HAVANA, Cuba.(acn) Cuban President Raul Castro attends the ceremony for the 50th anniversary of the Cuban Film Institute (ICAIC), underway at Havana´s Karl Marx Theater.
The ceremony included the premiere of the Cuban movie “Ciudad en Rojo” (City in Red) by moviemaker Rebeca Chavez; the film will be screened on Cuban movie theaters starting April 2.
After 1959, the Cuban movie industry became one of the major cultural achievements of the Revolution and it also encouraged the development of the New Latin American Cinema Movement.
(Asiste Raul al acto por aniversario 50 del ICAIC )
miércoles, 25 de marzo de 2009
Safer Houses for Hurricane Victims in Cuba
NUEVA GERONA, Cuba, March 25 (acn) Some 510 hurricane-victim families in Isla de la Juventud municipality in Cuba will benefit with safer and more comfortable apartments once the transformation of former educational centers into housing buildings is concluded.
Ana Isa Delgado, First Secretary of the Communist party in the municipality, highlighted the good pace of the program, in which those to benefit are participating as well, in order to look after the quality of the finish.
“The purpose is to give a definite answer to people affected by the total destruction of their houses after the passing of the hurricanes,” underscored the official.
Also, there are 160 apartments planned to be built using the Sandino prefabricated system. Some 20 have already been assigned for building for future dwellers, the same amount were assigned to the Revolutionary Army Forces, and 25 of them will be built by workers.
The construction forces in the territory are working on the completion of renovation work on the partially destroyed houses, the area lagging behind the most in the area, with only 44 fully repaired houses.
The party leader urged the population to keep up their optimism and trust, and reminded them that almost all the Cuban territory was affected by the hurricanes.
Out of some 25,000 registered houses in this municipality, 18,805 of them suffered some kind of damage from the hurricanes that battered the territory in 2008.
(Beneficiarán a damnificados con inmuebles más seguros)
Ana Isa Delgado, First Secretary of the Communist party in the municipality, highlighted the good pace of the program, in which those to benefit are participating as well, in order to look after the quality of the finish.
“The purpose is to give a definite answer to people affected by the total destruction of their houses after the passing of the hurricanes,” underscored the official.
Also, there are 160 apartments planned to be built using the Sandino prefabricated system. Some 20 have already been assigned for building for future dwellers, the same amount were assigned to the Revolutionary Army Forces, and 25 of them will be built by workers.
The construction forces in the territory are working on the completion of renovation work on the partially destroyed houses, the area lagging behind the most in the area, with only 44 fully repaired houses.
The party leader urged the population to keep up their optimism and trust, and reminded them that almost all the Cuban territory was affected by the hurricanes.
Out of some 25,000 registered houses in this municipality, 18,805 of them suffered some kind of damage from the hurricanes that battered the territory in 2008.
(Beneficiarán a damnificados con inmuebles más seguros)
Two Cuban Players in 2009 WBC All-Star Team
HAVANA, Cuba, March 25 (acn) Two Cuban players were included in the All-Star team of the recently concluded 2009 World Baseball Classic (WBC).
A panel of specialized reporters who covered the event chose Frederich Cepeda and Yoennis Cespedes as two of the three All-Star outfielders along with Japanese Norichita Aoki.
According to the official website of the WBC, the only players that were chosen unanimously were Cepeda and first baseman Tae Kyun Kim of South Korea.
Other players included in the All-Star team were Puerto Rican catcher Ivan Rodriguez, Venezuelan second baseman Celestino Lopez, South Korean third baseman Bum Ho Lee and American short-stop Jimmy Rollins. South Korean Hyun Soo Kim was the All-Star designated hitter while Japanese Daisuke Matsuzaka – the tournament’s MVP - and Hisashi Iwakuma as well as South Korean Jung Keun Bong were the All-Star pitchers.
(Dos peloteros cubanos en el Todos Estrellas del Clásico)
A panel of specialized reporters who covered the event chose Frederich Cepeda and Yoennis Cespedes as two of the three All-Star outfielders along with Japanese Norichita Aoki.
According to the official website of the WBC, the only players that were chosen unanimously were Cepeda and first baseman Tae Kyun Kim of South Korea.
Other players included in the All-Star team were Puerto Rican catcher Ivan Rodriguez, Venezuelan second baseman Celestino Lopez, South Korean third baseman Bum Ho Lee and American short-stop Jimmy Rollins. South Korean Hyun Soo Kim was the All-Star designated hitter while Japanese Daisuke Matsuzaka – the tournament’s MVP - and Hisashi Iwakuma as well as South Korean Jung Keun Bong were the All-Star pitchers.
(Dos peloteros cubanos en el Todos Estrellas del Clásico)
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