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Un sueño del Moncada, la salud pública en Cuba

2011-07-25T08:34:00.000-07:00

Por: Noel Manzanares Blanco / Televisión Camagüey

Julio 25 de 2011

En La historia me absolverá —nombre con el cual trascendió el alegato de autodefensa de Fidel Castro en el juicio por los sucesos del 26 de julio de 1953, también denominado Programa del Moncada—, aparece resumida en seis aspectos la tragedia que vivía el país por aquel entonces, incluido el problema de la salud del pueblo. ¿Por qué actualmente tal flagelo es “agua pasada”? A ello responderé, grosso modo.

Para dar una idea del grado de sufrimiento de la familia cubana en el tema de la salud pública antes del 1ro. de enero de 1959, acoto que el noventa por ciento de infantes del campo estaban devorado por parásitos que se les filtran desde la tierra por las uñas de los pies descalzos; que miles y miles de niñas y niños morían todos los años por falta de recursos, mientras que la mortalidad infantil por cada mil nacimientos vivos era del 60 por ciento —según datos conservadores—; al tiempo que la mayoría de jóvenes y adultos en general carecían de las condiciones más elementales para disfrutar de una sanidad decente.

Sin embargo, a esta altura, el giro prácticamente es de 90 grado.

Por ejemplo, si a finales de la década del noventa del siglo pasada la Tasa de Mortalidad Infantil en Cuba era de 7,9 por cada mil nacidos vivos, al cierre del 2010 ese indicador se redujo al 4,5 por igual número de nacimientos, mientras que en 21 municipios del país el registro por el mismo concepto fue de cero; al tiempo que ese índice devela una tendencia decreciente en los menores de 5 años de edad: si en 2002 fue de 8,1 fallecimientos por mil llegados al mundo, en diciembre último descendió a 5,7 los muertos —y aumenta el empeño por la reducción, tanto como humanamente sea posible.

Otras enhorabuenas exhiben datos como los que continúan: a los infantes se les aplican 10 tipos de vacunas que los protegen contra 13 enfermedades trasmisibles, y la nación ha logrado eliminar seis enfermedades prevenibles a través de las campañas de vacunación.

Tales resultados son el producto de una voluntad política de reflejada en diversos Programas como el Materno Infantil, contra las Enfermedades crónicas no transmisibles y Enfermedades transmisibles, así como el orientado a la Atención al adulto mayor. Este último, prioriza el perfeccionamiento del trabajo en la atención primaria, fundamentalmente del médico y enfermera de la familia, utilizando los círculos de abuelos y otras alternativas no institucionales con la participación comunitaria.

Todo ello tiene lugar muy a pesar del más largo Bloqueo que registra la Historia escrita, cuya estadística revela el sufrimiento y más que provoca en los pacientes y sus familiares, al no poder contar con el medicamento idóneo y en muchas ocasiones en el momento necesario para salvar una vida.

¡Cuánta diferencia con los datos que ofrecen las Naciones Unidas al pulsar la salud pública a escala internacional!

Si a lo anterior le agregamos que en la actualidad el 69 % de alrededor de 57 mil colaboradores cubanos que prestan sus servicios en 98 países y 4 territorios de ultramar lo hacen en el sector de la salud, entonces no hay que emborronar más cuartillas para acreditar que la salud pública en Cuba es más que uno de los sueños de la gesta del Moncada.

Hablemos del 26 de julio

2011-07-25T06:54:00.000-07:00

Por: Ernesto Pantaleón Medina / Televisión Camagüey

Corría 1953, y la tolerancia del pueblo cubano, puesta a prueba una y otra vez por la lista de pésimos gobernantes que rigieron los destinos del país tras el surgimiento de la neo colonia, tocaba fondo con la tiranía de Fulgencio Batista, un habilidoso manipulador de intereses, y un asesino que enlutó miles de hogares.

Llegado a la cúspide del poder tras el golpe de estado del 10 de marzo de 1952, el dictador llevó al paroxismo el accionar de los cuerpos represivos establecidos, y creó bandas paramilitares como los tristemente célebres ¨Tigres de Masferrer¨.

La menor sospecha de actividades conspirativas, y aún las protestas estudiantiles eran apagadas con la porra, los chorros de agua e incluso con disparos de la policía. Era algo común que los detenidos por las ¨perseguidoras¨ aparecieran horas después, torturados y asesinados (e incluso otros nunca aparecieron).

Así se presentaba la situación social, en el año en que se cumpliría el centenario del nacimiento del apóstol de la independencia cubana, José Martí, acontecimiento que un grupo de jóvenes decidió honrar, y que muchos cumplieron con la mayor de las ofrendas: la vida.

De procedencia acomodada, pero con la honda huella del sentir de los pobres en sus convicciones, Fidel Castro Ruz organizó un movimiento que agrupó a representantes de numerosos sectores, en un ejemplo de ideal unitario que contó en sus filas con albañiles, fotógrafos, obreros portuarios, médicos, estudiantes, entre otros.

Y llegó el mes de julio de 1953, en que se celebrarían los carnavales en Santiago de Cuba, la provincia más oriental y cuya geografía contaba con la principal cadena montañosa de la isla, la Sierra Maestra, que figuraba en los proyectos del joven dirigente revolucionario como teatro de operaciones, en el que podría desarrollar una prolongada lucha armada.

En la propia capital oriental estaba ubicada la segunda fortaleza militar de la tiranía, el cuartel Guillermòn Moncada, solo superada en número de soldados y en medios de combate por Columbia, en la ciudad de La Habana.

Con el mayor secreto y en un verdadero alarde de discreción conspirativa, se movilizaron hombres y armas (la mayoría rifles de pequeño calibre y escopetas de caza) para dar el golpe por sorpresa en la madrugada del 26 de julio, fecha en que se iniciaban los festejos populares.

Paralelamente al asalto al cuartel Moncada, otro grupo de combatientes se dirigió hacia Bayamo (hoy provincia de Granma) para de manera coordinada, atacar la fortaleza de dicha localidad, que llevaba el nombre de Carlos Manuel de Céspedes.

El objetivo de esta segunda acción era impedir que desde La Habana, fueran enviados refuerzos hacia la región oriental.

A pesar de la impecable preparación, el elemento casualidad frustró el factor sorpresa, única ventaja desde el punto de vista militar, con la que contaban los jóvenes asaltantes.

Lo que fue concebido como acción relámpago devino fuertes combates de los revolucionarios, contra fuerzas y medios muy superiores, con el lógico desenlace.

Comienza la retirada, y muchos de los jóvenes revolucionarios son hechos prisioneros y posteriormente asesinados, luego de torturas sin límite.

Ningún respeto de los esbirros hacia un enemigo que combatió con hombría y valor, a pecho descubierto, en defensa de un ideal y con el pensamiento y la acción puestos en la conquista de un futuro mejor para sus hermanos.

Desde el más estricto punto de vista táctico militar, no se consideraría una victoria aquella doble acción de los combatientes de Fidel, pero la trascendencia del suceso fue tal que conmocionó hasta los cimientos la realidad cubana, y dio paso a una movilización nacional que logró, tiempo después, la liberación de los sobrevivientes, confinados en el penal de Isla de Pinos, el tristemente conocido Presidio Modelo.

Se sembró en el Moncada la simiente que alumbró el Movimiento 26 de julio, columna vertebral de la insurrección que tuvo su fuerza mayor en el Ejército Rebelde, que derrocó la tiranía de Fulgencio Batista, quien como un cobarde escapó hacia los Estados Unidos en la madrugada del primero de enero de 1959.

Quizás se haya empleado mucho por oradores, periodistas, cineastas y poetas una expresión que, sin embargo, 58 años después de la hombrada de Fidel y sus compañeros, conserva su fuerza, y pinta como ninguna el significado de aquellas acciones, porque el 26 de julio ¨se tomó el cielo por asalto¨.

Los cubanos y la fiesta del amor

2011-02-13T07:55:00.000-08:00

FAO Recognizes Cuba’s Work to Protect Forests

2011-02-04T10:21:00.000-08:00

HAVANA, Cuba, Feb 4 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) recognized Cuba’s efforts in the protection of forest areas and in favor of reforestation programs.To mark the beginning of the International Year of Forests, FAO released the State of the World’s Forests (SOFO) report, which comes out every two years and assesses the status of global forest resources. SOFO 2011 includes information on trends in forest management, production of forest products, and raw forest cover data.

Cuba annually increases its forest cover and the plan is to have 3.2 million hectares of forests areas by the year 2015, which is 29,3% of the national territory.

Since the triumph of the Cuban Revolution in 1959, reforestation efforts have been underway to counteract the deforestation suffered during the colonial period and as a result of the development of the sugar industry, among other factors.

As part of these efforts, Cuba has a center for forest research with seven experimental stations across the island and 1,200 forest engineers. (acn)

Japanese Television Network Broadcasts Programs on Cuba

2011-02-04T10:10:00.000-08:00

HAVANA, Cuba, Feb 4 - The Mainichi Broadcasting System (MBS) of Japan premiered a series of four programs on Cuba, which offered viewers of the Asian nation an overview on the Caribbean island. A team of the MBS traveled to Cuba in December to shoot the documentary, which highlights tourist attractions and tackles important aspects of the history of the Revolution, the www.cubaminrex.cu Web site reports.

The documentary shows, for example, achievements of the pharmaceutical industry and of public health and education on the island, in spite of the blockade imposed on Cuba by Washington for almost half a century now.

Likewise, it highlights the significance the 6th Congress of the Cuban Communist Party –to be held in April- will have.

MBS gets to two million viewers in the region of Kansai, including five important prefectures.(acn)

Only FIDE Woman Judge in Central Am Acknowledged in Cuba

2011-02-04T10:09:00.001-08:00

HOLGUIN, Cuba, Feb 4 - The only FIDE woman judge of Central America and the Caribbean, Cuban Barbara Lopez-Chavez, was acknowledged on Thursday in the eastern province of Holguin by local authorities for her work.

Lopez-Chavez is one of the three judges participating in the national chess women’s championship underway in Cuba.

Lopez-Chavez was a founder of the Latin American Higher Chess Institute in 1992, where she worked as a professor to later become a judge.

In the same year, she received the certificate of national Judge and then in 2006 she received the FIDE title.

Lopez-Chavez is expecting to participate for the first time this year in the Capablanca in Memoriam 2011 Tournament, which will bring more than 100 chess players to Cuba.

After the event, she is hoping to receive the FIDE International Judge title. (AIN)

Latin Americans Demand End of US Blockade against Cuba

2011-02-01T07:47:00.000-08:00

HAVANA, Cuba, Feb 1 - Claudio Patat, national coordinator of the Argentinean contingent that is part of the 18th South American Solidarity-with-Cuba Brigade, condemned the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the United States on the island. In his statements to the Prensa Latina news agency, he also denounced the unfair imprisonment in US jails of Fernando Gonzalez, Ramon Labañino, Antonio Guerrero, Gerardo Hernandez and Rene Gonzalez, condemned for informing on plans of violent actions against Cuba, conceived in Florida.

The member of the Argentinean Movement of Solidarity with the Caribbean nation asserted that they’re working with a lot of rigor in his country, especially in Buenos Aires.

Likewise, Venezuelans from various walks of life will send over the next few days dozens of postcards to President Barack Obama with requests for the release of the five Cuban antiterrorist heroes, according to information provided by activist Rosalinda Chanaga, coordinator of the Venezuela-Cuba Movement of Mutual Solidarity.

She told the Prensa Latina news agency that this group plans new actions to spread the truth abut the case of Gerardo, Rene, Antonio, Ramon and Fernando, and on the injustice being committed against them -unjustly incarcerated since 1998.

Some 300 committees are working in 111 nations to support the cause of these Cuban antiterrorists.

On this issue, the El Nacional newspaper, from the Dominican Republic, published that about 30 organizations of that country asked the United States to lift the unjust and inhuman blockade maintained by Washington against the island for almost half a century now.

The organizations, making up the Committee in Solidarity with Cuba, underlined that the States have the right to self-determination and that nobody –no matter how strong it feels- has the power to condemn them to any kind of blockade, reads a note published by the Cuba
Foreign Ministry’s Web site.

Also, Cubans living in Nicaragua held their 2nd National Meeting, in which they condemned the siege laid to the island by the US and demanded the immediate release of The Five. (acn)

Works by Top Cuban Painters Presented in Tokyo

2011-02-01T07:40:00.000-08:00

HAVANA, Cuba - A collective exhibition of paintings from Latin America and the Caribbean in Tokyo included works by notable Cuban painters Servando Cabrera, Manuel Mendive, Rene Portocarrero and Nelson Dominguez. The exhibition’s curator was renowned Japanese professor Takeshi Kanagawa and its 70 pieces excelled for their excellent portrayal of the vast and rich culture of the region and its various artistic trends, the www.cubaminrex.cu Web site reported.

Over 5,000 visitors enjoyed the exhibition, organized by the diplomatic missions of Latin America and the Caribbean accredited to Japan and located at the popular mirador on the 42nd floor of the Metropolitan Government building.

Also in that capital, Cuban ambassador to Japan, Jose Fernandez de Cossio, held a fraternal meeting with the vice-president of the Japanese Communist Party, Yasuo Ogata, and deputy Akira Kasai, whom he explained the main elements of the Draft Guidelines of the Economic and Social Policy of the Party and the Revolution.

The Japanese communist leaders took an interest in knowing the scope of the recent measures adopted by the US government towards Cuba, with regard to which the diplomatic clarified that they don’t modify the illegal and punitive nature of the criminal blockade.

He set out how that this siege, imposed on the island for almost half a century now, is designed to cause the greatest difficulties and shortages possible to the people in their daily life, trying, in this way, to undermine the social base of the Revolution and destroy it. (acn)

Havana University Holds Workshop on Haiti

2011-02-01T07:38:00.000-08:00

HAVANA, Cuba - The Group on Caribbean Studies of the University of Havana held the workshop “Haiti, a year after”.

In view of the current situation in Haiti, a year after the earthquake of January 12, 2010, experts and cooperants met to offer their support and discuss the reality of this Caribbean nation.

The president of the Group, PhD. Digna Castañeda, talked about the importance of getting acquainted with the history of that country so as to understand its population.

Castañeda added that Haitians are still facing the aftermath of such a natural disaster and the cholera epidemics.

The politologist and professor from the International Relations Higher Institute (ISRI), PhD. Luis Suarez Salazar, offered an overview on Haiti’s geographic, political, economic and social panorama, and commented on the future of its population.

Suarez noted that, a year after the earthquake, 75 percent of the residents in Puerto Principe are still homeless, and the cholera epidemics is expected to affect some 400 000 people.

He added that almost half a million children still wander around the streets without being able to go back to school because more than 80 percent of the education sector is private and very expensive.

The rector of the Latin American School of Medicine (ELAM), Dr Juan Carrizo Estevez, highlighted the humane quality of the Haitian people.

He pointed out that more than 600 Haitian students graduated from ELAM, while there are other 400 still studying there.

The workshop was also attended by historian and member of UNEAC, PhD.

Gloria Leon Rojas, as well as by members of the Henry Reeve International Brigade, who shared experiences from their missions in Haiti. (acn)

Cuban Cooperants in Guatemala Demand the Release of the Cuban Five

2011-02-01T07:32:00.000-08:00

HAVANA, Cuba- Members of the Cuban Medical Brigade in Guatemala demanded the immediate release of five Cuban antiterrorists, unjustly imprisoned in the US since 1998. On the occasion of their 9th National Scientific Festival, the cooperants working in 18 out of the 22 Guatemalan departments passed a resolution condemning the biased treatment these men received during their trials.

The document affirms that Gerardo Hernandez, Ramon Labañino, Antonio Guerrero, Fernando Gonzalez and Rene Gonzalez ––internationally known as the Cuban Five –– were just trying to prevent terrorist actions against Cuba by right-wing groups settled in Miami.

The resolution makes reference to the double standard policy of Washington, which condemns the Cuban Five, whereas it protects renowned terrorists who walk free through the US.

The Cuban cooperants promised to spread the truth about the Cuban Five wherever they take their humanitarian work.

The document will be sent to US president Barack Obama to demand him to use its constitutional prerogatives in favor of Gerardo, Ramon, Fernando, Antonio, and Rene.

The Cuban cooperants also demanded the extradition of Luis Posada Carriles to Venezuela, or a fair trial in US for his terrorist crimes and not for migration fraud, as he is being charged at present in El Paso, Texas.(acn)

Ecuadorian President Receives Cuban Foreign Minister

2011-02-01T07:17:00.000-08:00

HAVANA , Cuba - The president of Ecuador, Rafael Correa, received Cuban foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla, on Monday, at the Palacio de Carolendet, in Quito.

The Cuban Minister, on official visit, and the Ecuadorian president, attended the ceremony of the changing of the presidential guard in the historical center of Quito, reports a press release by Prensa Latina agency news.

The Ecuadorian Foreign Minister, Ricardo Patiño, told Prensa Latina that the relations with Cuba are a priority given that Cuba is one of the strategic nations for their diplomacy.

Patiño praised the international solidarity of Cuba with Ecuador, the homeland of Eloy Alfaro. He mentioned that there are about 2 000 young Ecuadorians studying Medicine in Cuba, without asking anything in return.

Both ministers chair the 2nd Meeting of the Mechanism of Political Consultation between the two countries to strengthen the historical relations of friendship and solidarity and to boost cooperation programs in different sectors.

At the Palacio de Najas, Rodríguez talked, by videoconference, with the Cuban doctors of the Operacion Milagro in the Ophthalmologic Center of Latacunga, who have done more than 100 000 free sight surgeries.

The Cuban diplomat will meet on Tuesday with Ecuadorian Vice President Lenin Moreno to discuss the topic of Cuban cooperation in the study of people with disability and their follow-up in prevention and attention stages.

Rodriguez will also meet with Augusto Barrera, metropolitan major, in the context of the declaration of Quito as the Latin American capital of Culture in 2011.

The Cuban Foreign Minister arrived in Quito on Sunday, and was received by deputy foreign minister Kintto Lucas and Jorge Rodriguez, the Cuban ambassador to Ecuador.(acn)

Homenaje a Martí en Camagüey

2011-01-28T10:46:00.000-08:00

Rinden artistas camagüeyanos homenaje a José Martí

2011-01-28T10:23:00.000-08:00

La exposición colectiva La exposición colectiva "Al amparo de las manos" quedó inaugurada en la Galería del Consejo Provincial de las Artes Plásticas en la ciudad de Camagüey. La muestra rinde homenaje al Héroe nacional José Martí en al aniversario 158 de su natalicio.

Por: Aymee Amargós / Televisión Camagüey

Las manos son la extensión del pensamiento, indican el avance del tiempo y son herramientas fundamentales del propio desarrollo del ser humano.

Son las manos el eje central de la exposición colectiva que se inauguró en la galería del consejo de las artes plásticas en la ciudad de Camagüey.

La muestra exhibe diversidad. Veinte artistas focalizan su atención sobre esa zona del cuerpo. Pinturas, fotografías e instalaciones, constituyen homenaje a José Martí en el aniversario 158 de su natalicio.

Entre los artistas que integran la muestra ”Al amparo de las manos” están Joel Jover, Eduardo Rosales, Nazario Salazar y Oscar Rodríguez Lasseria.

También importantes momentos son atrapados por el lente de las cámaras fotográficas. La mano curativa, la del amor, la protectora y hasta las del alma despliegan un abanico de lecturas dentro de las variadas estéticas.

Han acompañado el devenir de la historia del arte. El uso de la imagen de las manos pasa por lo misterioso hasta su exhibición figurativa simbólica.

Cuba Increases Scholarships for Angolan People

2011-01-17T11:51:00.003-08:00

HAVANA, Cuba, Jan 17 - The number of scholarships granted by Cuba to Angolans to study inthe island was increased to 195 this year, as reported by several media outlets from the African country on Monday. The scholarships are to study medicine or any other related subject,as well as arts, engineering or to become teachers.

A Prensa Latina reporte dated in Luanda says the representative for the Angolan embassy in Cuba in charge of scholarships, Caetano Francisco Domingos said there are 620 Angolans currently studying in Cuba, and that 108 of them are involved inpostgraduate courses.

Cuba and Angola have maintained close relationships of cooperation and friendship for year.

The bonds between the two countries were strengthened after Cuba helped Angola achieve its independence, finally reached in 1975.(acn)

Cuban Foreign Ministry Releases Statement on US Measures

2011-01-17T11:51:00.002-08:00

HAVANA, Cuba, Jan 17 - The Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MINREX by its Spanish acronym) released a statement regarding the latest measures announced by the US government regarding Cuba.

Cuban News Agency reproduces MINREX statement:

On January 14, 2011, The United States government announced new measures regarding Cuba. Though we will have to wait for the regulations to be published to know their true meaning, according to preliminary information released by the White House Office of the Press Secretary the measures are:

-To authorize US citizens to travel to Cuba for academic, educational,cultural and religious purposes.

-To allow US citizens to send remittances to Cuban citizens in limited amounts.

-To authorize US international airports to apply to provide services to licensed charters to Cuba under certain conditions.

The adoption of these measures are the result of the efforts of ample ectors of the US society that have claimed for years to the lifting of the criminal US blockade against Cuba and the absurd prohibition of travelling to Cuba.

It is also an expression of the admission of the failure of the US policy against Cuba and that the US government is seeking new ways to achieve its
historical goal of dominating the Cuban people.

Though these measures are positive, they failed to entirely fulfil these just claims, they have a very limited reach and do not modify the US
policy towards Cuba.

The White House announcement limits itself, basically, to restore some of the dispositions that were in force in the 1990´s during the Clinton Administration and were eliminated by President George W. Bush after 2003.

These measures only benefit some categories of US citizens and do not restore the right of every US citizen to travel to Cuba, making them the only ones worldwide that can not visit Cuba freely.

They confirm that there is no will to change the US blockade and destabilization policies against Cuba. At announcing them, the US officials make clear that the blockade will remain untouched and that they are preparing new tools of subversion and interference in Cuba’s internal affairs. This confirms the denunciation made by MINREX last January 13.

Cuba has always favored the exchanges with the US people, their universities, and their academic, scientific and religious institutions.

All obstacles for the US citizens to visit Cuba have been and still are onthe US side.

If there was a true interest in expanding and easing the contacts between our two peoples, the United States should lift the blockade and the prohibition that makes of Cuba the only country that US citizens can notfreely travel to.(acn)

Wax Statues of Che and Cespedes to Be Exhibited at Bayamo’s Museum

2011-01-17T11:51:00.001-08:00

BAYAMO, Cuba, Jan 17 - Statues of Cuban independence hero Carlos Manuel de Cespedes, known as the Forefather of the Homeland, and Argentinean-born Ernesto Che Guevara, will be part of the collection of the Wax Museum of Bayamo, the only one of its type in the country.

Museum specialist Ismarys Lopez told ACN that like the rest of the wax statues exhibited in the museum, the new statues will be modeled life-size in polychrome wax by Rafael Barrios and his sons Rafael and Leander Barrios.

Lopez said the museum will be promoted by several travel agencies to attract foreignvisitors to the city.

The museum shows wax statues of Cuban national hero Jose Marty; musicians Beny More, Sindo Garay, Bola de Nieve, Compay Segundo, Carlos Puebla and Polo Montañez; young Italian Fabio Di Celmo, who died in a terrorist attempt in Havana; and American writer Ernest Hemingway, among local figures. The collection also includes sculptures of birds, most of them originary from the Sierra Maestra mountain range.

Lopez said since the opening of the museum in July of 2004 until 2010, the institution has received more than 700,000 visitors and in 2008 a year record of visits was set with more than 152,000.

Meanwhile, Barrios Madrigal said he learned wax modeling from his sons. He said they used to make figures out of clay when they were little and when he saw how good they were, he took them to local artist Luis Enrique Basterrechea who taught them the craft, which according to specialists dates back to the 19th century. (AIN)

2011 Casa de las Americas Literary Award Opens Up in Cuba

2011-01-17T11:51:00.000-08:00

HAVANA, Cuba, Jan 17 - The Award 2011 Casa de las Americas Literary will be set in motion with the formal establishment of the jury and the opening words of Bolivian Vice President Alvaro Garcia Linera, and the Peruvian anthropologist, Stefano Varese.

In its 52 edition, dedicated to the centenary of the birth of the Peruvian writer José María Arguedas (Deep Rivers, Yawar fiesta) 300 original works are competing in the genres of novels, short stories,testimonies, artistic and literary essay and Brazilian literature in the form of fiction , reports Prensa Latina news agency.

Prominent literature figures make up the jury that will decide on the works worthy of awards, including the US poet Margaret Randall, the Colombian Roberto Burgos Cantor, Martin Kohan from Argentina, Chilean Andrea Jeftanovich and Spanish Eduardo Becerra.

After the opening ceremony, at the House’s Che Guevara hall, under the Tree of Life, one of the emblems of that institution, they will sell the book “The plebeian nation” by Garcia Linera.

Published by the Casa de las Americas Publishing Fund, the book compiles some essays “to discuss and dialogue not only about the future of Bolivia but also about the Marxist thought.”

As stated in the cover, the volume “invites us to get rid of not a few prejudices about American society, cultivated by much of the critical tradition of our history, including Marxism.”

Although its official opening is today, there was a preamble yesterday in the auditorium of the San Geronimo University in Havana, at Old Havana where the ancient music group Ars Longa performed the Musical Renaissance in New Spain concert.(acn)

The Italy-Cuba Friendship Association Supports Economic Measures

2011-01-14T07:23:00.002-08:00

HAVANA, Cuba - The Italy-Cuba Friendship Association (AAIC) supports the economic measures undertaken by Cuban authorities to consolidate social achievements in the Caribbean nation.

In a communique, the members of the AAIC underline the willingness of the Cuban government and people to continue the construction of a socialist society, which seeks to develop and perfect its economic model.

The Italian organization considers the large participation of Cubans in the debates prior to the 6th Congress of the Communist Party (PCC) to be positive, in which citizens exchange ideas around the Draft Guidelines of the Economic and Social Policy of the Cuban Revolution.

In addition, it criticizes the treatment the international mass media has given to theCuban social and economic measures, since they don’t reflect the real situation on the island, the Prensa Latina news agency reported from Rome.

In its document, the AAIC highlights the efforts of the Cuban State to maintain its social achievements in education, health and culture, without leaving any citizen unprotected, incontrast to the measures adopted by several European governments in the face of the economic crisis.(acn)

Cuba Saves More Than 27,000 Tons of Oil on Power Generation

2011-01-14T07:23:00.001-08:00

HAVANA, Cuba, Jan 14 - Measures implemented in Cuba to stop excessive oil consumption allowed the country to save 27,130 tons of oil in 2010.

Director of the Rational Use of Energy Office Tatiana Amaran told ACN the systematic control of power consumption plans across the country, improvements on power lines and the introduction of state-of-the-art technology on several thermoelectric plants are some of the actions that contributed to last year’s results.

Amaran acknowledged the positive response of state-run institutions to the saving program, while noting that the residential sector still exceeded consumption plans.

The specialist said there are still actions to be taken on the residential sector that could help reduce energy consumption levels. She mentioned among them the efficient use of appliances and the expanding of the use of a power-saving earthen-made device for high-energy consuming electrical stoves.

Currently, the Government uses 50% of national oil in power generation.

According to figures by the National Electric Company, in 2010 the country used over 81,000 megawatts/hour less than the previous year.

Havana’s Electric Office’s Director Inaudys Mora extolled repair works on power lines carried out in different provinces.

As a result of the Energy Revolution program, several national enterprises related to the sector, such as those dedicated to the production of power lines and transformers, were revitalized and developed. (acn)

Pedagogy 2011 to Show Experiences of ALBA Member Nations

2011-01-14T07:23:00.000-08:00

HAVANA, Cuba - Under the slogan "For the Unity of Educators", Education ministers of the countries that are members of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas (ALBA) will share their experiences during the congress Pedagogy 2011.

The event, to be held from January 24th through the 28th at Havana’s Convention Center, will allow for academicians and professors to exchange their experiences on the main achievements made in this sphere.

In addition to know more about research works solving educational problems, the forum will include a program of debates, exhibitions and visits to schools of different teaching levels, said Eva Escalona, president of the event’s scientific committee in an interview with the Prensa Latina news agency.

She specified that the Cuban ministers of Education (Ena Elsa Velazquez,) and Higher Education (Miguel Diaz-Canel), will give lectures, as well as the Venezuelan ministers of Education (Jennifer Gil) and University Education (Edgardo Antonio Ramirez).

Likewise, the participation of Bolivian Education Minister Roberto Aguilar has been scheduled, and the visit of ministers from African nations has been confirmed, stated Escalona, who is also the Cuban Education Ministry’s director for Science and Technology.

The meeting’s agenda will also include the results of Cuba’s international cooperation in this field, including the implementation of the "Yes I Can" literacy teaching method, by way of which some five million people in about twenty countries have learned how to read and
write.

She added that organizers expect the event to welcome over 3,000 foreign participants, that there are some 2,800 papers confirmed, and that meeting’s objective is to maintain the high academic level reached in previous editions of the Congress.

The Venezuelan and Mexican delegations, in that order, are the largest, with over 1,000 members each, followed by those of Cuba and Brazil, with 600 and 500, respectively-,.pointed out Escalona, after clarifying that figures are not definitive.(acn)

Latin America: Issues to Analyze

2011-01-13T07:40:00.005-08:00

The insistence of the new popular Latin American governments in constructing what they are calling 21st Century Socialism raises issues to be analyzed.

For many, it deals with a different world within the progressive community. For others however, at least for me, the current processes in the region are following the steps of the founders of the revolutionary theory.

If we take a look at this legacy, we know that figures like Karl Marx,Frederick Engles or Vladimir Ilich Lenin, the revolution was not catechism or dogma, but a body of live ideas closely related to reality and thecharacteristics of each nation and of course, far from idealism and strange interpretations.

The Cuban Revolution itself, born out of objective and subjective emergencies of our people is precisely the first regional example of the consequent application of those transformation principles of each place and specific moments.

But within the budgets of the 21st Century Socialism that before anydemand of those that act in consequence with its universe, the calls for efficiency are true elements.

It deals with a process of change, including our own Revolution, requiresshowing at each moment, by imperative political elements, its superiority in relation with the capitalist system in working towards an increase inthe quality of life of its people.

Lenin himself, several years prior to the Bolshevik victory in Russiaexplained that one of the first tasks for the new State would be to demonstrate to the masses that to improve the quality of life would be apriority for the new authorities.

To make this a reality, there must be efficiency in the economic andsocial sphere. Economies must contribute with each nations´ key resources that materially support the advancement.

Then the social aspect because there must be a radical change in the relations of production and the ways of distribution in order to eradicate the old practice of favoring the reduced number of exploiters with theconsequent exclusion of the majority.

Efficiency is a common word in many speeches carried out by progressive Latin American leaders of today and something that is expanding and consolidating in the region including our own current economic transformation process.( Néstor Núñez / AIN)

Cuba Holds the Ceremony Award of the Cuban Scientific Journalism and Communication Contest

2011-01-13T07:40:00.004-08:00

SANTA CLARA, Cuba - The documentary ‘Villa Clara Marine Coastal Environment’, by Rogelio Mora, from the Center of Environmental Studies and Services (CESAM), was awarded on Wednesday the grand prize of the Alfredo Nieto Dopico Scientific Journalism and Communication Contest.

The documentary, which highlights the importance of protecting biodiversity in the coastal area of the central Cuban province of Santa Clara, also received recognition by the Social Communicators Association.

The delegate from the Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment (CITMA), Maria del Carmen Velazco, highlighted Mora’s work, taking into account that in 2010 he made a commendable work on environmental education through audiovisual pieces.

The radio award was given to journalist Lisdey Rega from the radio station Estereocentro for a series of works on students who are members of scientific societies.

A program dedicated to the protection of a vegetal specie of Santa Clara, by producer Arnaldo Diaz, from Telecubanacan, was also awarded.

The press award was presented to journalist Ricardo Gonzalez, from the Vanguardia Newspaper, for his work ‘Expedition to Jumagua’; and the photography award was given toJose Antonio Pegudo, from CESAM for a trio of images of the fauna of that province.

Aliam Camacho, a CITMA specialist, referred to the quality of the more than 40 works presented in the contest, and said that 27 of these works will represent the province in the Gilberto Caballero National Journalism and Communication Festival, sponsored by CITMA. (acn)

Cuba Welcomes University Students from 70 Nations

2011-01-13T07:40:00.003-08:00

HAVANA, Cuba - Deputy Higher Education Minister Gil Ramon Gonzalez informed on Wednesday that there are youngsters from over 70 countries presently studying in Cuba.

In a press conference held at the Higher Education Ministry, Gonzalez pointed out that in the present academic year there are over 78,000 Cuban and foreign students in 63 universities.

At the end of the 2009-2010 course, close to one million 82,000 university students had graduated in the Caribbean nation since the triumph of the Revolution, thanks to the creation of a plan of scholarships for those centers of higher studies, he stressed.

That project began on November 7, 1960, at the University of Havana, recalled one of its founders, Gerardo Emilio Chong, who added that the initiative made it possible for youngsters from different territories and social condition to study at the center of higher studies.

Students of engineering, architecture and medical sciences were benefited from that program promoted by Commander in Chief Fidel Castro, who attended the inauguration of the first university dormitory, he pointed out.

The ceremony to mark the 50th anniversary of the Movement of University Scholarships will take place on January 19 at the Main Lecture Hall of the University of Havana, as announced by the institution’s Vice-rector, Norma Barros.(anc)

The ALBA-1 Fiber Optic Cable is transported to Venezuela

2011-01-13T07:40:00.002-08:00

HAVANA, Cuba - The ALBA-1 fiber optic cable that will be laid between Venezuela and Cuba and then to Jamaica is being transported from France to the Bolivarian country by the French Île de Batz ship.

Before its departure from the port of Calais, the vessel was visited by Cuban ambassador Orlando Requeijo and by the scientific attaché of that mission, Dennis Casares, who expressed their interest in the details of the transfer, the Granma newspaper report on Wednesday.

The ship’s captain, Pierre Emmanuel Dautry, informed that the vessel is carrying over 1,600 kilometers of cable in its holds, as well as sophisticated technology for its laying and an underwater robot that will facilitate the monitoring of operations.

The new technology will be in operation this year and will multiply the island’s connection with other countries by 3,000, according to information provided by Cuban and Venezuelan authorities.

The link will make it possible to break the blockade of communications, imposed by the United States on Cuba, to expand integration between Latin America and Caribbean nations, and to strengthen Cuban-Venezuelan relations.

At present, the Caribbean island’s access to the network is only by satellite, a situation that limits communications because they depend on an expensive, narrower band.

Meanwhile, conditions are created in Cuba to receive the underwater cable that will soon begin to be laid between Camuri, north of Venezuela, and Siboney beach, near the city of Santiago de Cuba, on the southeast part of the island.(acn)

Cuba and the United States Held New Round of Migration Talks in Havana

2011-01-13T07:40:00.001-08:00

HAVANA, Cuba, Jan 13 - A new round of migration talks between Cuba and the United States was held on Wednesday in Havana. The delegations were headed by Cuba’s Deputy Foreign Minister Dagoberto Barrera and by the US’s Principal Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs, Roberta Jacobson.

The Cuban News Agency reproduces the full text of a press release issued on Wednesday by the Cuban delegation to this new round of migration talks.

“A new round of migration talks between the United States and Cuba took place on January 12, 2011. Both countries’ delegations to the meeting were headed by Mrs. Roberta Jacobson, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs and Mr. Dagoberto Rodríguez Barrera, Deputy Foreign Minister, respectively.

“The meeting developed in an atmosphere of respect. An assessment was made of the way in which both parties have complied with their commitments under the migration accords in force. The meeting recognized there has been a significant reduction in risky illegal departures from Cuba to the United States as a result of the efforts carried out by both countries to cope with migrant smuggling and illegal migration.

“Deputy Foreign Minister Dagoberto Rodríguez expressed: ‘It was a fruitful exchange aimed at moving on to the establishment of more effective mechanisms of cooperation to combat illegal migrant smuggling.

Cuban authorities have systematically responded to U.S. requests and have provided valuable information as well as testimonies and evidence suitable for prosecuting smugglers before U.S. courts. Cuba reiterated its interest in strengthening bilateral cooperation in this area.’

“The Cuban delegation reaffirmed once again that migrant smuggling will not disappear nor could a legal, safe and orderly migration be achieved between our two countries as long as the Cuban Adjustment Act and the wet foot/dry foot policy –which encourage illegal departure of Cubans to the United States–, remain in place.

“The Cuban delegation reiterated its willingness to maintain these exchanges.” (acn)

Raul Castro Meets with Visiting Mexican Political Leader

2011-01-13T07:40:00.000-08:00

HAVANA, Cuba, Jan 13 - The Second Secretary of the Cuban Communist Party (PCC), Raul Castro, met on Wednesday in Havana with the president of Mexico’s Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI) and vice president of Socialist International (SI) —a worldwide organization of social democratic, socialist and labor parties—, Beatriz Paredes Rangel, who is on a working visit in Cuba.

According to a note read on Cuban television, during the meeting, both leaders spoke about the current state of relations between the two parties and other topics of international interest.

Also present in the meeting was Cuba’s Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla.(acn)

Cuba and Djibouti Strengthen Bilateral Ties

2011-01-11T06:52:00.003-08:00

HAVANA, Cuba, Jan 11 - The Cuban ambassador in Djibouti, Clara Pulido, was received on Monday by Idriss Aranoud, president of the National Assembly of this African country, with whom she spoke of the state ofbilateral relations. According to the website of the Cuban Foreign Ministry (www.cubaminrex.cu), Aranoud showed interest in strengthening ties between Cuba and Djibouti, where there are currently many professionals from the Caribbean island making their contribution, mainly in the public health sector but also in the sports and water resources fields.

The parliamentarian thanked the Cuban people and the professionals working in his country for their contribution to strengthening bilateral relations and for their work in favor of the people of Djibouti.

They also spoke of topics of international interest and they agreed on the importance of creating parliamentary groups of friendship between the nationals assemblies of both nations.(acn)

Cuban Children Theater Company Acclaimed in Yucatan

2011-01-11T06:52:00.002-08:00

HAVANA, Cuba - The Cuban children theater company La Colmenita was warmly welcomed on two recent performances in Yucatan, Mexico, where they staged “La cucarachita Martina.”

“Director Carlos Alberto Cremata’s industrious bees showed with flying colors why they were named UNICEF’s cultural good-will ambassadors,” says a Prensa Latina report.

On Sunday, the children boasted their virtuosity before families from the community of San Jose Tecoh, southeast Merida. The show ended with the young artists dancing along to the beat of Cuban music with children and adults on the audience.

One day earlier, the company performed at Las Americas Park in Merida on the occasion of the 469th anniversary of the city. This was the first performance of the company in Mexico, said Granma newspaper.

Culture director of Merida’s City Hall Roger Metri Duarte told the media it was a high honor for the city to receive La Colmenita in the city and described the Cuban company as a very important Cuban cultural project.

Local and regional authorities in Yucatan gave Cremata several recognitions. On behalf of the company, Cremata said to be honored for having been invited to participate in the Festival de la Ciudad 2011 which gave them the opportunity to perform for the first time in Mexico.(acn)

Villa Clara’s International Airport Increases Operations

2011-01-11T06:52:00.001-08:00

SANTA CLARA, Cuba - The Abel Santamaria International Airport has increased its operations, with the arrival this month, and for the first time, of a flight of the Principal de Chile airline coming from Córdoba, Argentina.

Jesús Diaz-Canel, director of the National Office for Tourist Information (INFOTUR) in Villa Clara, told ACN that the airport is also receiving flights from Buenos Aires, which are the beginning of the direct arrival of Argentinean tourists to the province’s northeastern cays. He added that airplanes from eight airliners established in Europe, North and South America land in the air terminal, with more than 40 flights a week during the current tourist winter season, which represents an excess of almost ten as compared to the same period of 2010.

He highlighted that statistics reflect a three percent increase in the arrival of travelers to the province’s territory in 2010, having the cays of Santa Maria, Ensenachos and Las Brujas -with beautiful beaches and recreational attractions in spots of great biodiversity- as tourist destinations.

Mario Ricardo Mir, director of the “Abel Santamaria”, explained that the staff of this center was trained for the increase of 160 flights during the present high tourist season.

He underlined that Canada is the main country sending passengers to this airport, Cuba’s fifth in terms of the movement of airplanes and travelers, closely linked to the development of the tourist area of the northeast cays of Villa Clara province.(acn)

Posada Carriles: 11 charges, none for terrorism

2011-01-11T06:52:00.000-08:00

HAVANA, Cuba - Criminal Luis Posada Carriles should answer to 11 charges, none of them for terrorism, in the trial that began today in El Paso, Texas, as pointed out in the Round Table aired by Cuban radio and television on Monday.

Two accusations are for perjury, one for obstruction of justice, another one for fraud in naturalization procedures, and seven for false statements in relation to migratory proceedings, clarified presenter Randy Alonso.

The selection of the jury was the objective of the trial this Monday against Posada Carriles, who entered US territory illegally in April, 2005, after being pardoned by Panamanian President Mireya Moscoso, five days before leaving office.

For analyst Reinaldo Taladrid, the real intention of the US district attorney’s office, on behalf of that country’s government, continues to be the protection of Posada Carriles, with the purpose of hiding his bonds and tasks fulfilled for the Central Intelligence Agency(CIA), which he served for many years.

The analyst recalled that the judges that have participated in the case in the US have insisted in that the US government has not presented evidence of terrorism against Posada Carriles and have described it as “a hot potato,” although, in this regard, Cuba has given the district attorneys substantial certified proof from the beginning..

Journalist Jean-Guy Allard recalled that Posada Carriles was serving a sentence in Panama – along with other terrorists- for conceiving a plan for an assassination attempt on Cuban Revolution leader Fidel Castro, during the Iberian-American Summit of the year 2000, and cited illicit methods used by the criminal to enter the US later.

Over the telephone, Jose Pertierra, Venezuela’s lawyer in the extradition request against Posada Carriles –pending an answer by the US government-, explained that the trial will begin on Tuesday, January 12, and that it last a few weeks, with the presentation of evidence by the district attorney’s office.

Pertierra explained that Judge Katerine Cardone has not decided yet whether she will accept for the first time evidence presented by Cuba on the terrorist nature of the actions of Posada Carriles, and said that, if she does, the District Attorney’s Office would have to decide if it will present specific charges in this regard.

It has emerged that 22 representatives of the Miami-based anti-Cuban mafia are in El Paso, in an attempt to defend Posada Carriles, a local newspaper reported.

The publication also cited the large number of US demonstrators that –in front of the law court- demand real justice against the criminal , carrying images of the 73 people killed in the sabotage of the Cuban airliner on October 6, 1976, one of the confessed masterminds of which was Posada Carriles.(acn)

FAO Representative to Cuba Highlights Role of Education in Agriculture

2010-12-27T08:10:00.002-08:00

HAVANA, Cuba, Dec 27- UN Food and Agriculture Organization representative to Cuba Marcio Porto highlighted the important role education plays to achieve sustainable development in Cuban agriculture.

Porto said that Cuban farmers have all the knowledge they need to use new technologies that will allow them to raise yields in their harvests.

He said a good example is growing beans within mango fields which allows farmers to better use the available land, optimize the use of fertilizers and to have a profit in short time.

Porto pointed out that the sustainable development model Cuban agriculture is using is based in short, medium and long term strategies which are already producing good results in areas surrounding towns and cities.

This will allow Cuba to produce domestically all the food it needs in times when prices have skyrocketed throughout the world, due to the world financial crisis, he added.

Porto explained that farmers attending workshops are increasing their professional level, a situation that doesn’t happen in many other countries, where people don’t know the benefits food could bring them.

“If they don’t know that fruits contain minerals and proteins they don’t grow them, therefore they don’t consume them and stick to traditional crops that satisfy their appetite”. (acn)

Implement suburban agriculture in 156 cuban municipalities

2010-12-27T08:10:00.001-08:00

Sancti Spíritus, Dec 27- In January 2011 the suburban agriculture will be implemented in the 156 foreseen municipalities, IT was informed during the national annual balance of the program of urban and suburban agriculture.

The doctor Adolfo Rodríguez Nodal , member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) and national boss of that activity directed by the Ministry of the Agriculture, informed the conclusion and approval of the projects that norman that work in each territory.

Highlighted the effort of those who developed the works starting from the experiences of the municipality of Camagüey, initiator of that work in April 2009, conceived to impel the good and rational use of the surrounding lands of the establishments with more than a thousand inhabitants.

When presenting the report of the results of the present year, Rodríguez Nodal, highlighted that of the objectives of the alone stage only are in execution the investments in the cultivations semiprotegidos when subtracting to conclude them in 102 hectares.

Among the difficulties stand out, said, the affectation of the watering in areas of the urban agriculture when lacking 410 hectares of those foreseen, question to solve in the first trimester of the 2011.

He also expressed dissatisfaction for the non termination of the investments in the organopony technology in almost 195 hectares.

During the encounter was proclaimed Sancti Spíritus like the most integral county in the program of the urban and suburban agriculture during the 2010, and as outstanding classified Matanzas, Ciego de Ávila and Villa Clara.

It was also recognized to the better producing of each territory and the Cooperative of Agricultural Production New Cuba, first in completing the 23 agreements signed between the Agriculture and the National Association of Small Farmers.

The encounter was presided over by Ulises Rosales del Toro member of the Political Desk of the PCC and vice-president of the Council of Secretaries; Miguel Acebo Cortiña, first secretary of the PCC in the county, and Gustavo Rodríguez and Orlando García, minister of the Agriculture and the Sugar, respectively. (Cristóbal Álamo Pérez/AIN)

Fidel Castro Speaks over the Phone with Cuban Doctors in Haiti

2010-12-27T08:10:00.000-08:00

HAVANA, Cuba, Dec 27 - Cuban Revolution leader spoke over the phone with members of the Cuban Medical Brigade that is fighting the cholera outbreak in Haiti.

Fidel called Cuban Health deputy Minister Marcia Cobas, who is in L’Estere town in the Artibonite department, the most affected by the pandemic, and spoke with several doctors that graduated from the Latin American School of Medicine (ELAM)

Cobas is following instructions from the Revolution leader to get in touch directly with all the members of the Henry Reeve medical brigade that are in Haiti, to find out how they are dealing with the tough conditions they are working in.

She asked the cooperants about their health, food, safety and how they are communicating with their families back in Cuba. She also forwarded greetings from Fidel and Cuban President Raul Castro and handed them over a card signed by Fidel.

Among them were Honduran Yorlenis Ramírez, US Gregory J. Wilkinson and Uruguayans Verónica and Brayan who thanked Cuba for having trained them as doctors.

Doctor Elisa Ortiz Vázquez, who heads the 145 health professional brigade in Artibonite, told Fidel they were proud of proving medical services wherever in the world they are needed.

The medical brigade has treated over 46000 Haitinas that had contracted cholera, and have kept mortality at a low 0.59 percent. They also checked over 181000 people and detected 1265 sick among them which they treated.(acn)

Cuba and Senegal to Strengthen Cooperation in Sports

2010-12-08T07:51:00.004-08:00

HAVANA, Cuba, Dec 7 - Senegalese Sports Minister Faustin Diatta arrived in Cuba with the purpose of signing the first bilateral cooperation agreement in this sphere.

The visitor was welcomed at Havana’s José Marti International Airport by the Vice- president of Cuba’s Sports Institute (INDER), Alberto Juantorena.

During his stay, which will end on Wednesday, Diatta will hold talks with leaders of the Institute and of the National Committee of the Young Communists League, and will visit sports schools and institutions.

A young Senegalese is studying at the International School for Physical Education and Sports located in the municipality of San José de las Lajas, on the outskirts of Havana, from where another three have graduated; and a Cuban trainer of athletics is currently offering his services in Senegal.

Senegal is located in West Africa. It’s bounded by Mauritania to the north, Mali to the east, Guinea and Guinea- Bissau to the south, and the Atlantic Ocean to the west.(acn)

Literacy Campaign Advances in Angola with Cuba’s Help

2010-12-08T07:51:00.003-08:00

HAVANA, Cuba, Dec 7 - Cuba’s support for the teaching of basic literacy to thousands of Angolans was highlighted during a meeting in Luanda between leaders of the South African country and a Cuban delegation.

The Secretary for Political and Social Affairs of the Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) in that capital expressed his appreciation for the gesture of the Caribbean island of sending advisers to carry out this task, the Prensa Latina news agency reported.

Joana Quintas, first secretary of the MPLA in Ingombota, referred to the educational experiences they have acquired, and informed that, in two years, 108,000 adults of this municipality will learn how to read and write by way of the Cuban method Yes I Can.

Participating in the meeting were ambassador Pedro Ross; the third secretary of the diplomatic mission, Rosa Fonseca; and deputy Luis Ramirez, representing Cuba.

Ross expressed that the fruit of the literacy campaign are the best tribute to the internationalists that died in defense of Angola’s independence.

On this date of 1989, the mortal remains of Cubans who fell in combat in Angola, Ethiopia and other African nations were buried in pantheons built in their municipalities of origin, in ceremonies held simultaneously throughout the island.

The national mourning ceremony took place at the mausoleum of El Cacahual, where Commander in Chief Fidel Castro and Angolan President Jose Eduardo dos Santos addressed participants.(acn)

South Africa Increases Financial Links with Cuba

2010-12-08T07:51:00.002-08:00

HAVANA. Cuba, Dec 7- South African President Jacob Zuma announced on Tuesday the granting of a new credit line of 220 million rands (30 million dollars) to Cuba, a country he described as an ally of the entire African continent.

While closing the Cuba-South Africa Business Forum, held for two days at Havana’s Hotel Nacional, Zuma also announced the extension of credit guarantees to the value of 70 million rands, which will back South African exports to the island.

In addition, he also announced South Africa’s willingness to support Cuba with 14 million rands worth of seeds and fertilizers, in order to contribute to the island’s agricultural development.

The head of state said he was pleased because the main business organizations of his country were represented in the forum, to talk about and explore possibilities of trade between the two countries, in a way that bilateral economic bonds can be strengthened.

He expressed the gratitude of his government and people for the support given by the islandin the offering of essential services to the South African people, by way of programs in the fields of health, social development, housing and public infrastructure.

He also expressed his appreciation for the presence of over 400 Cuban professionals, among them architects, engineers and physicians, who’re now offering their services in communitiesof that African country.

Ricardo Cabrisas, Vice-president of the Council of Ministers, stated that those working inthe economic sphere in the two countries are responsible for creating favorable conditions to materialize the objectives agreed in this meeting.

Cabrisas highlighted the absolute willingness of the Cuban party to progress in the deepening, strengthening and diversification of economic bonds between Cuba and South Africa.

Also participating in the ceremony were Estrella Madrigal, president of the Chamber of Commerce of the Republic of Cuba; Rodrigo Malmierca, Minister for Foreign Trade and Investment, and Robert Davis, South Africa’s Minister of Commerce and Industry. (acn)

Ricardo Alarcon Ends Fruitful Visit to France

2010-12-08T07:51:00.001-08:00

HAVANA, Cuba. Dec 7- Cuban Parliament President Ricardo Alarcón ended on Tuesday a fruitful visit to France, after carrying out a series of activities on his long agenda, which included a meeting with the president of the Senate, Gerard Larcher.

His last activity in Paris was a meeting with a dozen senators of different political affiliation, in which members of the Upper House of the ruling Union for a Popular Movement (UMP), the Socialist Party (PS), the Communist Party (PCF) and the Left Party (PG), as well as non-attached legislators, participated.

Alarcon spoke animatedly with the legislators, who were headed by socialist Senator Bernard Piras, president of the France-Caribbean Friendship Group, the Prensa Latina news agency reported.

The two parties welcomed with great enthusiasm the resumption of cooperation relations by way of an agreement recently signed in Havana, and expressed ideas to boost bonds at parliamentary level and between the peoples of the two countries.

The Cuban Parliament President updated his interlocutors on the situation of Washington’s blockade against the island, and gave a detailed explanation on the case of the five Cuban antiterrorist heroes incarcerated in the US for 12 years now.

Add 57 the Classes of Maceo created in Cuba

2010-12-07T05:57:00.000-08:00

Santiago de Cuba, Dec 7 . With the creation of two new Classes of Maceo in this city, already adds in the country 57 those circles dedicated to preserve the thought and the moral values of the family Maceo and Grajales.

The new clubs were activated in the primary school Oscar Lucero Moya and the secondary Alberto Fernández Monte de Oca.

Victor Manuel Pullés, specialist of the Center of Studies Antonio Maceo and coordinator of the project, explained to the AIN that to promote the heroic traditions of the Cuban town is a form of contributing to the consolidation of his democratic ideals and patriotic feelings.

The classes that study the legacy of the mambi stock that gave their children to the independence of Cuba - among them the biggest general Antonio Maceo and José Maceo - carry out a systematic work with projection toward the communities, from schools, work centers and social and political organizations.

In this 2010, year of the anniversary 165 of Antonio's birth Maceo, of the one who José Martí said that had “as much force in the mind as in the arm”, his evocation has included cultural, political and educational actions.

Exhibitions about the eminent person's life, shops on their thought, donations of blood and encounters with combatants of the revolution, are some of the activities that are carried out with the support of the Center of Studies Antonio Maceo.

This December seven, when the anniversary is commemorated 114 of the fall in combat of Antonio Maceo, the classes will surrender homage to the brave mambí in all the monuments to his memory, and will direct special mornings to highlight his impronta in the Cuban history.

In Santiago de Cuba, the indefatigable qualified combatant's cradle as the Titan of Brass, the biggest quantity in those groupings works with antecedents in the Maceists Societies that arisen in the first half of the XX century, sowed the civic and patriotic values that made a relating of elegance, civism and courage. (Ekaterina Rivera Zvezdina / AIN)

Salvadoran president receives the Can

2010-12-07T05:51:00.000-08:00

Havana, Dec 7 .The president from El Salvador, Mauricio Funes, offered a dinner of honor to the minister of External Relationships of Cuba, Bruno Rodríguez who concludes this Tuesday an official visit to the Central American country.

During the encounter topics of bilateral interest were approached, among these the cooperation projects in sectors of the health, education, trade and culture, refer an office of Latin Press.

The Chancellor's arrival happens after the Salvadoran President was in Cuba the days last October four and five, when both governments signed the first four projects.

In accordance with the program, Rodríguez will meet today with the national address of the Front Farabundo Martí for the National Liberation (FMLN), the biggest force politics in that nation.

Will also sustain a second interview with his homologous, Hugo Martínez, with who on Monday carried out official conversations in the headquarters of the Chancellery.

This visit is the first of a boss from the Cuban diplomacy to El Salvador in the history of both nations. (AIN)

Concludes initial phase of reanimation of commercial street

2010-11-10T07:16:00.000-08:00

By: Adolfo Silva Silva- Picture: Rosa Blanco Ramos/ Camagüey Television

Camagüey, nov 10- The pedestrian and several traffic of the units of the first block of the most important via commercial of Camagüey, “Maceo”, were reopened according to the program of reanimation of that sector.

Located in the area proclaimed in the Cultural Patrimony of the Humanity 2009 , the artery and its two bordering squares figure in a process investor foreseen up to the 2011 to elevate its visual and functional attributes, in the third town with bigger population in the country.

The concluded work is the initially finished in the place and had its more complex task in the demolition of the street and the sidewalks, substituted by a pavement of a single level, of “granite” (terraze) Mexican ballad, and the one buried of the electric, external phone connections and of audio local.

That characteristic will be extended to the whole road, where the plan also inserts the rebuilding of facades, capital remodelings of properties, reuse of local, and the external placement of gardeners and awnings.

In the one referred block continues, in accordance with a project of progressive conclusion, the qualification of new facilities, like a branch of CADECA and a restaurant.

The task continues, also, in another tract of the artery, and in the two squares, in one of those which, that of the Solidarity, the park bordering will be reinaugurate in December, expressed the AIN the architect Yosmel Díaz, of the Office of the Historian of the City of Camagüey (OHCC).

Among the establishments of the area corresponding to the reanimation figure those of industrial products, cultural goods , gastronomic and of lodging, included the Great Hotel, national badge of the chain Islazul, and The Charm, one of the main stores for departments in Cuba.

THE OHCC is the coordinator of the entities in charge of the Investment.( )

Square of the Freedom gets ready for Party of the Earthenjar

2010-11-03T06:13:00.001-07:00

Camagüey- A rejuvenate plan continues through the Avenue and the Square of the Freedom, the first sector of the city of Camagüey where - in the colonial time - the ordinance was applied of building external portals in the properties.

The two public spaces are the center of the neighborhood of The Charity, been founded in the XVIII century in a near area to the area proclaimed in the Cultural Patrimony of the Humanity 2009 .

According to that foreseen, the work will conclude with view to the Party of the Earthenjar, programmed cultural and sport event of the 7 at 13 in this month, with the main headquarters in the two mentioned segments and in tracts of traverse streets.

In the work the painting of facades prevail, communicated the máster Aileen María González, directress of projects in the Office of the Historian of the City of Camagüey (OHCC).

González underlined that the task of more span is the repair of more than 10 of the roofs of the portals, included in some the demolition and total substitution .

The OHCC and forces of the Ministry of the Construction attack the task, which will restore a quantity of stars in an ulterior stage - of fused iron - moved away by serious deterioration.

The III Body of the mambí Army entered December 30 ,1898 for that Avenue at Camagüey, and January 4, 1959 the Commandant in Boss Fidel Castro pronounced in the Square his first speech in territory of Camagüey, in one of the scales of the itinerary of the Rebellious caravan of the east to the occident of Cuba. (Adolfo Silva Silva)

Swinish development in Vertientes strengthens alimentary Program

2010-11-03T06:03:00.000-07:00

Camagüey - The swinish development in the peasant cooperative sector and of the municipality of Vertientes, in the county of Camagüey, can be exemplified through the experience and the love to work Rolando Pacheco, one of the best breeders in pigs of the Cooperative Juan Manuel Márquez, located not much more than 26 kilometers of the provincial head.

With more than 25 years in the agricultural chores, Pacheco works in his property “The Marías”, of two extension chivalries (26,84 hectares), where the several cultivations, the cane and the corn are fomented, to obtain 30 percent of the supplements that complete the system of feeding of the pigs, which are raised in a built ship with family effort, with capacity for 80 animals.

Also supported by his family this producer is very efficient in the tomato obtaining, when surpassing the 400 quintals of the vegetable surrendered to the state in each crop.

With traditional methods of breeding, in each agreement stage with the State feeds 80 pigs - in a period of four months -, with some seven tons of meat of total production, what highlights the potentialities of this project for the swinish development in Cuba.

Pacheco manifested that the foods for his herd are elaborated handmadely in his property, as long as the medications - when are necessary - he obtains them in the swinish Company of Camagüey.

The commitment of to continue linked to the agricultural works represents for the rural Rolando Pacheco the opportunity to support the alimentary program and the substitution of imports, the workers' of the cooperative sector fundamental objectives in the means south of Camagüey. (Fernando Capote Taño).

Restore headquarters of the Superior Institute of Art in Camagüey

2010-11-02T10:55:00.000-07:00

Camagüey - The project of repair of the educational headquarters of the Branch of the Superior Institute of Art in Camagüey, one of the three of its type in Cuba, was the main reason for the encounter between the professors of this center and Rolando González Patricio, rector of the facility.

With the attendance of distinguished personalities of the culture and the government of the territory, the appointment lapsed in the room of concerts José Luis Betancourt, of the Office of the Historian of the City of Camagüey.

Yaxely González Carmenates, general planner of the works for the building of the branch, highlighted the importance of the rehabilitation of the formerly the mothers' ursulinas convent, located in the area of the historical center of the city declared Cultural Patrimony of the Humanity.

The project plan the implementation of necessary enclosures for the artistic teaching as theater, library, wood and specialized classrooms for music.

Encouraged by the repair of this building and for the artistic potentialities of the territory, the educational ones proposed the rector of the Institute the future creation of day regular courses in Camagüey, service so far only toasted by the ISA in Havana. And for a nearer tomorrow requested the inclusion of other specialties like folkloric ballet.

The representation of important cultural institutions and political organs allowed the professors to value the achievements and difficulties of the course 2009-2010, until today that of bigger graduation of this center, besides facilitating him the layout of strategies for the development of the branch in the current educational period.

Rolando González exhorted to transform the institution into an imam for the talents of the centeroriental region of Cuba and highlighted the work of the educational ones and artists implied in the center.

Also, he insisted in the necessity of forming professionals according to the necessities of the territory. "I believe that we can count with which in a relatively brief term we have a deluxe branch, not only for the property, but for the own internal development of the branch", the rector commented and it congratulated all for the demonstrated institutional maturation.

In this course the branch of the ISA in Camagüey turns twenty-two years of having been founded. It began with music's disciplines, in the guitar specialty and danzary art in the ballet profile.

Today, sum nine musical instruments more to its teaching (piano, flute, saxophone, etc.), includes folkloric dance and the career of art of the audiovisual media, with five specialties, among them, address, production and sound.

Its current registration is of 112 students and the cloister 80 professors conform it (Rogelio Serrano Pérez).

Pablo Milanes will act in Camagüey and other oriental counties

2010-11-02T10:43:00.001-07:00

Camagüey - The emblematic singer-author Pablo Milanes will carry out a national tour that will embrace the oriental, included counties Camagüey in his first stage, from November six to 16.

After 22 years without journeys of this type, Milanes will offer a series of concerts in open squares, so that all have the possibility to listen to him, specified in press conference Natacha García, directress of Communication of the Music's Cuban Institute (ICM).

Of this way, the author of songs like Yolanda and Something more than to dream, will be the day six in Guantánamo, the eight in Santiago de Cuba, the 10 in his native Bayamo, the 12 in Holguín, the 14 in The Tunas, and the 16 in Camagüey.

The rest of the national territory will enjoy his presentations in the first trimester of 2011, due to international commitments of the singer- author.

García highlighted that the idea of the tour is the result of the own Pablo's zeal, the ICM, the Ministry of Culture and the office in charge of the artist's work , PM Records.

The most significant in the event is that the Cuban town will be been able to always rediscover with its Pablo, that that marked the life of an entire generation and has not enjoyed more than for two decades live, pointed out García .

Pablo Milanes is considered, next to Silvio Rodríguez and Noel Nicola, one of the maximum exponents of the New Cuban Trova.

In 1967, he participated in the Encounter of the Song Protests, taken place by House of the America, and later on he integrated the Group of Sound Experimentation of the Cuban Institute of the Art and Film Industry.

During the years 70 began to win national and international popularity, he carried out numerous tours for America and Europe and music wrote for theater and cinema.

After more than four decades of work, Pablo Milanese possesses near 40 disks and he has participated in numerous collective works, and in May of 2008 he presented his most recent discographic production.

This is titled beyond everything, with the accompaniment of a deluxe piano, in the hands of Cucho valdés.(Alain Valdés Sierra)

Contemporary Ballet Endedans will be presented in Cienfuegos

2010-11-02T10:42:00.000-07:00

Camagüey - The Theater Terry, of Cienfuegos, among November five and seven, will open its doors to the Contemporary Ballet Endedans of Camagüey, which will participate in the Season of the Dance that is organized annually also in the denominated Perla of the South.

The spectators will be able to enjoy emblematic works like "The Carmen", the most recent success in that company of Camagüey that directs Tania Vergara. The work is inspired by the classic of the literature, the music and the world dance.

Will also offer " Forgive me the fright of looking for you", "A paper, a mole, the time, and later...?, of the dancer and choreographer Denis Martínez.

It will also be projected, the documentary "The other Carmen", of the maker Rolando Admiral, material that picks up the vision of the interpreters on their characters and that was used for the first time September 22 in the National Museum of Fine arts.(Lázaro David Najarro Pujol)

Innovators of Nuevitas guarantee vitality of important industries

2010-11-02T10:15:00.000-07:00

Camagüey, nov 2. - More than three thousand works dedicated to solve the problems caused by the economic blockade of the United States against Cuba, have applied in so far in year the members of the Association of Innovators and Racionalizators (ANIR) of the municipality of Nuevitas, located not much more than 80 kilometers to the north of the capital of Camagüey.

Higinio Pérez Cárdenas, President of the organization in that territory, highlighted that the works of those more than 1 200 associates guarantee that any center of the denominated Industrial City also stops to work, although many already possess technologies obsolete.

The leader of the ANIR added that with these works benefit the Factory of Cement 26 de Julio, the Thermoelectric October Ten, the Cocktail of Fertilizers, among other, which also improve its productivity and efficiency in general sense thanks to them.

In this to make stand out Pablo Perdomo and Alexis Hernández, outstanding innovative accustomed to dedicate talent and extra time to solve the lacks and difficulties generated by the blockade of the successive administrations of the United States against Cuba. (Pablo Cabero Viamontes)

New viality and conduction school

2010-11-02T06:55:00.000-07:00

Camagüey - The inauguration of the Provincial School of Viality and Conduction, an old yearning of the Company of Transport and of the Address of Traffic and its Specialized Section of Engineering and Signaling, took place the weekend in areas of the base of taxis, located in Highway Central West corner to Martí, in this city.

In fact, the Law No. 109 or Code of Vial Security , in its Chapter II, Article 249, establishes that these facilities are responsible for the preparation from the applicants to drivers of self-driven vehicles, the training and the professional chauffeurs' recalification, as well as to promote the education in the road of the population's different sectors.

The School of Viality and Conduction that shows the name of the martyr Francisco de la Cruz López, have in its material base of study three classrooms endowed with modern audiovisual and on-line means, three cars for the practical classes and a specialized insole, among those that figures the administrative personnel, instructors and professors of the theoretical subjects.

This center of studies, without place to doubt, will contribute next to the educational actions, of signaling and popularization that carries out the Provincial Unit of Traffic in this territory, to diminish the accidents of the traffic, lash that whips the modern humanity and that in Cuba constitutes the first cause of violent death.(Orlando Durán Hernández)

Determined forest of Camagüey in increasing the forests of the county

2010-11-02T06:34:00.000-07:00

Near 500 thousand hectares conform the forest patrimony of the county of Camagüey, that of bigger territorial extension of Cuba, of them some 300 thousand are only covered with natural, and very few forests are the areas with young plantations in the current year, to what is added that are still near 100 uninhabited of trees.

If in what is of 2010 was possible to increase the forest covering of the territory, Camagüey will only report something more than 22 percent of its areas covered with forests, what demands of an increase in the plantations, because nowadays this territory is that of lower covering boscose in the bigger than the Antilles.

Who are made responsible with this task, are not crossed of arms, so it is so the territory has been able to incorporate 77 percent of that that seed, allowing to grow in more than 750 hectares.

The drop boscose covering is for the most part causing of the forest fires, and in this sense the affected municipalities have been Camagüey and Esmeralda, which share great extension of San Felipe's plateau, punished severely in the last years by those catastrophes.

At the moment and by means of the delivery of lands in usufruct, conditions are believed for, in feasible places for it, to create some 20 properties, and of this the worker and their family will have their houses in the own area dedicated to the forest or near plantations to them.

So far, in the county had taken place more than four thousand 200 postures, fundamentally of trees , and are executed with effectiveness tasks like the reinstatement of flaws, maintenances, and seed of alive, fruit-bearing posts, plant melliferous and band that have a decisive work hidrorregulator around the reservoirs.(Raysa Mestril Gutiérrez )

Witches' invitation in Camagüey

2010-11-01T09:37:00.000-07:00

Camagüey, nov 1st- Annia Pérez and Frank Ramírez were the honored in the VI ACAALARRE, new edition of an unique competition of its type in Cuba that resuscitates in a whim to the dark witches with the Creole choteo.

Also rewarded in other versions of the contest, that artistic binomial conquered four recognitions in the current appointment whose 66 works in competition are exposed in the headquarters of the filial of Camagüey of the Cuban Association of Artisans Artists (ACAA), in the Square of the Workers.

The central jury conferred shared the prize in ceramic to the piece, without title, of Pérez-Ramírez, a witch with luxurious wardrobe, and of which a crow leaves his body.

That creation also obtained rewards conferred by the branch of the Cuban Fund of Cultural Goods, Library Provincial Julio Antonio Mella and the Sociocultural Project The Mud of my neighborhood.

The premiation in ceramic also relapsed in the doctor veterinary Ángel Bank Miralles, with “we will Arrive late to the one Acaalarre”, an allusive work to an ox zebu to the one which two malicious women, one dressed and another naked one, try to drive on a gotten muddy land.

Received the remaining first places granted by the central jury, Yosvany Rodríguez (skin manifestation), Gerardo Crow (textile) Yoisdel Rotillet (metal), Yohacne Téllez ( carves in wood), María Bad-Elvia Mc Cormack (paper maché) and Dasmián Sánchez (miscellany).

The program of the forum includes the opening of nine samples equally with pieces outside of competition, with inaugurations between November 27 and December 18.

Summoned every two years for the branch of the ACAA, ACAALARRE gathers members of that institution or not, in an event of wide competitive participation and public's attendance.(Adolfo Silva Silva)

Profitable encounter among young radialists of Camagüey

2010-11-01T06:22:00.000-07:00

Camagüey, nov 1st.. - An excellent scenary was the municipality of Mines, for the celebration - during Friday and last Saturday -, of the Third provincial Encounter of young passionate radialists, in which was exchanged around topics of importance for the work in the radio stations radial of Camagüey.

The impartition and debate of conferences and other studies, tune to the radial means, they were valid proposals for, starting from successes and mistakes, to offer a better programming to the town.

In opinion of “old and experienced passionate radialists” that shared with the youths in the event, the appointment opens a very favorable field to the creation and the insert of a radio of Camagüey, to tone with the times that run and difusor of the socialist reality in the current Cuba.

Concerning the topic, the provincial director of the Radio, Onelio Castillo Corderí, qualified the exchange like very profitable for the responsibilities of this means as difusor of the processes of transformation of the current society and the protagonism of Camagüey in the invigoration of the work of the Revolution.

Castillo Corderí thanked to the community of the Voice of the Bayatabo - radio station of that territory of the north of Camagüey -, and to the authorities of there, for the dedication and organization of the encounter that already marks rules for the chore of the radio of Camagüey. (Pedro Paneque Ruiz).

Comely Camagüey for better sugar harvests

2010-11-01T06:04:00.000-07:00

Camagüey.- Representatives of 30 cooperatives of the National Association of Small Farmers (ANAP) in Camagüey ratified the agreement of the Cuban Rural Congress of having all their sowed cane areas and resowed to greet the anniversary 50 of the organization the next May 17.

The rural of Camagüey assured that with technological means, fertilizers and herbicides of last generation that facilitates them the State, they will be able to prepare in the fixed date of more than five thousand hectares of cane of the spring plans and winter with better agricultural yields.

Given the rise of the sugar in the international market and of the prices that will be paid the next war to the Cuban producers - of about 94 pesos the ton of cane - and the stimulation in convertible currency for the most productive farmers, the alternative was outlined: Or the fields are assisted to reach high yields or the areas of little agricultural tonnage will be dedicated to the cattle production or other alimentary uses.

Specialists estimate of the sector that, without specifying certain variety neither system of specific seed, a hectare takes 10 416 grafts, and 50 of them can provide a ton of cane.

The next sugar harvest in Camagüey the coming one will begin December 5 with the central Argentina, of Florida, in the Southwest of the county, and that same month will start up in the east, the Siboney, of Sibanicú, genius badge of the territory for their stable milled and sugar of good quality. (Rolando Sarmiento Ricart)

Fix in Cuba new residential electric rates

2010-10-29T07:08:00.000-07:00

Havana - New electric rates were established in the residential sector for the consumers of more than 300 kilowatt/hour monthly.

Granma newspaper explains that will begin to be applied to the consumption that is carried out in the second pay period of coming November.

Such and as usually happens, the Electric Union will register this expense in the reading of the meter count during the second pay period of the following month - in this case, December -, so the corresponding collection will become effective in January of the 2011.

The one mentioned newspaper specifies that this measure, which doesn't affect to 94,4 percent of the homes, has as purpose to stimulate the saving.

It refers that it involves those that spend more than 300 kilowatt/hour (kwh), which constitute today 5,6 percent and consume 14,4 percent of the electricity of the residential sector.

In the period lapsed from the last modification of the residential electric rate in November of the 2005, the price average of the petroleum was increased from 56 to 78 dollars the barrel.

It has provoked a considerable growth in the costs of the electricity and in consequence an increase of the subsidies of the State.

In Cuba more than 50 percent of the fuel that wastes away every year is dedicated to the electricity generation.

While the state sector has diminished the consumption with regard to the 2009 in more than 10 percent, the rhythm in the residential one continues in ascent, for what is necessary a more rational use of that energy.

The fixed current rate of 1.30 cents for those who consume of 301 until more than five thousand kwh modifies in the following way:

The consumption 301 at 350 the kwh settles down to 1.50 cents; of 351 at 500 the cost becomes of 1.80 cents the kwh; of 501 at thousand will be paid to reason of two pesos the kwh; the one of thousand 001 at five thousand notices three pesos the kwh; and more than five thousand will charge to five pesos the kwh.

New expo of Manual Arts in Museum Native House of Ignacio Agramonte

2010-10-29T06:21:00.000-07:00

Camagüey - Domain of the technique, beauty and elegance together with the utilitarian function are the characteristics of those more than 30 pieces, knitted by hand, exposed in Ignacio Agramonte `s Native House, since October 27 until the month of November.

Their authors belong to the community cultural Project, directed by the artisan Reyna Casamayor, began two years ago and resides in this central museum of the city of Camagüey, some 30 members meet every Wednesday, in hours of the morning, to give loose rein to a popular art practiced by our grandmothers, but abandoned, for the modern technologies.

"We have begun this project in the House Fifth Amalia Simoni almost for two years, but it was decaying. For luck, the museologist Maritza Walls, of the Native House, welcomed us and here we are working, with a lot of enthusiasm, due to what one is knowing the group and are no longer retired only, but workers and young.

"We have the objective of carrying out personal and collective exhibitions where our works can be appreciated with the techniques from the fabric to the crochet, with two needles and the miñardi.

"In September we made a presentation in Television Camagüey, with an exhibition of fashions and we knew that it liked a lot, from then on the applications to integrate our Project have increased.

"Another reason to feel happy is that a member of the group, Raquel Ching, obtained a mention in the specialty of fabric of handbags in the exhibition of the Living room of the Cuban Association of Artisans Artists (ACAA), here in the city.

"We aspire to consolidate the Project and although the limitations are undeniable to consent with profusion to the matter prevails, something is always gotten without stopping, stamen, or another fabric type.(María Socarrás)

Cooperative of Camagüey among the best in Cuba

2010-10-29T04:39:00.000-07:00

Havana - A cane yield superior to 75 tons for hectare, allowed to the Cooperative of Credits and Services (CCS) Abel Santamaría, Camagüey, to be located among the best in Cuba in the production of cane of sugar.

Although this unit of the municipality of Vertientes has as main program the cattle raising, the result in the cane development demonstrates the welcome of the systems of productive diversification in the cooperative sector that contributes more than 70 percent of the agricultural products that consume the people of Camagüey.

The cooperative also integrates the productive movement to contribute a million liters of milk to the industry and to contribute this way to the substitution of imports; also, it exhibits significant results in the several cultivations and the breeding of smaller livestock, refers the digital version of Radio Cadena Agramonte.

Such yields subscribe to the project of delivery of lands in usufruct that has allowed to increase the cultivation areas in the properties and to elevate the production of foods for the town, commitment of the rural members of the "Abel Santamaría."

Recognize writer of Camagüey in Sancti Spíritus

2010-10-28T11:21:00.000-07:00

Sancti Spíritus - The Provincial Committee of the Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba (UNEAC) in Sancti Spíritus surrendered, in this city, the Distinction Song of City and the Recognition UNEAC to outstanding writers of Cuba.

Pedro of Oraá, essayist, poet and critical of art, received during the XXII Day of the Cuban Poetry, the Distinction Song of City, maximum reward that grants the institution from Santic Spiritu, for his half century of cultural work and his 42 years tied closely to the organization.

As long as, Sixto Edelmira Bonachea, president of the UNEAC in the territory, when conferring the recognition from that institution to the poet and essayist of Camagüey Jesus David Curbelo, underlined his acting as critical literary.

For first time in Sancti Spíritus the Provincial Center of the Book and the Literature(CPLL) granted the Recognition Fayad Jamís to the honored bard in the 2010, reward that relapsed in Rigoberto Rodríguez Entenza, and to the editor with better results, in this case Arturo Delgado.

Yanetsy Pino Reina, directress of the CPLL, said that Rigoberto Rodríguez Entenza deserved this year the Prize of the Foundation of the City of Matanzas and has published three titles with different houses publishers.

As part of the activities of the day that gathers lovers and creators of verses, Mario Alberto Nájera, writer and compiler of the texts of Fayad Jamís Bernal (1930-1988), presented the book "José Martí. Interculturality and humanism", of José Antonio Aparicio.

The work, stood out, it compiles the works presented in the First International Colloquy José Martí, taken place in August of 2009, in the Intercultural University of Chiapas, of Mexico, and to the one that attended delegates from Venezuela, Cuba, El Salvador, Puerto Rico and the Aztec countr.(Yainerys Ávila Santos)

Will welcome Camagüey the Party of the Witches

2010-10-28T10:41:00.000-07:00

Camagüey - With the exhibition of a sample of the works in competition, begins October 31 the Festival ACAALARRE in its Sixth edition, encounter favored by the provincial branch of the Cuban Association of Artisans Artists.

The opening day is announced for Sunday, at 9:00 o'clock a.m. in the Square of the Workers, of the capital of Camagüey, with the inauguration of the Central room, and the performance of the Company of Ballet Endedans, in the premiation ceremony.

In this edition, the Party of the Witches has the peculiarity of extending during two months, because the central sample remains open until Saturday November 27, when in the own Square of the Workers and in the Gallery Midas, in the capital city, the expo bipersonal is inaugurated "Embrujo,style of two", of Gerardo CuervoTorres and Ricardo Leyva Beltrán.

The Party of the witches will also have continuity, December 18, with the presentation of several colateral samples.

It is announced also, in the artisan's workshop José Daniel Gutiérrez, the inauguration of his sample tropical ACAALARRE; that constitutes a homage to his 30 years of artistic work in skin.( Miozotis Fabelo Pinares)

People, blockade, Camilo and Fidel

2010-10-28T05:47:00.000-07:00

Camagüey, - When Camilo Cienfuegos was ahead to the multitude that Castro advanced with Fidel to the front toward the Regiment Number 2 “Ignacio Agramonte” of Camagüey and dismantled the treacherous Huber Matos to open the doors from the military strength to the town, the history recorded the brave new and heroic page forever Major in the plain of Cuba.

There have lapsed 51 years of the popular victory against the seditious intenton in Camagüey and of the Hero's irreparable physical absence who of return to Havana in a fragile air ship under a pregnant sky of storm, disappeared in the black firmament to be rocked with his wide boy smile in people's heart.

Camilo lives in who met him: Thin, agile, affable, playful, clean smile, winged hat, thick and black beard, shirt green olive tree with crowded pockets of important papers…He lives, in those that listened in his vibrant voice, to charge life the verses of Bonifacio Byrne: “If discards in small pieces / arrives to my flag turns some day / our deads, raising the arms / will know how to still defend it…”

But, How is it possible that the following generations until our days, today boys and girls know by heart?

It is that the Homeland, the Revolution, was won with the blood and the examples of the martyrs and arisen heroes of the town whose ideas prevail in a continuous history, so that the scream mambí never dies of: Free Cuba live!, for that reason “… in the town there is many Camilos “, sentenced Fidel.

Cuba, yesterday has just conquered another popular victory - with the value and Camilo's ideas - in front of the long blockade imposed by the United States. The Commandant in Boss, in the commemoration of the anniversary XXX of the disappearance of the Hero of Yaguajay, expressed:

“What would Camilo say if suddenly he read a cable in that we are said from United States how measures have to apply to be good revolutionaries, good socialists and good communist? What bourgeois and capitalists reform have to apply so that good revolutionaries consider us, good socialists, good communist; because now there are two types of revolutionaries, two types of socialists, two types of communist: the good ones and the bad, according to the definition of the imperialism. And us, what honor, we are among the bad…

“We are bad because we are incorrigible, because we don't make what tells us the imperialism that we should make, because we don't begin to flirt and to play with the capitalism in this country, because we already saw and we live some of the consequences of these games, and we are cured of fright and already of return of those caprices, and with more firm, more solid convictions that never; convinced than never of what can the socialism”

October 28, 1989, Fidel's words dedicated to the unforgettable Major of the landing of the Granma, the Sierra and the rebellious invasion of East to West, charge total validity in the historical moment that the Cubans live:

“… Today Camilo would be happy, and if there is fight for before, happier still; if there are difficulties, happier; if there is challenge, happier; if are injustices to correct, happier; and if he stays in all their vigor the heroic and historical fight of our town against the empire, happier he would be Camilo!

“It is necessary to make that made Camilo in the barracks of Camagüey: to be ahead; and perhaps be already being ahead, or maybe the times are wanting to go back, and we don't want to go back “(Rolando Sarmiento Ricart)

Camilo Cienfuegos, flight to the history

2010-10-28T05:25:00.000-07:00

Camagüey, TO the six and a minute of the afternoon of October 28,1959, the twin-engine airplane mark Cessna 310 C, of five squares, left the airport of Camagüey bound for Havana.

On board, the pilot and first lieutenant, Luciano Fariñas Rodríguez; the soldier Féliz Rodríguez and the Boss of the State bigger than the Rebellious Army. Comandant Camilo Cienfuegos Gorriarán.

The time lapsed and the airship didn't arrive to its destination. The restlessness began to appear in the main leaders. Later, the anguish was general.
The following day, the nascent government revolutionary made public the disappearance of the Cessna and his tripulants.

The note emitted by the Section of Press of the Rebellious Army informed that the searches made until that moment had been fruitless. It was considered that the accident had happened in some point to the north of the counties of Camagüey, The Villages or Matanzas.

Turbonades among Ciego de Ávila and the last of these counties could cause the tragedy.
Report offered by the companies of other airships indicated that, apparently, the Cessna fell inside a powerful storm that came from the south, that which made the pilot to stray of the habitual route and to fly more to the north.

With this maneuver, the trip became longer and the fuel was insufficient. Under those circumstances, the possibilities to survive became remote.

During two weeks, in all Cuba was carried out intense search for sea and air. The areas for which could have flown over the air ship were revised span to span.

The youth revolutionary State used for this end all the available means, while the press maintained informed to the town of the efforts that were made to find Camilo and his partners. But the airplane never appeared.

November 12, 1959, Fidel Castro announced the definitive disappearance of the Hero of Yaguajay.

That day, the maximum leader affirmed that in the town there was many Camilos, and he pointed out: "(.) the only thing that we can request to our town is that, every time that the Homeland is in a difficult situation and in a moment of danger that remembers Camilo."

There have passed 51 years and the memory of the from then on Mr. of the Vanguard he lives in the memory of the Cubans.

The yank imperialism, in its desire to discredit to the Revolution, has tried to sell the history that Camilo was murdered by supposed disagreements with the revolutionary government in the making maximum leaders.

Before the reactionary conspiracy arisen in Camagüey days before his physical disappearance, the Commandant Camilo Cienfuegos faced, denounced and captured the traitors, fact that demonstrated his loyalty to Fidel and the historical direction of social justice for which always fought.(Dai Liem Lafá Armenteros)

People of Camagüey lovers of the rumba danced with Yoruba Andabo

2010-10-28T05:24:00.000-07:00

Camagüey - The Havanan group Yoruba Andabo conquered in Camagüey a new success in the tour for seven counties, with its 25 year-old reason dedicated to one of the emblems of the Cuban culture: the rumba.

Directed by Geovani del Pino, the cast carried out this Wednesday its last performance in this town, in the School of Instructors of Art that takes the name Nicolás Guillén, a person of Camagüey that won the attribute of National Poet of Cuba with a monumental legacy based on the miscegenation of the culture of the Island.

Of the Pine expressed his satisfaction for the impacts registered in the course of the journey, which also had scales in Guantánamo, Santiago of Cuba, Granma, and Holguín, and that will offer the next presentations, in accordance with the program, on Friday in Trinidad and on Sunday in Santa Clara.

The group has acted in Colombia, Canada and the United States of America, among other countries, and shared scenaries with interpreters like Pablo Milanés, Lázaro Ros and Tata Güines.

workshops and seminars figure in the pedagogic work in charge of the cast whose name consists of two words of African origin associated to the concept of the friends, admirers and followers of the earth and the culture of the ethnos yoruba.

According to the Cuban music's Dictionary, of Helium Orovio, the rumba arose of the slope African-American-Spanish , with special print in the first of those components. Its origin is urban and semi-rural, and possesses three expressive modalities, yambú, guaguancó and columbia.

Diverse studies also consider to the rumba the Cuban musical gender more influenced directly by direct Hispanic factors, the key and the cry. (Adolfo Silva Silva ).

Investment of Hydraulic Resources will improve quality of the water in Camagüey

2010-10-28T05:09:00.000-07:00

Camagüey -The investment of more than 40 thousand pesos with a high component in foreign currency and in national currency that will be executed by the Institute of Hydraulic Resources in the Plant Potabilizator located in the capital of Camagüey, will allow to improve the supply of water to more than 80 percent of the population of the City of the Tinajones.

When offering the information the engineer Alexander Bebert Meléndrez meant that the advance steps in the treatment of the water will facilitate to improve the parameters of quality for its consumption.

At the own time will be incorporate modern and potent motors to the rebomb unit to substitute to teams with more than a decade of exploitation, and other necessary components were recovered for the process of purification of the water.

To the experts' of the Managerial Group of Aqueduct trial and Sewer system, with the new investment the county will be under conditions of reaching disinfection levels above 98 percent.

To medium term will leave connecting modern hipocloradores and clorogas teams, what will allow to increase the quality of the cloration until eliminating the sludges that acquires the liquid during their journey from the source supply until the treatment plant. (Alex López Almaguer).

Factory of vinegar in Camagüey contributes to the substitution of imports

2010-10-27T09:54:00.001-07:00

Camagüey. Oct 27 - The half of the vinegar and 38 percent of the produced dry wine this year in the factory of Elite of Camagüey, substitute imports in the hotel branch of the tourism and in the chain of stores collected of foreign currencies.

The stable community of that industry that dates of 1929 and whose technological teams overcome most the four decades of exploitation, took place until the closing of September near four millions of liters of both condiments.

The 75 workers of the Elite-of them 32 are women -,produce vinegar and came dry going to the social consumption, and more than half million of units were dedicated to the conservation of vegetables, quantity that will increase in the measure that are also increased the crops of the urban and suburban agriculture of the provincial capital and its13 municipalities.

During her recent visit to the place, the Minister of the Feeding, María del Carmen Concepción, guided the gradual substitution from the product to bulk in the 2011 for the bottled entirety so that arrives to the population with the best quality.

The factory of Camagüey sends its production from the county headquarters to Guantánamo and closed the first seven months of the current calendar with efficient economic indicators and superior utilities to the 265 thousand 700 pesos.

Juan Ramón Bardanca Sarduy, boss of production and cuarentenary of the Elite, said that they process some 480 thousand monthly liters of the product, included the productions with the wine base of the brewery Tínima for a saving of 43 liters of liquor for each thousand of vinegar of quality. (Rolando Sarmiento Ricart ).

University students of Camagüey ratifies continuity of the Revolution

2010-10-27T09:22:00.000-07:00

Camagüey, Oct 27 - With the commitment of giving continuity to the Cuban Revolution, the Federation of University Students (FEU) in the county of Camagüey entered to their lines to more than a thousand 800 first year-old students.

The universities of Medical Sciences Carlos J. Finlay, of Pedagogic Sciences José Martí, the “Ignacio Agramonte” and the Superior Institute of Physical Culture in the territory, welcomed the new members of the FEU.

This organization has always been rampart of the dignity, the sacrifice and the intelligence, inspired by the execution from the support tasks to the Revolution, Danaya Céspedes, first year-old student expressed.

For us it constitutes a pride to belong to the FEU, which promotes also, the study and the scientific investigation, the actions of the Student Brigades of Work, the preparation for the defense and the integrality of the professional futures of the Cuban nation, added.

Ismary Bisué Estrada, president of the student organization in the University of Medical Sciences, informed that also received this condition, 150 third year-old students coming from the Latin American School of Medicine (ELAM).

In this occasion the entrance ceremonies were devoted to the anniversary 51 of the constitution of the University Brigade José Antonio Echeverría, at the 65 of the Commandant in Boss `entrance, Fidel Castro, to the University, to the V of their speech in the Great Classroom and at the 88 of the foundation of the FEU. (Yaniuska Macías Rivera)

Will participate pioneers of Camagüey in productive works

2010-10-27T06:19:00.000-07:00

Camagüey- Around 15 thousand students of the Basic Secondary education of the county of Camagüey, will support during the whole school course the program of the urban agriculture.

Roberto Nápoles Arredondo, Metodologist of Labor Formation in the Direction of Education, informed the AIN that the youths will act in self-consumptions, school orchards, organoponics, and areas of covered cultivations and semicovered.

The linking study-work constitutes one of the limits of the Organization of Pioneers José Martí (OPJM) in the territory, which supports this task in coordination with the ministries of the Education and the Agriculture.

Miyannis Torres, president of the OPJM in Camagüey, declared that starting from the necessity of fomenting a mentality of producers from the first ages, the pioneers of Secondary Basic will be linked to these non alone works from the formative point of view.

This implies, also, an economic contribution, remarked Torres, like form of involving to this sector of the society in the economic battle that liberates the country.

The students are also mobilized in camps with the participation in the School to the Field, to offer their contribution to the agrarian sector.

In the previous educational calendar, some five thousand pioneers of the Basic Secondary education of the county of Camagüey reported a superior entrance to the 45 thousand pesos for the works in the tomato crop, malanga and yucca, the one weeds of bean, the cleaning in the plantations of bananas and the clean of cane. (Yaniuska Macías Rivero)

Will inaugurate in Camagüey expo dedicated to the contemporary art

2010-10-27T05:27:00.000-07:00

Camagüey - The collective exhibition of visual arts contemporary Here!=¿arte II? will be inaugurated this Wednesday, October 27, at 8:30 o'clock p.m., in the headquarters of the UNEAC in Camagüey.

The sample integrates the creative René de la Torre Aguilar, Caridad Hernández Carlos, Bienvenido Letford Rodríguez, Nazario Salazar Martínez, Osmar Yero Montero, all members of the Association of Plastic Artists of the UNEAC, and those also creative Asniel Herrera González (Chuli) and Eduardo Rosales Ruiz, in a guardianship of Jorge Santos Caballero.

This expo pursues to validate an art that reconsiders the life permanently; as well as to involve the creators to show their works, to motivate them to demonstrate the flow of their igneous force, to leave apathy stages, and to generate a spirit of sensibility and certainty with what is made, starting from a focus of what means the intellectual responsibility in the current moment, beyond tendencies and used techniques. ( Eduardo Rosales Ruíz)

Rural of Camagüey sells to the State 50 million liters of milk

2010-10-27T05:18:00.000-07:00

Camagüey - The affiliated cattlemen to the National Association of Small Farmers (ANAP) in the county of Camagüey, have marketed 50 million liters of milk with entities of the Alimentary Industry and of the Interior Trade.

With strong growths in the production of this food in the last years, the territory hopes to finish the 2010 with around 65 million liters, estimated Erasmo García, of the agrarian organization.

That quantity would be to some three millions of liters of the planned figure, but in connection with last year it would mean an increment of more than seven million liters.

Six years ago, these cooperativists hardly sent to the State 30 million liters.

The official explained that in the last weeks the level of I milk newspaper lowered due to the excess of humidity in the herdsmen as a consequence of the frequent rains.

The fields are in very bad state so that the flocks can move without limitations in grass search, confirmed Héctor Martínez, president of the cooperative Abel Santamaría, which already has in it a million 200 thousand liters sold to the State.

Adding all the producers, Camagüey dedicated up to now to the Company of Milky Products for its industrial prosecution or to the direct distribution from the dairies to the points of sale retailer more than 65 million liters, informed Humberto Hernández, provincial subdelegate of the Ministry of the Agriculture.

This territory contributes to the Cuban economy around 28 percent of the flowing milk. (Lucilo Tejera Díaz).

Will make the Party of the in Camagüey

2010-10-25T05:25:00.005-07:00

Camagüey - The Party of the Earthenjar , show of the most genuine values in this Cuban village, Cultural Patrimony of the Humanity, will take place from next November 7 to 13.

Conceived starting from the Cuban musician's original idea Adalberto Álvarez, "The Gentleman of the son", the festivity will promote before the world the cultural, historical values and the traditions of this city of east of the country, of which is Illustrious Son the artist.

Residents and tourists will enjoy during those days of the talent of the artistic vanguard of Camagüey, call in Cuba the "City of the earthenjar" to be this typical object of mud a symbol of the town, used from the time of the colony until the present time to keep rain water.

The earthenjar of Camagüey is seemed to the Andalusian ones and fundamentally appear placed in the patios of the houses, mainly in those built ones in the old village of Santa María del Puerto del Príncipe(1514), today Camagüey.

The inaugural program of the event plan an artistic cavalcade for the main arteries of the city and a cultural elegance. The influences of the Hispanic, Haitian cultures and African will tinge the parade.

In the course of the revel, in which all the manifestations and cultural institutions are involved of here, will be carried out theoretical events, presentations of books, exhibitions of plastic arts, parades of fashions and dancing of popular and traditional music.

There will also happen multiple theater shows, dances and music, among other attractiveness, in those that the traditions of Camagüey of the folcklor .

A novel proposal of the Branch of the Fund of Cultural Goods is the public demonstration of the production of a earthenjar of mud, in charge of the artisan of the territory Ramón Vicente.

Adalberto Álvarez `s great concert and their orchestra will be the day 12.

The Party of the Earthenjar is an encounter of the town with its own culture, Joël Joint, general coordinator of the event affirmed.

He said that the city seeks to transform it into another distinctive event in the island, although different,like are already its traditional Parties of the San Juan and the Week of the Culture of Camagüey that takes place every February with reason of the birthday of this village.

Adalberto Álvarez, besides orchestra's director, is pianist, composer and arreglist, and son`s Gentleman title of the are is due to the anthological innovations and contributions carried out to that traditional and contemporary gender.

At the moment is the more Cuban soner versionated in the Latin environment of the last 30 years and aspires to revitalize the world of the popular music of their county.

Camagüey is pronounced to elevate production of foods

2010-10-25T05:25:00.004-07:00

Camagüey, Oct 25. A birdcall to elevate the production of agricultural foods to improve the supply for the population, made in this city the Provincial Assembly of the Popular Power.

A report of the commission of productive activities presented to the delegates of the organ of government of Camagüey points out that except the viands, which is considered with more presence in the market, the main lines of the territory fall in connection with last year.

It mentions among them cow milk, pig meat, rice, hen egg and vegetables.

In that situation influence objective and subjective aspects that force to that the county is supplied of the brought foods of other regions of Cuba, precise the document.

It recognizes that Camagüey has capacity to revert that state of things by means of the prioritized attention and opportune to the activity, concentrating the efforts and resources on the most productive areas.

Especially refers to investments, mainly in watering, without being executed by question of the lack of credits in national currency to agricultural entities.

Luis Inchausti, president of the Assembly, claimed to apply sure work systems that guarantee that everything is assisted permanently, in order to give answer on time to any obstacle or problem that arises in the development of the production, storing or commercialization of foods of the agriculture.

What is needed at this time is a great effort to take place more, he expressed.

The session also tried about the attention to the population, matter in the one which Julio Cesar García, first secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba in the county, called to eliminate the subjective obstacles that limit a good result in this work front.(Lucilo Tejera Díaz )

Completes Central Siboney program of cane seed

2010-10-25T05:25:00.002-07:00

Camagüey, Oct 25 . - The agroindustrial of the central Siboney, in the municipality of Sibanicú, distant some 45 kilometers of the provincial capital, were recognized by the addresses of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) and the Government in the county, and the sindicate of the union, to be erected in the first ones in turning the program of seed of cane of the present year.

To that sowed will incorporate other 120 hectares, those that will receive the gramineous seed of the sweet one in the two months that are of the year, by means of a work in which forces of support of different sectors of the municipality will intervene.

As long as in the Siboney the enlistment tasks advance for the coming campaign, to which should incorporate December 15, with the purpose of paying to the commitment of sugar of Camagüey in the “small harvest” that closes in order to year.

For the acting in the war preparations and the efficiency reached in the previous campaign, the central Siboney was chosen, for, the next one November five, to be host of the Demonstrative Exercise of Harvest, of the oriental sugar industries.

In the Siboney are notorious the advances of the preparations in tachos, boilers, and the organization that present the works of the tandem, that that when saying of their community, headed by Yolexis Guerra, puts them under conditions of repeating the successes of the last harvest in that were the first ones trustworthy of the country

The Siboney will process in the near harvest some 173 thousand 200 tons of own cane and coming from the plantations of the Brazil, in the municipality of Esmeralda, to some 94 kilometers of the province, by means of a rail linking, dedicated to be efficient from the first day. (Pedro Paneque Ruiz)

The pediatric oncology in the aim of the blockade

2010-10-25T05:25:00.001-07:00

José Miguel Rodríguez Rondón`s history, a hardly four year-old boy that suffers a wicked illness of type Linfoma No-Hodgkin abdominal estadio III (in a scale of IV), today can be counted thanks to the efforts that Cuba carries out as regards health, in spite of the absurd obstacles that imposes the economic blockade of United States.

From the Territorial Center of Reference in Pediatric Oncology, of the infantile hospital Eduardo Agramonte Piña, of the city of Camagüey, this history of hands of the Doctor arrives Juan Carlos Arranz, boss of that service in this institution.

“When José arrived around four months ago to our center, he had a severe malnutrition-caquexia in terms medical- and we had to go to the parenteral feeding, a treatment that is quite expensive, besides the chemotherapy and the early rehabilitation. But for complications of the illness was necessary to apply him a surgery, to which has evolved quite well, and is already clever to continue with the therapies.”

In Cuba people with cancerigenic sufferings are assisted in centers specialized by multidisciplinary teams that fulfill the international norms of treatment protocol for the surgery, the radiotherapy, the chemotherapy and the immunotherapy. In accordance with Arranz, the Island exhibits indicators of survival and of similar cured patients to those of the first world.

At the present time is of highlighting the qualitative jump of the Cuban medicine in the development of therapeutic vaccines for the cancer with satisfactory results, and in use in several countries of the five continents.

But, according to the doctor Juan Carlos, this attention to patient with wicked illnesses in the pediatric age, bears treatments with multidisciplinary teams and support that require highly expensive financial resources, for example, the equipment for the surgery of minimum access of cerebral tumors, the endoprothesis use in bony tumors to avoid the amputation of a member, the radiotherapy with lineal accelerator and the cytostatic ones.

And although all these resources, fortunately, can be acquired - challenging the North American commercial monopolization -, the worsening of the blockade with the approval of the laws Helms Burton and Torricelli, prevent to obtain them in a systematic and planned way, nevertheless to be indispensable to continue elevating the quality of life of the oncopediatry patient. Also, those farmacs or matters available cousins in other markets, far away, imply a bigger amount for the mount of the transportation.

Along these years, one of the areas of the affected specialized medical care has been the oncology, even forbidden, to use medications and efficient technologies that can only be bought in the northern country.

According to the most recent report “Necessity to put an end to the economic, financial and commercial blockade imposed by United States to Cuba”, another time the sector of the public health appears as white of the aggressions and violations that supposes the application of this almost fiftieth anniversary political instrument.

Between May of 2009 and April of 2010, the one mounts economic of the blockade to the sector of the public health overcomes the 15 million dollars, to that which sink, the psychological affectations, the pain, the desperation that supposes for the patients and their families.(Arailaisy Rosabal García )

Adalberto and his orchestra in the Party of the Earthenjar

2010-10-22T07:47:00.002-07:00

Camagüey, 22 oct-The man from Camagüey Adalberto Álvarez and his orchestra will act next November 12 in the Square of the Freedom, of this city, in the cultural and sport event “Party of the Earthenjar.”

The appointment, of from seven to 13 in that month, will have its main area in the Avenue and the Square of the Freedom, first segment of citizens where in the colonial time the ordinance was completed of endowing from portals to the properties, that which created the biggest sector of external corridors in the town.

Tracts of traverse streets and the Country Casino--the most extensive urban park in Cuba-- will also be scenaries of the encounter that will offer artistic, literary, recreational, sport activities, commercialization of cultural goods and of gastronomic products.

The program includes a forum debates in the one which presenters like Adalberto Álvarez will participate , author of the idea of the celebration of the Party whose only previous edition was in the 2007.

A parade with around 500 people will inaugurate the event that will conclude with a show in charge of the orchestra Marvel from Florida, of agreement with the programming disclosed in a press conference.

According to that foreseen, starting from the current one 2010 will be made annually the event whose name inserts an evocation to the one leader of the emblems of the ancestral one and notable use of the mud in the town, denominated the City of the earthenjars.

Coming from Andalusia, Spain, those enormous devices had a primary use as commercial containers of liquids and grains, but the necessity of using them to store water reproduced them for thousands in a net of potteries, supplied by near locations of clay. (Adolfo Silva Silva)

Reward winners of competitions of Adelante

2010-10-22T07:47:00.001-07:00

By : Luis Naranjo / Television Camagüey

El Sport Competition of the newspaper Adelante concluded with the premiation of 8 of those more than 100 participants of the territory of Camagüey.

In the final part had to be carried out 8 beats of questions, because 7 had been tied, but among all they were victorious the technician in computer science and historian of the Cuban sport Humberto del Risco.

The premiation was developed in the headquarters of the weekly publication of Camagüey, where participated the Sport Gloria Felipe Sarduy and the current members of the provincial team of baseball Vicyohandri Odelín, the also pitcher Ariel Sánchez and the square player Alexánder Ayala.

This Sport Competition was summoned in the mark of the Festival of the Written Press Camagüey, but it will be carried out annually.

The moment was suitable to also reward the winners of the cultural competitions The Hendija and others of historical character, all, have more than enough pages published Adelante during this year in the weekly publication of the region of Camagüey.

Cattleman job

2010-10-22T07:47:00.000-07:00

By: Ernesto Pantaleón Medina / Television Camagüey

Camagüey contributes around 30% of all the cow milk that wastes away in the country, and more than 25% of the head meat, numbers that say a lot without doubts.

And it is that the Cuban county of more territorial extension, possesses plains that were designed for the cattle raising, for the type of floors, for the sources of water and for the grasses that here sprout with easiness.

But anything falls of the sky, as sent by the gods; a lot of effort, constant dedication to the attention of the flocks, a war without barracks (although not always victorious) against a thorny plant called marabout, characterize the chore of thousands of children of this earth .

Doesn't have the cattleman weekend rest, neither festival or traded days, the luxury cannot be given of remaining in the channel up to the six or seven in the morning on Sundays, neither to be preserved of the rain or the cold when the time is inclement.

In no way: the animals should be picked up at the same hour every day, to milk the cows each day with chronometric accuracy, because their biological clock dictates inviolable rules; it is necessary to loose the bovine ones in the precise moment so that they pasture freely in the herdsman, a time that is not for the rest, but to repair fences, to cut the weeds or to look for forage to feed them in the night.

It without counting the care with which is necessary to treat the calves, to watch over the zeal of the females in reproduction so that they are gestated, to assist the births and some that another imponderable.

If the cowboy makes sick, he should overcome at the uneasiness and both or the three of the dawn to begin the milk; otherwise, to look for a substitute, because the cows cannot remain with the full udders, what would almost surely cause them dysfunctions of graveness.

And still in the case of the substitute, the results are not the same ones, because the animals stress¨ and they hide a part of the milk, they unfriendly become aggressive.

If it rains, it is necessary to be soaked until the bones, if there is cold, the man go to shiver; if the mire arrives to half leg, what setback, but it is necessary to continue.

It is for that reason that this work is seen in a simplistic way as an occupation, hard but necessary; however, the commitment with the flock is born from beyond the action of every day, of the to press the hands and to tighten the muscles… it springs from a place more penetrate, of that deep and inexplicable place that welcomes the vocation and the art.

To that call many cattleman pride.

Santa Lucía Beach, a deserved culinary headquarters

2010-10-22T05:09:00.000-07:00

The encounter was in the restaurant The Coconuts, of the Company of National Tourism
Santa Lucía Beach, - This tourist pole was a deserved headquarters of the provincial act for the Day of the Cuban cuisine, and obtained the first integral place for its integral results of the present year, so much in the restaurants of the hotels, like in the popular gastronomy, continued by the municipalities Vertientes and Florida, with the second and third positions, in that order.

In the coastal territory 125 kilometers to the north of the city of Camagüey, those more than 100 chef and cooks belonging to the Culinary Association of this county, maintain a constant superation, not alone in the hotels of the international tourism, but also in the 33 restaurants and popular cafeterias resided here and in the communities Lucía's Palms, Camalote and San Miguel.

The Badge to the culinary merit, of the Federation of Cuban Associations, was received by eight specialists of the turn, with outstanding trajectories for ten or more serial years, while the Badge to the culinary friendship obtained seven professionals and squares of different sectors, like Trade, Education, Presses and other, with a systematic support to the ACC.

Teófilo Rodríguez Rodríguez, president of the Association, informed that they have 3989 members and in the training have arrived to virgin territories in that sense like Sibanicú and Mines.

During the period-he added - imparted 31 courses with 743 registered and 10 shops with 273 qualified associates, while they continue working in the condicioning of the classroom laboratory and the center of documentation of the headquarters.

They have a provincial team of women specialized in culinary art, for the participation in different events.

As it is habit in each encounter of the cooks of Camagüey, there was that day a presentation of different plates that facilitated an useful exchange of forming of elaboration, to generalize in the base the best experiences.

René Carrero Morales, specialist of Provincial gastronomy of the Sectoral of Trade, in the conclusions highlighted how the Association has contributed to generalize the service of tables buffet in most of the restaurants of Camagüey, as well as the increment of the plates with the help of ram and rabbit.

He called to the present to continue improving the quality of the offers, for that which at the moment receive training courses the administrators of the establishments.

He announced the preparations for the Party of the earthenjar, in which there will be a strong presence of the food of Cuban and Camagüey, for the population's enjoyment. The event will take place in the city of Camagüey from November 7 to 13, and the president of the organizing committee of the event will be the Teacher of the music Adalberto Álvarez.(Jorge Luis Peix Agüero )

Patriotic march in Camagüey

2010-10-21T09:01:00.001-07:00

By: Rosa Blanco Ramos / Television Camagüey

This Revolution, like in the days of the war, has single two roads: To conquer or to Die,expressed Camilo Cienfuegos, the Mr. of the Vanguard, one day like today to the people of Camagüey, after being frustrated the desestabilizator intent of Hubert Matos in 1959.

Amid the street din in support to the Revolution, the Commandant in Boss got off his car in the central Republic street, and he walked next to the town toward the address of the INRA, in San Pablo street .

Still many veteran combatants remember the tumult in General Gómez street, where the leaders joined, and from the one that Fidel would head the walk heading for the Military Regiment.

Today to the dawn thousands of youths, workers and town in general, reissued the march. Fidel and Camilo are also present as that memorable day.

From four points of the center of the capital of Agramonte, lowering General Gómez, the town down the street continued until the old Agramante Barracks.

The birdcall for the freedom of the five heroes prisoners in North American jails, patriotic songs and Cuban flags, marked the rhythm of those that October 21 filled the streets of the Legendary Camagüey to ratify its support to same triumphant Revolution of Fidel, Camilo, and all the Cubans that we will know how to defend it to any price.

Project rescue of capacity producer of several cultivations in Sierra de Cubitas

2010-10-21T09:01:00.000-07:00

Camagüey, O ct 21 - To materialize a growth that rescues the potentialities producers of several cultivations in the red lands of Sierra de Cubitas, is projection of the Ministry of the Agriculture, as was announced after recent visit of its Holder to this county.

The planning has a decisive investment in systems of watering of water of advanced technology that assure the humidity required for each cultivation, without depending on the caprices of the climate like up to now, with the traditional affectation for the yields for area.

The irrigation will extend for some 2 400 hectares of fertile plains of that municipality of the north of Camagüey, although will also benefit to traditional rural producers, and to those that more recently work the earth, favored by means of those surrendered by the State in gratuitous usufruct.

As part of the recuperator purposes of the readiness of alimentary production in Alone, registers the rehabilitation, for its immediate use, of the 12 houses of protected cultivation that there exist. (Pedro Paneque Ruiz)

Devele badge dedicated to precursory canary of Cuban literature

2010-10-21T05:12:00.001-07:00

Camagüey, - A brass badge with unpublished references on Silvestre of Balboa and Troya (1563-1649), author of the first work of the Cuban literature, with unknown and misticized life, was develed in this city, Day of the National Culture.

The piece a hundred pounds weight, with a meter wide and seventy centimeters of high, distinguishes the author of the poem Mirror of Patience (1608) and the writing of this in the old village of Santa María del Puerto del Príncipe, current Camagüey.

With golden letters on bottom black, hard-working of Camagüey of Rail Shops fused, to a side and envelope the silhouette of a parchment, the real octave of the first song, and to the other one, a text that recognizes the residence here of Balboa between 1600 and 1641.

In the little square Juana of the Castle, one of the places proclaimed Cultural Patrimony of the Humanity, the writer and investigating Ramiro García Medina, author of the initiative of the Association Canaria of Cuba, carried out the develing next to its granddaughter María of Jesus Fields García, coed of seventh grade, and José Ángel Sosa Castillo, of fifth grade.

“I give this badge to the new generations with the desire that the people of Camagüey defends the merit of the region like Cradle of the Cuban Literature”,declared the immigrant canary, resided in Cuba since 1959.

García Medina announced the next exit of his book Life of Silvestre of Balboa and Troya (1563-1649): The precursory canary of the Cuban Literature, in edition process in the territorial editorial Ácana.

That material summarizes the results of his investigation about Balboa, carried out during 18 years, and that will clarify for the data found in more than 500 photocopies of documents of the General File of Indies, Spain, added.

The homage to one of the notaries of the formerly village had the presentation of the group Canaricuba that preserves songs and dances of the Islands Canaries, region with more representativeness in the Hispanic community of Cuba.(Yanetsy León González)

Remembered in Camagüey first march of the combatant town

2010-10-21T05:12:00.000-07:00

Camagüey, Oct 21 - With a sunny morning October 21 the legendary Camagüey got dressed of unit and revolutionary ratification for like 50 years ago, to reissue for the streets of the city, the historical march that next to the Commandant in Boss Fidel Castro and Camilo Cienfuegos miscarried the seditious intent of Hubert Matos.

In the today school city Ignacio Agramonte the new generations of people of Camagüey play a patriotic act where revealed that men will not have traitors but towns, and less that of Camagüey.

Presided the day Julio Cesar García Rodríguez first secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) in Camagüey, Jesus García Collazo, president of the Provincial Assembly of the Popular Power (Govern) and other leaders of organizations of masses in the territory.

Jorge Enrique Sutil Sarabia first secretary of the Union of Communist Youths (UJC) in properties of Camagüeya remembered the events of of 1959 where Camilo faced with the anger that characterized it to the treacherous Hubert Matos in the old military barracks Agramonte.

The juvenile leader ratified that today any pioneer or student of Camagüey that doesn't deepen in the history of that year for the revolutionary legacy that involves should not exist.

Jorge Enrique also affirmed that the march of October 21 is for Camilo and for the five antiterrorists Cuban prisoners wrongly in jails of the American empire that today harbors contrarrevolutionaries like Posada Carriles and the own Hubert Matos. (Reinier Sánchez Jacomino).

Graduate in Camagüey to 321 Instructors of Art

2010-10-20T10:23:00.001-07:00

Camagüey, Oct 20 -The Main Theater of this city welcomed today the graduation of 321 instructors of art of the county, which will be added the a thousand 583 members of the Brigade José Martí (BJM) existent in the territory.

Dariena Vázquez Mota, better graduate of this promotion - the seventh of the program said to the AIN that among the missions that she has for before it is potenciate the teaching of the artistic manifestations in the different education levels and in the communities.

As instructor of the dance specialty, I plan to work with the dances of Cuba and especially the danzon, our national dance, I will also study on the danzon movement in the county of Camagüey, which has gone in ascent and motivates the participation of the youngest, declared Vázquez Mota.

Yenisleidis Sáez, president of the BJM in Camagüey, recognized the contribution of this graduation to the lines of the juvenile movement, and she highlighted the development acquired by the brigadier in the execution of their function inside the schools and in the areas of difficult access.

We verify a development in the objectives of the art instructors in the school centers, and in the attention to the sociocultural projects in the towns, the Guerrilla Cultural 50 anniversary also facilitated to extend the actions toward the agricultural production and the recovery, explained Saéz .

The national vice-president of the Brigade of Instructors of Art José Martí, Lillitsy Hernández, assured that in the advances the brigade will continue perfecting its artistic and educational work, to achieve in the Cuban town an integral general culture.(Yaniuska Macías Riviera)

Celebrations in Camagüey for the Day of the National Culture

2010-10-20T10:23:00.000-07:00

Camagüey, - The pioneer of Camagüey unites to the homage for the Day of the National Culture with the celebration of morning special in each one of the centers of teaching of the county. This activities gave beginning with the intonation of the glorious Hymn of Bayamo, 142 years after being sung by first time.

In the primary school José Luis Tasende the commemoration lapsed between songs and Cuban poetries, interpreted by students that integrate the artistic talent of the center, which receive the orientation and the support of the Instructors of Arts that work there.

Evelyn Cerralgo, one of these artistic promoters, insisted on sharing their opinions on the work that corresponds them to carry out in favor of the development and promotion of the Cuban culture: “Our work requires a lot of zeal and dedication, and has a momentous value, because we are those in charge of fomenting in the smallest the interest for our culture and identity.”

In an exchange between teachers and students, the events of October 20 , 1868, were remembered when the inhabitants of Bayamo intoned the notes of the National Hymn, after the taking of the city for the forces mambisas.

On the other hand, the workers of the House of Culture Ignacio Agramonte in a discharge among friends, to rhythm of boleros, honored to the musician of Camagüey Rafael “Papito García” who has contributed unconditionally to the development of the culture villager, is member of the consulting team of this institution, and also, collaborates in investigations on cultural topics that are carried out in the county.

During the whole day, artistic activities will be developed in the headquarters of this culture house, and in other enclosed centers. Highlights the presentation of the group Perdanz, today in the night, opportunity to sing for the return of the Five Heroes Prisoners of the Empire. (Arailaisy Rosabal García).

Committed of railwaymen to stabilize the service of transport

2010-10-20T08:51:00.001-07:00

Camagüey, - Those more than 500 workers of the Managerial Unit of Base of Locomotive of Camagüey, one of the centers with labor tradition of this county, reaffirm their commitment of favoring the reanimation of the rail service where the country bets with a multimillionaire investment, not only dedicated to the traction equipment, but of means that assure the repair of the net vial.

This unit, known popularly as Rail Shops, is devoted to the repair and maintenance of locomotives of different technological, included invoices the modern machines coming from the Popular Republic China.

In yesterday's afternoon an exchange was made Ahead with integral of the community of the newspaper, the Union of Journalists of Cuba (UPEC) and other means of massive diffusion, more a representation of the managerial unit of rail base.

The encounter was good to press the restlessness of those that recepcion the messages, referred, among other, to the agility of the answers to critical of the section Catauro and the rhythm in the edition of the printed weekly publication and the impact in the internet users of the digital version.(Enrique Atiénzar Rivero)

Celebrate Swiss concertists and people of Camagüeya the Day of the Cuban Culture

2010-10-20T08:51:00.000-07:00

Camagüey - The Swiss piper Antipe da Stella and the duet contrabass of Camagüey and piano "TO piacere", offered in this city a concert dedicated to the Day by the Cuban Culture.

In the musical program presented in "Song without words", habitual space of the duet in the Provincial Library Julio Antonio Mella, interpreted Latin American and European composers' works, among them Carlos Weiski, Peter Wettstein, Roberto Valera and Ástor Piazzolla, informs the place digital Adelante.

Antipe da Stella and "TO piacere" will participate in the Encounter of Latin American Composers and in the inauguration of the XXIV Festival of Contemporary Music, events that will take place in Havana next days 28 and 30, respectively, adds the newspaper.

The European concertist visits Cuba for third occasion, now as integral of the combined Distelfinken, invited by the Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba (UNEAC) to exchange in the counties of Havana, Cienfuegos, Camagüey and Las Tunas.

Professional instrumentalists and fans conform Distelfinken that will conclude the journey in the Day of the Cuban Culture, also favored by the Swiss Embassy and the Oratory San Felipe Neri, of the Office of the Historian of Havana, adds the page web.

The dueto of Camagüey "TO piacere", only of their type in Cuba, won the First Prize and the Prize to the Cuban Music's better Interpretation, in the First Competition of Interpretation UNEAC of Contrabass Havana 2003.

Camagüey will welcome the Provincial Party of the Dance

2010-10-19T11:14:00.001-07:00

Camagüey - The Provincial Party of the Dance will take place the next October 23 and 24 , in the city of Camagüey, to the 2.30 pm, in the local that occupies the Room-theater José Luis Tassende, located in Popular street among Father Valencia and López Recio.

Favored by the Provincial Center of Houses of Culture, the appointment up to their XXX edition and takes to scene to the best groupings would dance of the Movement of Fond Artists in the county.

Takes place, also, the 50 anniversary of artistic life of the Teacher Dahlia Aguilar Ruiz, graduate of Instructor of Art in 1962, example of teaching and love for the danzary art and Cuban folklore.

The event propitiates the participation of the instructors of art of the Brigade José Martí, of the Houses of Culture and other collaborators, after the preservation of the local, national traditions, and the Cuban folklore, in all its diversity.

It is planed the participation of 30 groupings of this county, of diverse goods and etaries groups.

Among them can stand out, to the group "Lomerío", of Najasa; "Guacanayabo" and "OK", of Santa Cruz of the South; "Caguairán", of Céspedes; and "Maraguán", of Camagüey, among others. There will also be invited two groups payees of Haitian traditions in the county: "Caidije" and "Beautiful Patuá."

Certify product of Camagüey for the export

2010-10-19T11:14:00.000-07:00

Camagüey, Oct 19 . - The nails of steel wire taken place in the factory of the municipality of Mines became the first certified product as exportable bottom of the county of Camagüey, after being endorsed by the National Office of Normalization.

According to the norms and effective legislations and after an audit was proven that that production fulfills the established requirements, for what was granted the use license and inscription in the registration of certified productions.

The engineer Ramón Betancourt, specialist in Quality of the Metalurgic Company of ACINOX in Camagüey, to which belongs the factory of having derived of the wire of Mines, explained that that result allows to consent to the international market with more competitiveness.

At the moment the ton of steel overcomes the 700 dollars in the international market, for what the legitimation of the nails of that material obtained in the factory of Mines doesn't only pay to the export but rather also substitute imports in a concrete way.

The recent certification of the steel nails that take place in the Factory of Derived of the Wire in the municipality of Camagüey, Mines, incentive becomes for the Company Metalurgic of Camagüey in the zeal of endorsing other productions. (Yamylé Fernández)

Continues in Camagüey Festival of the Written Press

2010-10-19T10:37:00.000-07:00

By:Luis Naranjo / Television Camagüey

Exchanges with the readers, exhibitions in the room “Nicolás Guillén” of the newspaper Adelante,conversatories with plastic artists and sport events, was the first actions developed during the Provincial Festival of the Written Press in Camagüey .

In the town The Colorado of the municipality Sierra of Vats, representatives of those around 500 inhabitants of that rural establishment, emitted their approaches on what interests them or not of the publication of Camagüey and poured important recommendations for the sake of improving the quality of the weekly publication of Camagüey. This experience will also be shared with the community of the rail shops of the region.

Those fond of the sport enjoyed the friendly game that workers of the different Means of Diffusion sustained who next to students of Journalism, scenificate two amusing softball parties, of swollen carrerajes.

Very to tone with the event the fifth anniversary of the foundation of the gallery of plastic arts was celebrated “Nicolás Guillén”, of the weekly publication of Camagüey, salts that has exposed dissimilar works of outstanding artists like Joël Jover, Nazario Salazar, Martha Jiménez and others.

During the next day of the Festival that will extend until next Saturday 23, day of premiations, the workers of the written press of this territory will debate opportune topics as: “Present time and necessity of the economic journalism”, with companies of multiple organizations and the shop “Experiences and challenges of the journalism of the Web 2.0.”

Will also be carried out the shop “What we know about the investigation journalism and the conversatories “Risk, happiness and misfortunes of Catauro” and “In the first anniversary of The Hendija, reflections.

The Festival of Camagüey has as objective to make emphasis in the quality, as decisive element for the credibility of our press.

Rehabilitate in Camagüey patients with larynx cancer

2010-10-19T05:09:00.001-07:00

Camagüey, - Patient with larynx radical for cancer, accidents or for other causes have the possibility articulate words again, by means of a rehabilitation system that spreads in the areas of health of the county.

The above-mentioned was confirmed by the doctor Antonio Hernández Vidal, specialist of Second Grade in Logopedy and Foniatry in declarations to Adelante.

People Laringectomized- assured--always have rehabilitation possibility that influences, among other factors, the age, the physical state and the reach of the tumor.

If the affection is detected on time and the person has will, the services of health assure to teach them to speak in each area of attention with Logopedas present in the Integral Services of Rehabilitation (SIR) dispersed in the geography of Camagüey.

One of the patients more led with the rehabilitation and who even, besides speaking, sings, Ángel Alipio Álvarez Martínez is 61 years old,residing in , , the city of Camagüey is named, with a larynx radical for nine years.

“Everything operated as me-he explained with clear voice-- can become rehabilitated, although has the desire that has the person.”

Lacking of that organ and of the vocal chords, Alipio, as more he is known in the social and family means, speaks with the esophagus, he carries out the other functions of to feed and to take water for the normal road, while he breathes for the windpipe.

The doctor Hernández Vidal doesn't have reference that this rehabilitation is carried out in United States, where prothesis of immediate larynx is used by the way expensive and with piles of little durability.

In Cuba when the possibilities are drained of reaching the voice for the rehabilitation it is required to that prothesis type, to which the bigger than The Antilles cannot consent easily for financial reasons and the North American blockade.(Enrique Atiénzar Rivero)

Entities of Camagüey work for the excellence in their administration

2010-10-19T05:09:00.000-07:00

Camagüey, Guided toward the achievement of the excellence in their services, four entities of Camagüey conform to provincial scale the group leader in the setting in practice of the Integrated System of Administration.

The engineer Omitza Jiménez, specialist of the Territorial Office of Normalization, explained that the Company stands out CUBACATERING, in charge of the gastronomy services and provisioning in the International airport Ignacio Agramonte.

That dependence is one of the country that possesses the certification of the System of Alimentary Inocuidad; through which is guaranteed the hygiene and security of the foods.

On the other hand, the Comercializized of Fuels, CUPET, stands out where the systems of administration of the quality, that of environment, human capital and security and health of the work are endorsed.

To the group of advanced in the certification of their procedures in the county of Camagüey sink the Company of Recovery of Matters Cousins and that of Hydraulic Projects. (Yamylé Fernández Rodríguez)

Universities of Camagüey collaborate in development of the city

2010-10-18T12:03:00.000-07:00

Camagüey, Oct 18. - The six centers of the Superior Education in Camagüey-the most extensive county in Cuba - add more than 70 thousand professionals to the million of graduate university students to that the nation arrived recently.

With headquarters in the 13 municipalities of the territory of Camagüey, these educational institutions arrive to most of age with a model of humanist integral formation, scientific-technique and with high profesionality, dedicated to form efficient professionals and consecrated to the advance of the Cuban social project.

The universities of Camagüey at the moment participate in the projects of development of the economic activity of the country, with the objective of contributing to the improvement of their educational system, even classified internationally as the most beneficial and altruistic in the world.

Students and teachers are inserted in the prioritized lines of the county, among them the Defense of the Homeland, the production of foods, and the development of the urban and suburban agriculture, modalities dedicated to the increment of the agricultural results.

Among its purposes is included, also, a Package Technological integral to elevate the economic efficiency in the production of milk and meat, among other tasks prioritized in Camagüey. (Aramis González Cruz).

Represents The Contemporary Ballet Endedans to Cuba in encounter “ solidary dances"

2010-10-18T10:33:00.000-07:00

The Contemporary Ballet Endedans represents Cuba in the encounter solidary dances of Bolivarian countries and of the Caribbean with headquarters in Venezuela. The event is linked to the community work and the choreographic development.

By: Aymee Amargós / Television Camagüey

The company Endedans, combines technical of classic and modern dance with experimental exercises. The contemporary ballet represents Cuba in the encounter “ Solidary Dances of countries Bolivariano and of the Caribbean with headquarters in Venezuela.

The appointment from 10 to October 18 responds to the agreement among both nations. It promotes the exchange in the communities through shops, conferences and functions.

The dance grouping of Camagüey will interpret the Perverted pieces", "In the space of your silence" and "The Premier". the directress's Choreographies Tania Vergara and The doute, of the dancer Denis Martínez.

Several prizes endorse the artistic technician quality of Endedans. A company that contributes to the enrichment of the dance culture.

Surrender homage in Camagüey to author of Mirror of Patience

2010-10-18T09:01:00.000-07:00

Camagüey, Oct 18 - Silvestre de Balboa will be remembered especially in the time by the Day of the Cuban Culture in the old Villa of Santa María del Puerto del Príncipe-today Camagüey - where in 1608 he wrote the poem Mirror of Patience, text considered as the first work of the literature in the Island.

The homage will be made next day 20, celebration of the date, when will be develed a brass badge and the will happen initial presentation of the book "Life of Silvestre de Balboa and Troya: the precursory canary of the Cuban literature", edited by his coterráneo Ramiro García, residing in Camagüey.

The two activities will be made in a place of the declared sector Cultural Patrimony of the Humanity, the little square Juana of the Castle, where there is a sculptural monument in honor to the Cuban National Poet of Camagüey Nicolás Guillén.

Resided from 1958 in the bigger of the Antilles, García expressed that the book is about 18 year-old fruit in Cuba and Spain.

Published by the local editorial Ácana, the work has more than 100 pages related with who was born in 1563 in the Spanish archipelague of Canaries, and died then in 1649 in the Villa of Puerto Príncipe, in accordance with presumably dates.

Balboa was also notary of the town council of the village and his epic-heroic poem centers the content in a fact of 1604 in the cluster of Yara, the kidnapping of the bishop from Cuba, brother Juan of the Heads Altamirano, carried out by men to the French pirate's control Gilberto Girón.

García's text defends, among other factors, the authenticity and the primigeny attribute of Mirror of patience, as well as the responsibility of Silvestre of Balboa, approaches rebutted by other specialists of the topic. (Adolfo Silva Silva).

The party of the cubanity continues in Camagüey

2010-10-18T05:23:00.000-07:00

The day for the Day of the Culture valorizes the national identity of the Cuban town.

Camagüey, - Diverse cultural and recreational activities develop the branch of the Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba (UNEAC) in the county of Camagüey, in the context of the day for the Day of the Cuban Culture that is celebrated the coming October 20.

The program includes The rock “Simón Roberto and his companies”, every Saturday starting from 9:00 o'clock p.m. and the space “Symbolic City” on October 20 and 27 , at 5:00 o'clock p.m. in the room of video New World, as long as the day 24 at 9:00 o'clock a.m., the writer Giovanny García Vistorte invites to the small ones to “one Sunday with the children.”

Also, the one criticizes of cinema Armando Pérez Padrón, will offer a conference on the connotation of the Seventh Art in the spectrum of the national culture, the one that is foreseen the day 19 at four in the afternoon in the Palatine living room of the UNEAC of Camagüey.

The program of activities for the Day of the Culture Cuban also plan for October 24, starting from nine in the morning, The Rock “encounter with the Declamation” that the actress directs the actriz Reina Ayala Don. (Lázaro David Najarro Pujol)

Recognize contribution of rural community of Vertientes to the swinish production of Camagüey

2010-10-15T11:30:00.000-07:00

Camagüey, 15 oct. - The Reynaldo León Yera `s peasants , in this territory - located to some 26 kilometers of the capital city -, gathered 100 tons of pig meat, production that deserved the delivery of a recognition for the address of the cooperative of credits and National servicios(CCS)Asociación of Small Farmers (ANAP).

Orlando Lugo Fonte, directing maximum of the rural organization in the country, gave the distinction to the community, which endorses the deployed effort to assure the feeding of the town and to fulfill the program of substitution of imports.

Integrated to the cattle movement to contribute a million liters of milk, these peasants also foment the production of rice - in the program of the 100 thousand quintals - and the several, alternative cultivations that allow to diversify the productions in each property.

The swinish agreements and the breeding with Creole methods of feeding, allowed the members of this CCS to register inside the five cooperative of Camagüey that fulfilled the commitment in the meat delivery.

With more than 800 pigs, distributed in the different modalities of agreements like those of reproduction, feeds terminal and raises to the weaning, this productive force guarantees its productions with efficiency, standing out the patio “The charm”, directed by Sergio Cabrera Alfonso, when achieving breeding parameters and feeds of agreement with the norms settled down by the swinish company.

This man of Vertientientes (gentile for the one that one knows the inhabitants of that town), practices for five years the breeding of pigs, and feels very satisfied had contributed with his contribution to the feeding of the town and to that his community is located among the best in the country.

The “Reynaldo León Yera” is integrated for near 180 peasants, which have ratified the commitment of defending the Revolution from the furrow. (Fernando Capote Taño)

The artistic teaching, achieve in the Cuban Culture

2010-10-15T07:05:00.000-07:00

Camagüey,-The system of the Artistic Teaching in Camagüey receives the Day for the Cuban Culture with 638 students in the schools of elementary and half level, changes in the study programs and the challenges involved by this work that models to the talent.

The limitations in the fullfilness of accessories and of the cloister and the deficiencies in the entrance didn't impede this year the opening of the Vocational School of Art “Luis Casas Romero”, the Academy of the Arts “Vicentina of the Tower” and Music's Conservatory “José White”, where children and young of all the municipalities and of the rest of the Cuban counties receive music's specialties, ballet, dances, dramatic arts and plastic arts.

With the sustenance of the traditions of our town, each action in the educational-educational process and in the extraescolars activities contributes to the invigoration of the values of solidarity and the identification with the patrimony, assured Alina González, provincial subdirector of the Artistic Teaching .

The prizes in the International Encounter of Academies of Ballet, the Competition Jojazz and the National Festival of Theater are reasons to take place in the Day. Those achievements in the school course 2009-2010 point out for the current one, the necessity to intensify the work of engage of the students with their duties, of to stimulate the scientific investigation and to narrow the bonds with the institutions and the artistic vanguard.

Of the coherent imbrication between the education and the culture the artistic teaching is born in Cuba, constituted after 1959, in the Cuban Revolution, in a system that integrate 65 schools in three teaching levels: the elementary, half and superior.

Those centers form at the present time to more than 28 500 Cubans who consented to their classrooms for their talent, and in these reaffirm the feelings of national identity.(Yanetsy León González )

"Wishes of Camagüey"

2010-10-15T06:02:00.003-07:00

Camagüey,"Wishes of Camagüey" began to arrive to the headquarters of an invitation that, without the most minimum public panic, becomes every two years one of the appointments but make happy in this city, the competition Acaalarre.

Interested in participating in the event, open for professionals and fond, began the shipment from their works of craft to the lid, only of their type in the country, dedicated especially to the topic of the witches.

Favored by the provincial branch of the Cuban Association of Artisans Artists (ACAA), the encounter will be from October 31 a sample with the contestants creations, after closing the 25 the admission of the works, in ceramic, carves in wood, maché paper, skin, textile elements, and the category of miscellany.

The exhibition will remain effective until ends of November in the local of the referred entity, adds a report given by the organizing commission. Catapulted to the international fame by the hunts of the Santa Inquisition begun in the Half Age in Europe, the sinister characters live with the stamp of the Creole choteo, in a contest that challenges artists and offers a popular entertainment.

In the previous version of Acaalare, in 2008,student of Right Luis Daniel Hernández Sed conquered three rewards and was the main laureate among those more than 60 competitors.

The public execution of more than two thousand people, in its majority in the blaze, is a dramatic legacy of the XV century, in the one which one of the biggest hunters, Tomás of Torquemada, occupied the position of general inquisitor of the crowns of Castile and Aragon, in Spanish territory.(Adolfo Silva Silva)

Celebrate in Camagüey the Day of the Cuban cooking

2010-10-15T06:02:00.002-07:00

Camagüey, - The provincial act for the Day of the Cuban coking will be carried out this Saturday in Santa Lucía's tourist Pole, in recognition to its integral results of the present year, so much in the restaurants of the hotels like in the popular gastronomy.

To the celebration representations of the 13 municipalities will go, especially of Vertientes and Florida that reached the second and third place, respectively, granted by the Culinary Association of Camagüey.

The Badge to the culinary merit, of the Federation of Cuban Associations, will be received by eight specialists of the turn, with outstanding trajectories for ten or more serial years, while the Badge to the culinary friendship will receive seven professionals and squares of different sectors, like Trade, Education, Presses and other, with a systematic support to the ACC.

As it is habit in each encounter of the cooksof Camagüey, there will be a presentation of different plates, to propitiate an useful exchange in ways of making, with the spirit of generalizing the best experiences until in the smallest units.

In correspondence with this objective will also celebrate October 16 the World Day of the Feeding, proclaimed in 1979 by the Conference of the Organization of the United Nations for the Agriculture and the Feeding (FAO), because one of the main objectives is to achieve a good use of all the matters cousins employees in each food.

The association of Camagüey, with about four thousand integral, frequently imparts courses to qualify the personnel of kitchen of all the sectors, included hospitals, schools, productive centers and military units.

In a recent visit to the county, Alberto Guerra Jova, first vice-president of the national Federation, eulogized the technical preparation and professional of the Camagüey of the turn, but exhorted, the same as in the rest of the country, to follow the superation,, because “a cook in 15 days ago, but with love and perseverance. The kitchen is a permanent laboratory, where unite knowledge, rigor and abilities.”

He added that Cuba now is among the four better Latin American countries in the topic of the culinary elaboration.

Teófilo Ramón Ramón, president of the ACC, recognized the necessity to advance more in the domain of the knowledge of the occupation, and he informed that soon he will impart in Camagüey courses of Candy store.(Jorge Luis Peix)

The woman of Camagüey also contributes to the production of foods

2010-10-15T06:02:00.001-07:00

The woman of Camagüey Gladys Rodríguez has each dawn a new reason to be happy: her property grows “The wanted”, located very near Isabel Hortensia community, in the municipality head of the county.

Gladys works the earth intensely since she acquired ago something more than two years in usufruct quality, to develop the production of milk, pig meat and ovinos essentially; although also seed viands, fruits, vegetables, vegetables, and ornamental and medicinal plants.

Next to her, more of a thousand 800 women in different points of the geography of this county, already come the fruits of their work in the field, thanks to the Ordinance-law 259 that put to laborious men and women disposition lazy lands to cultivate them.

Those new peasants associate to cooperative, and contribute with their contribution, to the production of foods for the town, at the same time that they support the social programs and the sustenance of their own families.( Mariela Peña Seguí)

Camagüey takes place World Day of the Normalization

2010-10-15T06:02:00.000-07:00

Camagüey, 14 oct. - The community of the Territorial Office of Normalization of this county, commemorated today the World Day of that specialty with a homage to Ernesto Che Guevara, instigator in Cuba of the technical norms in the productions like road for the economic development.

Motivated by the date, in the mentioned institution adscripted to the Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment, training actions are imparted in quality and metrology to the specialists that act in the different entities of Camagüey.

With such a purpose conferences and consultancies are imparted about the effective norms and in a special way courses were conceived about the systems of Security and Health in the Work, Human Capital and the one Integrated of Administration that imposes the current market to the managerial.

For October 28 the territorial office of Normalization in Camagüey plan a Provincial Shop in the one that the companies leaders of the county in the application of the mentioned work methods, will expose their experiences.

From 1961 and thanks to the vision of future of the Commandant Ernesto Che Guevara, Cuba integrates the International Organization of Normalization, ISO, for its initials in English, what has allowed the technical quality of the products dedicated to the export and its entrance to the international market. (Yamylé Fernández Rodríguez)

Esmerate attention to the diabetic patient in Camagüey

2010-10-15T05:01:00.000-07:00

Camagüey -Preceded by City of Havana, the county of Camagüey is the second of Cuba with bigger incidence of the diabetes mellitus, because in its population there are more than 39 thousand 200 suffered by that illness.

Before this situation, the Center of attention to the diabetic patient in the capital city, carries out every week cycles of entrance national health clinic, to educate those people in a coexistence with the illness that favors its quality of life.

Remitted by the areas of health and policlinics, are subjected there to a checkup pre-entrance that includes analysis of blood, of urine, control of the arterial tension and nutrition evaluations, among other, to determine the treatment that will receive in next seven days.

During that cycle are practiced metabolic analysis several times a day, are modified the levels of insulin prewritten according to require , and learn how to be applied the medication or different analysis types for the control of the glucemia at home, said to the AIN the doctor Eneisy Basulto Marrero, directress of the institution.

She added that the center has educational function because receive conferences on the manifestations of the diabetes, the danger of the lesions in the feet and the importance of a diet of specific calories and low concentrations of salt and fatty.

In the week of entrance, the patient carries out the breakfasts, the snacks and the lunches to adapt to a balanced nutrition and to familiarize with the macrobiotic diet, of high desintoxic value, commented Alfredo Vicente Betancourt, cook of the center.

A multidisciplinary team makes a valuation individual oftalmology, endocrinology, of angiology and podology, and after compliment the entrance each patient can attend an orientation consultation and advice.

The personnel's careful work and the quality of the services allows to this institution to be included inside the achievements that the sector of the health Camagüey will exhibit in its next congress, as informed the AIN Vicente Roque Álvarez, general secretary of that union in the county.(Lianet Leandro López )

Dedicates diverse actions to its anniversary Brigade of Instructors of Art in Camagüey

2010-10-14T11:19:00.001-07:00

Camagüey - The Brigade of Instructors of Art "José Martí", in the context of the celebration of the Day of the Cuban Culture, will develop diverse actions, with a view to celebrating the 6th anniversary of this organization, to the 50 years of the creation of the Instructors of Art, and to the seventh graduation of the School of Instructors of Art Nicolás Guillén Batista.

Also, the Cultural Guerrilla will be activated "50 Anniversary" in all the municipalities, in homage to the means century of existence of the Cuban Revolution, after energizing the cultural life of the communities, to work that will consist of two important moments: a day of productive work and the presentation of cultural numbers.

October 15, to the 9.00 am, will be carried out in the Provincial Center of Equinotheraphy a wide presentation of the different special schools of the county, to highlight the result of the work of the art instructors with these children.

The next October 19, in the Carmen's Square, the signature of the Code of Ethics of the Instructors of Art will be made who will graduate and the day 20 to the 8.30 am in the Main Theater, where will take place the Provincial Act of the seventh graduation of the School of Instructors of Art of the county.

Will contribute Camagüey 81 products to substitute imports

2010-10-14T11:19:00.000-07:00

Camagüey, Without including the sugar refine, the honeys and those derived milky, strong lines in the economy of Camagüey, this oriental center county of Cuba, will contribute presently year 81 products that substitute imports, of them 28 they constitute exportable funds.

The main emphasis is centered in the production of agricultural foods, all time that the country pays around a thousand 500 million annual dollars for that concept, calculates overcome in the 2008 by the slides price-crisis of the world market.

The biggest national expenses of foreign currencies for the import of foods are used in the acquisition of rice, diverse grains and powdered milk, productions in which Camagüey increases its results in connection with years precedents. In coming December the cattlemen of here, seek to close the storing of 102 million liters of milk.

Next to the delivery of unproductive lands in usufruct, the agricultural and cattle companies of the ministries of the Agriculture, of the Sugar and the rural sector, multiply the crops of state rice and in small parcels of a farming movement in popular denominated ascent, and diverse bean varieties are planted, corn and fruit-bearing. The feeds of bull, with the controlled shepherding and I think Creole it contributes considerable tons to the tourism and the local consumption.

The agricultural county par excellence and punctual of the Cuban acuiculture, multiplies the seed of claria alevines, red tilapia and other species of fresh water, processed in different ways groceries in the municipal and provincial industries.

On the other hand, the Industry of Materials of Construction, increases the production of refractory, antacid bricks, refractory mortar, hydraulic tile of terrazo and other lines that replace imports.

However, the topic of the substitution of imports and of the exportable funds, was approached in the current October by the Council of the Provincial Administration in Camagüey (CAP), where coincided in that many local productions of quality can and they owe potenciate to increase the number of products that contribute to the saving of foreign currencies and the increase of the family basket. (Rolando Sarmiento Ricart)

Citrc enterprise exports 73 production percent

2010-10-14T05:58:00.001-07:00

Camagüey,-The company Citric fruits Sola, located in the fertile valley of Vats, dedicates to the export 73 percent of its grapefruit crop and orange, as via of contributing to the entrance of foreign currencies to Cuba.

Located in the north part of the county of Camagüey, the entity sent to the citric cocktail of Ceballos, in Blind of Ávila, seven thousand 200 tons of those fruits for the elaboration of concentrated or simple juices, which are marketed in Europe.

Orestes Reyes, director of “Citric Sola”, said to the AIN that of that quantity, a part was in areas of organic production, in certified lands for this purpose for a specialized signature of Germany.

The plantations dedicated exclusively to obtain organic fruits are those that don't use pesticide neither industrial fertilizers, and the thick of the works of attention is carried out manually.

In total, the company gathered nine thousand 200 tons of grapefruit, orange, files Persian, lemon, mandarin and sour orange, when the annual plan ascends at 11 thousand 800.

Reyes considers that the program of the year should surpass, because in November and December the collection will be reopened and the existence of citric fruits is high.

He added that that is executed that qualified as “modest project of growth” of the lands with new seeds, and highlighted that many of the areas in production receive better attention and cares since went at the hands of usufructuary by the ordinance-law 259, with two years of application.

Norberto Martínez, specialist of these cultivations in the delegation of the Ministry of the Agriculture, highlighted that the entity stopped the crop decrease and economic that confronted from beginnings of the current decade, and in the last three years grows gradually in its results.

Also, he pointed out that “Citric Alone” is projected toward new productions, as fruit-bearing, vegetable coal and other cultivations of short cycle to elevate the selection of foods dedicated to the population.(Lucilo Tejera Díaz )