martes, 30 de diciembre de 2008

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).

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.

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.