To face the crisis and to advance

Camagüey. It is clear for all that we don't have a perfect society, but I would dare to say that there is not another so human as ours, so pending that men, women, children and old men receive all the material and spiritual goods that the socialism is able to offer, as cannot make the capitalism.

I am completely sure that any town, for very Spartan that had been, had been able to arrive until here, after 50 years facing to the most powerful imperialism and heidelberg that has existed on the face of the earth, and under the strong blockade and genocidist that it imposed us, the longest in the history, to give in for hunger and illnesses.

The preamble doesn't have any vindicative purpose of the inefficient, the bureaucracy, the indolence, the criminal and negligent behaviors with those that we collide to newspaper and that in way some has to do with the ethical and moral principles of the society that we build.

Neither I seek to ignore the concerns that suffer the population to see how it stretches the wage that doesn't reach, for the high prices of the products that should necessarily be acquired outside of the family basket that the State guarantees “against wind and gets dizzy”, and how other goods offered in the foreign currency area receive they, for the dichotomy of the double currency, of which the current economic situation doesn't allow us to do without.

Now, many times I wonder what had been of this country, if we didn't have the Revolution, after the three desvastators hurricanes that whipped us in the 2008, and whose material losses, mainly in the agriculture, in housings and in school, industrial facilities and of all type, cost to the country around ten thousand million dollars.

The survives who can had been to the agenda, like has happened in other many places, in New Orleans, city belonging to the powerful neighbor of the North and whose inhabitants, to more than five years of being whipped by the Katrina, stroll for other states like pariahs in their own earth, after having lost all their goods and many, the life of their relatives.

Blockade and special period is not simple enunciated. The fact of having learned how to deceive him and to resist it doesn't mean them not to be present. There is that test the impact that had and they have in the economic thing and in the social thing here; the negative sequel that leave us in our development and in the loss and jag of vital values to advance toward the socialism that we want.

In this world more and more globalized the financial and economic crisis is not only for the other ones, but also for us, with a sensitive one low in the price of the exports and remarkable rise in the imports, and if the millionaire wave of unemployed that shakes the universe doesn't play us it is because here we have a social system that privileges the man and not the gain, because the right to the work like half of life is sacred and is guaranteed to all.

The services of Health, with lunar incidental, most of subjective nature, are lent to the whole population, the same as the educational, those of social security, those of social attendance for destitute people, the nutritional plans for the childhood, in short, a range of benefits that are directed to rise and to improve the quality of life in their entirety that very few towns, regrettably, they can enjoy.

In the complex and spasm international situation, the nation consolidates its presence in the regional organisms, fundamentally in the Bolivarian Alternative for the Towns of Our America (ALBA), to find agreement formulas and cooperation that contribute to face the crisis.

In the internal thing, the austerity, the saving—energy and of all type—, the investments directed toward where more quickly surrender economic fruits, the substitution of exports and the production of foods for the population, are part of the politics that the country takes ahead to make in front of the crisis and at the same time to continue the development and to preserve the conquests of the Revolution in these 50 years, and in that road we will continue advancing.(Armando Boudet)

Live grows

Camagüey. The sexual and reproductive health in the county of Camagüey maintained stability in the first quarter of the present year, with distinguish special in the rate of 4,2 childrens` infantile mortality died by each 1 000 born alive, inferior to the results of the precedent calendar and the national stocking.

The positive indicator-January-April - represents four deaths less than in the previous period, as long as the natality grew in 188 small healthy more.

However, the current summer stage, with high temperatures and polluting rains, is of risk, for that that the system of the Infantile Maternal Program of Attention (PAMI) in the territory of Camagüey, headed by the organism of the Health,reinforces the preventive measures for the months of May, June, July and August.

The actions in march, approved by the Council of the Provincial Administration, plan the staggered programming of the infirmary personnel's vacations and specialists that will assure the medical watches in each service of urgency or attention to the serious one.

The doctor Reynaldo Pons, provincial director of Health, informed that to achieve a time of wait smaller than 30 minutes in the services of urgency of the PAMI, will have force specialized in quantity and quality and will veil because the work shifts that cover physicians and nurses are not exceeded of the 12 hours.

Health also takes the responsibility with the control and attention to children and pregnant that stay in recreational centers and will offer educational chats for the prevention of accidents, of illnesses sharp diharreics and sharp breathing infection, the most frequent in the effective summer season.

In the medical institutions - the PAMI underlines - the control of the norms will be carried to an extreme foreseen in the treatment to the pregnant ones with risks, in the services of childbirths, living rooms of operations and units of attention to the serious of the maternities and pediatric of the county; it previsory influency that will have colophon of success in the sexual and reproductive health if in the community: districts and advice of the Popular Power, the Federation of Cuban Women, the Committees of Defense of the Revolution and other organizations of masses, political and involved entities, make his on the whole so that the life grows with the boy's new smile and of the mother.

Innovators in the battle for the electric power saving

Camagüey, The innovators and racionalizators of Camagüey have never moved away from the will of to influence in the programs of electric power saving and to incline to the use of renewable sources.
The fact charges bigger connotation in these moments in that the country is urged of reducing the electric power consumes in front of the crisis of the world economy.

Data of the National Office of Statistical in the county reveal that as regards energy efficiency 6 765 solutions were generated with the participation of 2 569 authors and joint authors in the second stage of the XVI edition of the forum of Science and Technique in the base.

That contest has four main topics and the first of them is the promoting reports to save energy, fruit of studies, ideas and projects and with concrete contributions with an eye toward improving the consumption indexes.

The main addresses are profiled to the concretion of those objectives in the productive state sector and of services, and especially in teams and key activities of positions.

In the last biannual bulletin: “Talents”, of the National Association of Innovative and Racionalizators (ANIR) inside the limits of that organization for the 2009, appears consigned the necessity to contribute to improve the indicators of efficiency and saving, particularly of energy resources, with emphasis in the fuel.

Will deepen in Camagüey about more biological diversity and environmental education

The study of the biological diversity and the environmental education will be among the main topics of the event ECOCAMAGÜEY 2009, fixed for the first days of June in the capital of Camagüey.

Summoned by the Center of Investigations of the Envioronment in the territory, the encounter has as objective to propitiate the exchange of experiences among investigators, educators and managers on the chore in function of the sustainable development.

With that purpose you will also lecture about the protected areas in the county, the handling integrated coastal , productive sustainable hydrographics basins , climatic change and environmental economy.

The event ECOCAMAGÜEY 2009 bill with the support of the Company for the Flora and the Fauna Protection and other entities of the territory that contribute to the studies on the environment. (Yamilé Fernández Rodríguez)

Anything can improvise in Haiti

I read five days ago a newsy office informing that Ban Ki-moon would name Bill Clinton like its special correspondent for Haiti.

“Clinton accompanied last month of March to the General Secretary to an official visit of two days to Haiti-- affirms the office—to support the development plan elaborated by the Government of Puerto Príncipe that looks for to wake up the made drowsy Haitian economy.

“The ex president has maintained a remarkable philanthropic commitment with the Antillean nation through the Global Initiative Clinton.

“Is a honor to accept the General Secretary's invitation to be the special correspondent for Haiti”, declared the former leader.

“Clinton pointed out that the town and the Government from Haiti have the capacity to overcome the serious damages that caused the four storms that razed the country last year.”

The following day, the same newsy agency informed that Mrs. Clinton, Secretary of State, full with joy, declared that “Bill was a stellar correspondent”. on the other hand, “the Secretary of the UN confirmed that had named Clinton like his new special correspondent for Haiti. We were together two months ago in that country and her presence helped to lift the conscience of the international community on the problems of the Caribbean country.

“The UN fears that after a period of several years of relative calm bolstered by the MINUSTAH the political uncertainty returns to the country.”

Repeats in the new office the history again of “the four hurricanes and storms that 900 deads caused, caused 800 thousand damaged and destroyed the civil scarce infrastructure of the country.”

The history of Haiti and its tragedy is much more complex.

After United States that proclaimed the sovereignty in 1776, Haiti was the second country of this hemisphere that conquered the independence in the year 1804. In the first case, the white descendants of the colonists that the 13 colonies English, fervorosos believing, austere and well educated, that were proprietors of lands were founded and of slaves, shook the yoke colonial English and enjoyed the national independence, didn't seize the autochthonous population, neither the African slaves or descendants that lacked all right, in spite of the principles included in the Declaration of Philadelphia.

In Haiti, where more than 400 thousand slaves worked for 30 thousand white proprietors, for the first time in the humanity's history the men and women subjected to the hateful system were able to abolish the slavery, to maintain and to defend an independent state, fighting against soldiers that had put from knees to the European monarchies.

That stage coincided with the peak of the capitalism and the emergence of powerful colonial empires that dominated the lands and the seas of the planet during centuries.

The Haitians were not the culprits of their current poverty, but the victims of a system imposed to the world. They didn't invent the colonialism, the capitalism, the imperialism, the unequal exchange, the neoliberalism neither the forms of exploitation and looting that have reigned in the planet during the last 200 years.

Haiti has 27 750 square kilometers of surface where, according to dear reliable, the population already reached, in the 2009, the figure of 9 million inhabitants. The number of people for square kilometer of arable earth rises at 885, one of the highest of the world, without development some of industries or other resources that allow him to acquire the minimum of indispensable material means for the life.

The population 53 percent lives in the field, the firewood and the coal constitute the only available domestic fuel for great part of the Haitian families, what hinders the reforestation. The absence of forests that with the fluffed floor of leaves, branches and roots, they retain the water, facilitates the human and economic damage that the intense rains cause in towns, roads and cultivations. The hurricanes, like it is known, cause considerable additional damages that will be every bigger time if the climate continues changing quickly. It is not a secret for anybody.

Our cooperation with the population from Haiti began ten years ago, when in fact the hurricanes George and Mitch whipped the Caribbean and to countries of Central America.

René Preval exercised the position of President from Haiti and Jean-Bertrand Aristide was boss of Government. The first contingent of 100 Cuban doctors was correspondent December 4 ,1998. The figure of Cuban collaborators of the health in Haiti rose later on to more than 600.

It was in that occasion when belived the Latin American School of Medicine, ELAM, where they study at the moment more than 12 thousand Latin American youths. Starting from then were granted the Haitian youths hundred of scholarships in the Ability of Medicine of Santiago de Cuba, one of the most experienced of the country.

In Haiti the number of primary schools had grown and went advancing. Until the humblest families desire that their children study, as only hope that can survive the poverty working inside or outside of their country. The Cuban program of doctors' formation was well received. The youths selected to study in Cuba had good basic preparation, inheritance maybe of the advances of France in that land. They should use one year in the course premedic that also included the Spanish language. It has constituted a good quarry of doctors of quality.

In our medical abilities have graduated as specialists in General Integral Medicine 533 Haitian youths, of them, 52 study in Cuba a second specialty that is needed at the moment. Another group of 527 occupies the registrations that correspond to the Republic of Haiti.

In that country work 413 Cuban professionals of the health that lend services gratuitously to that town brother at the present time. The Cuban doctors are present in the ten departments of the country and in 127 of the 137 communes. They also lend services more than 400 Haitian doctors formed in Cuba, and the students of the last year that carry out the educational practice in the own Haiti--next to our doctors--, that makes a total of more than 800 Haitian youths consecrated to the medical services in their Homeland. That force will grow more and more with the new ones graduate Haitian.

The challenge was hard, the Cuban doctors met with difficult problems. The infantile mortality was superior at 80 for each thousand born alive, the perspective of life was below the 60 years, the prevalence of the AIDS in the mature population in the year 2007 reached the figure of 120 thousand citizens. Dozens of children thousands and adults of diverse ages still die every year for illnesses infectilely like tuberculosis, malaria, diarrheas, fastidiousness and for bad nutrition, to point out alone some indexes. The own HIV is already an illness that can face and to guarantee the life of the patients. But this is not achieved in one year; it is indispensable a culture of health that the Haitian town acquires with growing interest. Advances are observed that demonstrate the possibility to improve the indexes of health considerably.

In three oftalmologyc centers created in Haiti, have been operated of the view 37109 patients. The cases that there cannot be operated by thier complexity, are sent to Cuba, where are assisted without cost some.

With the economic cooperation of Venezuela, 10 Integral Centers of Diagnosis are creating, equipped with modern technology that is already acquired.

More important than the resources that the international community can contribute, is the human personnel that uses such resources.

Our modest support to the town of Haiti has been possible although the hurricanes that Clinton spoke they also hit us. A good test that what it has lacked in the world is the solidarity.

It could be spoken equally from the Cuban contribution to the literacy programs and in other fields, in spite of our limited economic resources. But I don't want to extend neither it is desirable to make it to speak of our contribution. I concentrated on the health, because it is an unavoidable topic. We don't fear that others make what we are making. The Haitian youths that are formed in Cuba are becoming the priests of the health that in growing number that town brother requires.

The most important thing is the creation in new cooperation ways that this so much selfish world needs. The organisms of United Nations can testify that Cuba is contributing what they qualify like Integral Programs of Health.

Anything can improvise in Haiti and anything will be fruit of the philanthropic spirit of institution some.

To the project of the Latin American School of Medicine, was added the new formation program later in doctors' coming from Venezuela Cuba, Bolivia, the Caribbean, and other countries of the Third World, as their programs of health demanded him with urgency. Today they surpass the young figure of 24 thousand of the Third World those that study Medicine in our Homeland. Helping to other has also developed ourselves in that field, and we constitute an important force. That, and not the robbery of brains, is what we practice! Can they affirm the same thing the rich and overdeveloped countries of the G-7? Others will follow our example! Nobody doesn't doubt it!

Fidel Castro Ruz

May 24 of 2009

4 and 17 p.m.

Will welcome Camagüey congress of broadcast

Camagüey. For the disposition, capacity and integration that show, the broadcast of Camagüey will be the delegates of the whole country to the VII Congress of it Federation, to take place in coming October.

Gave this way to know Pedro Rodríguez, national president of the Federation, during the assembly of balance of the filial of Camagüey made this Sunday, in which the training, ethics and responsibility centered the debates of the indispensable comunicators.

The growth stands out in the county in more than 200 members in the last years, and the discharge estimates in that the address of the Communist Party of Cuba, the Government and the town for the acting of its broadcast, especially during and after the step of the hurricanes.

In the meeting was given him the distinction “Juan Pastor Foster” that confers the Federation to the people from Camagüey Victor Manuel of Quesada and Ricardo Muñoz Rodríguez, and a special recognition for the lifelong work to Orlando García Canine, founder of that collective and still in active. (Raysa Mestril Gutiérrez)