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 ALBA Strengthens Cooperation with Haiti |
| Caracas, Jan 25 of 2010 (Prensa Latina) The Bolivarian Alliance for the People of Our America (ALBA) analyzes Monday new actions of cooperation, a day after the group''s foreign ministers agreed to broaden support for Haiti.
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| Cuban FM Praises ALBA’s Role in Haiti Crisis |
| HAVANA, Cuba, Jan 25 (acn) Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla praised the role of and the assistance provided by the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of the Americas (ALBA) to the people of Haiti after the devastation caused in this Caribbean nation by an earthquake almost two weeks ago.
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| Protest against terrorist Posada Carriles in US |
| On Monday, March 1, the terrorist Luis Posada Carriles goes on trial in El Paso, Texas. Posada will be tried in U.S. District court for perjury--for lying to U.S. immigration authorities about his role in the 1997 Havana hotel bombings which killed Italian tourist Fabio di Celmo.
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| Fidel Castro: Cooperation Spirit is Put to the Test in Haiti |
| Havana, Jan 17 (Prensa Latina) Cuban Revolution leader Fidel Castro stated that the exceptional situation created in Haiti after a quake that shook that country on Tuesday puts cooperation spirit to the test.
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| FIDEL HAITI’S LESSON |
| Reflections by Comrade Fidel
Two days ago, close to 6 in the evening Cuba time, already dark in Haiti due to its geographical location, the TV channels started carrying news that a violent earthquake, --of 7.3 intensity in the Richter scale—had severely shaken Port au Prince. The seismic phenomenon had originated at a tectonic fault in the sea only 9.4 miles from the Haitian capital, a city where 80% of the population lives in fragile houses built with clay and adobe.
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| Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Cuba |
| Cuba Demands Exclusion as Sponsor of Terror
CUBA, Jan 8, 2010. - Cuba demanded its exclusion from the list of States described by the US administration as sponsors of terrorism, in a declaration issued by the Cuban Foreign Ministry and published Friday by Granma daily.
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| Cuba rejects inclusion on blacklist |
| WASHINGTON.—The Cuban Interests Section in this capital assured this January 5 that the island government is cooperating in the international fight against terrorism, and it condemned its inclusion on the list of states described by the U.S. administration as sponsors of terrorism, EFE reports.
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| Washington Post Denies that Cuba Is a Terrorist Country |
| HAVANA, Cuba, Jan 5 (acn) The Washington Post, the most important and oldest newspaper of the US’s capital city, published an article today criticizing the inclusion of Cuba in the US list
of terrorist countries.
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| Cuban infant mortality rate: 4.8!! |
| THE risks involved per se in pregnancy and birth were compounded last year by another threat: the appearance of the new AH1N1 flu virus which, during its eight months of attack, has demonstrated particular aggressiveness toward pregnant women and children.
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| Reflections by comrade Fidel |
| HUMANITY’S RIGHT TO LIFE
Climate change is already causing enormous damage and hundreds of millions of poor people are enduring the consequences.
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| Cuba among Top Ten Tourist Destinations Worldwide |
| ABEL GONZÁLEZ ALAYÓN
Cuba is among the top ten most attractive tourist destinations worldwide for the end of this year and the coming 2010.
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| Cuba: Zero Percent of Severe Child Malnutrition |
| HAVANA, Cuba, Dec 21 (acn) The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) affirms that Cuba is
the only country in Latin America and the Caribbean that has eliminated severe child
malnutrition, thanks to its government’s efforts.
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| The Copenhagen Summit was a Farce, says Cuban Foreign Minister |
| HAVANA, Cuba, Dec 21 (acn) Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez described on Monday in this capital as a farce and as an undemocratic, exclusive and arbitrary meeting the UN Conference on Climate Change recently held in Copenhagen, Denmark.
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| Fidel Castro: The Truth of What Happened at the Summit |
| The youth is more interested than anyone else in the future.
Until very recently, the discussion revolved around the kind of society we would have. Today, the discussion centers on whether human society will survive.
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| Raul: ALBA Member Nations Committed to a Common Ideal |
| HAVANA, Cuba, Dec 14 (acn) Cuban President Raul Castro assured on Monday that, in their struggle against the dangers and challenges of today, the members of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas (ALBA) pledge themselves to a common ideal and commitment, knowing that a
better world is possible.
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| Fidel Castro, Dr Honoris Causa of Cuban University |
| Dec 2 (Prensa Latina) University City Jose Antonio Echeverria (CUJAE) awarded today the leader of the Cuban Revolution Fidel Castro with the title Doctor Honoris Causa.
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| Declaration of the participants in the 5th International Colloquium “For the Release of the Cuban Five heroes and against Terrorism” |
| The participants in the 5th International Colloquium “For the Release of the Cuban
Five heroes and against Terrorism”, social fighters, trade unionists, parliament
members, pacifists, party leaders, intellectuals and religious leaders, students,
have agreed to issue the following Declaration:
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| Raul Castro Stresses Cuba Defense Organization |
| Havana, Nov 28 (Prensa Latina) Army General Raul Castro highlighted Cuba''s organization both to face a military aggression and a hurricane, Granma daily reported Saturday.
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| Cuba-EU Political Talks in Brussles |
| Brussels, Nov 28 (Prensa Latina) Cuba expressed on Saturday to representatives of the European Union Troika its willingness to strengthen political, cooperation and trade links.
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| Cuba Rejects Honduran Polls in Estoril Summit |
| Estoril, Portugal, Nov 30 (Prensa Latina) Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez called Monday at the 19th Ibero-American Summit for a statement to reject Honduran elections and alerted to a threat for Latin America of the US military doctrine.
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| First VP Machado Ventura Meets with PM from Tonga |
| HAVANA, Cuba, Dec 2 (acn) The First Vice-president of the Cuban Councils of
State and
Ministers, Jose Ramon Machado Ventura, met on Wednesday morning with
Honorable Feleti Sevele,
Prime Minister, Foreign Minister, and Minister of Defense from the Kingdom
of Tonga, now on an
official visit to Cuba.
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| Bastion 2009 Strategic Military Exercise Concluded in Cuba |
| The Bastion 2009 strategic military exercise concluded on Sunday, November 29, throughout the Cuba. President Raul Castro congratulated all the participants and said that all the set objectives had been met.
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| Ibero-American Summit Slams Terrorism against Cuba |
| The 19th Ibero-American Summit of Heads of State and Government demanded today in the Portuguese city of Estoril that terrorist Luis Posada Carriles be extradited to Venezuela to be tried in that country.
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| Reflections by comrade Fidel |
A Science Fiction Story
I very much regret to have to criticize Obama knowing that there are in that country other could-be presidents worse than him. I am aware that that position in the United States is today a major headache. The best example of this is the report in yesterday’s edition of Granma that 237 US members of Congress, or 44%, are millionaires. This does not mean that every one of them is an incorrigible reactionary but it is extremely difficult that they feel like the many million Americans who do not have access to medical care, who are unemployed or who need to work very hard to earn their living.
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| Raúl receives European Commissioner Karel De Gucht |
IN the afternoon of Wednesday November 4, President Raúl Castro Ruz received His Excellency Mr. Karel De Gucht, European Commissioner for development and humanitarian aid, who is on an official visit to our country.
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| Cuban tourism growing despite world crisis |
DESPITE the global economic crisis, 2008 was the best year for Cuban tourism, affirmed Tourism Minister Manuel Marrero at the opening of the 29th International Tourism Fair, FITCUBA 2009, in Havana. Some 900 professionals from 58 countries and 180 journalists from 34 countries are attending the event.
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| Havana Trade Fair |
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Opportunity for commercial and industrial integration
THE 27th Havana Trade Fair (FIHAV 2009), which runs from November 2 to 7, is proving that Cuba will continue to be an attractive market for foreign businesses, despite the current international crisis and restrictions imposed by the blockade that the United States has maintained against the island for 50 years.
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| Cuba vs Bloqueo 2009 |
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The economic, commercial and financial embargo imposed by the United States against Cuba 50 years ago is the most elevated expression of a cruel and inhuman policy, lacking in legality and legitimacy and deliberately designed to create hunger, illnesses and desperation within the Cuban populace. Nothing has changed through ten successive US governments other than a tightening of this policy. Nothing essential has changed either since the new US government was inaugurated in January 2009
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| UNESCO Recognizes Contribution of Cuban Science to Development |
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CUBA, Novemeber 11, 2009. The Director of the regional office of the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), Herman Van Hooff, recognized on Tuesday Cuba’s scientific contribution to peace and development.
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| Obama can and should free the Five, Affirms Alarcón in Venezuela |
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VENEZUELA, November 11, 2009. Ricardo Alarcón, president of the National Assembly of People’s Power, today called on the United States for a signal of change toward Latin America by releasing the five anti-terrorist prisoners and arresting two notorious terrorists.
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| Cuba Decries US Protection of Terrorists |
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VENEZUELA, November 10, 2009. Cuban Parliament President Ricardo Alarcon decried in this capital the protection the United States has given to confessed terrorists Luis Posada Carriles and Orlando Bosch.
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| The Annexation of Colombia to the United States |
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Anyone with some information can immediately see that the sweetened ‘Complementation Agreement for Defense and Security Cooperation and Technical Assistance between the Governments of Colombia and the United States’ signed on October 30, and made public in the evening of November 2, amounts to the annexation of Colombia to the United States.
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| Cuba Announces Pneumococcus Vaccine Trial |
| Director of Finlay Institute Concepcion Campa announced that Cuba would trial next year a pneumococcus vaccine, highlighted media on Friday.
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Cuban Revolution: 50 Years
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Treasures of Cuban Culture
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