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A five-member international expert panel based in France ratified that the Cohiba Behike-52 is the best Cuban Habano cigars. Cuba for More Sugar By-Products   The expert group, with the Amateur de cigare magazine, participate in an annual tastin... Continue reading →

The president of Sao Tome and Principe, Manuel Pinto da Costa, will visit Cuba from June 15-19 to strengthen bilateral ties. The president's agenda includes a tribute to Cuban National Hero Jose Marti and a visit to the Latin American School of Medicin... Continue reading →

Cuban President Raul Castro Ruz rs, sent on Friday a message of congratulations to the University Students Federation (FEU) for the successful preparation and development of its 8th Congress.

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Cuban University Students Praised

 

During the closing session of the forum, which brought together in Havana 250 delegates from all provinces since Tuesday, Miguel Diaz-Canel, member of the Politburo of the PCC and First Vice-president of the councils of State and Ministers, passed on the message sent by Raul.

Also during the final session of the FEU Congress, held at the Morro-Cabaña Historic-Military Complex, the country’s oldest mass organization honored Cuban Revolution leader Fidel Castro.

Diaz-Canel called university students to fulfill and honor, with their daily actions, the Final Declaration and the declaration of principles of the Congress, read by Yosvany Montano, new President of the FEU, as well as the message sent to Fidel by the Cuban university students.

Montano and Julio Cesar Fariñas, who will be the organization’s Vice-president until the next Congress, head the National Secretariat of the organization, elected by the direct and secret vote of delegates and with a total of 19 members. / Source: ACN.


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An axe which seems to have been widely used as a tool by the Cuban aborigines of the time of agriculturist and ceramists – some a thousand years ago – was found in Los Pozos de Cantera, a rural place near La Italiana settlement in the municipality of Banes, in the north-eastern province of Holguin.

“The axe showed up while they were digging a well, at about one meter depth. Its special features are indeed an attraction,” said Ramon Estanislao Vega, who added that “they saw its archeological significance, therefore, kept it and later donated it to the Indocubano Bani museum (in Banes).”

“The axe that is 17 cm and 7 cm wide is highly valuable for some reasons,” said Luis Rafael Quiñones Garcia, a specialist at the Indocubano Bani museum.

“The most significance thing about it is its diameter and good conservation, not a common fact today, besides being found in an unusual site which was never described for its archeological values, therefore, research would now focus on it,” Quiñones Garcia said.

“This type of axe, a symbol of the Taino culture, was used by the Cuban Amerindians for shopping and smashing food. The Bani museum has smaller axes, which are generally very well polished and were probably used for ceremonial offerings,” said Quiñones Garcia.

A significant gesture by the people in Banes is their sense of belonging, that is why they donate each of the archeological pieces they find, and many of them have enriched the stock of the Bani museum.

This institution that is a pride for Banes people is preparing for the upcoming summer vacation a large exhibit, which will include this new piece that talks of the cultural prints left behind by the early people that populated Cuba, specially this coastal jurisdiction in the province of Holguin. / Source: Radio Banes / Translated by Radio Angulo.



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Havana will host the 15th Cuban Nursing Congress - June 17-21, which will focuse on topics related to sexual and reproductive health. Healthy lifestyles, gender-related issues, knowledge and information about sexuality, family planning/contraceptive ... Continue reading →

The photo exhibit “Por Banes siempre” (“For Banes Always) by local historian and cultural promoter, Luis Rafael Quiñones was opened in this jurisdiction of the province of Holguin. The pictures show remarkable places linked to culture of the nicknamed “Cuban Archeological Capital.”

The photo exhibit curator, Rodolfo Morera, extols that the pictures were taken by a man that loves his hometown, much inclined to its culture.

The exhibit ratifies Banes as a remarkable stronghold in photography, as also having also hosted important exhibitions by noted photographers like French Paul Cathary and Cuban Enmanuel Castell (Bayamo city), just to mention a few.

The photo exhibit will have a second season which Luis Rafael Quiñones will call “Gente de mi pueblo” (Folks from my Hometown). / Source: Radio Banes / Translated by Radio Angulo.


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The Cuban Revolution was a result of a historical process that marked its time and maintains today a great influence on Latin America and other regions worldwide, agreed experts during a colloquium held in Paris.

The event titled "The Achievements of Socialism: An Approach on Cuba," was organized by the section of the French Communist Party in the 20th district of this capital to discuss the reality of Cuba, which boasts undeniable social gains despite the US blockade, said speakers.

"The Revolution is a genuine, original movement forged in a historical process of many decades," said researchers and professor emeritus of the University Paris VIII, Paul Estrade.

He recalled that national unity of the Cuban people started to be constructed during the war against Spanish colonialism, mainly thanks to the figure of pro-independence hero Jose Marti.

Writer and scholar Salim Lamrani noted how from the very start of the Revolution, on January 1st, 1959, the United States started its aggressions against the Cuban people.

Lamrani, who is also professor of the University Paris Sorbona IV, refered to damages caused by the US blockade and the effects of the Torricelli and Helms-Burton acts that internationalized that economic, commercial and financial aggression.

Cuban Ambasador to France, Orlando Requeijo, explained that his country is absorbed in updating the economic model to continue improving socialism.

Despite all aggressions, we are determined to continue our path to guarantee independence and sovereignty, said the Cuban diplomat. / Source: PL.


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Cuba will be discussed in several panels at the Left Forum, June 7-9, Pace University, New York City. The event is the largest annual conference of its kind that takes place every year in the United States and possibly in the world as it convenes a broad spectrum of left and progressive intellectuals, activists, academics and interested public.

Photo Exhibit on the Cuban Five Opened in Holguin

 

This year’s conference includes at least seven panels on Cuba, which will hold sessions under several topics, such as Changing Economic System Remains an Environmental Model; Food Sovereignty and Cooperative Economics in the Cuban Revolution; Free the Cuban 5! It's time to bring them home!; A Changing Cuba, a Stagnant America strategy and the Continuing Plight of the Cuban Five; The Twenty-First Century Latin American Left; Venceremos Brigade: Who's gonna break the Travel Ban? Revolution in the Age of the Internet: an International Panel.

Participants at the panels include Stan Smith, from the Chicago Committee to Free the Cuban Five, Ovidio Roque, First Secretary at the Permanent Cuban Mission to the United Nations, Arnold August, Canadian political analyst, journalist and author of the books “Democracy in Cuba and the 1997-98 Elections” and “Cuba and Its Neighbours: Democracy in Motion.”

Also at hand will be Martin Garbus, one of the country’s top trial lawyers, as well as Gloria La Riva, Coordinator of the National Committee to Free the Cuban Five, many other personalities, activists and journalists, including Cuban Rosa Miriam Elizalde, editor of the Cuban on-line publication Cubadebate.

Left Forum provides a context for the critical dialogue that is essential for a stronger Left and a more just society. For the US and the world, revitalizing an American Left has never been more urgent; Left Forum has a critical role to play in that undertaking, reads the information posted on the Left Forum website.

Conference participants come together to engage a wide range of critical perspectives on the world, to discuss differences, commonalities, and alternatives to current predicaments, and to share ideas for understanding and transforming the world. The forum will close with a plenary session on June 9.

Left Forum 2012 involved 4,500 attendees, 1,300 speakers and over 400 panels. Left Forum is the culmination of the creative efforts of hundreds of people who engage the gamut of volunteer activities, from helping generate artistic events and panels, to outreach and involvement of a rainbow of organizations and individuals.

The conference is sponsored by the Brecht Forum; Center for the Study of Culture, Technology, and Work at the CUNY Graduate Center; Critical Sociology; Logos; Monthly Review; National Lawyers Guild; New Political Science; New Politics; Radical Teacher; Rethinking Marxism/AESA; Rosa Luxemburg Foundation; Science and Society; Situations; Social Text; Socialism and Democracy; Social Register; Souls; Union for Radical Political Economics.

In late April, representatives of 40 leftist parties and organizations from 20 Latin American and Caribbean countries met in Havana to hold the meeting of the Working Group of the Sao Paulo Forum, which issued a declaration calling for strong support of the nations currently undertaking economic and social transformations aimed at guaranteeing social justice, and making efforts towards regional integration and the unity of the left.

The leftist representatives also expressed their support of the social, economic and political projects being implemented by Cuba and its efforts to keep building the socialist system. They also condemned the over-50-year US economic, commercial and financial blockade of the island and demanded the release of the Cuban anti-terrorist fighters held in the U.S. since 1998.

The declaration issued by the Havana meeting also expressed the support by the leftist movements in the region of Venezuela and President Nicolás Maduro in the face of destabilization-oriented actions and campaigns by Venezuelan rightwing circles. And they also backed the Paraguayan people against rightist maneuvers to legitimize the coup staged against democratically elected president Fernando Lugo, through the latest April 21 presidential elections.

The Forum of Sao Paulo also supported the peace talks underway in Havana between Colombia’s Armed Revolutionary Forces- People’s Army (FARC-EP) and the government headed by President Juan Manuel Santos.

The Left Forum taking place in New York and the most recent Meeting of the Working Group of the Sao Paulo Forum in Havana are two examples of the increasingly active role being played by the left in this part of the world towards united and concerted efforts aimed at achieving a better world. / Source: Radio Havana Cuba.


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Dental services cost a lot to the Cuban state, however, they are at the people’s reach and free of charge. But the stubborn US blockade successively imposed for more than 50 years by the White House poses barriers to the quality of the patients&r... Continue reading →

David Alvarez y Juego de Manos orchestra also became protagonists of that historic win of the Holguin baseball team on the night of June 28, 2002, when the nicknamed Puppies of Holguin for the first time grabbed the crown of the Cuban Baseball League a... Continue reading →

The Provincial Bureau of the Cuban Communist Party (PCC) in the north-eastern province of Holguin announced that the main event at times of July 26 celebration – the country’s National Rebelliousness Day – will take place in the inlan... Continue reading →

The Cuban capital will host the 4th Meeting of the Ministerial Council on Social Issues of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of our America (ALBA) on May 17. The forum will particularly focus on education, health, culture and sports. The meetin... Continue reading →

Doctor in Medicine Marina Padilla, coordinator of the International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics (IFGO), highlighted in Havana the attention given in Cuba to women’s health and quality of life. Attention to Infertile Couples in Cuba ... Continue reading →

Cuba will take its export services to the 18th Construction Fair of Barcelona, Spain, to take place May 21-24. Given the island’s significant and skilled human resources, the offer includes technical assistance and labor through the hiring of uni... Continue reading →

I'm in Cuba, but we're still the Cuban Five, said at a press conference in Havana Rene Gonzalez Sehwerert, one of the five Cubans convicted in the U.S. for fighting terrorism against Cuba.

Return Home of Rene Gonzalez Highly Pleasing for Goodwill People

Along his wife, Olga Salanueva, Rene showed the US Certificate of Loss of Nationality, which he had just received, a document that allows him to stay permanently in Cuba.

However, he said that will not feel free until his brothers in arms return: Gerardo Hernandez, Ramon Labañino, Fernando Gonzalez and Antonio Guerrero.

He noted that the granting of the Certificate, awarded by the U.S. State Department does not constitute any humanitarian gesture.

He thanked the international solidarity with the Five and stressed the need to intensify actions, with the goal of American public opinion knows of the case and the injustice done to them

The U.S. Government has to overcome the pressures of the most reactionary anti-Cuban sector and start a dialogue with Cuba, he said.

The philosophy of confrontation between the two countries is very harmful, and I hope one day terrorism and aggression against Cuba are things of the past, he added.

René a message recently read sent by Gerardo from the maximum security prison in Victorville, Calif., where he is serving an unfair sentence of double life plus 15 years.

In an exclusive interview with ACN, Rene said he was honored that Gerardo considered him a champion of the cause of the Cuban Five.

He noted that this condition is shared as a team with the mothers, wives and families who have made the world aware of the case.

The commitment is for us "not to separate and stay together until we're all here in Cuba," he said.

The Five were arrested in 1998 in Miami and convicted in 2001 in that city for monitoring violent groups in U.S. territory who were planning terrorist actions against Cuba. / Source: ACN.


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Christian Leffler, the European Union Director for the Americas described his stay in Cuba as productive, where the aim was the promotion of dialogue to outline an agreement between the two parties, local press reported today.

His visit's objective was promoting talks to reach a joint global agreement that can be used as a platform to build further exchanges, Leffler said at a press conference held at EU headquarters in this capital.

Leffler favors strengthening the existing links and is pleased the European bloc is an important trade partner for Cuba.

"In the economic context, we aim at establishing solid grounds to achieve comprehensive progress between Cuba and the European Union", Leffler noted.

Leffler stressed that Cuba is a very appreciated partner in Europe and reaching an agreement with the EU would bring added value for both parties. / Source: PL.


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For goodwill people who know the injustice against the Cuban anti-terrorist fighters unjustly held in the United States is of great joy that Rene Gonzalez permanently stays in Cuba, said Andres Gomez, director of Areito magazine website.

Cuban Five Renounces to his U.S. Citizenship

In an article released today, the Cuban journalist resident in Miami, said that on Friday, May 3, Judge Joan Lenard, of the Southern District Court of Florida, accepted to modify the terms of supervised release for three years by Gonzalez, who was released from prison in October 2011 after completing his sentence, but had to remain in this country.

Gomez recalled that on April 3, Rene Gonzalez filed a request by his lawyer Philip Horowitz to Judge Lenard to travel to Cuba for two weeks, to attend a memorial service for his father, Candido Rene Gonzalez, who died in Havana on April 2. Later, "on April 29, during a visit to his family in Cuba, Rene filed through the court by his legal representative a supplementary petition to his motion to modify the terms of supervised release, in exchange for his formal resignation to U.S. citizenship," the text states.

"Rene was born in Chicago on August 13, 1956, and he is therefore a U.S. citizen by birth, also a citizen of Cuba by choice," and his family is on the Caribbean island, Gomez said.

The Five, as Gerardo Hernandez, Ramon Labañino, Antonio Guerrero, Fernando Gonzalez, and Rene Gonzalez are internationally known, were detained on September 12, 1998 in the city of Miami, and after 17 months in solitary confinement, they were sentenced in December 2001 at a trial riddled with irregularities, according to some experts' reports.

The mission that took them to U.S. territory was monitoring and restraining actions that with total impunity Cuban-American violent groups have planned, organized, and executed from southern Florida against the civilian population of the Caribbean country, which have left about 3,400 deaths and more than 2,000 people with disabilities over the last 50 years.

Fernando Gonzalez should release from prison in February 2014, whose initial penalty was 19 years, but after being resentenced in 2009, he was imposed 17 years and nine months.

Meanwhile, Gerardo Hernandez is serving his double life sentence plus 15 years, while Labañino and Guerrero, also resentenced, are serving a sentence of 30 years; and 21 years, 10 months, and five years of supervised release, respectively. / Source: PL.


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As training is the best way to prevent fires from happening at home, in social and economic entities and forests, the year’s Fire Prevention Week in the municipality of Calixto Garcia bets on such significant action, as it is also done in all oth... Continue reading →