miércoles, 18 de febrero de 2009

To recover for the future.

By: María del Carmen Fuentes. Television Camagüey.

The Commandant Ernesto Che Guevara`s illustrious thought propitiated the creation of the Union of Companies of Recovery of Matters. Its impact in these 50 years of Revolution means as positive examples of the Improvement Managerial Socialist.
It is evidencet this way the recognitions given to the best squares in address of the 26 industries the Cuban reciclaje.The premiation took place in the Square of the Bigger General Revolution Ignacio Agramonte y Loynaz of the provincial capital. There was recognized to the entity of Camagüey like that of better integral results, continued by those of the counties of Granma, Cienfuegos, Sancti Spíritus and Santiago de Cuba.
Matters of Camagüey achieved in 2008 registrations above it plans in the storing of recyclable materials and the sales, and it grew by three percent in connection with the precedent year. Equally it leads the chore in the recovery of ferrous and not ferrous materials, the Economic area, of Human resources, Squares and in the combined work with the Pioneer Jose MartíOrganization.
The entity, one of those that received the Flag 50 Anniversary of the Victory of the Revolution in the country, works to increase it administration in the 2009, in spite of the effects of the world financial crisis, with incidence in the international prices and in the production of goods.

Cuba: an Example of Solidarity, says Guatemalan President

HAVANA, Cuba, Feb 17 . Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom highlighted Cuba´s solidarity and the new times and developments experienced by Latin America, during a key lecture he gave at the University of Havana.

Colom gave his lecture titled “Social Development in Guatemala,” in the presence of Cuban health minister Jose Ramon Balaguer, professors, diplomats and students from his country and Cuba.

The Guatemalan President said the two nations have boosted a relationship based in solidarity. He said that the Cuban doctors in Guatemala have offered millions of medical consultations in the most remote areas and have returned or improved the sight of thousands of Guatemalans.

After stating that he has never doubted the Cuban friendship, Colom

extended his apologies to Cuba for the fact that his country was used to launch the mercenary invasion on Bay of Pigs in 1961.

" It wasn't us (the current Guatemalan government), but it was our territory." And I want to officially apologize to Cuba as president and head of state, and as commander in chief of the Guatemalan army.”

Previously, the rector of the University of Havana, Ruben Zardoya, gave the Guatemalan president a plaque, which marks the 280th anniversary of that higher education center, in recognition of his work as president and for his friendship and support of the Cuban revolution.

The Manuel Galich Honorary Department of the Philosophy and History Faculty of the University of Havana was also inaugurated today in the presence of Alvaro Colom. The department will serve as a venue for lectures, post-graduate courses and for scientific and educational exchange between Cuba and Guatemala.

(Presidente de Guatemala: Cuba es ejemplo de solidaridad)

martes, 17 de febrero de 2009

Another 100 Salvadorians to Study Medicine in Cuba

HAVANA, Cuba, Feb 17 . Another 100 Salvadorian youngsters from low-income families are getting ready to travel to Cuba to begin studies at the Latin American School of Medicine (ELAM).

The scholarship program boosted by Cuba for El Salvador and other Central American nations started at the end of the 1990s when this region faced the damage by Hurricane Mitch, and the lack of socially committed doctors became evident.

Nowadays, there are over 500 Salvadorians studying Medicine in Cuban universities, where in August 2005 the first 120 youngsters from that country graduated as general practitioners.

Prensa Latina news agency reported that this new group thanked Cuba's government and Cuban leader Fidel Castro, for this opportunity to become doctors in order to be able to help their people.

Jorge Luis Rivas, from the Chalchuapa municipality, in the Santa Ana department, said: "We go with the commitment that our return will bring well-being and health to our people, with no exclusions"

At the farewell ceremony, the youngsters paid homage to Schafik Handal, historic leader of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN) who died in 2006, and who boosted the ELAM project to improve the health of his people.

Juana Concepción Vásquez, grandmother of one girl with the scholarship, reminded them that lots of people died from lack of medicines, from not being able to pay for a consultation or an operation.

(Otros 100 salvadoreños estudiarán medicina en Cuba)