HAVANA, Cuba. Cuba's First Vice-President José Ramón Machado Ventura and Barbados' Prime Minister David Thompson recently discussed issues of interest for both nations and for the Latin American and Caribbean region.
In a meeting held Monday in Havana,the two leaders highlighted the positive bilateral ties existing between the two countries, especially the cooperation going on in various spheres,particularly that of healthcare.
On Wednesday, the Barbadian Prime Minister will be received by Cuban President Raúl Castro at Havana's Palace of the Revolution.
(Intercambia Machado Ventura con Primer Ministro de Barbados)
martes, 12 de mayo de 2009
Youth Organizations Demand Release of Cuban Five
HAVANA, Cuba. The Second International Meeting on Solidarity began Monday in Havana with a strong call from youth organizations from around the world demanding the release of five Cuban antiterrorists unjustly imprisoned in US jails for more than ten years now.
First Secretary of the Communist Youth League of Cuba (UJC) Julio Martínez said that the Cuban Five -Rene González, Antonio Guerrero, Gerardo Hernández, Ramón Labañino and Fernando González- have become symbols for Cuba and a reminder that just ideas can defeat powerful armies.
Roberto González, a lawyer from the defense team of the Cuban Five and René González' borther, said that solidarity and activism by people from around the world are key parts of the strategy to obtain freedom for the Five.
González spoke about the current state of the case, which is awaiting a reply from the US Supreme Court to respond to a request for the case to be reopened.
Following a biased trial in Miami, the Cubans were sentenced to a total of four life imprisonments plus over 77 years of incarceration.
The five were on trial for having monitored the activities of Florida- based mercenary groups, operating under Washington's consent, that commit terrorist attacks against Cuba.
Various youth organizations and leaders explained the actions carried out in their countries and discussed strategies to attract more people to join the movement to Free the Five.
(Organizaciones juveniles exigen libertad para los Cinco)
First Secretary of the Communist Youth League of Cuba (UJC) Julio Martínez said that the Cuban Five -Rene González, Antonio Guerrero, Gerardo Hernández, Ramón Labañino and Fernando González- have become symbols for Cuba and a reminder that just ideas can defeat powerful armies.
Roberto González, a lawyer from the defense team of the Cuban Five and René González' borther, said that solidarity and activism by people from around the world are key parts of the strategy to obtain freedom for the Five.
González spoke about the current state of the case, which is awaiting a reply from the US Supreme Court to respond to a request for the case to be reopened.
Following a biased trial in Miami, the Cubans were sentenced to a total of four life imprisonments plus over 77 years of incarceration.
The five were on trial for having monitored the activities of Florida- based mercenary groups, operating under Washington's consent, that commit terrorist attacks against Cuba.
Various youth organizations and leaders explained the actions carried out in their countries and discussed strategies to attract more people to join the movement to Free the Five.
(Organizaciones juveniles exigen libertad para los Cinco)
‘Cuba Never Threatened the US’, Says Former Colonel of US Marine Corps
HAVANA, Cuba. “Cuba has never threatened the United States,” said a former colonel of the US Marine Corps who participated in an academic conference on the 50th anniversary of the Cuban Revolution that concluded this weekend in Kingston, Canada.
Col. (R) John McKay stressed that the arguments used by Washington over the last 50 years, which present Cuba as a threat to the United States, are unfounded.
“No matter how hard I try, I have never found a single piece of evidence showing that Cuba ever posed a terrorist threat to the United States,” McKay told Prensa Latina news agency.
McKay, who participated in one of the panels of the academic conference at the University of Queens, served as a commander of the US Marine Corps at the Guantanamo Naval Base during his active military life.
Hal Keplak, from the History Department of the Royal Military College of Canada, also participated in this panel dedicated to the topic of Cuba’s defense.
In Keplak’s opinion, in Cuba, unlike other countries, there is no division between the civil state and the army as all the people are prepared to face an eventual foreign aggression.
The academic conference, attended by more than 200 experts from 14 countries, was held from May 7 to 9, organized by Queen’s University and in coordination with the universities of Havana in Cuba and Chapel Hills in North Carolina, USA.
(Cuba nunca amenazó a EE.UU., afirma ex coronel de marines)
Col. (R) John McKay stressed that the arguments used by Washington over the last 50 years, which present Cuba as a threat to the United States, are unfounded.
“No matter how hard I try, I have never found a single piece of evidence showing that Cuba ever posed a terrorist threat to the United States,” McKay told Prensa Latina news agency.
McKay, who participated in one of the panels of the academic conference at the University of Queens, served as a commander of the US Marine Corps at the Guantanamo Naval Base during his active military life.
Hal Keplak, from the History Department of the Royal Military College of Canada, also participated in this panel dedicated to the topic of Cuba’s defense.
In Keplak’s opinion, in Cuba, unlike other countries, there is no division between the civil state and the army as all the people are prepared to face an eventual foreign aggression.
The academic conference, attended by more than 200 experts from 14 countries, was held from May 7 to 9, organized by Queen’s University and in coordination with the universities of Havana in Cuba and Chapel Hills in North Carolina, USA.
(Cuba nunca amenazó a EE.UU., afirma ex coronel de marines)
What went through my mind
TODAY the presence of the Influenza A (H1N1) virus in Cuba was announced. The carrier is a young Mexican citizen who is studying medicine in our country. The only thing that can be affirmed for now is that the CIA did not introduce it. It came from Mexico.What was the Mexican president complaining about in relation to the measures adopted by Cuba in accordance with established regulations and without the least intention of affecting the sister people of Mexico? We were far from imagining that the epidemic would be unleashed there and in the United States.
The Mexican authorities did not inform the world of the presence of the virus while awaiting Obama’s visit, and now they are threatening us with suspending that of President Calderón, previously suspended for other, understandable reasons unconnected to the epidemic. At this point we and dozens of other countries are carrying the can and, over and above that, we are being accused of adopting measures that are damaging to Mexico.
"In fact, I was going to go to Cuba in the next few days or weeks, but given that Cuba has suspended flights to Mexico," stated the president of Mexico, "I am probably not going to be able to, that could be one of the unforeseen consequences which lack a sufficient technical basis," Calderón added, according to a major European news agency.
The next day another agency from that continent published the same news. The country’s authorities were not even clear on that. Now we have been labeled as the unjust party, without technical bases and a country hostile to the people of Mexico.
The Mexican students are not in the least to blame, they are excellent people, as are the Cuban professors and workers at the school, rigorously fulfilling the pertinent control measures that the circumstances have imposed.
The fairest thing is that the Mexican people should be informed that the three final paragraphs of the Final Declaration of the Meeting of Foreign Ministers of the Non-Aligned Movement affirm:
"The ministers of the Non-Aligned Movement… express their profound concern for and solidarity with the government and people of Mexico in the context of the grave situation created by the outbreak of swine fever in that country.
"The ministers ask the World Health Organization and the international financial agencies to give total logistic and financial support to the government and people of Mexico in their efforts to combat this epidemic immediately and in an effective manner.
"In this context, the ministers have urged the World Health Organization, in conjunction with the Mexican authorities, to guarantee systematic and appropriate follow up with a view to containing the subsequent propagation of this epidemic."
I am simply expressing the ideas of what went through my mind as the news was coming in.
Fidel Castro Ruz
May 11, 2009
9:38 p.m.
Cuba’s Caribbean Festival Dedicated to Honduras in 2009
HAVANA, Cuba. A large representation of Honduran artists, including the Garifuna Folkloric Ballet, will participate in the 29th Caribbean Festival that will take place in Santiago de Cuba from July 3-9, 2009.According to Prensa Latina news agency, the annual festival will also be attended by Guillermo Anderson, one of the most prestigious musicians of the Central American nation.
Cuban Culture Deputy Minister Salvador Suazo said that, as the special guest of this year’s festival, Honduras will take the
opportunity to include topics related to the history and culture of the Caribbean in an academic forum with the participation of historians and anthropologists.Aurelio Martinez, a member of the organizing committee of the event, said that the delegation from the Central American nation will be comprised of more than 120 Honduran dancers, actors, musicians, painters and writers.
Honduras is the first Central American country to which the Caribbean Festival is dedicated since it began in 1983.
(Amplia presencia hondureña en Festival del Caribe, en Cuba)
Cuban National Women’s Basketball Team Travels to Europe
HAVANA, Cuba. The Cuban national women’s basketball team travels on Tuesday to Europe where they will continue their preparation for a 2010 World Championship qualifier that takes place next September in Brazil.The squad is comprised of Oyanaisi Gelís, Ineidis Casanova, Arleni Romero, Yamara Amargo, Leidi Oquendo, Suchítel Ávila, Daimí Fernández, Cariola Echevarría, Marlene Cepeda, Kenia Noblet, Lázara Moisés and Claudia Calvo.
During this European tour the Caribbean team will face the national squads of Spain, Portugal and Australia, as well as silver medallists of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games.
The Cuban team will make their debut in Europe in a triangular tournament on May 15-17 in Spain facing the local squad and Australia.Afterwards, they will play against Spanish teams from Navarra, the Basque Country and Barcelona. Then, they will face the national squad from Portugal on May 26 and 28 and will conclude facing Spain on May 30.
The regional qualifier in Brazil next September will grant three tickets for the World Championship in the Czech Republic next year.
A fourth ticket for the Americas was granted to reigning Olympic champions United States.
(Baloncestistas cubanas rumbo a Europa)
Cuban Vice President Meets Visiting Prime Minister of Barbados
HAVANA, Cuba. Cuba's First Vice-President José Ramón Machado Ventura and Barbados' Prime Minister David Thompson recently discussed issues of interest for both nations and for the Latin American and Caribbean region.In a meeting held Monday in Havana,the two leaders highlighted the positive bilateral ties existing between the two countries, especially the cooperation going on in various spheres,particularly that of healthcare.
On Wednesday, the Barbadian Prime Minister will be received by Cuban President Raúl Castro at Havana's Palace of the Revolution.
(Intercambia Machado Ventura con Primer Ministro de Barbados)
Youth Organizations Demand Release of Cuban Five
HAVANA, Cuba. The Second International Meeting on Solidarity began Monday in Havana with a strong call from youth organizations from around the world demanding the release of five Cuban antiterrorists unjustly imprisoned in US jails for more than ten years now.First Secretary of the Communist Youth League of Cuba (UJC) Julio Martínez said that the Cuban Five -Rene González, Antonio Guerrero, Gerardo Hernández, Ramón Labañino and Fernando González- have become symbols for Cuba and a reminder that just ideas can defeat powerful armies.
Roberto González, a lawyer from the defense team of the Cuban Five and René González' borther, said that solidarity and activism by people from around the world are key parts of the strategy to obtain freedom for the Five.
González spoke about the current state of the case, which is awaiting a reply from the US Supreme Court to respond to a request for the case to be reopened.
Following a biased trial in Miami, the Cubans were sentenced to a total of four life imprisonments plus over 77 years of incarceration.
The five were on trial for having monitored the activities of Florida- based mercenary groups, operating under Washington's consent, that commit terrorist attacks against Cuba.
Various youth organizations and leaders explained the actions carried out in their countries and discussed strategies to attract more people to join the movement to Free the Five.
(Organizaciones juveniles exigen libertad para los Cinco)
Cuba Never Threatened the US’, Says Former Colonel of US Marine Corps
HAVANA, Cuba. “Cuba has never threatened the United States,” said a former colonel of the US Marine Corps who participated in an academic conference on the 50th anniversary of the Cuban Revolution that concluded this weekend in Kingston, Canada.
Col. (R) John McKay stressed that the arguments used by Washington over the last 50 years, which present Cuba as a threat to the United States, are unfounded.
“No matter how hard I try, I have never found a single piece of evidence showing that Cuba ever posed a terrorist threat to the United States,” McKay told Prensa Latina news agency.
McKay, who participated in one of the panels of the academic conference at the University of Queens, served as a commander of the US Marine Corps at the Guantanamo Naval Base during his active military life.
Hal Keplak, from the History Department of the Royal Military College of Canada, also participated in this panel dedicated to the topic of Cuba’s defense.
In Keplak’s opinion, in Cuba, unlike other countries, there is no division between the civil state and the army as all the people are prepared to face an eventual foreign aggression.
The academic conference, attended by more than 200 experts from 14 countries, was held from May 7 to 9, organized by Queen’s University and in coordination with the universities of Havana in Cuba and Chapel Hills in North Carolina, USA.
(Cuba nunca amenazó a EE.UU., afirma ex coronel de marines)
Col. (R) John McKay stressed that the arguments used by Washington over the last 50 years, which present Cuba as a threat to the United States, are unfounded.
“No matter how hard I try, I have never found a single piece of evidence showing that Cuba ever posed a terrorist threat to the United States,” McKay told Prensa Latina news agency.
McKay, who participated in one of the panels of the academic conference at the University of Queens, served as a commander of the US Marine Corps at the Guantanamo Naval Base during his active military life.
Hal Keplak, from the History Department of the Royal Military College of Canada, also participated in this panel dedicated to the topic of Cuba’s defense.
In Keplak’s opinion, in Cuba, unlike other countries, there is no division between the civil state and the army as all the people are prepared to face an eventual foreign aggression.
The academic conference, attended by more than 200 experts from 14 countries, was held from May 7 to 9, organized by Queen’s University and in coordination with the universities of Havana in Cuba and Chapel Hills in North Carolina, USA.
(Cuba nunca amenazó a EE.UU., afirma ex coronel de marines)
Children in the Party of Mud and Fire
Camagüey. A group of children put yesterday a peculiar stamp in the IV Party of Mud and Fire that gathers about 70 farmers of one of the oldest traditions in this city been founded in the XVI century.The scholars demonstrated - outside of competition - their abilities in the work with the clay, in an appointment in which the contestants carry out the works in one of the sidewalks of the Square of the Workers.
Students of fifth and sixth grades of the primary school Gerardo Medina, are integral of the dean of the circles of interest favored by shops of the neighborhood of San Miguelito, headquarters of the biggest concentration in artisans of the ceramic in the town.
The beginner authors materialized today - to give them to their facility - reproductions of the native symbols, and ornamental and utilitarian pieces, task in which they used two techniques, the modeling manual and the replica for molds.
They participate in the most recent preparation phase in charge of the workshop "García", where a family of creators trains them there in days of two or three times per week.The García has assisted to several communities from the beginning of his project to channel the autoral vocation of infants in a sphere in the one that Camagüey is the main positions occupies in the Island.
Organized by the provincial branch of the Cuban Association of Artisans Artists, the Party of Mud and Fire.
It will conclude tomorrow with the delivery of rewards in four competitive categories.
Among the colateral activities of the contest figure conferences, and the exhibition of the 17 murals donated by members of the entity to be located in areas of use public in territory of Camagüey.(Adolfo Silva Silva)
Official new of the Ministry of Public Health
The Ministry of Public Health of Cuba informs that as part of the methods taken to face the risk that represents the pandemic of Influenza TO (H1N1) that already affects to 30 countries were activated all the mechanisms that during several years came organizing and training for the confrontation of a possible Pandemic of Influenza to Prepare.
All the methods of International Sanitary Control were reinforced in airports, ports and marinate, as well as a work of epidemic surveillance increased in all the units of health of the country and institutions of collective groups.
Inside the group of travelers returned of its vacations Mexican students of diverse States, which began to arrive to Cuba starting from April 25 belonging to one of the Abilities of Medicine of Jagüey Grande of the county Matanzas.
For the epidemic risk that constituted the entrance of people coming from Mexico and in the face of the probability of finding possible sick persons or infected, proceeded to the strict surveillance of the breathing symptoms among this students, being detected starting from April 26 two students with breathing symptoms, which were entered and isolated immediately.
The daily and systematic epidemic surveillance allowed to detect 14 Mexican students with catarrhal symptoms considered as light and that in its majority are of clinical discharge and in epidemic observation and of laboratory. All the students have been investigated and until the moment it has been a case confirmed to the virus of Influenza TO (H1N1), diagnosis carried out by the Institute of Tropical Medicine, center of Reference of the OPS/OMS in several Transferable Illnesses.It continues the rigorous epidemic study and the adoption of the corresponding measures of attention.
The epidemic clinical work and of surveillance of international sanitary control has allowed to study in the whole country, from the day April 27 and so far 84 people of 8 nationalities with epidemic clinical suspicion and other 511 people contacts of the notified cases, being all negatives, except for the Mexican student that was positive and it is the first case in that is proven the existence of the virus to (H1N1) in our country.
Are continued adopting all the necessary methods and it is had the resources, capacities and the personnel's preparation to make front of the international situation and its evolution.
Ministry of Public Health
May 11 2009
All the methods of International Sanitary Control were reinforced in airports, ports and marinate, as well as a work of epidemic surveillance increased in all the units of health of the country and institutions of collective groups.
Inside the group of travelers returned of its vacations Mexican students of diverse States, which began to arrive to Cuba starting from April 25 belonging to one of the Abilities of Medicine of Jagüey Grande of the county Matanzas.
For the epidemic risk that constituted the entrance of people coming from Mexico and in the face of the probability of finding possible sick persons or infected, proceeded to the strict surveillance of the breathing symptoms among this students, being detected starting from April 26 two students with breathing symptoms, which were entered and isolated immediately.
The daily and systematic epidemic surveillance allowed to detect 14 Mexican students with catarrhal symptoms considered as light and that in its majority are of clinical discharge and in epidemic observation and of laboratory. All the students have been investigated and until the moment it has been a case confirmed to the virus of Influenza TO (H1N1), diagnosis carried out by the Institute of Tropical Medicine, center of Reference of the OPS/OMS in several Transferable Illnesses.It continues the rigorous epidemic study and the adoption of the corresponding measures of attention.
The epidemic clinical work and of surveillance of international sanitary control has allowed to study in the whole country, from the day April 27 and so far 84 people of 8 nationalities with epidemic clinical suspicion and other 511 people contacts of the notified cases, being all negatives, except for the Mexican student that was positive and it is the first case in that is proven the existence of the virus to (H1N1) in our country.
Are continued adopting all the necessary methods and it is had the resources, capacities and the personnel's preparation to make front of the international situation and its evolution.
Ministry of Public Health
May 11 2009
Begins in Camagüey National Week of Protection against Fires
Camagüey. With a demonstrative exercise in the Company of Industrial Gases that included the extinction of a fire and the rescue and workers' salvage, began in the county of Camagüey the National Week of Protection against Fires.The engineer Paula Lobón Fernández, directress of the entity headquarters of the encounter, reiterated in the ejercitation the commitment of to be more provident and to guarantee every day the life of the workers and the resources of the State.
The Company of Industrial Gases, with a sustained work in the protection against fires, takes more than one half a decade without any catastrophe, and shows for eleven years the condition of National vanguard
In the occasion were rewarded a group of participant pioneers in the competition favored by the Command of the capital of Camagüey denominated, “I Want to be a Fireman”, in the story goods, poetry, drawing and testimony. (Orlando de la Cruz Barbán)
Cuba Says EU Common Position on Cuba is Obsolete
HAVANA, Cuba. Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez described as obsolete the so-called Common Position on Cuba maintained by the European Union (EU) since 1996, specifically on the human rights issue.
Following a meeting with the EU Foreign Affairs Troika in Brussels, Bruno Rodriguez said the position is “one of the hurdles” in the way to the normalization of relations with Havana.
That position is obsolete, the Cuban Foreign Minister told reporters and he noted that the measure was imposed by a US administration no longer in power.
Addressing the same issue during a bilateral meeting with the Cuban Foreign Minister, the European Commissioner for Development Louis Michel said that the measure will be eliminated or modified, reports say.
In June 2008, Cuba and the EU resumed communication, which was cut off when the European block aligned with the US policy in retaliation for Cuba´s response against members of counterrevolutionary groups operating in Cuba at the service of Washington.
The EU has announced an evaluation of the situation in respect to Cuba next June 15 in relation to the human rights issue; international analysts do not discard that foreign ministers from all 27 European nations withdraw or modify the so-called Common Position on that occasion.
After admitting the prevalence of differences with his Cuban counterpart, Scheck Foreign Minister Jan Kohout, whose country is chairing the EU this semester, described as “open” his dialog with the Bruno Rodriguez.
(Califica Cuba de obsoleta Posición Común de UE sobre la Isla)
Cuba Beats Italy 7-3 in Boxing Match
HAVANA, Cuba. Cuban boxing squad won 7 out of 10 bouts this Sunday during the second and last bilateral match with its Italian counterpart, held at the Sports Palace in Modena.
Sources from the organizers pointed out that Cuban national champion won Iván Oñate (57 kg) his second combat against Alessio Di Savino though once again the judges’s voting was not available.
The Cuban representative in the 69 kilograms division, Beijing’s silver medallist Carlos Banteur won his match over Cirillo Carmine, while Rosniel Iglesias (64) did the same over Darío Vangeli.
The other winners for the Caribbean squad were youth world champions Rey Eduardo Recio (75) and José Larduet (81) over Adriano Sperandio and Alessandro Sinacore, respectively.
Also, Yampier Hernández (51) and Idel Torriente (60) reached the victory over Alfonso Pinto and Ignazio Crivello in that order.
Meanwhile, the Italians achieved three victories: Clemente Russo beat Osmay Acosta for the second time in the heavyweight division; Daniel Matellón (48) lost again, this time against Vicenzo Picardi, and the combat between Olympic runner-up Yankiel León (54) and Vittorio
Parrinello, which had been a draw the previous match finished with a victory for the Italian in this match.
(Cuba 7, Italia 3 en segundo tope boxístico)
Sources from the organizers pointed out that Cuban national champion won Iván Oñate (57 kg) his second combat against Alessio Di Savino though once again the judges’s voting was not available.
The Cuban representative in the 69 kilograms division, Beijing’s silver medallist Carlos Banteur won his match over Cirillo Carmine, while Rosniel Iglesias (64) did the same over Darío Vangeli.
The other winners for the Caribbean squad were youth world champions Rey Eduardo Recio (75) and José Larduet (81) over Adriano Sperandio and Alessandro Sinacore, respectively.
Also, Yampier Hernández (51) and Idel Torriente (60) reached the victory over Alfonso Pinto and Ignazio Crivello in that order.
Meanwhile, the Italians achieved three victories: Clemente Russo beat Osmay Acosta for the second time in the heavyweight division; Daniel Matellón (48) lost again, this time against Vicenzo Picardi, and the combat between Olympic runner-up Yankiel León (54) and Vittorio
Parrinello, which had been a draw the previous match finished with a victory for the Italian in this match.
(Cuba 7, Italia 3 en segundo tope boxístico)
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