miércoles, 30 de septiembre de 2009

Cuban ophthalmologists have operated at 93 thousand Ecuadorian

Cuban Specialists in ophthalmology of the Mission Milagro operated, in three and a half years, to 93 thousand Ecuadorian patients in three clinics that maintains the Island in the South American nation.

In declarations to Latin Press, Hugo Almeida, national coordinator of the Cuban mission, explained that the first clinic with personal and equipment sent by its country was inaugurated in May, 2006 in Latacunga, county of Cotopax.

In July of that year the second opened up, inBallenita, county of Santa Elena; and the third, in July, 2007 in Machala, county of El Oro.

He said that before working those centers, in October, 2005 a group of specialists of the Island arrived to the county Emeralda, border with Colombia, and they sent to near four thousand patient-companions to Havana, where were carried out two thousand 500 surgical interventions.

He specified that the mission has in Ecuador 55 collaborators, of which 10 are oculists or specialists in integral general medicine, and the rest engineers in electro-medicine and graduates in infirmary.

Surrenders counts the Popular Power in Camagüey

For the District 49 of the vicarial Diana Lechuga del Toro, in Nuevitas, will begin this first Thursday of October the III Process of Rendition of counts of the Popular Power to their voters in the county that will extend until the coming December 1st.
The mentioned municipality, distant 75 kilometers to the north of the provincial capital, headquarters of the important political, economic and social event was chosen, for the solution of hundred percent of the positions of participation community precedents and 81,2% of administrative linking, ventilated so far.

Mariano Basulto Pérez, secretary of the Provincial Assembly, informed that Guáimaro, another territory highlighted in the answer to its voters, will be subheadquater of the beginning of the dialogue town-government. They also stand out the municipalities Carlos Manuel de Céspedes and Camagüey.

The most extensive county in Cuba, up to the III Process of the XIII Government Command, with the effective attention of 67,9% of the outlined problems of competition office workers, inferior index at both previous, however, Jesus García Collazo, president of the Provincial Assembly of the Popular Power, explained that the pending matters are revised casuistically to declare them possible or not before the beginning of the 5 785 planned meetings.

He said, also that the exchange with the voters will allow to deepen pressing restlessness as the housing, after the devastating step of the hurricanes; the deficit of the transport of passengers and others referred to the electric saving, although it assured that in the urban neighborhoods and rural communities, there are many sanitation tasks related with the prevention of infest-contagious illnesses that their residents can attack without investments of big resources.

García Collazo referred that the popular discussion of the speeches of the president of the state Council and of Ministers, Raúl Castro Ruz, marked during the III Ordinary Period of Sessions of the National Assembly and the past Julio 26 in Holguín, they clear many actions to attack immediately to improve the quality of life and the social well-being by means of the development of the economy and of the services, to the one which-specify- arrives with the labor consecration.
(Rolando Sarmiento Ricart)

Fidel Castro distinguished with Order Eagle of Zambia

The leader of the Cuban Revolution Fidel Castro was distinguished with the Order of the Eagle of Zambia in First Grade, to have inspired many to fight for the dignity and the equality.

In solemn ceremony in the Palace of the Revolution, Rupiah Bwezani Banda, President of the Republic of Zambia, gave to the General of Army Raúl Castro, President of the Council of State and of Ministers, so high recognition, dedicated to who has dedicated his life to fight for the unprotected and exploited.

Austin Sichinga, Executive Secretary of the House of State of that African country, added in his words that Fidel opted for the personal service and the support to the humanity, as long as it inspired many leaders of the liberation movement by the world.

He specified that also Fidel, even under the rigor of the blockade of United States against Cuba, has maintained in the Island the brand of the solidarity in sectors like the health and the education.

Also, he said, was author of the internationalism with the towns of the African continent and it is considered at world level as an incomparable leader.

Homero Acosta, Secretary of the Council of State of the Republic of Cuba, thanked the Order conferred toFidel on behalf of the Council of State, of his President and of all the countrymen.

We can assure them, highlighted that the Boss of the Cuban Revolution will receive it as a recognition to the town, at the same time that this way he is also surrendered in particular homage to the thousands of internationalists that combatted in African lands, to those that gave his life.

It constitutes, in a same way, pointed out, a discharge estimates the doctors, professors and technicians that collaborate with other countries of the orb.

He reiterated the gratefulness to the President, government and town of Zambia on behalf of Fidel.

The badge ceremony was preceded by the official greeting to the leader of Zambia, headed by its homologous Raúl Castro, and for the official conversations that both leaders sustained, before Esteban's Knot presence, vice-president of the Council of State.

Also this Monday Rupiah Bwezani Banda, President of the Republic of Zambia, deposit a floral offering to the National Hero José Martí, next to Marcos Rodríguez, vice minister of External Relationships, and walked the memorial of the most universal of the Cuban.

Las Clavellinas 1868, Camagüey leaves to the war

November 4,1868 several groups of committed with the independence of Cuba left the city of Puerto Príncipe, today Camagüey, to meet in a non distant place and to second the clarinatedof Carlos Manuel de Céspedes on October 10.

Camagüey also left to the war against the Spanish colonialism. The news of the lift of Céspedes in the genius La Demajagua, in the east of the Island, was known in Puerto Principe the night of the own day 10, and the following morning, some people of Camagüey rushed to the handgrip.

But these actions lacked organization and of armament, and the insurgent departures acted according to the view of their bosses. As in East, Camagüey got ready from before to face the liberal fight, and its leaders, mainly Salvador Cisneros Betancourt and Ignacio Agramonte y Loynaz, maintained strong knots with revolutionaries from Havana and the oriental region.

The same as to the other ones, the beginning of the war for Céspedes, previous to that agreed, surprised to the people of Camagüey who, however, prepared for the rising. They only awaited the arrival of an expedition with men, weapons and ammunition that the patriot Manuel de Quesada would direct from Nassau until the north coast of the territory.

A telegram calculated from Havana received by Cisneros Betancourt on November 2, communicating the departure of a ship going to Nuevitas loaded with equipment of war for the Spanish forces, decided the immediate incorporation of Camagüey to the war.

It was necessary to impede the arrival of the load for the peninsular troop in their transfer for railroad from the town rivereño. The Revolutionary Meeting circulated the order to the committed to rebel to leave to the handlegrip.

To that call 76 revolutionaries responded who met in the step of Las Clavellinas, on the river Saramaguacán, to about 12 kilometers to the north.

Hours later, in the near sugar genius El Cercadero, were organized like military force and they swore to fight for the independence of the isle. Alive to Free Cuba, to Céspedes and the people of Camagüey closed that patriotic definitory act.

Camagüey had just entered also in the front combat against the peninsular dominance and for the independence of the Homeland.(Lucilo Tejera Díaz)

Donate to museum of Camagüey work of art of the painter Isabel de las Mercedes

A work of art of the painter Isabel de las Mercedes, was donated to the Museum Fifth Simoni, Marries of the Woman of Camagüey, for the members of the cultural project that continues its work.

The painting is titled Montecarlo; it dates of the year 1992 and it is in the museum thanks to a donation of the Cultural Project of Art Naif Isabel de las Mercedes.

Starting from now, the work passes to be part of the museable bottom of the institution of Camagüey that stores the feminine chore of the women of Camagüey.

The Cultural Project of Art Naif, Isabel de las Mercedes, already has two years of having created, and is integrated by some 19 artists of the county that cultivate the promitivist painting.

Isabel de las Mercedes Guerra Rodríguez was born in Camagüey, in 1922, and died at the 80 years, leaving a coarse pictorial work that carried out in a self taught way. (Mariela Peña Seguí).

Sustain official conversations Raúl Castro and President of Algeria

The general of Army Raúl Castro Ruz, president of the Council of State and of Secretaries, received the afternoon of this Tuesday, in the Palace of the Revolution, to the excellent Mister Abdelaziz Bouteflika, president of the Democratic and Popular Algerian Republic who carries out an official and friendly visit to Cuba.

Once concluded the protocol ceremony of greeting, the leaders sustained official conversations for space of two hours, which lapsed in the atmosphere of fraternity, understanding and respect that characterize the relationships among the two countries.

When exchanging on matters of bilateral interest, and about the challenges that Algeria and Cuba, Bouteflika and Raúl expressed satisfaction for the important development reached in the political, economic bonds and in other many spheres, at the same time that they ratified the decision of continuing increasing them.

It also participated in the conversations José Ramón Machado Ventura, first vice-president of the Council of State and of Ministers.

This is presently the third encounter of both leaders year, both previous were in Algeria. The first one in February, during the official visit to the Cuban President's country, and the second in July, when they sustained a wide previous exchange to the XV Summit of the Movement of Not Aligned Countries.

In a parallel way, the members of the two delegations revised the numerous fields of the bilateral collaboration and their favorable perspectives.

Cuban students of Medicine to Venezuela

Forty students of 6th. year of Medicine, of the Medical University Carlos J. Finlay, of this city, will complete the 500 of the Contingent Doctor Mario Muñoz Monroy of the country that go toward the Bolivarian Republi of Venezuela with same requirements, with a view to carrying out its period of boarding school, with the inclusion of the state exam and graduation, foreseen for the month of July , 2010.

These will work in the clinics of the Mission Barrio Adentro, and will be located by counties in the different states, that is to say, all the people of Camagüey will be together, that which allows the support and attention differed by each one of the territories, as the doctor informed María del Carmen Romero Sánchez, Rector of the High Center of Studies.

Without place to doubts, such a decision is part of the contribution from the country to the contribution of the project of the Mission Barrio Adentro, although this way for the first time, it is something special, even, it is expected they make thier two years of specialization of Integral General Medicine (MGI) there.

Another students group, of the same course, were selected to receive a Graduate of Intensive Therapy. Their studies will begin in February and they will be located in the rooms of municipal, provincial intensive therapies, or outside of Cuba, where they are necessary, and they are also part of the Contingent.

Of those selected more than 90 percent integrate the vanguard Mario Muñoz that we already had from the 2nd. year of the career, the doctor Romero added. They are integrally outstanding students like it is established, not only in the teaching.

We talked with Ainerys Zamora Rosales, 22 years old. She feels happy to be in this platoon of advanced and at the same time, she sighs because she leaves her husband behind, about to complete her first month of married who is teacher of a primary school, but, she said: “This career is this way, of sacrifice and she surrenders. We have a great challenge before us because we will represent to our University, to the county and the country. This is something new for all we, will make the boarding school and the educational practices, and we also have the responsibility of demonstrating to that country and the world that the system of Health in Cuba is the best that don't move us the interests related with the money, but offering medical attendance with quality where more they need us.”

Equally it was clear that another of the commitments is the name of this contingent: Doctor Mario Muñoz Monroy, a man that was born July 26 ,1912 and he wanted the destination that was murdered that same day of 1953, in full street and before his fight partners Haydée Santamaría and Melba Hernández, when failing the action from the Assault to the Barracks Moncada. That man that tried to cure to his Homeland in those times of the most serious illness: the disparate politics.

Eduardo López Leyva, member of the Provincial Desk of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC), when offering them see you later an and don't unite farewell it aimed that the outstanding of these youths is with the passion and love that have welcomed the task who will demonstrate that they go well formed, educated and well educated, so that they will complete that commended, and when they think make it in their families, their professors, their county, in the biggest General Ignacio Agramonte, and always with the conviction that ` here doesn't surrendernobody, like it expressed the recently deceased Major of the Revolution Juan Almeida Bosque.

The figure of cooperants of Camagüey of the sector of the Health surpasses the three thousand 155, in 47 countries.(Olga Lilia Vilató)