HAVANA, Cuba, April 27 (acn) After being reelected president of Ecuador last Sunday, Rafael Correa confirmed that he is to emphasize his socialist project. The leader of the Movimiento Alianza País achieved a historic and unprecedented victory.
No other candidate has won in the first electoral round since 1976. The triumph allows Correa to govern until 2013, says a Granma newspaper report.
"Socialism, of course, will continue. The Ecuadorian people voted for that," he declared, adding: "When have we concealed our ideological orientation? We are going to emphasize this fight for social justice; for regional justice….we are going to continue the fight to eliminate ll forms of workplace exploitation within our socialist conviction: the supremacy of human work over capital," EcoDiario quoted the president.
While not yet official, the election results confirm survey findings: Correa would win in the first round. A rapid recount by the Participación Ciudadana nongovernmental organization, with 71.5% of the votes counted, places Correa of the Movimiento Alianza País in first place with 51.7%, and Lucio Gutiérrez of the Partido Sociedad Patriótica second, with 28.4% of the vote, EFE reports.
"Nobody is in any doubt that our preferential option is for the poorest people, we are here because of them," Correa affirmed before ending with a Hasta la victoria siempre.
(Histórica victoria de Rafael Correa en Ecuador)
lunes, 27 de abril de 2009
The town raised its voice in Camagüey
Camagüey, Apr 27. Government Representatives of almost 800 thousand inhabitants of this county - more extensive agricultural region of Cuba - sesioned in the Eighth Ordinary Meeting of the X Command of Government, to perfect and to accelerate the priorities of the housings damaged by the hurricanes, to value the march of the productions of foods and to impel the incorporation to the work or the study of detached people.
Delegates to the Provincial Assembly of the Popular Power and deputies to the Cuban Parliament for this territory, also recognized the results of the Second Process of Rendition of the delegates of districts and the population's participation in the solution of the problems of the own communities, in spite of the cyclonal setbacks.
Jorge Lezcano Pérez, advisory of the National Assembly, intervened to reason the dynamic and rich of this democratic process that links to the town in their incessant administration to improve the quality of life in urban neighborhoods, sugar little neighbourhood, communities and until in the most remote villages in the country.
He said that it is a process that finishes never, in which are constantly mobilized the neighbors, the entities and state institutions in function of giving answers or solution to the formulated positions.
The assistants to the assembly, referred to some doubtful administrations in the answer to the matters outlined by the delegates.
In that topic, the invited Julio Cesar García Rodríguez, first secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba in Camagüey, reiterated that the administrative directive of any organism, entity or institution of the State are obligated to be in the place that the community requests them and to respond in the smallest possible time the outlined restlessness, because it is in fact the town who chose them and who it can remove them when he understands that they are not worthy of the trust deposited in them.
The Eighth Session was presided over, also, by Jesus García Collazo, president of the Provincial Assembly and the also deputed Faure Chomón Mediavilla, advisory of the Parliament from Cuba.(Rolando Sarmiento Ricart)
Delegates to the Provincial Assembly of the Popular Power and deputies to the Cuban Parliament for this territory, also recognized the results of the Second Process of Rendition of the delegates of districts and the population's participation in the solution of the problems of the own communities, in spite of the cyclonal setbacks.
Jorge Lezcano Pérez, advisory of the National Assembly, intervened to reason the dynamic and rich of this democratic process that links to the town in their incessant administration to improve the quality of life in urban neighborhoods, sugar little neighbourhood, communities and until in the most remote villages in the country.
He said that it is a process that finishes never, in which are constantly mobilized the neighbors, the entities and state institutions in function of giving answers or solution to the formulated positions.
The assistants to the assembly, referred to some doubtful administrations in the answer to the matters outlined by the delegates.
In that topic, the invited Julio Cesar García Rodríguez, first secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba in Camagüey, reiterated that the administrative directive of any organism, entity or institution of the State are obligated to be in the place that the community requests them and to respond in the smallest possible time the outlined restlessness, because it is in fact the town who chose them and who it can remove them when he understands that they are not worthy of the trust deposited in them.
The Eighth Session was presided over, also, by Jesus García Collazo, president of the Provincial Assembly and the also deputed Faure Chomón Mediavilla, advisory of the Parliament from Cuba.(Rolando Sarmiento Ricart)
Cuba Announces Preventive Measures against Swine Influenza
HAVANA, Cuba, April 27 (acn) Cuba´s Health Ministry issued a press release on Monday announcing a package of preventive measures following the presence of the Influenza A virus subtype H1N1 in Mexico and in other countries.
The information says that the Cuban Public Health Ministry has been following reports by international health organizations and by authorities in Mexico and the United States about humans affected in those countries with the new Swine Influenza A virus, H1N1.
The virus has infected 20 people in the United States and over 1, 000 in several Mexican states, where 80 diseased persons have already died. Canada and some European countries have already reported the first cases of the virus in their territories, explains the release.
Cuba´s Health Ministry, the Civil Defense, the Veterinary Institute and other entities in the country have been working, over the past few years, in a program to prevent an epidemic stemming from the bird flue and in that direction those entities have applied some measures in the fields of diagnosis, risk reduction and in the capabilities to face such an epidemic in all the Cuban national territory.
In the case of the current virus, which is transmitted from person to person and with many possibilities to spread around the world, Cuba is adopting a package of necessary measures in all air and maritime terminals, with a strong limitation on flights from and to Mexico, plus local preparedness to take further necessary steps. Also included is the updating of all surveillance capabilities of clinical and epidemiological kind as well as those related to the assistance given to the population by the National Health Care System. All actions scheduled to be taken in different circumstances linked to the evolution of the current situation have been considered by the Health Ministry in coordination with the National Civil Defense and other entities, explains the press release.
The Cuban Health Ministry also asks the population to intensify all personal and collective hygienic measures and timely medical assistance when necessary.
The Cuban Public Health Ministry and its entities count on all necessary material and human resources throughout the country, organized in an attention system that is accessible to all the Cuban population, the press release concluded.
NAM Ministerial Meeting Opens Sessions in Havana
HAVANA, Cuba, April 27 (acn) The Ministerial Meeting of the Non-Aligned Movement´s Coordinating Bureau opens sessions today at Havana´s Conventions Center with the participation of representatives of 120 countries of the world.
The meeting, which is the last one to take place prior to the 15th Summit of Heads of State and Government of the Non Aligned Movement (NAM) to be held in Egypt, will hold a segment of high-level officials on Monday and Tuesday, said deputy foreign minister Abelardo Moreno, Granma daily reported.
Moreno, who is also the Cuban ambassador to the United Nations, said that participants at the meeting, which will wind up on Thursday, will be analyzing a wide gamut of subjects contained in the draft declaration of the forum, which include disarmament and the fight against drugs and terrorism.
The meeting will also address the need for a new international economic order, the world economic and financial crisis, as well as decolonization processes, particularly in the case of Puerto Rico.
Cuba assumed as Chair of the Non-Aligned Movement at the 14th NAM Summit, held in Havana in 2006. During its mandate, Cuba achieved the revitalization of the organization, which is now more active and maintains more solid positions, said Moreno. Egypt will take that responsibility during the upcoming Summit that will take place in Sharm El Sheikh next July.
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