Camagüey, Dec 30. - With the execution of more than 100 million pesos presently year, in the construction of economic and social works of the territory, the entities of the Managerial Group of the Construction of Camagüey, greet in anniversary 50 of the Revolution.
The communities of the sector also arrive to the date with a positive improvement of all its indicators of quality and efficiency and the termination of several camps, with the created conditions, for the stay of the workers of the field.
Also, in the year that finish, received more than 200 teams, mainly brigades of earth movement that contribute to humanize the works that develop and to complete in time the works that execute.
The Managerial Group of the Construction of Camagüey, in the wide work program that has for the 2009, intends to be the leader in the reconstruction of the housings damaged by the hurricanes that went by the county. (Pablo Cabero Viamontes).
martes, 30 de diciembre de 2008
Minister of Interior Trade walked entities of Camagüey
The Minister of Interior Trade Marino Murillo, traveled entities of Camagüey that are next to be inaugurated formerly in greeting to the 495 birthday of the Villa of Santa María del Puerto del Príncipe and a year 50 of the Victory of the Revolution.
In the Gardens of the Tínima he witnessed a recreation project that could be the cafeteria service, restore, dancing areas and the tavern.Center that will be dedicated to the family of Camagüey after a year of restoration.
The holder also visited the Institute of Beauty Venus that after a capital repair, he lends excellence services to the population of Camagüey again.
Near there in the Atelier The Ismaelillos, the Secretary next to Victor Gautte member of the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the Party, and leaders of the party and of the government of the county, evaluated the advances of the project Fondness dedicated to the elaboration of layettes. They also traveled the they restore Ming King, recently remodeled
In the Gardens of the Tínima he witnessed a recreation project that could be the cafeteria service, restore, dancing areas and the tavern.Center that will be dedicated to the family of Camagüey after a year of restoration.
The holder also visited the Institute of Beauty Venus that after a capital repair, he lends excellence services to the population of Camagüey again.
Near there in the Atelier The Ismaelillos, the Secretary next to Victor Gautte member of the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the Party, and leaders of the party and of the government of the county, evaluated the advances of the project Fondness dedicated to the elaboration of layettes. They also traveled the they restore Ming King, recently remodeled
Reopens its doors in Camagüey shop El Encanto
Camagüey, Dec 29. - After almost nine months of capital repair starting from a fire of big proportions, the Store for Departments "El Encanto" in the city of Camagüey, reopened this Monday with a much more beautiful and more functional image that the property inaugurated in 1952.
Next to the town of Camagüey in the reopening were also Julio Cesar García, First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) in the county, Victor Gaute, integral of the Secretariat of the Central, Marine Committee Murillo, Secretary of InteriorTrade , between other authorities and companies.
The recovery of "The Charm", it is part of the homage to the anniversary 50 of the Victory of the Cuban Revolution, at the 495 of the formerly Villa of Santa María del Puerto del príncipe and to the 30 years of the Corporation CIMEX.
Leticia Morales, general manager of the branch of that signature in Camagüey meant that the emergent qualification of the units " Radio 26", the "Telegraph" and "The Creole Pony", in the provincial capital, after the catastrophe in El Encanto, allowed to the closing of this year the superior results of the plan of revenues of the branch of Camagüey.
On the other hand, Eduardo Bencomo, president of the Corporation CIMEX in the country, qualified the reopening this Monday, of the store El Encanto, in Camagüey, as a fruit of the solidarity when intervening in its rebuilding some 35 entities of the territory and several companies of other counties. (Yamylé Fernández and Loipa Araujo).
Next to the town of Camagüey in the reopening were also Julio Cesar García, First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) in the county, Victor Gaute, integral of the Secretariat of the Central, Marine Committee Murillo, Secretary of InteriorTrade , between other authorities and companies.
The recovery of "The Charm", it is part of the homage to the anniversary 50 of the Victory of the Cuban Revolution, at the 495 of the formerly Villa of Santa María del Puerto del príncipe and to the 30 years of the Corporation CIMEX.
Leticia Morales, general manager of the branch of that signature in Camagüey meant that the emergent qualification of the units " Radio 26", the "Telegraph" and "The Creole Pony", in the provincial capital, after the catastrophe in El Encanto, allowed to the closing of this year the superior results of the plan of revenues of the branch of Camagüey.
On the other hand, Eduardo Bencomo, president of the Corporation CIMEX in the country, qualified the reopening this Monday, of the store El Encanto, in Camagüey, as a fruit of the solidarity when intervening in its rebuilding some 35 entities of the territory and several companies of other counties. (Yamylé Fernández and Loipa Araujo).
lunes, 29 de diciembre de 2008
Ecuadorian President Reiterates Rejection of US Blockade of Cuba
HAVANA, Cuba, Dec 29 (acn) Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa reiterated on Saturday his rejection of Washington’s almost fifty-year-old economic blockade of Cuba and said he hoped US President-elect Barack Obama will put an end to this policy after he assumes power next month.
According to Prensa Latina news agency, in his weekly radio and television address last Saturday, Correa sent a message of solidarity to the Cuban people and congratulated them on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Cuban Revolution.
The leader said that the triumph of the Revolution in Cuba on January 1st, 1959, was a turning point in the history of Latin America and the Caribbean and a break with the traditional social and economic conditions of the region.
“Perhaps only the independence struggles of the 19th century could be compared with the Cuban Revolution. Which country of our region could resist only three months of a blockade by the United States?” Correa asked.
After recalling that Cuba has resisted for 50 years, he predicted that the Caribbean nation will be one of the most prosperous countries of Latin America and the Caribbean once the blockade is lifted due to its human talent, its technological development and the social cohesion of
the nation.
According to Prensa Latina news agency, in his weekly radio and television address last Saturday, Correa sent a message of solidarity to the Cuban people and congratulated them on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Cuban Revolution.
The leader said that the triumph of the Revolution in Cuba on January 1st, 1959, was a turning point in the history of Latin America and the Caribbean and a break with the traditional social and economic conditions of the region.
“Perhaps only the independence struggles of the 19th century could be compared with the Cuban Revolution. Which country of our region could resist only three months of a blockade by the United States?” Correa asked.
After recalling that Cuba has resisted for 50 years, he predicted that the Caribbean nation will be one of the most prosperous countries of Latin America and the Caribbean once the blockade is lifted due to its human talent, its technological development and the social cohesion of
the nation.
50th Anniversary of Cuban Revolution Celebrated Around the World
HAVANA, Cuba, Dec 29 (acn) The 50th anniversary of the Cuban Revolution and the achievements of the Cuban people in the past five decades were celebrated during this past weekend in several countries around the world.
During a press conference in Cairo, Egypt, the Cuban ambassador to this African nation, Angel Dalmau, recalled that all citizens in the Caribbean country have free and universal access to education and health services.
He added that thousands of students from Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean have graduated from Cuban universities and other schools.
Meanwhile, in Beijing, the Central Television of China broadcast on Sunday a musical gala with the participation of Cuban and Chinese artists in honor of the Cuban Revolution.
For its part, El Periodico news daily of Guatemala published an interview with the Cuban ambassador in Guatemala City, Omar Morales, who gave details about the social transformations carried out in Cuba.
Morales stressed that the first achievement of the Cuban Revolution was to rescue the nation’s independence and sovereignty.
During a press conference in Cairo, Egypt, the Cuban ambassador to this African nation, Angel Dalmau, recalled that all citizens in the Caribbean country have free and universal access to education and health services.
He added that thousands of students from Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean have graduated from Cuban universities and other schools.
Meanwhile, in Beijing, the Central Television of China broadcast on Sunday a musical gala with the participation of Cuban and Chinese artists in honor of the Cuban Revolution.
For its part, El Periodico news daily of Guatemala published an interview with the Cuban ambassador in Guatemala City, Omar Morales, who gave details about the social transformations carried out in Cuba.
Morales stressed that the first achievement of the Cuban Revolution was to rescue the nation’s independence and sovereignty.
sábado, 27 de diciembre de 2008
Prioritize in Camagüey surrenders of constructive materials for damaged by hurricanes
Camagüey, Dec 27 . - Intense work days take place in the Provincial Warehouse of the Housing to surrender before December 31 to all the municipalities of Camagüey, materials of the construction that will benefit to those damaged in the territory by the hurricanes Ike and Paloma.
Efraín Vega González, director of that entity, informed that so far resources coming from the counties of Sancti Spíritus, The Tunas and Santiago de Cuba have been received, to what sink donations of thec Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and other countries.
In the transportation of the tiles, tanks and other elements was of vital importance the support of the managerial sector of Camagüey like the Recuperator of Matters Cousins and the Electric Basic Organization.
The work days in the Provincial Warehouse of the Housing extended until the night schedule, evidence the priority that has in Camagüey and in the whole country to solve the necessities of those damaged by the recent hurricanes. (Yamylé Fernández Rodríguez).
Efraín Vega González, director of that entity, informed that so far resources coming from the counties of Sancti Spíritus, The Tunas and Santiago de Cuba have been received, to what sink donations of thec Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and other countries.
In the transportation of the tiles, tanks and other elements was of vital importance the support of the managerial sector of Camagüey like the Recuperator of Matters Cousins and the Electric Basic Organization.
The work days in the Provincial Warehouse of the Housing extended until the night schedule, evidence the priority that has in Camagüey and in the whole country to solve the necessities of those damaged by the recent hurricanes. (Yamylé Fernández Rodríguez).
viernes, 26 de diciembre de 2008
US Supreme Court To Revise Cuban Five Case in January 2009
HAVANA, Cuba, Dec 25. The Cuban Five’s defense attorneys will request the US Supreme Court to revise the sentences of their defendants and issue a venue, other than Miami, to held a new trial.
The appeal for justice will be presented at the US Supreme Court before January 30, said one of the prisoners’ defense attorneys Richard Klugh.
The Cuban Five: Rene Gonzalez, Gerardo Hernandez, Antonio Guerrero,
Ramon Labañino and Fernando Gonzalez, have been in prison since
September 12, 1998 for infiltrating counterrevolutionary organizationsin Florida to prevent terrorist attacks against Cuba, reported Prensa Latina.
In an interview with the National Committee to Free the Cuban Five, attorney Richard Klugh pointed out that the appeal will request that allof the sentences be revised, after the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals of Atlanta refused to grant a change of venue, or recognize the misconduct of the prosecution and the improper and discriminatory jury selection in the Cubans’ trial in 2001 held in Miami.
Klugh said one of the fundamental aspects that should be revised by the court is the issue of a new venue, in accordance with US legislation and under any legal system.
“If you have a judge or jury who is likely to be influenced by local passions and pressures, what you have is a mob rule and you don’t have justice in any sense,” noted Klugh about the Miami trial.
Klugh said that in making the appeal the defense team has the assistance of lawyer Thomas Goldstein of the firm Akin Gump, who has lots of experience in cases before the Supreme Court.
The appeal for justice will be presented at the US Supreme Court before January 30, said one of the prisoners’ defense attorneys Richard Klugh.
The Cuban Five: Rene Gonzalez, Gerardo Hernandez, Antonio Guerrero,
Ramon Labañino and Fernando Gonzalez, have been in prison since
September 12, 1998 for infiltrating counterrevolutionary organizationsin Florida to prevent terrorist attacks against Cuba, reported Prensa Latina.
In an interview with the National Committee to Free the Cuban Five, attorney Richard Klugh pointed out that the appeal will request that allof the sentences be revised, after the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals of Atlanta refused to grant a change of venue, or recognize the misconduct of the prosecution and the improper and discriminatory jury selection in the Cubans’ trial in 2001 held in Miami.
Klugh said one of the fundamental aspects that should be revised by the court is the issue of a new venue, in accordance with US legislation and under any legal system.
“If you have a judge or jury who is likely to be influenced by local passions and pressures, what you have is a mob rule and you don’t have justice in any sense,” noted Klugh about the Miami trial.
Klugh said that in making the appeal the defense team has the assistance of lawyer Thomas Goldstein of the firm Akin Gump, who has lots of experience in cases before the Supreme Court.
Artists donate works in greeting to the anniversary 50 of the Revolution
By: Osviel Castro Medel
The Poetic sample of the Creole rooster exhibits 50 donated pieces equally creators' number and will have a permanent space in the provincial museum of Granma, Manuel Muñoz Cedeño.
BAYAMO.—Noted artists of the plastic of Cuba, as Nelson Domínguez, Ever Fonseca, Zaida del Río, Alicia Leal, Nelson Domínguez, Diana Balboa, Agustín Villafaña, among other, participate with their works in an exhibition inaugurated here, dedicated to the anniversary 50 of the Revolution.
The sample, titled Poetic of the Creole rooster, shows 50 donated works equally creators' number and will have a permanent space inside the provincial museum of Granma, Manuel Muñoz Cedeño.
The fundamental motivation of the collection, in which dozens of paintings, drawings and three three-dimensional pieces appear, is the figure of the rooster, symbol of the traditions of the Cuban field.
Ever Fonseca who received a recognition in all the participant artists' representation in the opening of the exhibition, highlighted that the idea was conceived by the UNEAC and the CDR, those which, by means of the project The Rooster of the Revolution, seek to take to diverse places of the country the art of the Cuban cultural vanguard.
Previously several of the creators participated in the inauguration of a similar exhibition that, with other 50 works, was open permanently in the Museum of Fights Peasants, in the remote community of The Banana, in the municipality of Pylon.
This last sample was born of a convocation carried out in the Cuban capital for works of small format. At the begining it was presented in March, in the Memorial José Martí, and after an itinerant journey had like final destination The Banana, terroir of the Commandant of the Revolution Guillermo García Frias.
The Poetic sample of the Creole rooster exhibits 50 donated pieces equally creators' number and will have a permanent space in the provincial museum of Granma, Manuel Muñoz Cedeño.
BAYAMO.—Noted artists of the plastic of Cuba, as Nelson Domínguez, Ever Fonseca, Zaida del Río, Alicia Leal, Nelson Domínguez, Diana Balboa, Agustín Villafaña, among other, participate with their works in an exhibition inaugurated here, dedicated to the anniversary 50 of the Revolution.
The sample, titled Poetic of the Creole rooster, shows 50 donated works equally creators' number and will have a permanent space inside the provincial museum of Granma, Manuel Muñoz Cedeño.
The fundamental motivation of the collection, in which dozens of paintings, drawings and three three-dimensional pieces appear, is the figure of the rooster, symbol of the traditions of the Cuban field.
Ever Fonseca who received a recognition in all the participant artists' representation in the opening of the exhibition, highlighted that the idea was conceived by the UNEAC and the CDR, those which, by means of the project The Rooster of the Revolution, seek to take to diverse places of the country the art of the Cuban cultural vanguard.
Previously several of the creators participated in the inauguration of a similar exhibition that, with other 50 works, was open permanently in the Museum of Fights Peasants, in the remote community of The Banana, in the municipality of Pylon.
This last sample was born of a convocation carried out in the Cuban capital for works of small format. At the begining it was presented in March, in the Memorial José Martí, and after an itinerant journey had like final destination The Banana, terroir of the Commandant of the Revolution Guillermo García Frias.
Workers of the Transport Union greet victory of the Cuban Revolution
Camagüey, Dec 26. - Those more than nine thousand affiliated to the Union of the Transport, in the county of Camagüey, greet the anniversary 50 of the victory of the Revolution, with the execution of the payment of their finances and of the Militias of Territorial Troops (MTT), among other tasks.
The communities of the sector materialized their commitments of help to the Public Health, giving part of their stimulations in foreign currencies; surpassed the established hours of work volunteer and maintained an outstanding work in the donations of blood.
In the stage also stood out in all the tasks of recovery of the transport and of the county in general sense, after the step of the two hurricanes that damaged the economic and social infrastructure of the territory.
Maritza Herrera, General Secretary of the Union of the Transport of Camagüey, congratulated all the workers of the sector for the results that they show in this new anniversary of the Revolution and exhorted them to stay in the vanguard in the reestablishment of the difficulties caused by the nature in the county. (Pablo Cabero Viamontes)
The communities of the sector materialized their commitments of help to the Public Health, giving part of their stimulations in foreign currencies; surpassed the established hours of work volunteer and maintained an outstanding work in the donations of blood.
In the stage also stood out in all the tasks of recovery of the transport and of the county in general sense, after the step of the two hurricanes that damaged the economic and social infrastructure of the territory.
Maritza Herrera, General Secretary of the Union of the Transport of Camagüey, congratulated all the workers of the sector for the results that they show in this new anniversary of the Revolution and exhorted them to stay in the vanguard in the reestablishment of the difficulties caused by the nature in the county. (Pablo Cabero Viamontes)
jueves, 25 de diciembre de 2008
Cuban ministries begin to surrender bills to the Parliament
Havana. Dec 25. (PL) The ministries and central organisms of the State will begin today to surrender bill to the Cuban Parliament whose permanent commissions its previous debates already culminated to the II Ordinary Period of Sessions of their Seventh Legislature.
The ministries of External Trade and of Trade Interior will open this process to upgrade the delegates of the National Assembly of the Popular Power (I Converse).
The commissions of Economic Matters and Constitutional and Legal Matters of the Parliament approved yesterday the verdict of the project of Social security that will be voted on Saturday in plenary session.
The Parliament's president, Ricardo Alarcón, participated in this meeting, where ratified that the State guarantees the social security of the Cubans.
Alarcón explained that this positive sanction registers in moments that millions of people in the world lose that social and economic support with reason of the international crisis.
This is a Law that contemplates the rights for all, while in Latin America and many other parts of the world you lacks them and of the access to the health and the education, he emphasized.
The panorama is different in Cuba that reordered its system of public health and it has contributed this way to improve the situation of the world, as it transcended in the Commission of Health and Sport.
The minister of Public Health, José Ramón Balaguer, explained that the base of the Cuban system is the primary attention.
In turn, the permanent commission of Energy and Environment evaluated the impact of the hurricanes that affected to the country this year, and the answer of the National Electronergrtic System .
The deputies exposed their experiences in the confrontation to those phenomena that caused superior losses to the 10 thousand million dollars.
In the sessions was known that the recovery of the industry of foods, paralyzed after the step of the meteors, already march to 95 percent.
The minister of the Nutritious Industry, Alejandro Rock, explained to Latin Press that this advance obeys the production of urgency in facilities affected in its covers, without neglecting the required hygienic-sanitary conditions
The ministries of External Trade and of Trade Interior will open this process to upgrade the delegates of the National Assembly of the Popular Power (I Converse).
The commissions of Economic Matters and Constitutional and Legal Matters of the Parliament approved yesterday the verdict of the project of Social security that will be voted on Saturday in plenary session.
The Parliament's president, Ricardo Alarcón, participated in this meeting, where ratified that the State guarantees the social security of the Cubans.
Alarcón explained that this positive sanction registers in moments that millions of people in the world lose that social and economic support with reason of the international crisis.
This is a Law that contemplates the rights for all, while in Latin America and many other parts of the world you lacks them and of the access to the health and the education, he emphasized.
The panorama is different in Cuba that reordered its system of public health and it has contributed this way to improve the situation of the world, as it transcended in the Commission of Health and Sport.
The minister of Public Health, José Ramón Balaguer, explained that the base of the Cuban system is the primary attention.
In turn, the permanent commission of Energy and Environment evaluated the impact of the hurricanes that affected to the country this year, and the answer of the National Electronergrtic System .
The deputies exposed their experiences in the confrontation to those phenomena that caused superior losses to the 10 thousand million dollars.
In the sessions was known that the recovery of the industry of foods, paralyzed after the step of the meteors, already march to 95 percent.
The minister of the Nutritious Industry, Alejandro Rock, explained to Latin Press that this advance obeys the production of urgency in facilities affected in its covers, without neglecting the required hygienic-sanitary conditions
Registered contingent of Santa Cruz del Sur that will support the construction of housings
Camagüey, Dec 25. - A new force for the construction of housings was registered this Wednesday in the municipality of Camagüey Santa Cruz del Sur, integrated by residents of that town, very affected by the hurricane Paloma.
More than 100 men integrate the brigade “Camilo Cienfuegos” of the Contingent “Sixth Congress of the Party”, most of them in charge of the construction of 132 apartments of two or three rooms, in typology buildings Sandino.
Another half hundred will leave shortly toward Shipyard, where by means of practical learning will train in the constructive tools, with the purpose of augmenting the forces that will increase the tourist development in Santa Lucía's pole of Camagüey.
When leaving constituted the grouping manufacturer Santa Cruz, the member of the Central Committee and first secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) in the county; Julio Cesar García Rodríguez, highlighted the momentous of the effort that will overturn, in what can already call you the construction of the “other Santa Cruz.”
The registered force this Wednesday, will reinforce the constructive actions of more than 300 housings in buildings in Santa Cruz del Sur, what will propitiate security to residents that inhabit the coast Santa Cruz until the present time, traditionally affected by the hurricanes and the penetration of the sea. (Pedro Paneque Ruiz ).
More than 100 men integrate the brigade “Camilo Cienfuegos” of the Contingent “Sixth Congress of the Party”, most of them in charge of the construction of 132 apartments of two or three rooms, in typology buildings Sandino.
Another half hundred will leave shortly toward Shipyard, where by means of practical learning will train in the constructive tools, with the purpose of augmenting the forces that will increase the tourist development in Santa Lucía's pole of Camagüey.
When leaving constituted the grouping manufacturer Santa Cruz, the member of the Central Committee and first secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) in the county; Julio Cesar García Rodríguez, highlighted the momentous of the effort that will overturn, in what can already call you the construction of the “other Santa Cruz.”
The registered force this Wednesday, will reinforce the constructive actions of more than 300 housings in buildings in Santa Cruz del Sur, what will propitiate security to residents that inhabit the coast Santa Cruz until the present time, traditionally affected by the hurricanes and the penetration of the sea. (Pedro Paneque Ruiz ).
miércoles, 24 de diciembre de 2008
Celebrated in Russia anniversary 50 of the Cuban Revolution
Havana, Dec 24 . - Cultural veiled, competitions of infantile drawings, confers and other activities are carried out in Russia in back to the Cuban Revolution in its 50 anniversary.
As part of those celebrations was presented in Moscow and in San Petersburgo the edition in Russian of the book A hundred Hours with Fidel, under the title Biography to two voices.
The Russian movement of solidarity we will win- that agglutinates to the labor movement of Moscow and organizations of leftist orientation - gave to the diplomatic mission of the Island an official statement in which expresses its admiration for the bigger than the Antilles.
Anatoli Lashin, coordinator of that organization, described as true feat the fact that Cuba, during 50 years, builds a socialist society practically to some steps of United States, the imperialistic superpower.
He said that the prowess is even bigger when that socio-political project is built under a permanent hostility and the application of an aggressive politics, as the economic, commercial and financial blockade that tries to surrender to the Cuban town.
"The Cuban geste deserves total admiration and we trust in that the Revolution will resist and will remain as guide's lighthouse for other towns in the planet", Lashin underlined.
As part of those celebrations was presented in Moscow and in San Petersburgo the edition in Russian of the book A hundred Hours with Fidel, under the title Biography to two voices.
The Russian movement of solidarity we will win- that agglutinates to the labor movement of Moscow and organizations of leftist orientation - gave to the diplomatic mission of the Island an official statement in which expresses its admiration for the bigger than the Antilles.
Anatoli Lashin, coordinator of that organization, described as true feat the fact that Cuba, during 50 years, builds a socialist society practically to some steps of United States, the imperialistic superpower.
He said that the prowess is even bigger when that socio-political project is built under a permanent hostility and the application of an aggressive politics, as the economic, commercial and financial blockade that tries to surrender to the Cuban town.
"The Cuban geste deserves total admiration and we trust in that the Revolution will resist and will remain as guide's lighthouse for other towns in the planet", Lashin underlined.
martes, 23 de diciembre de 2008
Cuba Will Participate in Expo Shanghai 2010
HAVANA, Cuba, Dec 23 (acn) Cuba will be present in Expo Shanghai 2010 that will take place in this Chinese city with a pavilion of 500 square meters located in an area reserved for Latin American countries.
The announcement was made by the Cuban ambassador in China, Carlos Miguel Pereira, who added that Cuba is working hard to prepare its exhibition for this important event that will be attended by more than 150 countries.
During a ceremony to sign a contract that accredits the Caribbean nation’s participation in Expo Shanghai 2010, Pereira recalled that Cuba was one of the first countries to confirm its attendance and that a National Organizing Commission was created for this purpose.
For his part, Hong Hao, head of the Coordinating Bureau of the event,also recalled that 2010 will mark the 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Cuba and China.
Hao added that Expo Shanghai 2010 will be an excellent opportunity to explore common businesses and to strengthen cooperation in several sectors.
The exhibition, which will take place between May and October 2010, will include more than 20,000 activities and it is expected to draw the attention from nearly 70 million visitors, according to the organizers of the event.
The announcement was made by the Cuban ambassador in China, Carlos Miguel Pereira, who added that Cuba is working hard to prepare its exhibition for this important event that will be attended by more than 150 countries.
During a ceremony to sign a contract that accredits the Caribbean nation’s participation in Expo Shanghai 2010, Pereira recalled that Cuba was one of the first countries to confirm its attendance and that a National Organizing Commission was created for this purpose.
For his part, Hong Hao, head of the Coordinating Bureau of the event,also recalled that 2010 will mark the 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Cuba and China.
Hao added that Expo Shanghai 2010 will be an excellent opportunity to explore common businesses and to strengthen cooperation in several sectors.
The exhibition, which will take place between May and October 2010, will include more than 20,000 activities and it is expected to draw the attention from nearly 70 million visitors, according to the organizers of the event.
Hot welcome in Athens to the National Ballet of Cuba
Havana, Dec 23.The National Ballet of Cuba (BNC) was warmly welcomed in their first presentation in Athens, Greece, after 25 years of absence.
In the Room Tanti, the main of the Cultural Complex Megaron, the public enjoyed the work Don Quijote, with scenery of Salvador Fernández, and interpreted day for the new generation of dancers, refers today Granma Newspaper.
The first claps were for the dance body, but the most lingering were for Viengsay Valdés and Romel Frómeta, Regina Hernández, Amaya Rodríguez and Aymara Rodríguez.
The audience, foot setting, shouted Alicia Alonso, when when concluding the function she appeared in the scenary escorted by Frómeta and the dancer Javier Torres.
The BNC will remain in Athens until next day 30, in a dance season that includes, also, the ballet Giselle.
In the Room Tanti, the main of the Cultural Complex Megaron, the public enjoyed the work Don Quijote, with scenery of Salvador Fernández, and interpreted day for the new generation of dancers, refers today Granma Newspaper.
The first claps were for the dance body, but the most lingering were for Viengsay Valdés and Romel Frómeta, Regina Hernández, Amaya Rodríguez and Aymara Rodríguez.
The audience, foot setting, shouted Alicia Alonso, when when concluding the function she appeared in the scenary escorted by Frómeta and the dancer Javier Torres.
The BNC will remain in Athens until next day 30, in a dance season that includes, also, the ballet Giselle.
Pioneers have reissued liberation of the towns for 50 years
By.Eduardo Luis Martin
Santa Clara, Dec 23. With the symbolic taking of Placetas and Manicaragua for the pioneers, today the fight will have been remembered for 50 years of the Rebellious Army, against the forces of the tyranny in those towns of Villa Clara.
The emancipatory geste well-known for Campaign of The Villages that the Commandant Ernesto Guevara directed in the central region of Cuba, began October 27, 1958 with the attack to the barracks of Güinía of Miranda in the hills of the Escambray to those that followed other actions.
For these days the small ones with their uniforms green olive , the bracelet of the Movement July 26 and Cuban flags, stage assaults to the old rural guard's barracks and park of the police that defended the régime that wrong governed to the country before 1959.
The pioneers reissued the fight liberated by the Column Eight Ciro Redondo in the town of Báez and the taking of the barracks of Zulueta, in charge of forces directed by the Commandant Camilo Cienfuegos in the north front of Las Villas.
The municipalities of Remedios and Caibarién will also carry out respectively the days 25 and 26, the symbolic takings and acts for the Anniversary 50 of the revolutionary victory, and starting from the 28 the recall of Santa Clara's Battle will begin with the assault of the different combat places in the city.
The new generations will sustain meetings with members of the Association of Combatants of the Cuban Revolution who will talk about the liberation war in which participated and the internationalists missions played by the Cubans in other lands.
Santa Clara, Dec 23. With the symbolic taking of Placetas and Manicaragua for the pioneers, today the fight will have been remembered for 50 years of the Rebellious Army, against the forces of the tyranny in those towns of Villa Clara.
The emancipatory geste well-known for Campaign of The Villages that the Commandant Ernesto Guevara directed in the central region of Cuba, began October 27, 1958 with the attack to the barracks of Güinía of Miranda in the hills of the Escambray to those that followed other actions.
For these days the small ones with their uniforms green olive , the bracelet of the Movement July 26 and Cuban flags, stage assaults to the old rural guard's barracks and park of the police that defended the régime that wrong governed to the country before 1959.
The pioneers reissued the fight liberated by the Column Eight Ciro Redondo in the town of Báez and the taking of the barracks of Zulueta, in charge of forces directed by the Commandant Camilo Cienfuegos in the north front of Las Villas.
The municipalities of Remedios and Caibarién will also carry out respectively the days 25 and 26, the symbolic takings and acts for the Anniversary 50 of the revolutionary victory, and starting from the 28 the recall of Santa Clara's Battle will begin with the assault of the different combat places in the city.
The new generations will sustain meetings with members of the Association of Combatants of the Cuban Revolution who will talk about the liberation war in which participated and the internationalists missions played by the Cubans in other lands.
lunes, 22 de diciembre de 2008
The Cuban teachers are congratulated in their day.
Havana, Dec 22. The work of the Cuban teachers was recognized, at times of taking place today its day, for the ministries of Education (MINED) and of Superior Education (MES), and the Federation of Cuban Women (FMC).
In messages published in Granma Newspaper, those institutions praise the effort of the educators who participated in the recovery of the damages caused by the hurricanes next to the rest of the town and restarted the school course in a short time.
"It pleases us to congratulate to all those that, like part of our hardened town, toasted, since any part, their contribution to the development and continuity to that great work that it is the Education", expressed the text of the MINED.
On the other hand, the MES highlights the work of those who alphabetize in other countries, and it points out that this day for the educator that is celebrated in eve of the anniversary 50 of the victory of the Revolution, finds the workers of the Education with the satisfaction of the fulfilled duty.
"We will continue narrowing the valuable bond among the school, the family, the neighborhood and the community to educate our children, so that continues growing the capacity to think and to create of those who share today this pleasing moment of happiness and revolutionary pride", the FMC underlines.
In messages published in Granma Newspaper, those institutions praise the effort of the educators who participated in the recovery of the damages caused by the hurricanes next to the rest of the town and restarted the school course in a short time.
"It pleases us to congratulate to all those that, like part of our hardened town, toasted, since any part, their contribution to the development and continuity to that great work that it is the Education", expressed the text of the MINED.
On the other hand, the MES highlights the work of those who alphabetize in other countries, and it points out that this day for the educator that is celebrated in eve of the anniversary 50 of the victory of the Revolution, finds the workers of the Education with the satisfaction of the fulfilled duty.
"We will continue narrowing the valuable bond among the school, the family, the neighborhood and the community to educate our children, so that continues growing the capacity to think and to create of those who share today this pleasing moment of happiness and revolutionary pride", the FMC underlines.
viernes, 19 de diciembre de 2008
Order Frank País to Teachers of Camagüey.
By: María del Carmen Fuentes. Television Camagüey.
The work of infinite love that is the education, deserves for its makers multiple recognitions. In the day to them dedicated in Cuba-declared FreeTerritory of Illiteracy for 47 years -, severalteachers of Camagüey received the highest stimuli.
The connotation of this moment is the bonus to so much effort and dedication for the human growth through the knowledge.
A total of seven teachers of Camagüey was worthy for its exemplary attitude of the Order Frank País of II grade that grants the Council of State of the Republic of Cuba, to proposal of the Ministry of Education. To other nine were awarded the Medal José Tey, given it outstanding work in the organization and school administration.
The solemn ceremony took place in the Living room Guillén of the historical combined monumentary of the Square of the Revolution Bigger General Ignacio Agramonte yLoynaz of Camagüey. There also was meant to a group of professors with the “Distinction for the Cuban education”. Equally who for more than 20 years have been consecrated to the teaching, they received the distinction “Rafael María de Mendive.”
The municipalities Guáimaro, Céspedes, Sibanicú and Vertientes, as well as Computer Science's Polytechnic Institute “Maximum Gómez” and the School of Sport Initiation “Cerro Pelado” conquered a special recognition.
Julio Cesar García Rodríguez, First Secretary of the PCC in Camagüey, ennobled the paper of the educators in the revolutionary history of the Island.
“We have an extraordinary pedagogic flow that comes from the time of Varela, Mendive…, teachers' teachers. And you are the continuity of that formed tradition of values, of behaviors, of ideology. For that reason you deserve the most important recognitions.”
The work of infinite love that is the education, deserves for its makers multiple recognitions. In the day to them dedicated in Cuba-declared FreeTerritory of Illiteracy for 47 years -, severalteachers of Camagüey received the highest stimuli.
The connotation of this moment is the bonus to so much effort and dedication for the human growth through the knowledge.
A total of seven teachers of Camagüey was worthy for its exemplary attitude of the Order Frank País of II grade that grants the Council of State of the Republic of Cuba, to proposal of the Ministry of Education. To other nine were awarded the Medal José Tey, given it outstanding work in the organization and school administration.
The solemn ceremony took place in the Living room Guillén of the historical combined monumentary of the Square of the Revolution Bigger General Ignacio Agramonte yLoynaz of Camagüey. There also was meant to a group of professors with the “Distinction for the Cuban education”. Equally who for more than 20 years have been consecrated to the teaching, they received the distinction “Rafael María de Mendive.”
The municipalities Guáimaro, Céspedes, Sibanicú and Vertientes, as well as Computer Science's Polytechnic Institute “Maximum Gómez” and the School of Sport Initiation “Cerro Pelado” conquered a special recognition.
Julio Cesar García Rodríguez, First Secretary of the PCC in Camagüey, ennobled the paper of the educators in the revolutionary history of the Island.
“We have an extraordinary pedagogic flow that comes from the time of Varela, Mendive…, teachers' teachers. And you are the continuity of that formed tradition of values, of behaviors, of ideology. For that reason you deserve the most important recognitions.”
Grant the Cuban poet Luis Marré National Prize of Literature
The writer was recognized by his sustained poetic quality and also for the values of his narrative and critical texts .
To one of the most outstanding Cuban poets in the Generation of the 50, to Luis Marré, was granted the National Prize of Literature 2008, inform today the AIN.
The jury presided over by the writer Humberto Arenal concluded the night of this Thursday his deliberations after the analysis of the proposals with big taxes to the Cuban literature, and he kept in mind the laureate sustained quality of the poetic .
The note promoted by that tribunal specifies that the values of the narrative and critical texts of Marré stood out, and especially that his verses join culture and sensibility, subjectivity and daily reality.
With a language of seductor master, elegant and balanced, he knew how to conjugate the classic inspiration with the renovating airs of the vanguard, points out in the act the jury that was integrated, also, by Nara Araújo, Basilia Papastamatiu, Waldo Leyva, Francisco López Sacha, Omar Felipe Mauri and Sigfredo Ariel.
Marré is one of the most outstanding Cuban poets,his work understands a dozen of poemaries and two anthologies of his own chore, and he already reached a place of honor in the literature since the publication of his notebook. The eyes in the cool air (1962).
He is founder of the Union of Writers and artists of Cuba (UNEAC), he was for much time of poetry, and he is magnificent expert of the Cuban poetic movement.
The National Prize of Literature 2008 will be given him, like it is already tradition, in next February, like part of the program of the XVIII International Fair of the Book, concludes this agency.
To one of the most outstanding Cuban poets in the Generation of the 50, to Luis Marré, was granted the National Prize of Literature 2008, inform today the AIN.
The jury presided over by the writer Humberto Arenal concluded the night of this Thursday his deliberations after the analysis of the proposals with big taxes to the Cuban literature, and he kept in mind the laureate sustained quality of the poetic .
The note promoted by that tribunal specifies that the values of the narrative and critical texts of Marré stood out, and especially that his verses join culture and sensibility, subjectivity and daily reality.
With a language of seductor master, elegant and balanced, he knew how to conjugate the classic inspiration with the renovating airs of the vanguard, points out in the act the jury that was integrated, also, by Nara Araújo, Basilia Papastamatiu, Waldo Leyva, Francisco López Sacha, Omar Felipe Mauri and Sigfredo Ariel.
Marré is one of the most outstanding Cuban poets,his work understands a dozen of poemaries and two anthologies of his own chore, and he already reached a place of honor in the literature since the publication of his notebook. The eyes in the cool air (1962).
He is founder of the Union of Writers and artists of Cuba (UNEAC), he was for much time of poetry, and he is magnificent expert of the Cuban poetic movement.
The National Prize of Literature 2008 will be given him, like it is already tradition, in next February, like part of the program of the XVIII International Fair of the Book, concludes this agency.
Acted in Camagüey “Patch” Adams
By:Lucilo Tejera Díaz
Camagüey, Dec19.The American doctor Hunter “Patch” Adams, worldwide well-known as The Doctor of the Laugh, was presented in the county, with performances in this city and in that of Santa Cruz del Sur.
Accompanied by students and professionals of the state of Virginia, Adams traveled with the cast of the Cuban company of infantile theater La Colmenita, to act before the families of that southern town, severely damaged for the step of the hurricane Paloma.
The digital version of the Adelante newspaper, informs that for the first time children of La Colmenita, grouping declared by the Fund of United Nations for the Childhood UNICEF as Ambassador of Good Will, intruded with the famous mime, in a show of this type.
In the city of Camagüey Adams was presented before small entered in the pediatric hospital, and in the University of Camagüey where remain evacuated for “Paloma.”
Also, Carlos dialogued with students and professors of the Superior Institute of Medical Sciences J. Finlay to who he explained the innovation of his gratuitous cures without the farmacs necessity.
Adams (Washington AD, 1943) promotes alternative means of cure of sick and is the inventor of the laugh theraphy with medical and and therapeutic ends, and the responsible for the inclusion of this in the modern medicine.
He also acts as social activist, diplomat, professional clown, actor and author.
His life was taken to the cinema in 1998 in the film “Patch Adams”, played by Robin Williams.
Camagüey, Dec19.The American doctor Hunter “Patch” Adams, worldwide well-known as The Doctor of the Laugh, was presented in the county, with performances in this city and in that of Santa Cruz del Sur.
Accompanied by students and professionals of the state of Virginia, Adams traveled with the cast of the Cuban company of infantile theater La Colmenita, to act before the families of that southern town, severely damaged for the step of the hurricane Paloma.
The digital version of the Adelante newspaper, informs that for the first time children of La Colmenita, grouping declared by the Fund of United Nations for the Childhood UNICEF as Ambassador of Good Will, intruded with the famous mime, in a show of this type.
In the city of Camagüey Adams was presented before small entered in the pediatric hospital, and in the University of Camagüey where remain evacuated for “Paloma.”
Also, Carlos dialogued with students and professors of the Superior Institute of Medical Sciences J. Finlay to who he explained the innovation of his gratuitous cures without the farmacs necessity.
Adams (Washington AD, 1943) promotes alternative means of cure of sick and is the inventor of the laugh theraphy with medical and and therapeutic ends, and the responsible for the inclusion of this in the modern medicine.
He also acts as social activist, diplomat, professional clown, actor and author.
His life was taken to the cinema in 1998 in the film “Patch Adams”, played by Robin Williams.
Machado Ventura hihglighted decisive contribution of the cuban woman.
Guantánamo, Dec 19. - The woman's decisive contribution in different spheres of the Cuban society, was outstanding this Thursday in the city of Guantánamo by José Ramón Machado Ventura, first vice-president of the Council of State and of Secretaries.
The also Member of the Political Desk of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC), intervened in the Provincial Assembly of the Federation of Cuban Women (FMC), where underlined, however that the contribution of the women can be bigger still.
The main task of the organization is to contribute toboost the tasks of the Revolution, Machado Ventura emphasized, in back to the words of a delegate to this meeting, with which the previous process culminated in the county to the VIII Congress of the organization.
The ideological political work with the woman, particularly with the youngest, should arrive until the block or more intricate delegation,said the First Cuban Vice-president.
Next to Machado Ventura were in the meeting the members of the Central Committee of the PCC, Yolanda Ferrer, general secretary of the FMC, and Luis Torres Iríbar, first secretary of the PCC in Guantánamo.
The also Member of the Political Desk of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC), intervened in the Provincial Assembly of the Federation of Cuban Women (FMC), where underlined, however that the contribution of the women can be bigger still.
The main task of the organization is to contribute toboost the tasks of the Revolution, Machado Ventura emphasized, in back to the words of a delegate to this meeting, with which the previous process culminated in the county to the VIII Congress of the organization.
The ideological political work with the woman, particularly with the youngest, should arrive until the block or more intricate delegation,said the First Cuban Vice-president.
Next to Machado Ventura were in the meeting the members of the Central Committee of the PCC, Yolanda Ferrer, general secretary of the FMC, and Luis Torres Iríbar, first secretary of the PCC in Guantánamo.
Machado Ventura hihglighted decisive contribution of the cuban woman.
Guantánamo, Dec 19. - The woman's decisive contribution in different spheres of the Cuban society, was outstanding this Thursday in the city of Guantánamo by José Ramón Machado Ventura, first vice-president of the Council of State and of Secretaries.
The also Member of the Political Desk of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC), intervened in the Provincial Assembly of the Federation of Cuban Women (FMC), where underlined, however that the contribution of the women can be bigger still.
The main task of the organization is to contribute toboost the tasks of the Revolution, Machado Ventura emphasized, in back to the words of a delegate to this meeting, with which the previous process culminated in the county to the VIII Congress of the organization.
The ideological political work with the woman, particularly with the youngest, should arrive until the block or more intricate delegation,said the First Cuban Vice-president.
Next to Machado Ventura were in the meeting the members of the Central Committee of the PCC, Yolanda Ferrer, general secretary of the FMC, and Luis Torres Iríbar, first secretary of the PCC in Guantánamo.
The also Member of the Political Desk of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC), intervened in the Provincial Assembly of the Federation of Cuban Women (FMC), where underlined, however that the contribution of the women can be bigger still.
The main task of the organization is to contribute toboost the tasks of the Revolution, Machado Ventura emphasized, in back to the words of a delegate to this meeting, with which the previous process culminated in the county to the VIII Congress of the organization.
The ideological political work with the woman, particularly with the youngest, should arrive until the block or more intricate delegation,said the First Cuban Vice-president.
Next to Machado Ventura were in the meeting the members of the Central Committee of the PCC, Yolanda Ferrer, general secretary of the FMC, and Luis Torres Iríbar, first secretary of the PCC in Guantánamo.
Began the milling in Camagüey
By:Lucilo Tejera Díaz
Camagüey, Dec 19. The sugar harvest began today in the county of Camagüey, determined to take out the maximum profit to the available cane, after the step of two hurricanes for its territory.
The central Batalla de las Guásimas began the milling in early hours of this morning, and it is expected that in next hours other two geniuses enter in operations.
The tests locate the brix (extracted content in the shafts) around the 18 percentage points, favorable level for the beginning of the cut in this time.
Camagüey spect to carry out the crop during 108 days and will maintain in the campaign at five of their eight industries.
The damages caused to the plantations by the meteors Ike and Paloma, in September and November, with adverse impact in the agricultural and industrial yields, are the fundamental cause so that the production of raw falls by 20 percent in connection with the precedent season.
Before such a problem, the county organized the harvest to assure the gathering of the gramineous in the fields and to get milled high and stable in the factories, in order to achieve high extractions in the millings and with the biggest possible quantity of sugar.
The crop will be in charge of 198 machines and cutters of the canes units combatants of the Young Army of the Work and volunteers mobilized by the Power station of Workers of Cuba.
Camagüey, Dec 19. The sugar harvest began today in the county of Camagüey, determined to take out the maximum profit to the available cane, after the step of two hurricanes for its territory.
The central Batalla de las Guásimas began the milling in early hours of this morning, and it is expected that in next hours other two geniuses enter in operations.
The tests locate the brix (extracted content in the shafts) around the 18 percentage points, favorable level for the beginning of the cut in this time.
Camagüey spect to carry out the crop during 108 days and will maintain in the campaign at five of their eight industries.
The damages caused to the plantations by the meteors Ike and Paloma, in September and November, with adverse impact in the agricultural and industrial yields, are the fundamental cause so that the production of raw falls by 20 percent in connection with the precedent season.
Before such a problem, the county organized the harvest to assure the gathering of the gramineous in the fields and to get milled high and stable in the factories, in order to achieve high extractions in the millings and with the biggest possible quantity of sugar.
The crop will be in charge of 198 machines and cutters of the canes units combatants of the Young Army of the Work and volunteers mobilized by the Power station of Workers of Cuba.
jueves, 18 de diciembre de 2008
In Camagüey The Warehouse of the Image
By:Adolfo Silva Silva
Camagüey, Dec 18. The Audiovisual Sample The Warehouse of the Image returned to this city, permanent headquarters of aI compete international for authors of until 35 years of age that gathers in the current appointment to more than 100 works.
The calendar of the projections will begin today Thursday in the night, in the cinema Guerrero, after being inaugurated in the eve the XVIII edition of the forum, of annual celebration.
Documental, video clips y animated figure among the eight categories of the competition whose convocation embraces to sectors like television and educational centers, and independent makers.
Favored by the Association Siblings Saíz, also includes wokrshops about the topics Language and look and The dramaturgy in the audiovisual gender.
The great prize Lights of the City head the rewards that will be given on Sunday at night.
The audiovisual sphere in the county of Camagüey has, besides the one referred meeting, components as a net of local radio stations of television, branches of university careers and several contests.
Camagüey, Dec 18. The Audiovisual Sample The Warehouse of the Image returned to this city, permanent headquarters of aI compete international for authors of until 35 years of age that gathers in the current appointment to more than 100 works.
The calendar of the projections will begin today Thursday in the night, in the cinema Guerrero, after being inaugurated in the eve the XVIII edition of the forum, of annual celebration.
Documental, video clips y animated figure among the eight categories of the competition whose convocation embraces to sectors like television and educational centers, and independent makers.
Favored by the Association Siblings Saíz, also includes wokrshops about the topics Language and look and The dramaturgy in the audiovisual gender.
The great prize Lights of the City head the rewards that will be given on Sunday at night.
The audiovisual sphere in the county of Camagüey has, besides the one referred meeting, components as a net of local radio stations of television, branches of university careers and several contests.
Constituted in Camagüey first Brigade of Mental Health for disaster situations.
In Camagüey was constituted the first brigade of the defectólogos of the country , sichiatras, psychologists, social workers, male nurses and therapists that will identify in situations of natural disasters and the affected population's psychic dysfunctions will intervene.
Communities of Camagüey strongly whipped by the last hurricanes tha were already attended by this group of mental Health that also acted in the evacuation centers.
Yohany Chirino, provincial coordinator of the operative group of Mental Health assured to the press that now, after the step of the hurricane Paloma for the territory agramontino, are evaluating the damages and then they will continue qualifying the personnel of health that integrates this group to be able to develop a work before and during and after the territory is whipped by these meteorological phenomena.
Pioneer Camagüey in this idea, the Provincial brigade of Mental Health for situations of Disasters will have the support in the municipalities of the Community centers of mental Health a project that in a country like ours constantly whipped by hurricanes should extend to all the counties.
Communities of Camagüey strongly whipped by the last hurricanes tha were already attended by this group of mental Health that also acted in the evacuation centers.
Yohany Chirino, provincial coordinator of the operative group of Mental Health assured to the press that now, after the step of the hurricane Paloma for the territory agramontino, are evaluating the damages and then they will continue qualifying the personnel of health that integrates this group to be able to develop a work before and during and after the territory is whipped by these meteorological phenomena.
Pioneer Camagüey in this idea, the Provincial brigade of Mental Health for situations of Disasters will have the support in the municipalities of the Community centers of mental Health a project that in a country like ours constantly whipped by hurricanes should extend to all the counties.
Recognized in Camagüey cultural work of the Orchestra Maravilla de Florida and Maraguán.
The Municipal Popular Power of Camagüey gave the replic of the shield of this city to the orchestra Maravilla de Florida and a special recognition to the grouping Maraguán would dance.
The Maravilla de Florida turned recently sixty years of having been founded. Integrated by noted musicians this orchestra continues being file to a rhythm, a tradition and a cultural identity that distinguishes them for their special way of interpreting the Cuban music.
Maraguán, grouping integrated by university youths, rampart of the dance interpreted by fans is characterized to be exponents of the most autochthonous roots in our culture would dance in national and international festivals.
The Maravilla de Florida turned recently sixty years of having been founded. Integrated by noted musicians this orchestra continues being file to a rhythm, a tradition and a cultural identity that distinguishes them for their special way of interpreting the Cuban music.
Maraguán, grouping integrated by university youths, rampart of the dance interpreted by fans is characterized to be exponents of the most autochthonous roots in our culture would dance in national and international festivals.
miércoles, 17 de diciembre de 2008
Take place in Galicia anniversary 50 of the Cuban Revolution
Havana, Dec 17.With an act in Santiago de Compostela the celebrations continued in Galicia for the anniversary 50 of the victory of the Cuban Revolution.
The meeting took place in the International Center of Press with the Fernando Salgado participation , general secretary of the local government Communication, and Luis Caramés, professor of Applied Economy of the University of Santiago of Compostela, informs an office of Latin Press.
Alejandro Fuentes, general consul of Cuba for Galicia, Asturias and Cantabria, highlighted the transcendency of the victory of the Cuban Revolution the first of January of 1959 that converted to the town-he said - in free and real actor of his own history.”
The speaker offered a panoramic on the development and achievements of the Island in the last five decades, marked almost since the beginning for the hostility, aggressions and the blockade of the United States.
In that sense, he reiterated the demand of his country for the liberation of Five fighters antiterrorists Cuban political prisoners for more than 10 years in North American jails.
He exposed on the collaboration toasted by Cuba to dozens of countries, and he thanked the help received by the Cubans to face the damages caused by three hurricanes that razed the Island some months ago.
Before the act, Fuentes and Carames offered a press conference in which the professor highlighted the narrow cultivated bonds between Galician and Cuban “for reasons that-he said - the emigration converted in historical.”
The meeting took place in the International Center of Press with the Fernando Salgado participation , general secretary of the local government Communication, and Luis Caramés, professor of Applied Economy of the University of Santiago of Compostela, informs an office of Latin Press.
Alejandro Fuentes, general consul of Cuba for Galicia, Asturias and Cantabria, highlighted the transcendency of the victory of the Cuban Revolution the first of January of 1959 that converted to the town-he said - in free and real actor of his own history.”
The speaker offered a panoramic on the development and achievements of the Island in the last five decades, marked almost since the beginning for the hostility, aggressions and the blockade of the United States.
In that sense, he reiterated the demand of his country for the liberation of Five fighters antiterrorists Cuban political prisoners for more than 10 years in North American jails.
He exposed on the collaboration toasted by Cuba to dozens of countries, and he thanked the help received by the Cubans to face the damages caused by three hurricanes that razed the Island some months ago.
Before the act, Fuentes and Carames offered a press conference in which the professor highlighted the narrow cultivated bonds between Galician and Cuban “for reasons that-he said - the emigration converted in historical.”
Will act in Camagüey theatrical Polish group.
By:Adolfo Silva Silva
Camagüey, Dec 17. One of the main Polish companies of theater, denominated street theater Biuro Podrozy, will act tonight in the Square of San Juan de Dios , of this city.
Included in a signal theatrical day until Saturday, the grouping will offer the work “Cerdópolis”, in an area of the century XVIII declared National Monument.
Been founded in 1988 in the town of Poznan by Pawel Szkotat, the cast is headed by that artist who received in the current year the prize granted to the best director in the International Festival of Theater of Teheran, Iran.
The Provincial Council of the Scenic Arts announced to the AIN that in the current cultural appointment, dedicated to the 50 anniversary of the victory of the Cuban Revolution, will participate collective of four counties, besides the representation of Poland.
The list, of nine groups, includes among others to Estudio Buendía and Theater of the Gentleman, both of the capital of the country; Estro de Montecallado, of the county of Havana; Paquelé, of Sancti Spíritus, and Teatro del Viento and La Edad de Oro, of Camagüey.
Camagüey, Dec 17. One of the main Polish companies of theater, denominated street theater Biuro Podrozy, will act tonight in the Square of San Juan de Dios , of this city.
Included in a signal theatrical day until Saturday, the grouping will offer the work “Cerdópolis”, in an area of the century XVIII declared National Monument.
Been founded in 1988 in the town of Poznan by Pawel Szkotat, the cast is headed by that artist who received in the current year the prize granted to the best director in the International Festival of Theater of Teheran, Iran.
The Provincial Council of the Scenic Arts announced to the AIN that in the current cultural appointment, dedicated to the 50 anniversary of the victory of the Cuban Revolution, will participate collective of four counties, besides the representation of Poland.
The list, of nine groups, includes among others to Estudio Buendía and Theater of the Gentleman, both of the capital of the country; Estro de Montecallado, of the county of Havana; Paquelé, of Sancti Spíritus, and Teatro del Viento and La Edad de Oro, of Camagüey.
martes, 16 de diciembre de 2008
Quick recovery of fishing company of Camagüey
By:Lucilo Tejera Díaz
Santa Cruz del Sur, Dec16.The fishing and industrial company EPISUR, with base in this city of the county of Camagüey, shows a quick recovery of the severe damages caused by the hurricane Paloma, at the beginning of November.
The industrial area of the entity suffered considerable affectations in its system of cold (refrigerators, drivers and production of ice), among other damages.
Asdel Fuentes, of the team of boss of EPISUR, assured to the AIN that however, that part of the company is completely reestablished.
At this time the industry processes shrimp of the ponds of intensive cultivation in the proximities of the town, and lobster of the fleet dedicated to this fishing in the platform of the Caribbean Sea.
The official added that of the eight ships collapsed by the winds of the meteor and the violent penetration of the sea, two were recovered, and to the other ones were taken out his motors and accessories.
Apart from the rehabilitation works that are carried out still, EPISUR is buried in the repair of the ships that will begin by the middle of the coming January the shrimp capture in next waters to the cayería of” The 12 Leagues” or “Gardens of the Queen”, in the south of the county.
Santa Cruz del Sur, Dec16.The fishing and industrial company EPISUR, with base in this city of the county of Camagüey, shows a quick recovery of the severe damages caused by the hurricane Paloma, at the beginning of November.
The industrial area of the entity suffered considerable affectations in its system of cold (refrigerators, drivers and production of ice), among other damages.
Asdel Fuentes, of the team of boss of EPISUR, assured to the AIN that however, that part of the company is completely reestablished.
At this time the industry processes shrimp of the ponds of intensive cultivation in the proximities of the town, and lobster of the fleet dedicated to this fishing in the platform of the Caribbean Sea.
The official added that of the eight ships collapsed by the winds of the meteor and the violent penetration of the sea, two were recovered, and to the other ones were taken out his motors and accessories.
Apart from the rehabilitation works that are carried out still, EPISUR is buried in the repair of the ships that will begin by the middle of the coming January the shrimp capture in next waters to the cayería of” The 12 Leagues” or “Gardens of the Queen”, in the south of the county.
Peasants of Camagüey donate foods
By:Lucilo Tejera Díaz
Camagüey, Dec 16. The affiliated peasants in the county of Camagüey to the National Association of Small Farmers (ANAP), donated in the year more than 55 tons of agricultural foods to assistance institutions.
Solidary practice that turn for several years, the contribution carries out monthly and consists on viandas, vegetables, grains, citric, fruits and species, besides cheese, eggs and bee honey.
The benefitted centers are 18 maternal homes, two for children without help branch, three of old men and the one of physical and mental handicapped, and also 10 infantile circles.
In that contribution intervene cooperative of Agricultural Production (CPA) and of Credits and Services (CCS), and the contribution of the current year means an I mount of about 36 thousand pesos.
That participation reinforces the feeding of the patients and children in the institutions.
After the impact to Camagüey in September of the hurricane Ike, the CCS Alfredo López Brito, of Sancti Spíritus, paid gratuitously around 10 tons of agricultural products to several of assistance centers to replace the deficit for the damages of the meteor.
Camagüey, Dec 16. The affiliated peasants in the county of Camagüey to the National Association of Small Farmers (ANAP), donated in the year more than 55 tons of agricultural foods to assistance institutions.
Solidary practice that turn for several years, the contribution carries out monthly and consists on viandas, vegetables, grains, citric, fruits and species, besides cheese, eggs and bee honey.
The benefitted centers are 18 maternal homes, two for children without help branch, three of old men and the one of physical and mental handicapped, and also 10 infantile circles.
In that contribution intervene cooperative of Agricultural Production (CPA) and of Credits and Services (CCS), and the contribution of the current year means an I mount of about 36 thousand pesos.
That participation reinforces the feeding of the patients and children in the institutions.
After the impact to Camagüey in September of the hurricane Ike, the CCS Alfredo López Brito, of Sancti Spíritus, paid gratuitously around 10 tons of agricultural products to several of assistance centers to replace the deficit for the damages of the meteor.
sábado, 13 de diciembre de 2008
Raúl arrives to Venezuela in official visit
The General of Army Raúl Castro Ruz, President of the Council of State and of Ministers, begins today an official visit to the sister Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, completing a President's invitation, Hugo Chávez Frías.
This visit will contribute to deepen the excellent existent relationships between our towns and governments.
Raúl will continue trip to Brazil to participate in the Summit of Latin America and the Caribbean about Integration and Development that will take place in Salvador of Bay, Brazil, the days 16 and 17 of December.
This visit will contribute to deepen the excellent existent relationships between our towns and governments.
Raúl will continue trip to Brazil to participate in the Summit of Latin America and the Caribbean about Integration and Development that will take place in Salvador of Bay, Brazil, the days 16 and 17 of December.
jueves, 11 de diciembre de 2008
Choosen a Cuban for World Organization of Theater
Havana, Dec 11. Carlos Alberto Cremata, director of the Cuban infantile company La Colmenita will represent Latin America in the Permanent Committee of the Childhood and the Youth of the World Organization of Theater.
In declarations published in the Juventud rebelde newspaper, the artist said that with this appointment "the important work is recognizing that Cuba has carried out in particular in favor of the theater and of the culture in general.
To only some hours that the team that drives left toward Spain and Portugal, Cremata said that the Committee in charge of the World Festivals of Theater made by children, and the Congresses World Drama in Education, knows and admires to La Colmenita.
In what subtracts of year, the grouping will remain in Spanish earth, where they will present its works The Martina Cockroach and The Cinderella according to the Beatles.
With numerous international and national prizes, La Colmenita was designated in October of 2007 as Ambassador of Good Will of the Fund of United Nations for the Childhood (UNICEF).
In declarations published in the Juventud rebelde newspaper, the artist said that with this appointment "the important work is recognizing that Cuba has carried out in particular in favor of the theater and of the culture in general.
To only some hours that the team that drives left toward Spain and Portugal, Cremata said that the Committee in charge of the World Festivals of Theater made by children, and the Congresses World Drama in Education, knows and admires to La Colmenita.
In what subtracts of year, the grouping will remain in Spanish earth, where they will present its works The Martina Cockroach and The Cinderella according to the Beatles.
With numerous international and national prizes, La Colmenita was designated in October of 2007 as Ambassador of Good Will of the Fund of United Nations for the Childhood (UNICEF).
Finish details central that will open the harvest in Camagüey
Camagüey, Dec 11. The sugar power stationBatalla de las Guásimas, which will open the harvest in the county of Camagüey, finishes details after the tests carried out to begin to walk the milled in next days .
Punished with severity by the step of the hurricanes Ike and Paloma, in September and November, respectively, the central accelerated the preparations in repairs and investments to advance the started up by necessities of the Cuban economy.
The factory is almost ready and in conditions of making a good campaign, assured to the AIN Sergio Valdés Ruiz, general director of that sugar company.
That plant had foreseen initially to begin the season by the middle of January, but after “Ike” thought about the importance of begin on 19 in the current month to look for revenues as soon as possible in foreign currencies.
Possibly we make it before that date, expressed Valdés Ruiz.
The works at this time are concentrated on correcting flaws detected in the partial tests of teams and systems, tasks that will conclude in the next days.
The “ Batalla de las Guásimas” will process sugar cane of own plantations and of the entities Cándido González and Panama, which won't incorporate their power stations to the campaign.
Camagüey will carry out the mill with five geniuses, one less than in the precedent, as direct consequence of the damages of the meteors at hundred of hectares of reedbeds, among other reasons.
By:Lucilo Tejera Díaz
Punished with severity by the step of the hurricanes Ike and Paloma, in September and November, respectively, the central accelerated the preparations in repairs and investments to advance the started up by necessities of the Cuban economy.
The factory is almost ready and in conditions of making a good campaign, assured to the AIN Sergio Valdés Ruiz, general director of that sugar company.
That plant had foreseen initially to begin the season by the middle of January, but after “Ike” thought about the importance of begin on 19 in the current month to look for revenues as soon as possible in foreign currencies.
Possibly we make it before that date, expressed Valdés Ruiz.
The works at this time are concentrated on correcting flaws detected in the partial tests of teams and systems, tasks that will conclude in the next days.
The “ Batalla de las Guásimas” will process sugar cane of own plantations and of the entities Cándido González and Panama, which won't incorporate their power stations to the campaign.
Camagüey will carry out the mill with five geniuses, one less than in the precedent, as direct consequence of the damages of the meteors at hundred of hectares of reedbeds, among other reasons.
By:Lucilo Tejera Díaz
Cuba Favors Genuine Cooperation in Human Rights Field
HAVANA, Cuba, Dec 10 (acn) Cuban Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque today affirmed that his country favors authentic international cooperation in the field of human rights, under the principles of objectivity, impartiality and non-selectivity.
Addressing over one hundred foreign personalities and representatives of Cuban civil society, Perez Roque inaugurated the International Workshop titled “The Universal Declaration of Human Rights: 60 Years Later,” at Havana’s Convention Palace.
After stressing the significance of respecting diversity and understanding national and regional particularities, the Cuban Foreign Minister backed the right of every nation to choose its own economic, social and political system.
Perez Roque blasted the constant manipulation of the human right subject by several US administrations and their allies, who have used the issue as an instrument of blackmail and pressure against some countries which, like Cuba, defend their self-determination and independence.
He said that Cuba will again launch its struggle at the new UN Human Rights Council if once again the already discredited discriminatory and selective actions practiced by the former Human Rights Commission come back on the scene.
Felipe Perez Roque denounced torture at the detention center located on the US naval base in the illegally occupied Cuban territory of Guatanamo; he also demanded the immediate shutting down of the camp and he urged the Us government to extradite terrorist Luis Posada Carriles to Venezuela, as well as the release of the five Cuban antiterrorist fighters held for over 10 years in US prisons.
The event is being sponsored by the Cuban National Commission with the UN Education, Science and Culture Organization (UNESCO) and it was called by the Cuban and the Venezuelan Chapters of the Network in Defense of Humanity.
Some participants at the Human Rights workshop include US activist Cindy Sheehan, former US presidential candidate for the Green Party Cynthia McKinney; Brazilian priest Frei Betto, Puerto Rican nationalist leader Rafael Cancel Miranda and Spanish Javier Couzo and Luis Eduardo Aute, among other personalities.
Cuba por real cooperación en tema de los derechos humanos
Addressing over one hundred foreign personalities and representatives of Cuban civil society, Perez Roque inaugurated the International Workshop titled “The Universal Declaration of Human Rights: 60 Years Later,” at Havana’s Convention Palace.
After stressing the significance of respecting diversity and understanding national and regional particularities, the Cuban Foreign Minister backed the right of every nation to choose its own economic, social and political system.
Perez Roque blasted the constant manipulation of the human right subject by several US administrations and their allies, who have used the issue as an instrument of blackmail and pressure against some countries which, like Cuba, defend their self-determination and independence.
He said that Cuba will again launch its struggle at the new UN Human Rights Council if once again the already discredited discriminatory and selective actions practiced by the former Human Rights Commission come back on the scene.
Felipe Perez Roque denounced torture at the detention center located on the US naval base in the illegally occupied Cuban territory of Guatanamo; he also demanded the immediate shutting down of the camp and he urged the Us government to extradite terrorist Luis Posada Carriles to Venezuela, as well as the release of the five Cuban antiterrorist fighters held for over 10 years in US prisons.
The event is being sponsored by the Cuban National Commission with the UN Education, Science and Culture Organization (UNESCO) and it was called by the Cuban and the Venezuelan Chapters of the Network in Defense of Humanity.
Some participants at the Human Rights workshop include US activist Cindy Sheehan, former US presidential candidate for the Green Party Cynthia McKinney; Brazilian priest Frei Betto, Puerto Rican nationalist leader Rafael Cancel Miranda and Spanish Javier Couzo and Luis Eduardo Aute, among other personalities.
Cuba por real cooperación en tema de los derechos humanos
miércoles, 10 de diciembre de 2008
Dominicans Demand End of US Blockade against Cuba
HAVANA, Cuba, Dec 9 (acn) The 18th Solidarity-with-Cuba Meeting underway in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, issued a resolution demanding the end of the US economic blockade against Cuba.
The economic, commercial and financial blockade of the US against the island violates the human rights of a whole nation, the resolution states.
The participants in the Dominican movement joined the UN member countries in their vote in favor of a Cuban resolution against Washington's measure that has cost the island more than 93 billion dollars.
The document, approved unanimously at the meeting, states that several generations of Cubans have been born under the negative effects of the blockade that has been kept for nearly 50 years.
Exigen en Dominicana cese del bloqueo contra Cuba
The economic, commercial and financial blockade of the US against the island violates the human rights of a whole nation, the resolution states.
The participants in the Dominican movement joined the UN member countries in their vote in favor of a Cuban resolution against Washington's measure that has cost the island more than 93 billion dollars.
The document, approved unanimously at the meeting, states that several generations of Cubans have been born under the negative effects of the blockade that has been kept for nearly 50 years.
Exigen en Dominicana cese del bloqueo contra Cuba
Cuban Doctors Commit to Help Zimbabwe Face Cholera Epidemic
HAVANA, Cuba, Dec 9 (acn) A brigade of Cuban doctors working on a collaboration program in Zimbabwe have committed themselves to help the country overcome a cholera epidemic that has taken a toll on nearly 600 people.
The brigade, made up of 134 health specialists, responded to a call made by the Zimbabwean government to face the scourge, reports the Prensa Latina news agency.
In a statement released in Harare, Zimbabwe's capital, the Cuban doctors said they are willing to do their regular job in the hospitals and work against the epidemic as well.
Zimbabwe is one of 30 African countries in which Cuban doctors are serving in national, provincial or district hospitals, and are also helping in the struggle against cholera, said Cosme Torres, Cuban ambassador to that nation.
The World Health Organization has warned the world about the possibility of a disaster due to cholera's high infectious level in this country.
According to that international organization, 575 people have died from cholera and another 13,000 are infected, while the epidemic is threatening to extend to neighbouring countries, as some cases have been recorded in South Africa and Botswana.
Redoblan médicos cubanos labor humanitaria en Zimbabwe
HAVANA, Cuba, Dec 9 (acn) A brigade of Cuban doctors working on a collaboration program in Zimbabwe have committed themselves to help the country overcome a cholera epidemic that has taken a toll on nearly 600 people.
The brigade, made up of 134 health specialists, responded to a call made by the Zimbabwean government to face the scourge, reports the Prensa Latina news agency.
In a statement released in Harare, Zimbabwe's capital, the Cuban doctors said they are willing to do their regular job in the hospitals and work against the epidemic as well.
Zimbabwe is one of 30 African countries in which Cuban doctors are serving in national, provincial or district hospitals, and are also helping in the struggle against cholera, said Cosme Torres, Cuban ambassador to that nation.
The World Health Organization has warned the world about the possibility of a disaster due to cholera's high infectious level in this country.
According to that international organization, 575 people have died from cholera and another 13,000 are infected, while the epidemic is threatening to extend to neighbouring countries, as some cases have been recorded in South Africa and Botswana.
Redoblan médicos cubanos labor humanitaria en Zimbabwe
Mexico-Cuba Inter-parliamentary Meeting Opens in Mexico
HAVANA, Cuba, Dec 9 (acn) The 10th Mexico-Cuba Inter-parliamentary meeting was inaugurated on Monday at the Mexican Chamber of Deputies in Mexico City with a commitment to strengthen cooperation.
According to Prensa Latina news agency, Mexican legislator Victor Hugo Olivares, head of the Mexico-Cuba Friendship Group, said the meeting takes place in the context of total normalization of bilateral relations and at the threshold of the 50th anniversary of the Cuban Revolution.
For his part, Ricardo Alarcon, president of the Cuban Parliament, thanked Mexicans for their support and the Congress for its effort to obtain freedom for the Cuban Five, unjustly imprisoned in the United States.
Meanwhile, Cesar Duarte, chairman of the Chamber of Deputies directive board, noted that the meeting will consider pending matters and face the new challenges presented by the adverse international situation.
“Together we can help to reactive the bilateral mechanisms in areas such as the fight against drug trafficking, commerce, industry, agriculture and fishing, foreign trade, tourism, health, energy, biotechnology, oil, education and scientific-technological investigation,” said Duarte.
The Mexican legislator noted that Cuba and Mexico share common histories and a longstanding cultural identity. He said that now it is important to bring continuity to those ties.
Inaugurada X Reunión Interparlamentaria México-Cuba
According to Prensa Latina news agency, Mexican legislator Victor Hugo Olivares, head of the Mexico-Cuba Friendship Group, said the meeting takes place in the context of total normalization of bilateral relations and at the threshold of the 50th anniversary of the Cuban Revolution.
For his part, Ricardo Alarcon, president of the Cuban Parliament, thanked Mexicans for their support and the Congress for its effort to obtain freedom for the Cuban Five, unjustly imprisoned in the United States.
Meanwhile, Cesar Duarte, chairman of the Chamber of Deputies directive board, noted that the meeting will consider pending matters and face the new challenges presented by the adverse international situation.
“Together we can help to reactive the bilateral mechanisms in areas such as the fight against drug trafficking, commerce, industry, agriculture and fishing, foreign trade, tourism, health, energy, biotechnology, oil, education and scientific-technological investigation,” said Duarte.
The Mexican legislator noted that Cuba and Mexico share common histories and a longstanding cultural identity. He said that now it is important to bring continuity to those ties.
Inaugurada X Reunión Interparlamentaria México-Cuba
CARICOM Grants Honorary Order to Fidel Castro
SANTIAGO DE CUBA, Cuba, Dec 9 (acn) The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) granted its Honorary Order to the leader of the Cuban Revolution Fidel Castro for his unconditional support towards regional progress and wellbeing.
President Raul Castro received the decoration on behalf of Fidel during the closing session of the Third Cuba-CARICOM Summit that took place Monday at the Melia-Santiago Hotel in Santiago de Cuba.
Raul thanked the Caribbean leaders for their gesture calling it “an act that commits us even further with our loyalty and appreciation of our Caribbean heritage and roots.”
Antigua and Barbuda Prime Minister and CARICOM temporary President Baldwin Spencer spoke about Fidel Castro's passionate role and sacrifice during an entire life dedicated to serving his country, the region and the rest of the developing world.
CARICOM’s Honorary Order is given to persons who have made exceptional contributions to the region. Spencer noted how over the years Fidel has cultivated and promoted strong ties with CARICOM, based on friendship, goodwill, and mutual respect and solidarity.
Spencer also highlighted the revolutionary leader's systematic work, and said "Cuba is a real friend."
CARICOM confiere Orden Honoraria a Fidel Castro
President Raul Castro received the decoration on behalf of Fidel during the closing session of the Third Cuba-CARICOM Summit that took place Monday at the Melia-Santiago Hotel in Santiago de Cuba.
Raul thanked the Caribbean leaders for their gesture calling it “an act that commits us even further with our loyalty and appreciation of our Caribbean heritage and roots.”
Antigua and Barbuda Prime Minister and CARICOM temporary President Baldwin Spencer spoke about Fidel Castro's passionate role and sacrifice during an entire life dedicated to serving his country, the region and the rest of the developing world.
CARICOM’s Honorary Order is given to persons who have made exceptional contributions to the region. Spencer noted how over the years Fidel has cultivated and promoted strong ties with CARICOM, based on friendship, goodwill, and mutual respect and solidarity.
Spencer also highlighted the revolutionary leader's systematic work, and said "Cuba is a real friend."
CARICOM confiere Orden Honoraria a Fidel Castro
Raul Castro: Cuba Will Meet Its Commitments to Fellow Nations
SANTIAGO DE CUBA, Cuba, Dec 8 (acn) Cuba will not give up nor abandon its commitments to its fellow nations, said Cuban President Raul Castro when inaugurating the Third Cuba-CARICOM Summit in this city.
Raul Castro told the Caribbean leaders attending the meeting that Cuba will overcome the US economic blockade, the effects of the world financial crises and the impact of three hurricanes, continuing with its efforts towards integration and finding new means of cooperation.
As part of this, the Cuban president referred to the 480 scholarships that will be offered for university studies in the coming year to the countries of the region. Of them, 150 are for medical schools, explained Raul Castro. He also highlighted the continuity of programs for health assistance, including the Operation Miracle eye-surgery project.
Since 2005, more than 56,000 people improved or fully recovered their sight (through Operation Miracle), noted Raul Castro and added that the figure of people benefiting from the eye-care project will increase still more with the opening of three more eye clinics in Guyana, Saint Lucia and Jamaica.
Meanwhile, over the past three years, more than 1,300 Caribbean students have graduated in Cuba from 33 university or technical school courses and 567 from medical institutions.
Today, more than 2,900 people from the Caribbean are currently studying in Cuba, of them 1,478 are being trained as doctors, said the Cuban leader.
Raul reaffirmed the Cuban stance in favour of regional integration and pointed out that every single project, program, exchange of skilled labour, technology transfer, educational or health initiatives led by Cuba is a new step towards integration.
In his speech, Raul Castro also spoke about the importance of the Summit taking into account the economic uncertainty generated worldwide as a result of failed neo-liberal policies and a serious world crisis, "whose scope and circumstances are yet to be predicted," he noted.
The first step to face such crises, he said, would be taking actions to reduce oil consumption as much as possible at a time that renewable and clean fuel sources are being searched for, and on which Cuba has been seriously working.
The Cuban president repeated the official welcome to the participants in the summit on behalf of the Cuban people and especially those from Santiago de Cuba, the host city, and the rest of the eastern provinces. He passed on a message of greetings from Fidel Castro, whom Raul said was the main promoter of the unity among "our peoples."
During the opening ceremony, it was announced that CARICOM's highest award, the Order of Honour of the Caribbean Community had been bestowed on Fidel Castro, the first such honour granted to a non-CARICOM leader.
Raúl: cuba cumplirá sus compromisos con pueblos hermanos
Raul Castro told the Caribbean leaders attending the meeting that Cuba will overcome the US economic blockade, the effects of the world financial crises and the impact of three hurricanes, continuing with its efforts towards integration and finding new means of cooperation.
As part of this, the Cuban president referred to the 480 scholarships that will be offered for university studies in the coming year to the countries of the region. Of them, 150 are for medical schools, explained Raul Castro. He also highlighted the continuity of programs for health assistance, including the Operation Miracle eye-surgery project.
Since 2005, more than 56,000 people improved or fully recovered their sight (through Operation Miracle), noted Raul Castro and added that the figure of people benefiting from the eye-care project will increase still more with the opening of three more eye clinics in Guyana, Saint Lucia and Jamaica.
Meanwhile, over the past three years, more than 1,300 Caribbean students have graduated in Cuba from 33 university or technical school courses and 567 from medical institutions.
Today, more than 2,900 people from the Caribbean are currently studying in Cuba, of them 1,478 are being trained as doctors, said the Cuban leader.
Raul reaffirmed the Cuban stance in favour of regional integration and pointed out that every single project, program, exchange of skilled labour, technology transfer, educational or health initiatives led by Cuba is a new step towards integration.
In his speech, Raul Castro also spoke about the importance of the Summit taking into account the economic uncertainty generated worldwide as a result of failed neo-liberal policies and a serious world crisis, "whose scope and circumstances are yet to be predicted," he noted.
The first step to face such crises, he said, would be taking actions to reduce oil consumption as much as possible at a time that renewable and clean fuel sources are being searched for, and on which Cuba has been seriously working.
The Cuban president repeated the official welcome to the participants in the summit on behalf of the Cuban people and especially those from Santiago de Cuba, the host city, and the rest of the eastern provinces. He passed on a message of greetings from Fidel Castro, whom Raul said was the main promoter of the unity among "our peoples."
During the opening ceremony, it was announced that CARICOM's highest award, the Order of Honour of the Caribbean Community had been bestowed on Fidel Castro, the first such honour granted to a non-CARICOM leader.
Raúl: cuba cumplirá sus compromisos con pueblos hermanos
CARICOM Condemns Economic Blockade of Cuba
SANTIAGO DE CUBA, Cuba, Dec 8 (acn) The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) today condemned the US economic, commercial and financial blockade of Cuba and hopes that the new US administration puts aside such an economic warlike policy.
A surprising cold war relic still subsists, said Baldwin Spencer, who is the pro-tempore president of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community during the Cuba-CARICOM Summit, underway in this eastern Cuban city.
Spencer, who is also Antigua-Barbuda’s Prime Minister, recalled that today’s world is quite different from that of the 1970´s, while Washington maintains its blockade of Cuba although the overwhelming majority of UN member nations have voted against the US measure.
The Caribbean Community hopes that the ongoing changes in the United States definitely make the US measure a past chapter, said Baldwin.
Cuban President Raul Castro previously gave the opening speech at the event’s inaugural session and affirmed that Cuba will honor its commitment to its sister nations by going ahead with its integration efforts in new cooperation ways.
On behalf of the rest of Caribbean leaders, Baldwin acknowledged the role played by Cuba as Chair of the Non-Aligned Movement in the 2006-2009 period of time. He extended his gratefulness to Cuba for its assistance in the fields of health and education.
CARICOM countries are being benefited by the work of highly skilled personnel in the fields of engineering, agriculture, medicine, sports and arts; those professionals are helping develop capacities in each nation, he said.
Baldwin Spencer stated forth the position of the CARICOM on the need to produce changes in the international financial system and that the United Nations should play a leading role in the issues related to world economic management.
He favored to the establishing a true international monetary reserve system, which avoids the dependence of the countries on the national currencies to keep their reserves.
Spencer also requested Cuba’s support of a petition of a international financial system aimed at the foreign debt management so that it allows for a wider debate space for vulnerable economies, like those of small island states that make up CARICOM.
Baldwin Spencer also reiterated CARICOM´s willingness to take new steps towards regional integration and sent a solidarity message to the Cuban people affected by recent hurricanes that recently hard hit Cuba. The pro-tempore CARICOM president announced that Cuban Revolution Leader Fidel Castro would be granted the Order of the Caribbean Community (OCC).
Fidel has proved that Cuba is and continues to be a true friend, said Specncer as he said that the OCC is a public acknowledgement to Fidel for his support of the economic and social development of the Caribbean Community.
Comunidad del Caribe condenó bloqueo yanqui a Cuba
A surprising cold war relic still subsists, said Baldwin Spencer, who is the pro-tempore president of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community during the Cuba-CARICOM Summit, underway in this eastern Cuban city.
Spencer, who is also Antigua-Barbuda’s Prime Minister, recalled that today’s world is quite different from that of the 1970´s, while Washington maintains its blockade of Cuba although the overwhelming majority of UN member nations have voted against the US measure.
The Caribbean Community hopes that the ongoing changes in the United States definitely make the US measure a past chapter, said Baldwin.
Cuban President Raul Castro previously gave the opening speech at the event’s inaugural session and affirmed that Cuba will honor its commitment to its sister nations by going ahead with its integration efforts in new cooperation ways.
On behalf of the rest of Caribbean leaders, Baldwin acknowledged the role played by Cuba as Chair of the Non-Aligned Movement in the 2006-2009 period of time. He extended his gratefulness to Cuba for its assistance in the fields of health and education.
CARICOM countries are being benefited by the work of highly skilled personnel in the fields of engineering, agriculture, medicine, sports and arts; those professionals are helping develop capacities in each nation, he said.
Baldwin Spencer stated forth the position of the CARICOM on the need to produce changes in the international financial system and that the United Nations should play a leading role in the issues related to world economic management.
He favored to the establishing a true international monetary reserve system, which avoids the dependence of the countries on the national currencies to keep their reserves.
Spencer also requested Cuba’s support of a petition of a international financial system aimed at the foreign debt management so that it allows for a wider debate space for vulnerable economies, like those of small island states that make up CARICOM.
Baldwin Spencer also reiterated CARICOM´s willingness to take new steps towards regional integration and sent a solidarity message to the Cuban people affected by recent hurricanes that recently hard hit Cuba. The pro-tempore CARICOM president announced that Cuban Revolution Leader Fidel Castro would be granted the Order of the Caribbean Community (OCC).
Fidel has proved that Cuba is and continues to be a true friend, said Specncer as he said that the OCC is a public acknowledgement to Fidel for his support of the economic and social development of the Caribbean Community.
Comunidad del Caribe condenó bloqueo yanqui a Cuba
Cuban Olympic Wrestling Champion Retires
HAVANA, Cuba, Dec 8 (acn) Cuban Yandro Quintana, Athens 2004 60 kilo wrestling champion, retired from his active career, announced the National Commission of this sport.
Quintana, an outstanding wrestler, with majors results both in Cuba and abroad, has severe damage in one of his shoulders and will probably undergo surgery, which will prevent him from practicing this sport.
Filiberto Delgado, head of the coaching technical staff of the Caribbean nation, told ACN news agency that Quintana’s retirement represents abig blow to Cuba’s wrestling, but “the health of our athletes is the most important thing for us,” he added.
Delgado also announced that Ivan Fundora, bronze medallist in Athens and Baku 2007, will also retire soon and it will be another absentee to Cuba’s team in the next events.
The free style wrestlers are meeting ready for the First Category Nacional Championships, to take place in eastern Santiago de Cuba province, from where the national team will be chosen.
Cuba’s main competitions in 2009 are the World Cup in Iran next March, the Pan American Wrestling Championships in Venezuela (April) and in September Denmark’s World Championships.
Yandro Quintana, dice adiós al deporte activo
Quintana, an outstanding wrestler, with majors results both in Cuba and abroad, has severe damage in one of his shoulders and will probably undergo surgery, which will prevent him from practicing this sport.
Filiberto Delgado, head of the coaching technical staff of the Caribbean nation, told ACN news agency that Quintana’s retirement represents abig blow to Cuba’s wrestling, but “the health of our athletes is the most important thing for us,” he added.
Delgado also announced that Ivan Fundora, bronze medallist in Athens and Baku 2007, will also retire soon and it will be another absentee to Cuba’s team in the next events.
The free style wrestlers are meeting ready for the First Category Nacional Championships, to take place in eastern Santiago de Cuba province, from where the national team will be chosen.
Cuba’s main competitions in 2009 are the World Cup in Iran next March, the Pan American Wrestling Championships in Venezuela (April) and in September Denmark’s World Championships.
Yandro Quintana, dice adiós al deporte activo
lunes, 8 de diciembre de 2008
Raul Castro Opens Cuba-CARICOM Summit
SANTIAGO DE CUBA, Cuba, Dec 8 (acn) Cuban President Raul Castro officially opened the 3rd Cuba-CARICOM Summit on Monday morning at the Hotel Santiago in the eastern city of Santiago de Cuba.
The meeting is taking place with the participation of the heads of state and government from the 15 member countries of the regional bloc and representatives from the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) and the Association of Caribbean States (ACS), who will analyze joint projects and ways to increase cooperation as well as actions to face the current international financial crisis and recession, among other aspects.
The opening session of the event includes speeches by Raul Castro and also by Baldwin Spencer, Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda and pro-tempore president of the Conference of Heads of Government of CARICOM; and Edwin Spencer, General Secretary of this bloc.
CARICOM is comprised of the independent states of Antigua and Barbuda, the Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Surinam, and Trinidad & Tobago.
Also part of the bloc is Montserrat while the Virgin Islands is an associated state. Anguilla, Cayman Islands, Mexico, Venezuela, Aruba, Colombia, the Ditch Antilles, Bermudas, Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico are observers.
At the end of the meeting, participants will approve the Declaration of Santiago de Cuba as the final document of the event and also a Special Declaration on the Latin American and Caribbean Summit on Integration and Development scheduled for Salvador de Bahia, Brazil, on December 16-17.
Raúl declara abierta III Cumbre cubano caribeña
The meeting is taking place with the participation of the heads of state and government from the 15 member countries of the regional bloc and representatives from the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) and the Association of Caribbean States (ACS), who will analyze joint projects and ways to increase cooperation as well as actions to face the current international financial crisis and recession, among other aspects.
The opening session of the event includes speeches by Raul Castro and also by Baldwin Spencer, Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda and pro-tempore president of the Conference of Heads of Government of CARICOM; and Edwin Spencer, General Secretary of this bloc.
CARICOM is comprised of the independent states of Antigua and Barbuda, the Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Surinam, and Trinidad & Tobago.
Also part of the bloc is Montserrat while the Virgin Islands is an associated state. Anguilla, Cayman Islands, Mexico, Venezuela, Aruba, Colombia, the Ditch Antilles, Bermudas, Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico are observers.
At the end of the meeting, participants will approve the Declaration of Santiago de Cuba as the final document of the event and also a Special Declaration on the Latin American and Caribbean Summit on Integration and Development scheduled for Salvador de Bahia, Brazil, on December 16-17.
Raúl declara abierta III Cumbre cubano caribeña
Raul Castro Welcomes CARICOM Leaders
SANTIAGO DE CUBA, Cuba, Dec 8 (acn) Following is the key address by Cuban President Raul Castro during the welcoming ceremony of the heads of state and government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) that will participate in the 3rd Cuba-CARICOM Summit that opens its sessions on Monday in Santiago de Cuba.
“Your Excellencies Heads of State and Government of the Caribbean Community:
“Dear guests:
“On the eve of the 3rd Cuba-CARICOM Summit, I wish to extend to you a cordial welcome to our homeland and to convey warm greetings from comrade Fidel.
“It will be 36 years tomorrow to the day when four Caribbean nations took the daring step of establishing diplomatic relations with Cuba. That seminal event was one of historic and strategic dimension to us.
“It marked the onset of Cuba’s formal relations with the future members of CARICOM and the beginning of bonds of brotherhood and friendship which have successfully passed the test of time.
“It is worthwhile recalling the historic context of that event. At the time when diplomatic relations were simultaneously signed with Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica and Trinidad & Tobago, Cuba was diplomatically isolated from the continent. Even if we had close links with almost all of the peoples in the hemisphere, we only had diplomatic relations with Mexico, Chile, Peru and Canada. Actually, under US pressure, most governments in the region had severed their relations with Cuba.
“Today, reality is different. Cuba has full diplomatic relations with 30 of the 32 Latin American and Caribbean nations. We have come a long way from the time when it was possible to isolate Cuba. The governments of those four nations, and their leaders, made a significant contribution to the region we all share.
“Therefore, I wish to avail myself of this moment of friendship and fraternity among the Caribbean peoples, to pay tribute to that event that took place on December 8, 1972, which gave way to a transcendental chapter in the history of Cuba and the Caribbean. Let’s pay tribute to the memory of Errol Barrow, Michael Manley, Forbes Burnham and Eric Williams.
“Let’s celebrate the CUBA-CARICOM Day!
“Thank you”
Palabras de bienvenida de Raúl a integrantes de CARICOM
“Your Excellencies Heads of State and Government of the Caribbean Community:
“Dear guests:
“On the eve of the 3rd Cuba-CARICOM Summit, I wish to extend to you a cordial welcome to our homeland and to convey warm greetings from comrade Fidel.
“It will be 36 years tomorrow to the day when four Caribbean nations took the daring step of establishing diplomatic relations with Cuba. That seminal event was one of historic and strategic dimension to us.
“It marked the onset of Cuba’s formal relations with the future members of CARICOM and the beginning of bonds of brotherhood and friendship which have successfully passed the test of time.
“It is worthwhile recalling the historic context of that event. At the time when diplomatic relations were simultaneously signed with Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica and Trinidad & Tobago, Cuba was diplomatically isolated from the continent. Even if we had close links with almost all of the peoples in the hemisphere, we only had diplomatic relations with Mexico, Chile, Peru and Canada. Actually, under US pressure, most governments in the region had severed their relations with Cuba.
“Today, reality is different. Cuba has full diplomatic relations with 30 of the 32 Latin American and Caribbean nations. We have come a long way from the time when it was possible to isolate Cuba. The governments of those four nations, and their leaders, made a significant contribution to the region we all share.
“Therefore, I wish to avail myself of this moment of friendship and fraternity among the Caribbean peoples, to pay tribute to that event that took place on December 8, 1972, which gave way to a transcendental chapter in the history of Cuba and the Caribbean. Let’s pay tribute to the memory of Errol Barrow, Michael Manley, Forbes Burnham and Eric Williams.
“Let’s celebrate the CUBA-CARICOM Day!
“Thank you”
Palabras de bienvenida de Raúl a integrantes de CARICOM
Cuba-CARICOM Summit Begins on Monday in Santiago
SANTIAGO DE CUBA, Cuba, Dec 8 (acn) Heads of state and government from the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and Cuba are in Santiago de Cuba to participate in the 3rd Cuba-CARICOM Summit that begins there on Monday under the slogan ‘Cooperation for Integration’.
Some of the topics to be discussed during the event include the current international financial crisis and economic recession, as well as the strengthening of ties towards regional integration.
The official opening ceremony of the meeting takes place at 9:00 a.m. with speeches by the host delegation; Baldwin Spencer, Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda and pro-tempore president of the Conference of Heads of Government of CARICOM; and Edwin Spencer, General Secretary of this bloc.
According to the program of the event, the aspects to be discussed during the first part of the summit are: “The Environmental, Food, Energy and Financial Crisis and its Impact on the Caribbean” and “Cuba and CARICOM prior to the Latin American and Caribbean Summit on Integration and Development.”
Meanwhile, the second part of the event will focus on “Cooperation between Cuba and CARICOM: Current Situation and Prospects”, which will be followed by the approval of the Declaration of Santiago de Cuba as the final document of the summit.
There will also be a Special Declaration on the Latin American and Caribbean Summit on Integration and development scheduled for Salvador de Bahia, Brazil, on December 16-17.
On Sunday, President Raul Castro and the CARICOM leaders paid tribute to Cuban National Hero Jose Marti and Independence Hero Antonio Maceo.
Comienza hoy Cumbre Cuba-Comunidad del Caribe
Some of the topics to be discussed during the event include the current international financial crisis and economic recession, as well as the strengthening of ties towards regional integration.
The official opening ceremony of the meeting takes place at 9:00 a.m. with speeches by the host delegation; Baldwin Spencer, Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda and pro-tempore president of the Conference of Heads of Government of CARICOM; and Edwin Spencer, General Secretary of this bloc.
According to the program of the event, the aspects to be discussed during the first part of the summit are: “The Environmental, Food, Energy and Financial Crisis and its Impact on the Caribbean” and “Cuba and CARICOM prior to the Latin American and Caribbean Summit on Integration and Development.”
Meanwhile, the second part of the event will focus on “Cooperation between Cuba and CARICOM: Current Situation and Prospects”, which will be followed by the approval of the Declaration of Santiago de Cuba as the final document of the summit.
There will also be a Special Declaration on the Latin American and Caribbean Summit on Integration and development scheduled for Salvador de Bahia, Brazil, on December 16-17.
On Sunday, President Raul Castro and the CARICOM leaders paid tribute to Cuban National Hero Jose Marti and Independence Hero Antonio Maceo.
Comienza hoy Cumbre Cuba-Comunidad del Caribe
Health and Education: Top Priorities of New Bolivian Constitution
HAVANA, Cuba, Dec 8 (acn) President Evo Morales said on Sunday that health and education programs will be top priorities in the new Political Constitution of Bolivia that will be voted on next January 25.
During the inauguration on Sunday of two polyclinics in the Bolivian city of El Alto, Morales praised the assistance that Bolivia receives in these two sectors from countries such as Cuba, Venezuela, Spain and Iran and recalled that health and education are essential aspects of a country’s development.
According to Prensa Latina news agency, the Bolivian leader explained that the preventive work in the communities is paramount in order to improve the quality of life of the population.
Morales also recalled that 700 ambulances have been distributed in the 327 municipalities of the country and that, by the end of the year, 300,000 Bolivians will have recovered or improved their sight thanks to the Operation Miracle free eye-surgery program underway in the South American nation with the assistance of Cuban health personnel.
Impulsará salud y educación nueva Constitución boliviana
During the inauguration on Sunday of two polyclinics in the Bolivian city of El Alto, Morales praised the assistance that Bolivia receives in these two sectors from countries such as Cuba, Venezuela, Spain and Iran and recalled that health and education are essential aspects of a country’s development.
According to Prensa Latina news agency, the Bolivian leader explained that the preventive work in the communities is paramount in order to improve the quality of life of the population.
Morales also recalled that 700 ambulances have been distributed in the 327 municipalities of the country and that, by the end of the year, 300,000 Bolivians will have recovered or improved their sight thanks to the Operation Miracle free eye-surgery program underway in the South American nation with the assistance of Cuban health personnel.
Impulsará salud y educación nueva Constitución boliviana
Raul Castro: Antonio Maceo, Example for Cuba’s Resistance
SANTIAGO DE CUBA, Cuba, Dec 7 (acn) Cuban President Raul Castro said that Antonio Maceo´s experience has been the source of Cubans´ resistance and defense of their Revolution.
Neither the pressures of the US blockade nor hurricanes will ever defeat us or divide us, said Raul Castro while explaining Caribbean leaders about the historic significance of the Cuban Independence Hero Antonio Maceo, on the occasion of the 112 anniversary of his death in combat.
The Caribbean leaders, who are in Santiago for the 3rd Cuba-CARICOM Summit paid tribute to the Cuban Independence Hero at the square named after him by laying a wreath on his honor.
During a tour of the museum at the square, the Cuban President explained about the life and work of Antonio Maceo, who was killed at 51 after a long struggle against Spanish colonial rule.
We have learned from the experience of Antonio Maceo, and it has helped us to resist during half a century; we are prepared to resist another half a century, said Raul and pointed out that over 70 percent of today’s Cuban population was born under US pressures; however, neither those pressures of the US blockade nor hurricanes will ever divide or defeat us, he stressed.
Raul Castro also accompanied the CARICOM leaders to pay homage to Cuba´s National Hero Jose Marti, at the mausoleum that treasures his remains at the Santa Ifigenia Cemetery.
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Destaca Raúl ejemplo de Maceo en la resistencia de Cuba
Neither the pressures of the US blockade nor hurricanes will ever defeat us or divide us, said Raul Castro while explaining Caribbean leaders about the historic significance of the Cuban Independence Hero Antonio Maceo, on the occasion of the 112 anniversary of his death in combat.
The Caribbean leaders, who are in Santiago for the 3rd Cuba-CARICOM Summit paid tribute to the Cuban Independence Hero at the square named after him by laying a wreath on his honor.
During a tour of the museum at the square, the Cuban President explained about the life and work of Antonio Maceo, who was killed at 51 after a long struggle against Spanish colonial rule.
We have learned from the experience of Antonio Maceo, and it has helped us to resist during half a century; we are prepared to resist another half a century, said Raul and pointed out that over 70 percent of today’s Cuban population was born under US pressures; however, neither those pressures of the US blockade nor hurricanes will ever divide or defeat us, he stressed.
Raul Castro also accompanied the CARICOM leaders to pay homage to Cuba´s National Hero Jose Marti, at the mausoleum that treasures his remains at the Santa Ifigenia Cemetery.
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Destaca Raúl ejemplo de Maceo en la resistencia de Cuba
Trinidad-Tobago’s Patrick Manning Highlights Cuba-CARICOM Links
SANTIAGO DE CUBA, Cuba, Dec 7 (acn) Trinidad-Tobago Prime Minister Patrick Manning underscored the excellent relations between Cuba and the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and the importance of the 3rd Summit of the regional bloc, which begins Monday in this eastern Cuban city.
CARICOM countries consider relations with Cuba of high importance and they expect that such links will expand; the 3rd Summit offers one more opportunity in that direction, said Manning upon his arrival in Santiago de Cuba.
The T&T Prime Minister sent greetings to Cuban Revolution leader Fidel Castro and said he would like to welcome President Raul Castro in his country. He added that the summit is important not only because of its agenda, but also due to the moment and the place it takes place under the slogan Cooperation for Integration.
As to the world financial crisis, the first topic to be discussed by the CARICOM leaders, Prime Minister Manning said that it will be important to learn about the position of the rest of the heads of state and government on the subject and the joint actions to be taken in order to face its consequences.
He said today’s discussions focus on the time the economic recession may last; some say it will take up to two years, other say less than that, but he stressed that you can not know how long it will really take, so a consensus is important to achieve.
Manning explained that many of his country’s export products, such as ammonia, urea, ethanol, iron and steel, have seen their prices fall, which has hit Trinidadian economy, while on the other hand credit lines have been reduced, thus having an impact on development programs.
Trinidad-Tobago is a group of islands with 5,128 square kilometers and a population of 1,290 000 inhabitants. It was one of the first four Caribbean nations to establish relations with Cuba on December 8, 1972; in that respect Manning stressed the good development of bilateral relations particularly in the sector of health care.
The Trinidadian PM also underscored the importance of the Summit to find consensus towards the upcoming Latin American and Caribbean Summit on Integration and Development, to take place next December 16 and 17 in Salvador de Bahia, Brazil.
He also said that all the meetings of this kind are decisive towards the 5th Summit of the Americas, slated for April 2009 in the Trinidadian capital Port of Spain, an event in which Caribbean nations are to show common positions on crucial issues for the continent and for the rest of the world, he concluded.
Mandatario de Trinidad y Tobago destaca vínculos con Cuba
CARICOM countries consider relations with Cuba of high importance and they expect that such links will expand; the 3rd Summit offers one more opportunity in that direction, said Manning upon his arrival in Santiago de Cuba.
The T&T Prime Minister sent greetings to Cuban Revolution leader Fidel Castro and said he would like to welcome President Raul Castro in his country. He added that the summit is important not only because of its agenda, but also due to the moment and the place it takes place under the slogan Cooperation for Integration.
As to the world financial crisis, the first topic to be discussed by the CARICOM leaders, Prime Minister Manning said that it will be important to learn about the position of the rest of the heads of state and government on the subject and the joint actions to be taken in order to face its consequences.
He said today’s discussions focus on the time the economic recession may last; some say it will take up to two years, other say less than that, but he stressed that you can not know how long it will really take, so a consensus is important to achieve.
Manning explained that many of his country’s export products, such as ammonia, urea, ethanol, iron and steel, have seen their prices fall, which has hit Trinidadian economy, while on the other hand credit lines have been reduced, thus having an impact on development programs.
Trinidad-Tobago is a group of islands with 5,128 square kilometers and a population of 1,290 000 inhabitants. It was one of the first four Caribbean nations to establish relations with Cuba on December 8, 1972; in that respect Manning stressed the good development of bilateral relations particularly in the sector of health care.
The Trinidadian PM also underscored the importance of the Summit to find consensus towards the upcoming Latin American and Caribbean Summit on Integration and Development, to take place next December 16 and 17 in Salvador de Bahia, Brazil.
He also said that all the meetings of this kind are decisive towards the 5th Summit of the Americas, slated for April 2009 in the Trinidadian capital Port of Spain, an event in which Caribbean nations are to show common positions on crucial issues for the continent and for the rest of the world, he concluded.
Mandatario de Trinidad y Tobago destaca vínculos con Cuba
Cuban Youths Pay Tribute to Independence Hero Antonio Maceo
HAVANA, Cuba, Dec 7 (acn) Young cadets and officers with the Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces, University students and people in general paid tribute today to Cuban Independence Hero Antonio Maceo on the occasion of the 112th anniversary of his death in combat.
The pilgrimage kicked off at the Havana locality of San Pedro, where Antonio Maceo was killed in action and ended at the Cacahual site, where the remains of the major general and his aide Panchito Gomez Toro currently rest.
Once at the site, the crowd of Cubans paying honors to the Independence heroes also marked the 19th anniversary of the Tribute Operation, an action that brought home the remains of the Cubans killed in action in other countries, particularly in Africa.
During the ceremony, Major Luz Aliocha Ochoa, Chief of the Young Communist League at the Ministry of the Revolutionary Armed Forces, pointed out that those Cubans, who were killed while fighting for the independence of other nations, gave their lives inspired by the examples of Antonio Maceo and Panchito Gomez Toro.
Major Aliocha Ochoa stressed that for the Cuban youth, today’s main combat trenches are their support of the country’s recovery, food production, reforestation and their preparedness for the defense of the nation.
The Cuban youths will be alongside their heroes and martyrs in today’s the ideological struggle, as the Cuban Five have been doing since they were incarcerated, she said in direct reference to the five Cuban antiterrorist fighters held in US jails since 1998 for having fought terrorism against Cuba.
Jóvenes cubanos rinden tributo a Antonio Maceo
HAVANA, Cuba, Dec 7 (acn) Young cadets and officers with the Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces, University students and people in general paid tribute today to Cuban Independence Hero Antonio Maceo on the occasion of the 112th anniversary of his death in combat.
The pilgrimage kicked off at the Havana locality of San Pedro, where Antonio Maceo was killed in action and ended at the Cacahual site, where the remains of the major general and his aide Panchito Gomez Toro currently rest.
Once at the site, the crowd of Cubans paying honors to the Independence heroes also marked the 19th anniversary of the Tribute Operation, an action that brought home the remains of the Cubans killed in action in other countries, particularly in Africa.
During the ceremony, Major Luz Aliocha Ochoa, Chief of the Young Communist League at the Ministry of the Revolutionary Armed Forces, pointed out that those Cubans, who were killed while fighting for the independence of other nations, gave their lives inspired by the examples of Antonio Maceo and Panchito Gomez Toro.
Major Aliocha Ochoa stressed that for the Cuban youth, today’s main combat trenches are their support of the country’s recovery, food production, reforestation and their preparedness for the defense of the nation.
The Cuban youths will be alongside their heroes and martyrs in today’s the ideological struggle, as the Cuban Five have been doing since they were incarcerated, she said in direct reference to the five Cuban antiterrorist fighters held in US jails since 1998 for having fought terrorism against Cuba.
Jóvenes cubanos rinden tributo a Antonio Maceo
Film Che by Steven Soderbergh Premiered at Cuban Cinema Festival
HAVANA, Cuba, Dec 7(acn) The film Che by renowned US movie maker Steven Soderbergh was premiered here on Saturday during the 30th International Festival of the New Latin American Cinema.
Actor Benicio del Toro presented the film as he thanked the Cuban Film Institute (ICAIC) for its assistance during the shooting of the film, which was the result of a seven-year research work.
During the presentation, Benicio del Toro was joined by other actors such as Brazilian Rodrigo Santoro and Cubans Vladimir Cruz and Jorge Perugorria.
The invitation made by Fidel Castro to Che Guevara to head for Cuba on board the Granma Yacht and start the liberation war was the starting point for the film’s first part titled “The Argentinean”, which deals with the activities of Ernesto Guevara and the 26 of July Movement on the Sierra Maestra Mountain Range, with special emphasis on the historic battle of Santa Clara. The first part of the film also shows excerpts of the speech given by Che at the United Nations in 1964.
The second part, titled “Guerrilla,” stars with the farewell letter, which Che left for Fidel in 1965 and tells about events of the liberation war in Bolivia until it concludes with the assassination of Che Guevara at the locality known as Quebrada del Yuro.
The film Che, will again be screened on Sunday at Havana’s Karl Marx Theater as part of the Festival’s program.
Steven Soderbergh, who was not able to attend the Festival on this occasion, is a committed US film maker with outstanding works like Full Frontal, Traffic and Ocean’s Eleven, among others.
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Estrenan filme "Ché" de Steven Soderbergh en Cuba
Actor Benicio del Toro presented the film as he thanked the Cuban Film Institute (ICAIC) for its assistance during the shooting of the film, which was the result of a seven-year research work.
During the presentation, Benicio del Toro was joined by other actors such as Brazilian Rodrigo Santoro and Cubans Vladimir Cruz and Jorge Perugorria.
The invitation made by Fidel Castro to Che Guevara to head for Cuba on board the Granma Yacht and start the liberation war was the starting point for the film’s first part titled “The Argentinean”, which deals with the activities of Ernesto Guevara and the 26 of July Movement on the Sierra Maestra Mountain Range, with special emphasis on the historic battle of Santa Clara. The first part of the film also shows excerpts of the speech given by Che at the United Nations in 1964.
The second part, titled “Guerrilla,” stars with the farewell letter, which Che left for Fidel in 1965 and tells about events of the liberation war in Bolivia until it concludes with the assassination of Che Guevara at the locality known as Quebrada del Yuro.
The film Che, will again be screened on Sunday at Havana’s Karl Marx Theater as part of the Festival’s program.
Steven Soderbergh, who was not able to attend the Festival on this occasion, is a committed US film maker with outstanding works like Full Frontal, Traffic and Ocean’s Eleven, among others.
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Estrenan filme "Ché" de Steven Soderbergh en Cuba
Catalog on Cuban Cinema at Havana’s Film Festival
HAVANA , Cuba, Dec 7 (acn) The book Catalog on Cuban Cinema (1897-1960), by author María Eulalia Douglas, was presented on Sunday at Havana’s Hotel Nacional, as part of activities of the 30th International Festival of the New Latin American Cinema.
The textbook provides information on Cuba’s cinematography prior to the creation of the Cuban Film Institute (ICAIC), and divides production in those years into two stages: silent movies and the talkies.
The author made a deep study into dates, producers, actors and actresses of different periods, and included additional notes on historic events, which turn this volume into a reference book on the history of Cuban cinema.
Experts of the Seventh Art agree that the catalog is the most complete work on Cuban film production before the 1959 triumph of the Revolution.
Douglas is the main specialist with the Cuban Film Archives; she has devoted her life to researching into the singularities of the world of moving images in the country, on which she has already published several books, among them La Tienda Negra: El Cine en Cuba de 1897 a 1990, (The Black Shop: Cinema in Cuba from 1897 to 1990), which gave her the National Prize for Cultural Research in 1997.
The catalog was launched here along with other books related to film production, like El Cine Soviético del Principio al Fin (Soviet Cinema from Beginning to End), by Zoia Barash, and Lágrimas en la Lluvia (Tears in the Rain), a selection of works published by critic Rufo Caballero.
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Presentarán catálogo de cine cubano en el XXX Festival
The textbook provides information on Cuba’s cinematography prior to the creation of the Cuban Film Institute (ICAIC), and divides production in those years into two stages: silent movies and the talkies.
The author made a deep study into dates, producers, actors and actresses of different periods, and included additional notes on historic events, which turn this volume into a reference book on the history of Cuban cinema.
Experts of the Seventh Art agree that the catalog is the most complete work on Cuban film production before the 1959 triumph of the Revolution.
Douglas is the main specialist with the Cuban Film Archives; she has devoted her life to researching into the singularities of the world of moving images in the country, on which she has already published several books, among them La Tienda Negra: El Cine en Cuba de 1897 a 1990, (The Black Shop: Cinema in Cuba from 1897 to 1990), which gave her the National Prize for Cultural Research in 1997.
The catalog was launched here along with other books related to film production, like El Cine Soviético del Principio al Fin (Soviet Cinema from Beginning to End), by Zoia Barash, and Lágrimas en la Lluvia (Tears in the Rain), a selection of works published by critic Rufo Caballero.
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Presentarán catálogo de cine cubano en el XXX Festival
Cuba Defends Key Issues for Poor Nations in the Face of Climate Change
HAVANA, Cuba, Dec 5 (acn) Cuba defended issues that are punctual for poor nations, at the Conference on Climate Change underway in Poznan, Poland.
Some aspects proposed by Cuba include the adjustment, mitigation, technology transfer, and the financing of Adaptation Funds.
Cuba ’s Deputy Minister of Science, Technology and the Environment, José Antonio Díaz, said his country prioritizes the adaptation to the effects of global warming, due to its consequences for developing nations.
The government official pointed out that, with regard to mitigation, Cuba will demand that rich countries should honor the Kyoto Protocol, which established a 5.2 reduction, with respect to1990, of gas emissions causing the greenhouse effect.
Jose Antonio Diaz added that developing nations –which are not historically responsible in terms of global warming- should make good will contributions, like the use of renewable energy sources, which don’t produce pollutants.
The Deputy Minister explained that the objective of the Poznan meeting is not that of setting commitments, but to adjusting the countries’ positions in order to reach an agreement at the Conference of the Parties to be held in Copenhagen Denmark , in 2009.
The over 10,000 experts from more than 190 nations participating in the 12-day Poznan Conference will debate the bases for an accord that will give continuity to the Kyoto Protocol, whose validity expires in 2012.
Defiende Cuba temas claves para las naciones pobres
HAVANA, Cuba, Dec 5 (acn) Cuba defended issues that are punctual for poor nations, at the Conference on Climate Change underway in Poznan, Poland.
Some aspects proposed by Cuba include the adjustment, mitigation, technology transfer, and the financing of Adaptation Funds.
Cuba ’s Deputy Minister of Science, Technology and the Environment, José Antonio Díaz, said his country prioritizes the adaptation to the effects of global warming, due to its consequences for developing nations.
The government official pointed out that, with regard to mitigation, Cuba will demand that rich countries should honor the Kyoto Protocol, which established a 5.2 reduction, with respect to1990, of gas emissions causing the greenhouse effect.
Jose Antonio Diaz added that developing nations –which are not historically responsible in terms of global warming- should make good will contributions, like the use of renewable energy sources, which don’t produce pollutants.
The Deputy Minister explained that the objective of the Poznan meeting is not that of setting commitments, but to adjusting the countries’ positions in order to reach an agreement at the Conference of the Parties to be held in Copenhagen Denmark , in 2009.
The over 10,000 experts from more than 190 nations participating in the 12-day Poznan Conference will debate the bases for an accord that will give continuity to the Kyoto Protocol, whose validity expires in 2012.
Defiende Cuba temas claves para las naciones pobres
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