cuban official stressed.

The President of the Cuban Parliament also highlighted the Venezuelan people’s support of Hugo Chavez and criticized recent and ongoing disinformation maneuvers by the Empire to undermine the Bolivarian Revolution.

During his speech, Alarcon demanded that Washington extradites international and self-confessed terrorist Luis Posada Carriles to Venezuela or that they judge him in the United States for his crimes, including the 1976 mid-air bombing of a Cuban airliner that killed all
73 people onboard.

He added that Cuba will continue demanding the release of five Cuban anti-terrorist fighters who remain unjustly imprisoned in the United States. “International solidarity is more urgent and necessary than ever,” he pointed out.

The ceremony was attended by Communist Party officials, officers of the Armed Forces and the Interior Ministry, and the Venezuelan Minister of Economy and Finances, Ali Rodriguez.


(Celebra Cuba 10 años de la Revolución Bolivariana)

Declare officially to Urban Historical Center of Camagüey Cultural Patrimony of the Humanity

Camagüey, Feb 3.- The oldest Historical Center in the city of Camagüey, was declared officially by the UNESCO like Cultural Patrimony of the Humanity, in beautiful ceremony made in the night of this Monday in the Park Ignacio Agramonte.

Coincident with the fundational date of the formerly village, the event has been the most excellent content in the Week of the Culture of the town for 495 years, between the first and seven in the current month.

Mr. Hermann Van Off, representative of that international organism in Latin America and the Caribbean, read the foundation and he gave the Certificate that credits such a Recognition, to the president of the Municipal Assembly of the Popular Power ( Govern) Andrés Morales Leal, stops this way to capture largely in the reality an objective ambitioned by the people of Camagüey.

Van Off also read a message sent by the Director of the UNESCO, Mister Totshiro Matsura, in which congratulates the Government of Cuba and all the people from Camagüey to inscribe the ninth pierces of the Island, in the outstanding listing of places considered as Patrimonies of the Humanity.

The artistic production in the occasion, was projected as exceptionally as the architectural and patrimonial characteristics that endorse that condition, by means of a fine musical print and it would dance, in charge of the artistic talent of Camagüey