Argentinean Senate Demands End of US Blockade of Cuba

HAVANA, Cuba. The Argentinean Senate has unanimously approved a bill demanding the end of the almost 50-year-old US financial, trade and economic blockade of Cuba.

According to Prensa Latina news agency, the document notes that the Caribbean nation is suffering the effects of the so-called ‘embargo’, a euphemism that can’t hide the coercive and aggressive nature of a series of measures that constitute an illegal blockade.

The text passed by the Argentinean Senate recalls that, every year since 1992, the UN General Assembly, with an increasingly overwhelming majority, has been approving a resolution regarding the necessity to put an end to the blockade, although, as a matter of fact, the number of US economic sanctions against Cuba has increased instead.

“It is necessary to insist on the fact that these measures violate the peoples’ right to self-determination,” the document stresses.

“We are convinced that the time has come to lift this unjust and illegal blockade,” the text adds.

In addition, it recalls that a special declaration demanding the end of Washington’s blockade of Cuba was also approved during the Latin American and Caribbean Summit held last year in Salvador de Bahia, Brazil.

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Will apply in Cuba changes in formation of force technique

The Ministry of Education (MINED) will make modifications in the specialties of the technical teaching and professional (ETP) in Cuba, among these the student's labor practice during two semesters.

In declarations published in the Hard-working newspaper, Alexander Manso, director of the ETP in the MINED, explained that those specialties will be studied in three years and included four months the time of practice.

He said that "we are separating the formation of the graduate one of preuniversitary and that of half technician. Really, the function of our teaching was distorted whose main objective is to prepare the qualified technical force and that the new students incorporates immediately to the work."

The directive explained that " happened that some entered the ETP without motivation some, with the only purpose of reaching high school's title and later aspired to careers that didn't keep relationship with what had studied."

He gave to know that one works in a study plan that allows the student to receive the subjects tune to its specialty, because, for example, today Accounting includes Physics and Chemical and however an accountant doesn't use such knowledge in his acting.

Among the projections he referred the opening of annexed classrooms in the labor centers, where the students, besides receiving lessons,act with the technology that will use once graduate.

Sustainable develop in archipelago Savanna-Camagüey

Works for a sustainable development of the tourism, the fishing and the agroforestalsector, are materialized in Villa Clara, result of more than a decade of investigations in the archipelago Savanna-Camagüey.

The creation of a farm for the breeding of sponges in Caibarién starting from an experience in the coastal area of Carahatas, is a above-mentioned sample in the marine-coastal area.
That center will work with a technology that doesn't affect to the means, it reduces the costs, and guarantees employments and the extraction of an exportable item.

The program of sustainable development also contemplates the recovery of an arable area, previously used for the cane seed and now dedicated to the agricultural production in general, where a nursery is believed that will contribute to the reforestation of the hidrografic basin of the river Sagua la Grande.

Edelkis Rodríguez, specialist of the Center of Studies and Environmental Services (CESAM), said to the AIN that began the third stage of a project begun in 1993 in the current year, guided to the protection of the biodiversity in the ecosystem of the north center of Cuba.

The scientific investigation, cofinanced by the World Fund of Environment (GEF), the Program of United Nations for the Development (UNDP) and the government of Cuba, they point toward the harmonic exploitation of the natural resources.

The project Savanna-Camagüey embraces a surface of 75 thousand square kilometers of five counties of the Cuban center that includes the not very deep marine platform and more than two thousand 500 keys. (Luz María Martínez Zelada)