HAVANA, Cuba, Feb 23 (acn) The Cuban national baseball team held its second training session in this high-altitude city on Sunday on a cloudy and cold day in Puebla, reported Prensa Latina.
After arriving in Puebla on Saturday to train for the 2nd World Baseball Classic (WBC) (March 5-23) the Cubans checked out the Hermanos Serdan Stadium and held a warm-up session and light batting practice.
Several coaches said that the facility has good conditions to train for the Classic. On Sunday, the pitchers were also scheduled to take part in the training.
Regarding the presence of the Cuban team in this stage of their preparation, Mexican manager Vinicio Castilla said that Cuba is definitely the team to beat in the group that also includes Australia, South Africa and Mexico.
“The Cubans are hard-to-beat rivals and we can’t be overconfident. Hopefully, we’ll make it to the next round, which is our goal, but it depends on us to make it to San Diego, to face the top two teams of Group A to play in Tokyo.”
(Equipo cubano de béisbol entrena en México)
lunes, 23 de febrero de 2009
Cuba Prepares to Transfer NAM Presidency to Egypt
HAVANA, Cuba, Feb 23 (acn) Cuba's Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister and ambassador to the UN, Abelardo Moreno, is in Egypt to discuss the transfer the presidency of the Non-aligned Countries Movement withauthorities from that country.
Moreno and a delegation of Cuban officials accompanying him are expected to start working with the authorities of the Egyptian Foreign Ministry of the preparations for the ministerial meeting of the NAM Coordination Bureau.
The meeting is scheduled to be held in Havana from April 27 to 30, reports Prensa Latina news agency.
During his stay in Egypt, the Cuban diplomat said that the delegation will also discuss details of the 25th Summit of Heads of State and Government of the group.
Cuba, which has been chair of NAM since September 2006, will pass on the presidency of the organization to Egypt during the Summit due to be held from July 11 to 16 at the Red Sea resort located Sharm El-Sheikh.
Moreno said the Cuban delegation will discuss the movement's activities with the Egyptian authorities, and the policy that the non-aligned countries have been following under the Cuban leadership.
The Cuban representative, president of the Preparatory Political Commission of the ministerial meeting, explained that the documents to be submitted for approval by the heads of state in the Sharm El-Sheikh summit will be drawn up during the Havana gathering.
Among other Cuban officials working on the meeting's preparations in Egypt are Anallancy Rodriguez Camejo and Maria del Carmen Herrera Caseiro, deputy directors of Multilateral Issues of the Cuban foreign ministry, and also the deputy head of the North Africa and Middle East Department of the same ministry.
(En Egipto delegación cubana para preparativos reunión NOAL)
Moreno and a delegation of Cuban officials accompanying him are expected to start working with the authorities of the Egyptian Foreign Ministry of the preparations for the ministerial meeting of the NAM Coordination Bureau.
The meeting is scheduled to be held in Havana from April 27 to 30, reports Prensa Latina news agency.
During his stay in Egypt, the Cuban diplomat said that the delegation will also discuss details of the 25th Summit of Heads of State and Government of the group.
Cuba, which has been chair of NAM since September 2006, will pass on the presidency of the organization to Egypt during the Summit due to be held from July 11 to 16 at the Red Sea resort located Sharm El-Sheikh.
Moreno said the Cuban delegation will discuss the movement's activities with the Egyptian authorities, and the policy that the non-aligned countries have been following under the Cuban leadership.
The Cuban representative, president of the Preparatory Political Commission of the ministerial meeting, explained that the documents to be submitted for approval by the heads of state in the Sharm El-Sheikh summit will be drawn up during the Havana gathering.
Among other Cuban officials working on the meeting's preparations in Egypt are Anallancy Rodriguez Camejo and Maria del Carmen Herrera Caseiro, deputy directors of Multilateral Issues of the Cuban foreign ministry, and also the deputy head of the North Africa and Middle East Department of the same ministry.
(En Egipto delegación cubana para preparativos reunión NOAL)
Cuban Film to Open Latin American Festival in Moscow
HAVANA, Cuba, Feb 23 (acn) The 2nd Moscow Latin American Movie Festival will open its doors on Wednesday with the screening of a Cuba- Russia co-production, Soy Cuba (I'm Cuba), to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the triumph of the Cuban Revolution.
Alexei Chernyshev, head of the organizing committee of the festival said the opening of the event will be a good time to commemorate the half-a- century since the creation of the Cuban Art and Film Institute and the centenary of the film's photography director, Soviet Serguei Urusevskiy.
Chernyshev praised Urusevskiy's artistic work in the film that was directed by outstanding filmmaker Mijail Kalatozov, reported Prensa Latina.
With impeccable photography, Soy Cuba (1964) describes, through four stories, the transformations in Cuba from the war against Fulgencio Batista's regime until the Revolution led by Fidel Castro, and the reaffirmation of the singular and independent identity of the island,said Chernyshev.
He said the 141-min film to be screened in the Judozhestvenny Theatre, will open the festival that will take place until March 3 with the screening of films from Venezuela, Mexico, Chile, Uruguay, Guatemala, among other countries.
(Película cubana abrirá Festival de Cine en Moscú)
Alexei Chernyshev, head of the organizing committee of the festival said the opening of the event will be a good time to commemorate the half-a- century since the creation of the Cuban Art and Film Institute and the centenary of the film's photography director, Soviet Serguei Urusevskiy.
Chernyshev praised Urusevskiy's artistic work in the film that was directed by outstanding filmmaker Mijail Kalatozov, reported Prensa Latina.
With impeccable photography, Soy Cuba (1964) describes, through four stories, the transformations in Cuba from the war against Fulgencio Batista's regime until the Revolution led by Fidel Castro, and the reaffirmation of the singular and independent identity of the island,said Chernyshev.
He said the 141-min film to be screened in the Judozhestvenny Theatre, will open the festival that will take place until March 3 with the screening of films from Venezuela, Mexico, Chile, Uruguay, Guatemala, among other countries.
(Película cubana abrirá Festival de Cine en Moscú)
First Secretary of the Party summons in Camagüey to materialize a more efficient economy
Camagüey, Feb 22 - To materialize a better and more efficient economy in the year that pases, Julio Cesar García Rodríguez , first secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) in Camagüey invited , when intervening in the VI ordinary session of the Provincial Assembly of the Popular Power.
The also member of the Central Committee of the PCC remarked that this it is the year of the VI Congress of the political organization, reason why the people of Camagüey should feel committed for a better acting in the economic sphere, support of main programs of social development.
In fact the plan of the economy for the current year was object of an itemized treatment on the part of the delegates who coincided that it is indispensable premise to develop a bigger forecast capacity and analysis in all the tasks that are undertaken, and with financial guarantee, material and of work force.
Matter that also occupied the attention of the assistants to the Provincial Assembly of the Popular Power, this Sunday, was the rendition of bill of the Council of the Provincial Administration, in charge of the executive of main lines of the chore territorial strategic of Camagüey in this year.
Such proposals for the work multiple interventions of delegates and directive of companies motivated, to those that Jesus García Collazo, president of the Government in the county urged to work with the biggest will and intelligence, very especially in the tasks of the sugar harvest, of which surrendered a report on his march.
There also participated in the VI ordinary session of the Provincial Assembly of the Popular Power the members of the Central Committee, Faure Chomont and Lázaro Vázquez, and the also deputed by Camagüey Juan Vela, minister of Superior Education, next to his homologous of justice María Esther Reus, among others. (Pedro Paneque Ruiz).
The also member of the Central Committee of the PCC remarked that this it is the year of the VI Congress of the political organization, reason why the people of Camagüey should feel committed for a better acting in the economic sphere, support of main programs of social development.
In fact the plan of the economy for the current year was object of an itemized treatment on the part of the delegates who coincided that it is indispensable premise to develop a bigger forecast capacity and analysis in all the tasks that are undertaken, and with financial guarantee, material and of work force.
Matter that also occupied the attention of the assistants to the Provincial Assembly of the Popular Power, this Sunday, was the rendition of bill of the Council of the Provincial Administration, in charge of the executive of main lines of the chore territorial strategic of Camagüey in this year.
Such proposals for the work multiple interventions of delegates and directive of companies motivated, to those that Jesus García Collazo, president of the Government in the county urged to work with the biggest will and intelligence, very especially in the tasks of the sugar harvest, of which surrendered a report on his march.
There also participated in the VI ordinary session of the Provincial Assembly of the Popular Power the members of the Central Committee, Faure Chomont and Lázaro Vázquez, and the also deputed by Camagüey Juan Vela, minister of Superior Education, next to his homologous of justice María Esther Reus, among others. (Pedro Paneque Ruiz).
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