Cuba puts educational program to disposition of the UNESCO

Cuba put, once again, its literacy method "Yo sí puedo" to disposition of the Organization of United Nations for the Education, the Science and the Culture (UNESCO).

In her speech before the 182 session of the Executive Council of the UNESCO, with headquarters in Paris, the Cuban ambassador, Mary Florez, reiterated this offer and described as insatisfactory the decade that concludes in the field of the Education, indicates an information of Latin Press published in Granma.

She said that that international organism has lost land, especially in the literacy, and put in trial cloth the execution of the goals of the millennium toward the year 2015.

"Before the challenge of alphabetizing millions of people, the UNESCO of the XXI Century should be robbed of approaches politized that have impeded the application of methods and good practices of having proven effectiveness as regards Education", /she commented.

"Once again Cuba puts to disposition of this House the literacy method Me yes I can, applied on solidary bases, respect absolute to the national cultural identity and the idiomatic traditions and customs of the countries",she remarked.

Millions of people have learned how to read and to write by means of that program that combines letters and numbers, and whose effectiveness has been proven in more than 30 nations.

Cuba denounces in the UN vengeful treatment to The Five

Cuba denounced again in Geneva, Switzerland, the vengeful and unjust treatment of United States to The Five antiterrorists of the Island political prisoners in the northern country and to its relatives.

When speaking in the twelfth period of sessions of the Council of Human rights of United Nations, the Cuban delegate Resfel Pino said that these men turned 11 years of unjust imprisonment in United States, reports Latin Press.

Pino remembered that Fernando González , Gerardo Hernández, Ramón Labañino, Antonio Guerrero and René González imprisonment, was disqualified by the Group of Work on Arbitrary Detentions of that Council.

"After a tortuous and arbitrary process, the past June 15 the Supreme Court of Justice of United States decided to ignore the universal clamor so that revised the case. The judges preferred to make what the Government requested them", he explained.

He underlined that the malicious treatment also expands to its relatives who face countless obstacles to exercise its visit right.

He added that the most extreme examples are those of Adriana Pérez and Olga Salanueva, wives of Gerardo and René, respectively to who lower the most absurd pretexts have been denied the visa repeatedly to visit their spouses.

"Difficult is to understand what threat type two women would represent for the security of one of the most powerful empires known by the history ", he delimited.

Reward in Italy to Cuban percussionists

The Cuban Eilyn Marquetti González and Alejandro Gil Moreno the first prizes of the Seventh International Competition of Percussion and Drum obtained Sep that concluded in the Italian city of Fermo.

Students of the Superior Institute of Art (ISA), the two youths had great welcome on the part of the assisting public that valued the academic excellence of their formation like the passion so much in the interpretive delivery, informs today the Granma newspaper.

Eilyn and Alejandro competed in the categories C and B of box , respectively, and the last one also deserved the Absolute Prize in Drum (battery).