The weapons and the good sense

By : Ernesto Pantaleón Medina / Television Camagüey

I like the weapons, I admit it, a due liking maybe to that, when boy my father, old cattleman, conserved some of his time of splendor, in the years 30 and 40 of last century.

I consider some pieces like beautiful jewels, works of the genius of artisans and mechanics, and of course, I make abstraction of its lethal purpose when I consider them ornamental objects, to figure in a panoply, as same is placed a samurai katana or the lance and the shield of a Zulu warrior.

It is comprehensible, at least for the earthlings of the present that a policeman carries a defensive instrument, or that the soldiers should possess armament to keep the sovereignty and the integrity of the nations.
However, in spite of that species of platonic admiration, I find difficult to assimilate the fact that for each a hundred citizens from the United States, exist 90 firearms.

Do you imagine how many irritable people, how many social and deliquent inadapted, how many young with behavior problems, how many frustrations are given in the breast of any society?

In the earth of men of peace like Martin Luther King, Abraham Lincoln or Lucius Walker is easy to channel a tantrum in form of mortal shots.

They don't surprise the news that retail in the media yankis, then relating massacres in schools, gas stations or supermarkets, bombs in buildings of apartments, marksmen executing people at random with a combat rifle.

Coarse that an unpopular professor makes center from his academic demand to the such student, so that this looks for at night in the drawer of the table of the father, or in the closet of the garage a gun, a shotgun or a rifle, undertake to shots with the teacher and in passing, murder ten or twelve schoolmates before to be placed the canyon of the weapon in the mouth and to press the trigger (anyone can be remitted to Michael Moore`s documentary in connection with the events of the town of Columbine).

I know the influence of the Association of the Rifle, and that the sale of weapons is a juicy business, but I consider that any civil society, ordinate, intelligent and balanced, can allow such a proliferation of death, and much less to stimulate the violence from the simple ¨Muñe¨ until the video games, the movies or the adventures of real hawks that throw bombs and missiles has more than enough Iraq and Afghanistan.

The same hawks that today threatens to take a good part from the planet to the nuclear holocaust.

It is time that the humanity takes a first step and NOT say to the weapons, then she will be saying YES to the good sense and a tomorrow of peace like legacy for the future inhabitants of this suffering and battered blue sphere.

Rewarded in Camagüey labor communities with efficient feminine force

In any place where work, the women of Camagüey shows efficiency and industry.

Camagüey, 18 Aug. - Collective of Camagüey with good productive results and wide feminine representation, as the Packer “Raúl Cepero Bonilla”, the Factory of Sodas “August 23”, and that of Tobacco “The Furrow”, centers were declared “50 Anniversary of the Federation of Cuban Women”, next to others with similar conditions in the 13 municipalities of Camagüey.

In morning special, Betsy Rodríguez and Marta López, general Secretaries of the feminine organization in the county and in the capital municipality of the territory, explained to their workers that for the Federation of Cuban Women (FMC) is a pride to give that stimulus, in which is summarized the effort and the strength of the women of Camagüey along these five decades.

During the encounter, workers and federated highlighted how pleasing turns out to celebrate the birthday of an organization been founded by Vilma Espín Guillois to application of the Commandant in Boss Fidel Castro, and that during every year has been proven unit samples and fidelity to the Revolution.

To 50 years of having constituted the FMC, its more than 200 thousand integral in the Camagüey reflect the disposition, the tenacity and the shame of the awomen of Cmagüey, the equality of rights and the women's insustituible work in the work of the Revolution.

In the county, 50 communities of factories, shops, agricultural productive units, schools, and other centers whose good results owe to-in good measure - when making feminine, receive for these days the recognition for the means century of the feminine organization that is completed the next one exactly August 23. (Raysa Mestril Gutiérrez)

Praises to "Maraguán" for performances in Spain and Portugal

Camagüey - The Artistic Combined of Camagüey Maraguán received praises in letters remitted the Secretary of Culture of Cuba, for the successes of its participation in great foklorick events in Spain and Portugal.

The missives correspondents to Abel Prieto are subscribed by the directors of the most recent editions in the international festivals of the Towns of the World (Cáceres, Spain) and of Moncoa (Portugal), adds a report remitted by the Direction of the cast to Camagüey.

The texts highlight elements like the discipline, profesionality, human quality and the public's welcome.

Headed by the engineer and choreographer Fernando Medrano, the grouping carries out its fifteenth visit to Europe, and until next Thursday 19 will remain in the Festival of Orense , in Hispanic territory.

In its current tour, of about two months until September, the community will attend according to that foreseen to eight forums distributed in the two mentioned countries, and will act additionally in Madrid, the Spanish capital.

Attributed to the University of Camagüey Ignacio Agramonte and Loynaz, Maraguán escen in its journey five shows, among them, Cuban and For the fields of my Cuba.

Been founded in 1981 and integrated for the most part by students of that facility, the group is the honored in becoming of the national contests of artists fond of the FEU. (Adolfo Silva Silva / AIN)