Celebrate anniversary of la Trova`s House Patricio Ballagas of Camagüey

Camagüey. For more than 30 years minstrels, soners and poets, have found a space for the diffusion of it work in an emblematic construction, marked with the number 171 of the old street bigger today Salvador Cisneros, in the vicinity of the park Ignacio Agramonte.

Some years ago it was transformed into an institution ,cultural institution that takes the prominent musician's name Patricio Ballagas who bequeathed to the culture Cuban, valuable compositions and a peculiar stamp in the execution of several inrtuments.

Before 1959 that property functioned as an establishment worked for the sale of musical instruments, being the revolution the main inspiring of what is at the moment: replies of the colonial art of Camagüey, and space of having forced attendance for those who love the popular traditional music.

In that corner of the trova have offered the best in it talent several generations of consecrated artits of the national culture as Cesar Portillo de la Luz, Esther Borges, Nicolás Guillén, Luis Carbonell, the feeling lady Elena Burke, González Allue, Rosa Fornes, María Elena Pena, Sergio Farias, Carlos Puebla and many more than the patio and of other regions of the country.

The camagüeyan house of the trova, arrives to its anniversary XXXV of having constituted with an intense program of cultural diffusion, being the prospective presentations of the extraordinary Candita Batista and the grouping Soneros de Camacho, farming grouping of the son,since the years 30 of last century, those of more artistic relief.

Since it opening so far, the music house of Camagüey, not only has included in it programmings the trova, but also charge life other musical styles as the filing, the danzon the bolero and until the tango rocks, which had in their moment many followers.

The house of the trova "Patricio Ballagas" of group with the representation of ARTEX in the county, determines to maintain alive the most authentic cultural traditions in the city of the earthenjars and it people, an aspiration that crystallizes thanks to the passion of groupings, soloists and composers of the fertile plain of Camagüey.

Cuban Health Workers in Suriname Defend their Theses

HAVANA, Cuba, Feb 3 . Three Cuban health professionals, members of the José Martí Column One Medical Brigade now working in Suriname, defended their theses for their master’s degrees at the headquarters of the Ministry of Public Health in that South American nation.

The Minister of Health in Suriname, Celsius Waterberg, and Cuba’s ambassador to Paramaribo, the capital, Andres Gonzalez, presided over the activity.

The teaching director of the Cuban Medical Brigade, Alexis Hernandez, pointed out that the three collaborators dedicated this achievement, performed for the first time by Cubans in Suriname, to the 156th anniversary of the birth of Cuba’s National Hero José Martí, celebrated
on January 28.

The theses were: Community participation in some aspects of sexuality in adolescents, by Mildred Ramos; Nutritional Energy Malnutrition in children under 15 year-old, by de Kenia Morales; and Behaviour of High Blood Pressure in the elderly, by Eddy Millan, head of the Cuban Medical Brigade in Suriname.

The members of the examining board, headed by Rafael Corona, explained the legal aspects inherent in master’s degrees and underlined the importance of carrying out these educational exercises, especially amid Cuba’s international medical cooperation.

The activity was also part of celebrations for the 50th anniversary of the triumph of the Cuban Revolution, by the Cuban voluntary workers in
that nation.

(Discuten tesis cooperantes cubanos de salud en Suriname)

Cuban VP Meets President of Hungarian Communist Party

HAVANA, Cuba, Feb 3. Cuban Vice President Esteban Lazo met on Monday in Havana with Gyula Thurmer, President of the Hungarian Communist Workers’ Party, who is visiting the Caribbean country at the invitation of the Cuban Communist Party (PCC).

According to Granma news daily, during the meeting, both leaders spoke about topics such as the current international situation caused by the deep economic crisis.

In this regard, Lazo gave the visitor details about the efforts made by the Cuban Government and the PCC to maintain the social and economic development of the country in spite of the devastation and huge economic losses caused by three hurricanes in the last months of 2008.

The Cuban official also thanked Thurmer for the Hungarian Communist Workers’ Party’s rejection of the US economic blockade of Cuba and for their solidarity with the five Cuban anti-terrorist fighters who remain unjustly imprisoned in the United States.

For his part, Thurmer congratulated the Cuban people on behalf of his Party for the 50th Anniversary of the Cuban Revolution.

Also present in the meeting was Fernando Remirez de Estenoz, head of the Foreign Relations Department at the PCC’s Central Committee.


(Reciben a Presidente del Partido Comunista Obrero Húngaro)