HAVANA, Cuba, March 11 (acn) With the "Images of the Louvre, six centuries of European painting" exhibition in Havana's Real Fuerza Castle, a week of activities dedicated to the French-speaking nations will be inaugurated in this capital.
The event, slated for March 14th through the 21th, includes a wide-ranging program of concerts, book launches, film screenings and lectures, which will represent a new opportunity for Cuba to share the culture and values of French-speaking countries.
Organized by the French Alliance in Havana, the festival has the cooperation of several francophone embassies and entities, and the Office of Havana City Historian, the Cuban Film Institute, the Fine Arts Museum, the Casa de las Américas cultural institution, the Victor Hugo Centre and the Wallonie Showcase.
During a news conference, the director general of the French Alliance in Cuba, Andrés D´Ubeda, highlighted the importance of the French language to unite countries by way of cultural diversity.
He added that, during the festival, participants will have the opportunity to enjoy, both in the capital and in eastern Santiago de Cuba province, the work of musicians, poets and other artists from Switzerland, Belgium and France -members of the International Organization of French-speaking Nations- who will share the stage with Cuban artists.
He stressed that the exhibition "Images of the Louvre, six centuries of European painting" comes from that famous museum in Paris, and that it's made up of 100 life-size digital reproductions of masterpieces from the 13th to the 19th centuries, photographed in high-definition.
The cultural attaché of the French embassy to Havana, Alain Zayán, thanked all participating institutions for the chance to hold this event in the Cuban capital, as a new opportunity to exchange ways of producing art from the perspective of French speaking nations, and for turning it into a space of peace and development.
Every year, French speakers from the five continents celebrate the International Day of the French Language on March 20. The date is an excellent occasion to celebrate French as a bond uniting 200 million people speaking this language in the world.
(Celebrará Cuba semana de la francofonía)
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Foreign Investment in Central Camagüey Province Increases
CAMAGUEY, Cuba, March 11 (acn) There are twenty two investment projects for the replacement of imports and increase exports in eastern Camagüey province, thanks to agreements between the Bolivarian Alternative of The Americas (ALBA) and Cuba.
The delegate of the Ministry of Domestic Trade in the territory, Iris Cruz, told ACN that these accords include four basic industry ministries.
She said there are ten investment programs in agriculture, mainly for enterprises devoted to poultry seeds, fruit, and cattle rising.
For the development of the ovine-caprine species, ten areas to fatten animals have been selected in the province, in the main administrative municipality, Vertientes, Minas, Güáimaro, Céspedes, Esmeralda and Florida.
Cultivos Varios Camagüey will be in charge of executing the project for fruit trees, which will be carried out in three stages. It includes 23 farms, five of them developed in 2008 (two for avocados, one of coconut, two of mango, and one of guava).
Light Industry investments include six programs: two saddlery workshops, three for the disabled, and one for craftsmanship.
The municipality of Nuevitas, north of the territory, has potential for exports, after the investments made by Geominera company -in the case of chromium and gold, the Factory of Fertilizers, the 26 de Julio Cement Factory, and in the production of barbed wire and electrodes.
Cooperation between Cuban and foreign capital makes it possible for the archipelago to produce more in order to spend less in imports, using the money for the development of national enterprises, and to improve its exporting capacity.
(Aumentan inversiones extranjeras en Camagüey)
The delegate of the Ministry of Domestic Trade in the territory, Iris Cruz, told ACN that these accords include four basic industry ministries.
She said there are ten investment programs in agriculture, mainly for enterprises devoted to poultry seeds, fruit, and cattle rising.
For the development of the ovine-caprine species, ten areas to fatten animals have been selected in the province, in the main administrative municipality, Vertientes, Minas, Güáimaro, Céspedes, Esmeralda and Florida.
Cultivos Varios Camagüey will be in charge of executing the project for fruit trees, which will be carried out in three stages. It includes 23 farms, five of them developed in 2008 (two for avocados, one of coconut, two of mango, and one of guava).
Light Industry investments include six programs: two saddlery workshops, three for the disabled, and one for craftsmanship.
The municipality of Nuevitas, north of the territory, has potential for exports, after the investments made by Geominera company -in the case of chromium and gold, the Factory of Fertilizers, the 26 de Julio Cement Factory, and in the production of barbed wire and electrodes.
Cooperation between Cuban and foreign capital makes it possible for the archipelago to produce more in order to spend less in imports, using the money for the development of national enterprises, and to improve its exporting capacity.
(Aumentan inversiones extranjeras en Camagüey)
World Personalities Seek Visas for Cuban Five Relatives
HAVANA, Cuba, March 11 (acn) The President of the UN General Assembly, Miguel D' Escoto, is one of many personalities from 27 countries that have asked Washington to grant visas to relatives of five Cuban anti-terrorist fighters who have been unjustly imprisoned in the United
States since 1998.
The International Free the Five Committee announced on Tuesday that a letter was simultaneously sent last Sunday to US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton; to the head of the Department of Homeland Security, Janet Napolitano; and to Attorney General Eric Holder.
The message demanded that Washington grants visas to Adriana Perez and Olga Salanueva to visit their husbands, Gerardo Hernandez and Rene Gonzalez, respectively.
According to Prensa Latina news agency, the document was also signed, among others, by Nobel Peace Prize laureates Rigoberta Menchu and Adolfo Perez Esquivel; American writers Noam Chomsky and by the Mothers and Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo in Argentina.
Gerardo, Rene, Antonio Guerrero, Fernando Gonzalez and Ramon Labañino -internationally known as the Cuba Five - were arrested in Florida in 1998 for infiltrating anti-Cuba right-wing groups that were planning and carrying out terrorist actions against the Caribbean archipelago.
Adriana and Olga have been denied visas to visit their husbands in prison on nine occasions.
(Exigen a EE.UU. visas para familiares de Los Cinco)
States since 1998.
The International Free the Five Committee announced on Tuesday that a letter was simultaneously sent last Sunday to US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton; to the head of the Department of Homeland Security, Janet Napolitano; and to Attorney General Eric Holder.
The message demanded that Washington grants visas to Adriana Perez and Olga Salanueva to visit their husbands, Gerardo Hernandez and Rene Gonzalez, respectively.
According to Prensa Latina news agency, the document was also signed, among others, by Nobel Peace Prize laureates Rigoberta Menchu and Adolfo Perez Esquivel; American writers Noam Chomsky and by the Mothers and Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo in Argentina.
Gerardo, Rene, Antonio Guerrero, Fernando Gonzalez and Ramon Labañino -internationally known as the Cuba Five - were arrested in Florida in 1998 for infiltrating anti-Cuba right-wing groups that were planning and carrying out terrorist actions against the Caribbean archipelago.
Adriana and Olga have been denied visas to visit their husbands in prison on nine occasions.
(Exigen a EE.UU. visas para familiares de Los Cinco)
Absolute premiere of Cuban film in XVI National Shop of Film Critic
Camagüey, march 11. - The film “The announcement”, of the Cuban Enrique Pineda Barnet, had in the city of Camagüey its absolute premiere in the opening of the XVI National Workshop of Film Critic.
This work develops the plot in a Havanan family of the present time, headed by an old widow and spiritualistic.
The projection began an exhibition program of more than 70 movies coming from America, Europe and Asia, until next day 31, in eight rooms of the town.
Include amomg other anthological realizations originated in the Island to “Histories of the Revolution”, “Memoirs of the underdevelopment”, “The death of a bureaucrat” The twelveseats” - all of Tomás Gutiérrez Alea".
They also figure in the program “The rebellious youth”, of Julio García Espinosa, “Manuela”, of Humberto Solás, and the documentals “Now” and “Hurricane”, of Santiago Álvarez.
Dedicated to the anniversary 50 of the ICAIC, one of the first cultural institutions created by the Revolution, the Shop will sesion to the 14 and it will approach topics like the production Cuban fílmic in the decade of the years 60 of the XX century and the critic, and the mobile cinema in the country.
The audiovisual sphere in the county also has, among other expressions, the realization of works in charge of the telecenters net, the Association Hermanos Saíz and independent authors, and the international competitions The Warehouse of the Image and the Festival of Video Art.
In September the centennial of the first film will be completed materialized in the provincial territory, the documentary The parties of The Charity in the City of Camagüey, of Enrique Pérez Quesada, and of 1959 at 1961 the channel worked in the town 11, pioneer of the television radio stations inside Cuba.
Among the assistants to the inauguration, made in the Main theater, there were Julio Cesar García, first secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) in the county, Enrique Pineda Barnet, the film director Manuel Herrera, Verónica Lynn and Héctor Noas, - two of the interpreters of the referred tape - and the actresses Eslinda Núñez and Mirtha Ibarra. (AIN).
This work develops the plot in a Havanan family of the present time, headed by an old widow and spiritualistic.
The projection began an exhibition program of more than 70 movies coming from America, Europe and Asia, until next day 31, in eight rooms of the town.
Include amomg other anthological realizations originated in the Island to “Histories of the Revolution”, “Memoirs of the underdevelopment”, “The death of a bureaucrat” The twelveseats” - all of Tomás Gutiérrez Alea".
They also figure in the program “The rebellious youth”, of Julio García Espinosa, “Manuela”, of Humberto Solás, and the documentals “Now” and “Hurricane”, of Santiago Álvarez.
Dedicated to the anniversary 50 of the ICAIC, one of the first cultural institutions created by the Revolution, the Shop will sesion to the 14 and it will approach topics like the production Cuban fílmic in the decade of the years 60 of the XX century and the critic, and the mobile cinema in the country.
The audiovisual sphere in the county also has, among other expressions, the realization of works in charge of the telecenters net, the Association Hermanos Saíz and independent authors, and the international competitions The Warehouse of the Image and the Festival of Video Art.
In September the centennial of the first film will be completed materialized in the provincial territory, the documentary The parties of The Charity in the City of Camagüey, of Enrique Pérez Quesada, and of 1959 at 1961 the channel worked in the town 11, pioneer of the television radio stations inside Cuba.
Among the assistants to the inauguration, made in the Main theater, there were Julio Cesar García, first secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) in the county, Enrique Pineda Barnet, the film director Manuel Herrera, Verónica Lynn and Héctor Noas, - two of the interpreters of the referred tape - and the actresses Eslinda Núñez and Mirtha Ibarra. (AIN).
Cuba Advances to Round Two of 2009 World Baseball Classic
HAVANA, Cuba, March 11 (acn) Pinch-hitter Yosvany Peraza clubbed a two-out, two-run homer in the top of the eighth inning, as Cuba secured a spot in the second round of the 2009 World Baseball Classic with a 5-4 come-from-behind win over Australia in Pool B play at Foro Sol Stadium on Tuesday night.
The Caribbean team grabbed a 2-1 lead in the top of the sixth on a solo homerun from Yoennis Cespedes. However, the Aussies countered with three runs in the bottom half of the sixth. Cuba reduced the gap in the seventh on a Michel Enriquez RBI double and then Peraza sealed the score in the top of the eighth with his game-winning blast.
Cuban starter Aroldis Chapman worked four innings allowing only three hits and one earned run as he struck out seven. However, it was closer Ismel Jimenez who took the win recording the final eight outs of the game allowing no hits or runs.
Australian left hander Travis Blackley opened the game for the Aussies and he gave up one run and five hits in 5 2/3 innings of work. Rich Thompson was saddled with the loss after serving up the homerun to
Peraza.
After this result, Australia faces host Mexico on Wednesday in an elimination game that will give the winner a ticket to Round Two in San
Diego.
(Avanza Cuba a segunda ronda del Clasico de béisbol)
The Caribbean team grabbed a 2-1 lead in the top of the sixth on a solo homerun from Yoennis Cespedes. However, the Aussies countered with three runs in the bottom half of the sixth. Cuba reduced the gap in the seventh on a Michel Enriquez RBI double and then Peraza sealed the score in the top of the eighth with his game-winning blast.
Cuban starter Aroldis Chapman worked four innings allowing only three hits and one earned run as he struck out seven. However, it was closer Ismel Jimenez who took the win recording the final eight outs of the game allowing no hits or runs.
Australian left hander Travis Blackley opened the game for the Aussies and he gave up one run and five hits in 5 2/3 innings of work. Rich Thompson was saddled with the loss after serving up the homerun to
Peraza.
After this result, Australia faces host Mexico on Wednesday in an elimination game that will give the winner a ticket to Round Two in San
Diego.
(Avanza Cuba a segunda ronda del Clasico de béisbol)
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