HAVANA, Cuba, March 11 (acn) The President of the UN General Assembly, Miguel D' Escoto, is one of many personalities from 27 countries that have asked Washington to grant visas to relatives of five Cuban anti-terrorist fighters who have been unjustly imprisoned in the United
States since 1998.
The International Free the Five Committee announced on Tuesday that a letter was simultaneously sent last Sunday to US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton; to the head of the Department of Homeland Security, Janet Napolitano; and to Attorney General Eric Holder.
The message demanded that Washington grants visas to Adriana Perez and Olga Salanueva to visit their husbands, Gerardo Hernandez and Rene Gonzalez, respectively.
According to Prensa Latina news agency, the document was also signed, among others, by Nobel Peace Prize laureates Rigoberta Menchu and Adolfo Perez Esquivel; American writers Noam Chomsky and by the Mothers and Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo in Argentina.
Gerardo, Rene, Antonio Guerrero, Fernando Gonzalez and Ramon Labañino -internationally known as the Cuba Five - were arrested in Florida in 1998 for infiltrating anti-Cuba right-wing groups that were planning and carrying out terrorist actions against the Caribbean archipelago.
Adriana and Olga have been denied visas to visit their husbands in prison on nine occasions.
(Exigen a EE.UU. visas para familiares de Los Cinco)
miércoles, 11 de marzo de 2009
Absolute premiere of Cuban film in XVI National Shop of Film Critic
Camagüey, march 11. - The film “The announcement”, of the Cuban Enrique Pineda Barnet, had in the city of Camagüey its absolute premiere in the opening of the XVI National Workshop of Film Critic.
This work develops the plot in a Havanan family of the present time, headed by an old widow and spiritualistic.
The projection began an exhibition program of more than 70 movies coming from America, Europe and Asia, until next day 31, in eight rooms of the town.
Include amomg other anthological realizations originated in the Island to “Histories of the Revolution”, “Memoirs of the underdevelopment”, “The death of a bureaucrat” The twelveseats” - all of Tomás Gutiérrez Alea".
They also figure in the program “The rebellious youth”, of Julio García Espinosa, “Manuela”, of Humberto Solás, and the documentals “Now” and “Hurricane”, of Santiago Álvarez.
Dedicated to the anniversary 50 of the ICAIC, one of the first cultural institutions created by the Revolution, the Shop will sesion to the 14 and it will approach topics like the production Cuban fílmic in the decade of the years 60 of the XX century and the critic, and the mobile cinema in the country.
The audiovisual sphere in the county also has, among other expressions, the realization of works in charge of the telecenters net, the Association Hermanos Saíz and independent authors, and the international competitions The Warehouse of the Image and the Festival of Video Art.
In September the centennial of the first film will be completed materialized in the provincial territory, the documentary The parties of The Charity in the City of Camagüey, of Enrique Pérez Quesada, and of 1959 at 1961 the channel worked in the town 11, pioneer of the television radio stations inside Cuba.
Among the assistants to the inauguration, made in the Main theater, there were Julio Cesar García, first secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) in the county, Enrique Pineda Barnet, the film director Manuel Herrera, Verónica Lynn and Héctor Noas, - two of the interpreters of the referred tape - and the actresses Eslinda Núñez and Mirtha Ibarra. (AIN).
This work develops the plot in a Havanan family of the present time, headed by an old widow and spiritualistic.
The projection began an exhibition program of more than 70 movies coming from America, Europe and Asia, until next day 31, in eight rooms of the town.
Include amomg other anthological realizations originated in the Island to “Histories of the Revolution”, “Memoirs of the underdevelopment”, “The death of a bureaucrat” The twelveseats” - all of Tomás Gutiérrez Alea".
They also figure in the program “The rebellious youth”, of Julio García Espinosa, “Manuela”, of Humberto Solás, and the documentals “Now” and “Hurricane”, of Santiago Álvarez.
Dedicated to the anniversary 50 of the ICAIC, one of the first cultural institutions created by the Revolution, the Shop will sesion to the 14 and it will approach topics like the production Cuban fílmic in the decade of the years 60 of the XX century and the critic, and the mobile cinema in the country.
The audiovisual sphere in the county also has, among other expressions, the realization of works in charge of the telecenters net, the Association Hermanos Saíz and independent authors, and the international competitions The Warehouse of the Image and the Festival of Video Art.
In September the centennial of the first film will be completed materialized in the provincial territory, the documentary The parties of The Charity in the City of Camagüey, of Enrique Pérez Quesada, and of 1959 at 1961 the channel worked in the town 11, pioneer of the television radio stations inside Cuba.
Among the assistants to the inauguration, made in the Main theater, there were Julio Cesar García, first secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) in the county, Enrique Pineda Barnet, the film director Manuel Herrera, Verónica Lynn and Héctor Noas, - two of the interpreters of the referred tape - and the actresses Eslinda Núñez and Mirtha Ibarra. (AIN).
Cuba Advances to Round Two of 2009 World Baseball Classic
HAVANA, Cuba, March 11 (acn) Pinch-hitter Yosvany Peraza clubbed a two-out, two-run homer in the top of the eighth inning, as Cuba secured a spot in the second round of the 2009 World Baseball Classic with a 5-4 come-from-behind win over Australia in Pool B play at Foro Sol Stadium on Tuesday night.
The Caribbean team grabbed a 2-1 lead in the top of the sixth on a solo homerun from Yoennis Cespedes. However, the Aussies countered with three runs in the bottom half of the sixth. Cuba reduced the gap in the seventh on a Michel Enriquez RBI double and then Peraza sealed the score in the top of the eighth with his game-winning blast.
Cuban starter Aroldis Chapman worked four innings allowing only three hits and one earned run as he struck out seven. However, it was closer Ismel Jimenez who took the win recording the final eight outs of the game allowing no hits or runs.
Australian left hander Travis Blackley opened the game for the Aussies and he gave up one run and five hits in 5 2/3 innings of work. Rich Thompson was saddled with the loss after serving up the homerun to
Peraza.
After this result, Australia faces host Mexico on Wednesday in an elimination game that will give the winner a ticket to Round Two in San
Diego.
(Avanza Cuba a segunda ronda del Clasico de béisbol)
The Caribbean team grabbed a 2-1 lead in the top of the sixth on a solo homerun from Yoennis Cespedes. However, the Aussies countered with three runs in the bottom half of the sixth. Cuba reduced the gap in the seventh on a Michel Enriquez RBI double and then Peraza sealed the score in the top of the eighth with his game-winning blast.
Cuban starter Aroldis Chapman worked four innings allowing only three hits and one earned run as he struck out seven. However, it was closer Ismel Jimenez who took the win recording the final eight outs of the game allowing no hits or runs.
Australian left hander Travis Blackley opened the game for the Aussies and he gave up one run and five hits in 5 2/3 innings of work. Rich Thompson was saddled with the loss after serving up the homerun to
Peraza.
After this result, Australia faces host Mexico on Wednesday in an elimination game that will give the winner a ticket to Round Two in San
Diego.
(Avanza Cuba a segunda ronda del Clasico de béisbol)
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