Paradox of the yank justice before the Five

Havana, may 13. While Five Cubans that only defended to their homeland of the terrorism wait in prison a decision of the Supreme Court of USA, that country liberates two Israelis agents that stole military documents.

Due to a faked trial, René González, Gerardo Hernández, Antonio Guerrero, Ramón Labañino and Fernando González, The Five like are known internationally, continue had imprisoned more than for ten years in five prisons different from the immense North American territory with contacts severely restricted with their relatives.

These patriots were arrested more than one decade ago by the Federal Desk of Investigations (FBI) in Miami when infiltrated terrorist groups of that city, and then conspiracy accused to spy when they never came closer neither to the shade of a secret document of United States, comments today the revolving Granma.

The Five were condemned to long, unjust and disproportionate sentences, and they wait in prison a decision of the American Supreme Court.

Paradoxically two Israelis agents that appropriated of "a library of documents of the Pentagon (maximum headquarters of Defense of USA) ", according to the investigation of the FBI, they won't have to face before the tribunal espionage positions in United States.

Steve Rosen and Keith Weissman, two former leaders of the Israeli American Committee of Public Matters (good known for its initials AIPAC), were accused of conspiracy to spend secret information of Defense to a diplomat of the embassy of Israel among April of 1999 and wither of the 2004.

The AIPAC, the multimillionaire Israeli lobby that subsidizes most of the North American politicians, maintains in the North American capital to thousands of "representatives" that are in permanent contact with political and officials.

The decision of liberating these Israelis agents- highly political and necessarily consulted at the highest level - has been announced by Boente Damages, fiscal interim of the district This of Virginia.aradoja of the yank justice before the Five.

Ministerial inaugurates with welcome to Cuba

Prague, may 13. The XIV Ministerial Conference of the European Union (UE) and the Group of River (GRIO) today was inaugurated in this capital with speeches that stood out the transcendency of the cooperation, at the time that welcomed to Cuba.

The chancellors of the Czech Republic, Jan Kohout, of Mexico, Patricia Espinosa, and the Police station of External Relationships of the community block, Benita Ferrero-Waldner, valued the Cuban presence and of other new members of the GRIO.

It strengthens the Latin American space with an agreement that expresses in a genuine way the voice of our towns and it is for it that we are glad the incorporation of Cuba, the Mexican holder said in it intervention.

Espinosa spoke on behalf of the presidency pro tempore of the GRIO, the same thing that Kohout for the headquarters biannual Czech of the UE. Both eulogized the presence of the delegation of the Island headed by the minister of External Relationships, Bruno Rodríguez Grill.

Cuba is part of the Latin American and Caribbean agreement, composed now by 23 countries, since November of 2008.

The world economic crisis and the renewable energy sources, the two main points of the calendar in Prague, were approached by Ferrero-Waldner, although with a call to the commitment of collaboration like answers to all these matters.

"Concrete projects of cooperation, the consolidation of a bottom of investments and of attendance, there are not better recipes to face the problems that attempt today against the humanity", considered the discharge it would work.

In the date a Combined Declaration will be adopted which a special section will be added consecrated to reinforce the international alert on the flu TO (H1N1), as well as a recognition to Mexico for its efforts to combat the virus.

The text, as he knew in advance Presses Latin, will reaffirm the opposition from both parts to the coercive unilateral measures contrary to the international laws.

Although doesn't mention in an explicit way the economic blockade that Cuba suffers on the part of United States for almost 50 years, the reference points in that address, the same thing that in the rejection to all the forms of protectionism around the rich countries.

On Thursday the deliberations are programmed among the Troika of the UE with Chile, Mexico, Central America and the Market Common of the South (MERCOSUR).(Fausto Triana)

First anniversary of the Venezuelan mission Heart Inside

Havana, may 13. The mission socialist Culture, Heart Inside, suggested by the leader of the Revolution Fidel Castro and the president Hugo Chávez, already takes place in Venezuela its first anniversary.

The initiative is directed to the rescue and diffusion of the identitaries values of the nation, by means of the development of the plastic arts, the music, the dance, the theater and the circus, in all the Venezuelan communities.

Ana María Pellón, national coordinator for the Cuban collaboration in Culture, Heart Inside, remembers that "when we arrive in Venezuela the president Chávez and the Commandant in Boss Fidel Castro, and our minister, asked us us to take the magic of the culture to all the Venezuelan communities."

It highlighted that "it is already recognized that in the places where Heart Inside has arrived the marginity situations and the conflicts that generate the poverty, the violence, the insecurity, the consumption of drugs, accumulated during years, have left reverting.

"It is a slow change, but the first impacts are already observed. People are other", Ana declared María Pellón in wide interview that publishes today the daily Rebellious Youth.

In the first stage (April-December of 2008), there were 538 Cuban collaborators, and of them 417 were linked from a direct way to the community work distributed in 19 parishes of the municipality Liberator, of Caracas, and the municipality Sucre, of the state Miranda, most hills inside.

The Cuban cooperation dedicates special attention now to the support in the formation of human resources, so that Venezuela has the indispensable facilitators to deploy and to deepen the cultural work.

Teach in Camagüey confers on current tendencies of Internet

Camagüey. The current tendencies of Internet in the audiovisual communication, was the imparted topic this Tuesday for the Master in Sciences Pedro Rioseco LópezTrigo, like part of the II methodological scientific Conference of the filial of Camagüey of the Superior Institute of Art of Cuba.

The lecture, Publishing boss of the digital writing of the Agency of News Latin Press, made an interesting and detailed explanation on what qualified “irruption of the audiovisual language” in the net of nets.

The current digital connection for Cuba is still for satellite because of the blockade of the Government of the United States, situation that limits the band width for the capacity and speed in the sailing, that which will be been able to overcome with the termination of the cable of optic fiber from the Bolovarian Republic of Venezuela, next year.

Before a majority public of professors and journalists, Pedro Ríoseco emphasized in that in spite of being a half elitist , Internet has grown and today it counts with more than a thousand 463 million users, and the Popular Republic of China goes to the head, with 18 percent of the connected.

Such figures in ascent, mainly in India, constitute a challenge for the national press, in the permanent purpose of disclosing the reality of the Cuban Revolution in the entire world.

In spite of the material limitations, in Cuba 630 thousand connected computers exist to this world net and 34 percent in programs of social court, what amplifies it popular reach, mainly in the facilities of the existent Young calculation club in all the counties.

The II Methodological Scientific Conference will continue today with several conferences, as Present time and universality of José Martí, of the Doctor Rolando González Patricio, rector of the ISA, and the presentation of the Annual Puerto Príncipe 2008. At night it will be the cultural elegance for the XX Anniversary of the foundation of the filial of Camagüey

For Thursday, day of the closing of the event, will be presented in new portal Web of the Agency Latin Presses , also in the headquarters of the Office of the Historian of the City of Camagüey, in The Carmen's Square.

Cuban Intellectual Granted 2009 Latin Identity Award

HAVANA, Cuba. Cuban poet Fina Garcia Marruz will receive next Friday the 2009 Latinidad (Latin Identity) Award for promoting the best ethical values of Greco-Latin cultural and identity heritage.

According to Juventud Rebelde news daily, this award, granted every year in all the countries that belong to the Latin Union, will be presented to the outstanding Cuban intellectual during a ceremony in Havana to mark the Day of Latin Identity on May 15th.

‘The greatest Spanish-speaking female poet alive’, as she was described by Roberto Fernandez Retamar, President of the Havana-based Casa de las Americas cultural center, has also received important awards such as the Pablo Neruda Iberoamerican Poetry Award in 2007 and the Cuban National Literature Award in 1990, among many others.

Other Cuban intellectuals who have received the Latin Identity Award include Rosario Novoa, Luisa Campuzano, Graziella Pogolotti, Havana Historian Eusebio Leal, Cintio Vitier, Monsignor Carlos Manuel de Céspedes and Roberto Fernández Retamar.

The Latin Union is comprised of nearly 40 countries from different continents.

(Entregarán Premio de la Latinidad a Fina García Marruz)

Solar Panels Used in Thousands of Cuban Facilities

SANTIAGO DE CUBA, Cuba. More than 10,000 facilities across Cuba employ photovoltaic solar panels, including schools, family doctor offices, daycare centers and hospitals.

President of the Cuba Solar Organization Luis Bérriz made the announcement at the 25th anniversary celebration of the founding of the Solar Energy Research Center (CIES).

Bérriz said that the CIES was the first institution in Latin America and the Caribbean to power buildings with solar energy.

CIES director Rubén Ramos told ACN that the center's research shows that the available renewable energy potential in Cuba is several hundred times greater than the country's energy needs.

Ramos spoke about some of the center's achievements, like the implementation of solar driers and other dehydration technologies for wood, medicinal plants and other products, and the use of "hothouses" (temperature-controlled buildings used to grow seeds and vegetables).

Breéis also spoke about new innovations such as the development of an accelerated production technology to grow micro-algae for human and animal consumption, and the use of micro-algae cultivation systems to treat hog and poultry residuals.

The CIES is also very active in fostering community knowledge related to the environment and energy use.

(Paneles solares benefician instalaciones en Cuba y el mundo)

Cuba Participates in Tourism Fair in Athens

HAVANA, Cuba. Cuba is participating in the 14th ‘Tourist Panorama’ Tourism Fair that is underway at the EXPOATHENS exhibition hall in the Greek capital with the presence of representatives from 12 countries.

According to the website of the Cuban Foreign Ministry, the Cuban stand was visited by the Greek Tourism Minister, Konstantinos Markopoulos, who expressed his interest in the results of the exhibition of the promotional program ‘Viva Cuba’ (Long Live Cuba), currently being
developed by the Tourism Ministry of the Caribbean nation.

Members of the diplomatic corps accredited in Greece, the public, as well as travel agents and journalists also visited the Cuban stand interested in the tourist offers of the Caribbean archipelago.

The Cuban ambassador in Athens, Hermes Herrera, and the First Secretary of the Cuban embassy in the Greek capital, Jose Cala, were interviewed by the METELEXI magazine of the television channel Atica and also by ‘Discover Greece’, a program of the state television channel NET.

(Participa Cuba en Atenas en feria de turismo)

US Expert Praises Cuban Ophthalmology

HAVANA, Cuba. Dr. Thomas Hedges III, one of the world's foremost ophthalmological experts highlighted Cuba's achievements in this specialty.

In statements to ACN on Tuesday, Dr. Hedges, a professor at the University of Boston, spoke about the quality of professionals and the training of human resources in Cuba, with 24 high-tech ophthalmological centers across the island.

Dr. Hedges also praised the specialized assistance given to patients by way of the national healthcare system and the Mission Miracle project that, five years after its implementation in Cuba, has already benefited more than 1,621,500 patients from 33 nations.

Dr. Hedges has been collaborating with Cuba since the 1990s in the field of neuro-ophthalmology, through scientific exchanges, publications, lectures, and courses.

During the opening of the Sixth International Ophthalmology Conference, ongoing in Havana until Friday, Dr. Hedges was presented with a certificate from the Cuban Ophthalmology Society, recognizing his contributions.

The conference gathers 500 Cuban specialists and some 100 delegates from Europe, Asia, Latin America and the Unites States.

Retinal surgery courses were held on Monday, prior to the opening of the conference. Also covered were updates on glaucoma, neuro-ophthalmology and uveitis, an illness associated to systemic diseases, characterized by inflammation of the eyes.

(Experto norteamericano valora logros de oftalmología cubana)

Uruguayans Get a Taste of Cuban Documentaries

HAVANA, Cuba. Cuban documentary screenings are underway this week at Politeama Theater, in the Uruguayan city of Canelones, 45 kilometers north of Montevideo.

The inaugural ceremony included the exhibition of "El mérito es estar Vivo" (The merit is being alive), on the plans of the US Central Intelligence Agency to assassinate revolutionary leader Fidel Castro and overthrow the Revolution, Granma newspaper reports on its web site.

Presentations will include "Entre el arte y la cultura" (Between art and culture), which by way of music, dance, painting and debate, offers a panorama on racial mingling in Cuba.

Scheduled for Thursday is the screening of "Un lugar llamado Guantánamo" ) A place called Guantanamo), on that illegally occupied part of Cuban territory that that became internationally notorious when the tortures applied by the US government to war prisoners became known.

The week of exhibitions will close on Friday with "El proceso" (The process), about the biased trial and sentencing of the Cuban Five in the United States in 1998 for their monitoring the activities of Florida- based terrorist groups, which planned and conducted criminal actions
against Cuba.

The last day of activities will also include a round table on Cuba's struggles and realities throughout the Revolution, to the 50th anniversary of which the documentary festival is precisely dedicated.

(Cine documental cubano esta semana en Uruguay)

Exhibition in Havana to Pay Homage to Van Gogh

HAVANA, Cuba. The exhibition Dear Van Gogh: A Tribute of Cuban Contemporary Art, will remain open to the public until June 3 at Havana's Center for the Development of Visual Arts.

The project, comprising works of 15 Cuban artists and headed by painter Reinerio Tamayo, is a tribute of Cuban creators to one of the most representative figures of 19th century European art.

Featuring the traditional techniques used by Van Gogh, the exhibition includes paintings on acrylic, oil on canvas and heterogeneous themes by Rubén Alpízar, Arístides Hernández (Ares), Franklin Álvarez, Jorge Luis Ballart, Enrique Baxter, Luis Enrique Camejo,Rocío García, Javier Guerra and Kdir López, among other local artists.

The Dutch painter lives on Cuba's aesthetic memory as a paradigm of modernity, and the value of his work remain latent in the art produced on the island over the last few decades, Tamayo told the Cubasi web portal.

(Exposición en homenaje a Van Gogh en La Habana)

Cubans in Uruguay to Meet in June in Support of the Revolution

HAVANA, Cuba. Cubans living in Uruguay will hold a national meeting on June 14, aimed at preserving their identity and continuing to be faithful to the cultural and historical legacy of their homeland.

The organizers said the occasion will also be used to reaffirm the Cuban nationals' support of their country's Revolution and the efforts to get the five Cubans arbitrarily in jail in the U.S. released from prison.

The President of the Association of Cubans Living in Uruguay (ACRU), Olga Lidia Alemán, highlighted the importance of the upcoming meeting, during a function held in Montevideo in memory of Cuban National Hero José Martí.

(Cubanos en Uruguay alistan cita de apoyo a la Revolución)