Destaca Bolivia en UNESCO método cubano de alfabetización
París, 14 abr (PL) Bolivia destacó hoy aquí ante la UNESCO los grandes esfuerzos de su gobierno para convertirse en un país libre de analfabetismo con el concurso de Cuba y su método de educación “Yo si puedo”.Lorgio Vaca, delegado boliviano en el Consejo Ejecutivo de la Organización de Naciones Unidas para la Educación, la Ciencia y la Cultura (UNESCO), valoró igualmente de forma positiva la ayuda de Venezuela en este renglón.“Ya se ha sobrepasado el medio millón de alfabetizados, en una intensa y exitosa campaña que culminará hacia fines del presente año”, comentó.El diplomático apuntó que el método cubano audiovisual ”Yo si puedo” valora los conocimientos tradicionales de los adultos y los desarrolla de una manera liberadora, con la ayuda de los modernos medios de comunicación.“Para esto se han instalado más de 23 mil puntos de alfabetización dotados de un televisor y proyector de video en toda la geografía nacional, hasta en los municipios más remotos donde no existe energía eléctrica”, añadió.Precisó que como parte de esta cooperación fraternal, los médicos optometristas cubanos atendieron a un cuarto de millón de participantes del programa, y entregaron lentes a más de 200 mil personas que los necesitaban.Finalmente, recalcó que en nombre de su país “y de ese medio millón de adultos alfabetizados en pocos meses y en tres diferentes idiomas nativos, aparte del español, recomendar a la UNESCO se tome en cuenta el ofrecimiento reiterado de Cuba”.El método audiovisual Yo si puedo, adaptado a muchas y diferentes idiosincracias e idiomas, puede ayudarnos a cumplir las metas que nos hemos fijado en la Unesco en este sector y con la cooperación solidaria cubana, puntualizó
Abogan por un pensamiento crítico y creador
Manifiesta Ricardo Alarcón, presidente del Parlamento cubano, firme rechazo de nuestro país a la campaña para dañar la celebración de los Juegos Olímpicos en Beijing, al intervenir en el III Taller de Intercambio en Ciencias Sociales Cuba-China
http://www.juventudrebelde.cu/cuba/2008-04-15/abogan-por-un-pensamiento-critico-y-creador/,
Pasos en la recuperación
Resulta crucial que continuemos atentos y consagrados a impulsar con nuestro trabajo cotidiano los resortes que deciden en los niveles de producción y eficiencia económica http://www.trabajadores.cu/materiales_especiales/columnistas/francisco-rodriguez-cruz/pasos-en-la-recuperacion,
Abel Prieto Stresses Need for Strategies in Defense of Truth
By Al Games Cubanow.- Cuban Culture Minister Abel Prieto called for the implementation of strategies aimed at the defense of truth and justice in the face of actions by the US empire. Prieto spoke at a meeting of artists and intellectuals held in the Venezuelan capital, Caracas, over the weekend, under the slogan “Armed with ideas, Intellectuals and Artists for Peace and Sovereignty of Latin America.” The gathering is part of celebrations for the 6th anniversary of the victory against the coup attempt launched against Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. The Cuban minister stressed the importance of focusing efforts to set up an action plan at the end of the forum, which was attended by professionals from 15 countries, the Bolivarian News Agency reported. The Cuban delegation to the forum was made up of National Literature laureates Cesar Lopez and Reinaldo Gonzalez and National Prize for Social Sciences Fernando Martinez Heredia, plus other Cuban outstanding figures in the field of culture. Democracy and truth in the face of media terrorism, the unity of nations, the Venezuelan revolution and antimperialist struggle were some of the main subjects dealt with during the forum. Venezuelan Culture Minister Francisco Sector stressed the need to set up “trenches of ideas,” and he referred to unity as a crucial condition to counter destabilization campaigns promoted by imperialism with the support of the mainstream media. Sesto invited participants to stage a march on Sunday in support of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. Also present at the event, which wound up on Sunday, were outstanding personalities like Ignacio Ramonet, from France, Jose Pertierra, from the United States, and Martin Almada, from Paraguay, among others
Port Of Miami Director Expresses Fears Over Cuba's Mariel
Investments, Improvements Could Mean More Competition
MIAMI -- The Port of Miami, Miami-Dade County's second largest provider of jobs and income, may face stiff competition from Cuba, according to the port's director.In a briefing to Miami-Dade commissioners last week, Bill Johnson said investments and improvements scheduled for Cuba's Port of Mariel should pose a concern."Competition today is already significant outside U.S. borders on the cargo side," Johnson told Local 10's Glenna Milberg.The Port of Mariel, west of Havana, is the focus of a feasibility study by Dubai World Ports (DWP), the third-largest container port business in the world. In 2006, the Arab-owned container port business based in the United Arab Emirates agreed to give up control of six ports in the United States, including Miami, that came with its purchase of a British shipping conglomerate.DWP plans to develop the Port of Mariel as a major cargo shipping hub."We've been told it could be a quarter-billion dollar improvement at the Port of Mariel for cargo, and that's of great concern," said Johnson. "If it goes forward, the anticipated completion date is 2012, and that's right around the corner."The Port of Mariel, about 30 miles west of Havana on Cuba's north coast, was used as a missile base during the 1960s, when Cuba was an ally of the Soviet Union. Two decades later, Fidel Castro opened the port to let more than 100,000 refugees sail for South Florida.At least one Cuba analyst at the University of Miami's Institute For Cuban and Cuban American studies downplayed concerns of economic competition from the Port of Mariel or any entity in communist Cuba."A ship that docks in a Cuban port cannot dock in a U.S. port for six months," said Dr. Jose Azel, citing a stipulation of the Toricelli and Helms-Burton bills that mandate sanctions against the Castro government. "We'd have to see a complete relaxation of that for the economics to make sense," he said.Copyright 2008 by Local10.com. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
Exhortan a la renovación del ferrocarril cubano
Hay que preservar la tradición del sector y hacerlo renacer, dijo la Premio Nacional a la Vida y Obra de la Unión Nacional de Arquitectos e Ingenieros Civiles de Cuba, Dolores Lahaba
http://www.juventudrebelde.cu/cuba/2008-04-15/exhortan-a-la-renovacion-del-ferrocarril-cubano/,
Energía XXI
En proceso de edición primer Reglamento Electrotécnico cubano
Se pretende publicarlo como norma nacional antes de fin de año. Contribuirá a la mayor eficiencia y calidad de las instalaciones eléctricashttp://www.juventudrebelde.cu/cuba/2008-04-15/en-proceso-de-edicion-primer-reglamento-electrotecnico-cubano/,
In UNESCO, Bolivia recommends Cuban literacy method
PARIS.— In UNESCO this Monday, Bolivia highlighted its government’s efforts to wipe out illiteracy with the help of Cuba and it’s "Yes, I Can Do It!" literacy method. Lorgio Vaca, Bolivia’s delegate on the executive council of UNESCO, also praised Venezuela’s help in this area, Prensa Latina reported. More than half a million people have learned how to read and write as the result of an intensive and successful campaign that will conclude at the end of this year, Vaca said. The diplomat noted that the Cuban audiovisual method called "Yo sí puedo" (Yes, I Can Do It) places value on the traditional knowledge of adults and helps them learn in a liberating way, using modern communications equipment. As part of the program, more than 23,000 literacy stations have been set up with televisions and video projectors, throughout Bolivia, even in remote towns without electricity, Vaca explained. As part of fraternal cooperation among countries, Cuban optometrists have provided medical attention to a quarter of a million of the program’s participants, and provided eyeglasses for more than 200,000 people who needed them. Vaca emphasized that, in the name of his country and that half million adults who have learned how to read in just a few months and in three different indigenous languages along with Spanish, he recommended that UNESCO consider Cuba’s reiterated offers. The "Yo sí puedo" method has been adapted to many and diverse idiosyncrasies and languages, and can help UNESCO meet the goals that it has set in this area and with Cuba’s cooperation in solidarity, he said.
Domestic parts Substitute Imports for Cuban Oil Refineries
(acn) The production of plates for cracking towers in Cuba will substitute imports of these parts and accessories for all the oil refineries of the country and those linked to the regional ALBA integrating project. These plates are essential in the cracking processes that break apart hydrocarbons into smaller olefins to obtain oil byproducts, reads an article in Trabajadores newspaper. The work is being done at the INPUD Home Appliances Factory in Villa Clara province, east of Havana. The plant already produced over 300 stainless steel plates of 1m diameter, 70,000 valves, and other accessories in use at the oil refinery of Cienfuegos. Besides the Cienfuegos refinery, a joint venture Cuba- Venezuela which is part of the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas integrationist project, the country has two other oil refineries, the Ñico Lopez plant in Havana and the Hermanos Diaz plant in Santiago de Cuba.
Embajador USA en España: “Peter Pan” Aguirre considera un genio a Juan Carlos de Borbón y un santo varón a George W. Bush
http://www.insurgente.org/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=13269,
Produce Cuba su primer millón de toneladas de crudo en primer trimestre
Los pronósticos de producción para todo el país se cumplieron con volúmenes suficientes para cubrir 50 por ciento de la demanda nacional. La Habana.-- Cuba produjo su primer millón de toneladas de petróleo, equivalentes a siete millones de barriles, en el primer trimestre de este año, informó hoy la empresa estatal Cuba Petróleo.El director de Exploración de Cupet, Rafael Tenreyro, dijo este lunes a la televisión estatal que haber logrado esa cifra refleja un incremento en la eficiencia de esa rama productiva.Tenreyro destacó la importancia de esos niveles, por el elevado precio internacional del crudo que supera los 100 dólares el barril. Indicó que los pronósticos de producción para todo el país se cumplieron con volúmenes suficientes para cubrir 50 por ciento de la demanda nacional.Cuba recibe cada día de Venezuela cerca de 100 mil barriles de petróleo como parte de los acuerdos suscritos con Caracas, a cambio del envío de médicos y otros asesores al país sudamericano.Tenreyro explicó que se aplicaron modernas y eficientes tecnologías, incorporadas también a la exploración y perforación.De acuerdo con el funcionario, en el primer trimestre se perforaron tres nuevos pozos y en estos momentos se trabaja en otras investigaciones exploratorias en tierra y mar, en especial la sísmica en el noroeste de Pinar del Río, situada en la región occidental de la isla.En fecha próxima, esas acciones se extenderán a la parte norte de las provincias de Camaguey y Las Tunas, en el oriente del país, y a varias zonas del Golfo de México, una de las más promisorias en la búsqueda de petróleo, apuntó.En Nueva York se anunció este día que el petróleo cerró con un alza sin precedentes debido a un descenso en el dólar y un problema en un oleoducto en Estados Unidos.El crudo liviano de bajo contenido sulfuroso para entrega en mayo subió 1.62 dólares y terminó con un récord de 111.76 el barril en la Bolsa Mercantil de Nueva York.El contrato había alcanzado la semana pasada la marca de 112.21 dólares por barril antes del cierre luego que el gobierno de Estados Unidos reportó una reducción inesperada en las reservas.Notimex
Llaman a la población a “cerrarle el paso al espíritu de la selva
”El vandalismo, enemigo interno del sistema, alerta la Unión de Jóvenes Comunistas cubanos
Gerardo Arreola (Corresponsal lajornada mexico) La Unión de Jóvenes Comunistas (UJC) dijo hoy que el vandalismo juvenil es un enemigo interno del sistema socialista y pidió a la población reaccionar frente a ese fenómeno, que ha repuntado en los últimos años en Cuba, para “cerrarle el paso al espíritu de la selva”.La UJC, brazo juvenil del Partido Comunista, dijo en un editorial de su periódico Juventud Rebelde que “la indisciplina y la violencia” son “enemigos internos que hacen el juego a los trasnochadores que apuestan al fin de la revolución”.Fenómenos vandálicos, como ataques y depredación contra los autobuses urbanos, rencillas callejeras que culminan en hechos de sangre o delitos comunes como el robo o el asalto a mano armada, en los cuales la mayoría de los involucrados son jóvenes, han sido registrados crecientemente en los últimos años por los medios informativos y las series dramatizadas de la televisión.La UJC pidió a la población, “no importa cómo piense cada quien”, que actúe para “cerrarle el paso al espíritu de la selva, la inercia, el puro instinto, la desorganización, la negación de las normas y el caos y el desentendimiento como estilo de vida. Es, una vez más, salvar la revolución, salvarnos nosotros mismos”.El diario recordó que la delincuencia y el vandalismo juvenil crecieron al estallar en Cuba la crisis de la década pasada, tras el derrumbe de la Unión Soviética.Ese periodo trajo “individualismo, egoísmo, incivilidad, marginalismo y hasta repuntes de violencia cotidiana”, añadió Juventud Rebelde, que también aludió a la apertura de la isla al turismo internacional y al comercio exterior, como factores de influencia.“Es innegable” que hay un “caldo de cultivo en algunas zonas sociales para tales reprobables conductas”, agregó el comentario. “De lo que se trata ahora es de seguir poniendo orden y racionalidad en Cuba… para que el trabajo, la honestidad, la disciplina y el respeto sean vindicados”.El diario pidió a las autoridades aplicar la ley “más con hechos que con palabrería y retórica”.El tema formó parte de la agenda social que emergió en el recién concluido séptimo congreso de la Unión de Escritores y Artistas de Cuba (Uneac).Entre otras intervenciones, el músico Roberto Valera dijo que, aunque el vandalismo sea minoritario entre la juventud y, en cambio, haya una mayoría de estudiantes y profesionales entre las nuevas generaciones, el fenómeno es creciente: “Nos duele que después de tanto trabajo en la educación de nuestro pueblo, aún haya jóvenes así, huecos, vacíos, absolutamente idiotas”.Los tribunales han dictado penas de hasta cinco años de cárcel por ataques a los autobuses urbanos o riñas a bordo, habitualmente cometidos por jóvenes.
A critical eye
Doesn’t it seem we are forgetting dialectic? By Luis Sexto Cubanow.- Much of us could share a common experience: as much today as yesterday –that is, 15 or 20 years ago- we used to hear some people say: We have to make concessions… They meant, for example, that if private work was legally established or re-established was because life forced us to turn back, to “make a concession”. In front of this assertion, which we used to hear once in a while in assemblies, interviews, one questioned oneself: Concession with regard to what? It wasn’t necessary to deepen too much in the motives and theory to answer: concession with regard to what we wish and want. That is, for those who considered state property as the highest perfection, the individual autonomous work meant a false step, a forced circumstance. We shouldn’t argue now if state property is superior to others or if that order really socializes the property. Let’s analyse now the attitude of being considering that any realistic decision, any answer to the requirements of social life that don’t agree with what we’ve been doing for so long implies a “concession”, a smaller damage which, if we have the chance, will be taken back tomorrow, just as a video tape, it will be winded back. Wouldn’t that be the explanation to the conduct we almost unanimously call lurches? To write, to comment on the issues of our society supposes –you should have noticed it already- to run into repetition. Our problems are the same ones of our immediate past. And I’ve recognized that a lot of my writings in the Bohemia magazine between 1990 and 1997, have been repeated in this section, without being accused of easiness for the coincidence. And I’ve noticed the coincidences when re-reading myself, which sometimes I must do not to lose my identity. Of course, that is not the subject. Our subject is rather based in the perception that the big problem of the Cuban society has been to find efficiency and effectiveness –which are not the same- in an order of justice, equality and liberty. So, preconceived schemes can’t set the norm. Doesn’t it seem we are forgetting dialectic? Aren’t we realizing that when judging reality we are dispensing the most precise instruments and we are substituting them by self-willed public demonstrations equivalent to the slogan of saying this is my way “because I want it so”? Perhaps concession should be defined having into consideration to whom, or to what it is granted. Let’s say, for example, if in our deteriorated circumstances accumulated experience signals that big agricultural companies are not advisable and the most wise opinions advise to establish cooperative work, or to incentive family or individual work, why, then, insist in what it’s not working or needs excessive resources to be successful. Is it a “concession”, a backward movement, to conceive and organize formulas which indicate progress in concrete works, not in daydreams? Of course, that person shield-shaped behind his bureau or into his jeep, who is used to command about what to seed or how to harvest may be upset if the producers gain autonomy, capacity of decision… Finally, concession can only be applied to those who enjoy scarcities, insufficiencies, incapacities of Cuban socialism. Nowadays, confronting the opinion of American officials and journalists or their servers, I’ve confirmed that they object to every democratic or progressive step we have adopted in Cuba: “Oh, yes, but no”. Of course, they complain: they have lost the “concession” of immobility. In my modest opinion, that which is usually called a “reverse” when it doesn’t match with the customary scheme or with what’s considered as ideologically most convenient, but which impels movement, do deserves the credit of progress. Because to stay motionless in what doesn’t advance is the equivalent to move backward and, thus, progress must be what restores hope and faith, what encourages work. The rest is theory, which we must discuss further.
A hint of change in Cuba
By most measures, Cuba's new president, Raul Castro, would seem to be no Mikhail Gorbachev. Raul is the younger brother of Fidel Castro, 81, who ruled Cuba with a communist iron grip for half a century until stepping down in February after a prolonged illness. Raul, 76, would seem more like the two elderly leaders who succeeded the doddering Leonid Brezhnev and quickly died in the 1980s Soviet Union — before Gorbachev took over with his relative youth, charisma and reforms.(usatoday)And yet.Slowly, with little notice, President Raul Castro has been enacting changes. They are small-bore, to be sure, but increasingly numerous. Cubans, for example, now have access to cellphones and other modern-age electrical goods, such as computers. They can stay in hotels previously reserved for foreigners. Foreign programs are appearing on TV. State workers can more easily own their homes and pass them on to their children, though they still can't sell them. Farmers are getting more say in how to use their land, the state is paying more for their produce, and private farmers can rent unused state land. Rumors of more change, even including the lifting of travel restrictions, are rife.It would be easy to write this off as meaningless tinkering, particularly with Fidel Castro keeping a watchful eye. This week, for instance, a Cuban state newspaper said the agricultural reforms could be a springboard for more change, but in the same issue, Fidel criticized people who "worship selfishness."Yet the changes are so plainly abnormal that they invite another interpretation. Raul Castro might be trying to ease Cuba toward the Chinese model that he has long admired, allowing more economic freedom without loosening political controls.If so, the intriguing question is whether his efforts, intentionally or otherwise, will open floodgates that can't be closed. When Gorbachev first instituted reforms in the Soviet Union, his goal was to improve the existing system. He, too, started out with limited experiments. Gorbachev says now he never understood that the whole system — indeed, the Soviet Union — would collapse. Raul Castro can be no more than a transitional figure, and there is little prospect of Cuba's floodgates bursting immediately. Few can afford new privileges such as cellphones, and one of the most important engines of change, access to the Internet, remains tightly restricted. Yet the reforms should be encouraged. Younger brothers tend to seek their own identity, and the changes underway could turn out to be more revolutionary than they first appear.
CentAm Poverty Deepening says Forecast
Tegucigalpa (Prensa Latina) Tendency to hike in food prices will dig in poverty even more in Central America, where the cost of living increased substantially during the first quarter of 2008.Specialists of the Honduras Central Bank informed today that price increase over the last 12 months in this country, for example reached 7.7 per cent and its annual variation to 9.2 per cent.The monthly index of Consumer Prices, the most outstanding item was Food and Non Alcoholic Beverages with 53.3 percent, due to the hike in prices in food, added daily La Tribuna.The most increased prices were eggs, chicken, mortadella, pork chops, pasteurized and powder milk, wheat flour, lard and vegetable oil, dairy products, crackers, rice, spaghettis, sweet bread and ripe plantain.Transport also registered a hike of 13.3 percent due to the more expensive gas prices, international air transport, oil change and tires for motor cars.In Guatemala, inflation went up 2.88 percent in March, while in El Salvador, annual inflation reached that month 6 percent due to the rise in wheat flour which triggered two street marches by bakers to demand a subsidy from the government.President Elias Antonio Saca of El Salvador did not yet respond to demands, but the governments of Guatemala and Nicaragua aim to introduce several measures to attenuate the situation.Costa Rica closed April 2007 to March 2008 with an inflation of 11.4 percent, higher figure than the 9.22 percent registered the previous year, informed the National Statistics and Census Institute.
...and some do remember this, better late than never:
More than three billion people die from hunger
28 march 2007, Fidel Castro says reducing and moreover recycling all motors that run on electricity and fuel is an elemental and urgent need for all humanity. The tragedy does not lie in reducing those energy costs but in the idea of converting food into fuel.http://www.speroforum.com/site/article.asp?id=15057,
Las economías del mundo no encuentran la receta para combatir la escasez de alimentos;
un artículo de Bob Davis
InSurGente.- "Durante los encuentros del Fondo Monetario Internacional y el Banco Mundial hubo acuerdo en que el problema es grave y que la política de Estados Unidos de promover al etanol basado en el maíz y otros biocombustibles empeora la situación. "Cuando millones de personas pasan hambre, desviar la producción de alimentos hacia la producción de biocombustibles es un crimen contra la humanidad", dijo en una entrevista el ministro de Finanzas de la India, Palaniappan Chidambaram". The Wall Street Journal/ IAR/ http://www.insurgente.org/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=13267,
Low-Budget Films are the Answer, Says Cuban Filmmaker Humberto Solás
By Reina María Hernández Cubanow.- Low-budget films are the answer for keeping alive local cinemas in the face of a unique model of thought that is threatening to wipe out cultural diversity, said Cuban filmmaker Humberto Solás, president of the International Low-Budget Film Fest underway in the eastern city of Gibara. The director of Lucía, a 1968 film ranked among the best motion pictures in the history of Latin American cinema, noted that only with government support, low-budget films could win the race against artistically poor and market-dominated productions. "This is something that contaminates the public, especially young spectators," stated Solás. Gibara, a fishermen's town 800 kilometers east of Havana, has been the traditional host of the festival since 2001, when Solás founded it as a way "to encourage a libertarian and highly creative cinema, far from the push of the mainstream market." In Gibara, Solás shot several of his films, from Lucía to Miel para Oshún, the first Cuban film ever to use digital technology. Over a hundred films and scripts from Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia and the Americas are competing for the festival's awards. Independent films from Argentine, Nigeria, India, Brazil, Romania, Iraq and Italy are cited among the ones with the best chances to win. An international jury made up of Canadian Hervé Fischer, Cuban Enrique Pineda Barnet and German Till Hastreiter will choose among eleven feature films contending for the best film award. In addition to screenings, the fest includes fine art exhibits and concerts featuring renowned Cuban singers and songwriters Carlos Varela and Raúl Paz. For the first time, and with the purpose of getting the audience actively involved in the event, the Low-Budget Film Fest will grant an award to a movie-goer who has watched most of the films. Candidates should submit reviews of the films. Last February, Solás traveled to Bilbao, Spain, with a handful of low-budget films screened in Gibara during the 2007 edition of the fest. The 12th Cinema and Cooperation Showcase paid tribute to the Gibara fest for its role in promoting and distributing the so-called invisible or marginal cinema.
Cuba Still Resisting 47 Years after the US Bombardments
On April 15th, 1961, B-26 airplanes disguised with the insignia of the Cuban Air Force bombarded two air bases and a civilian airport in Cuba, a prelude to the US backed mercenary invasion on April 17th.This incident opened a new page of state terrorist aggression with a failed US attempt to take over the island. Those days were a prelude to new days of death and oppression against the Cuban people, demented policies, of which those of the George W. Bush administration maybe the most merciless that have occupied the White House. On April 13th, mercenaries trained by the Central Intelligence Agency, CIA in Cuba, sabotaged and destroyed the El Encanto department store, the largest in the City of Havana and where a worker Fe del Valle was killed. Around those days US war ships with mercenaries and Yankee advisors were already sailing in the area ready to invade the Bay of Pigs on the night of the 17th. Eight airplanes departed from US territory, in a formation of three, three and two. The Mission called “Linda” attacked the San Antonio de los Banos air base , the “Puma” mission machined gun Ciudad Libertad—both in Havana--, and the “Gorila” launched its lethal charge over the Santiago de Cuba airport in the southeastern part of the island. While this happened, a mercenary landed his plane in Miami, with a single motor and afterwards handed over a statement which said that the attacks against Cuba were carried out by deserters from the Revolutionary Armed Forces. The press agencies reported this story to the word. Afterwards it was revealed that the document had been drafted by the CIA. Events afterwards would reveal that the crewmembers of the four planes shot down over Cuba were CIA agents: Thomas Willard Ray, Leo Francis Baker, Riley W. Shamburguer and Wade Carrol Gray. Loyal to the idea that the chiefs love to hear good news, mid morning on the 15th, the center of operations in Langley, Virginia received a preliminary report affirming that the Cuban Air Force had been totally destroyed. This victorious note made it difficult for its authors to explain how ghost planes had sunk ships and downed several B26 planes during the mercenary invasion that was defeated in just 66 hours. This tragicomedy began in the US air base in Opa-Locka, Florida, where the CIA had transferred two previously designated puppets to occupy the post of Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of the government that the US would install in Cuba, once the Revolution was destroyed. At the United Nations, Adlai Stevenson made himself look ridiculous when he denied the US participation in the bombings. He would continue to lie even after Cuba’s Foreign Minister Raul Roa showed irrefutable proof of Washington’s participation. After suffering an air attack, the Revolutionary Government let the world know in its first communiqué that it would call on each and every Cuban to “occupy their post at the military units and work position”. The document, signed by Fidel made it clear what was the Cuban people’s decision: “If this attack was to be a prelude to an invasion, the country ready to fight to resist and destroy with arms of steel any force that attempted to disembark in our land”. And concluded: “The Homeland would resist any enemy attack, confident of victory¨. The following day, at the funeral of those that died in those terrorist attacks, Fidel Castro announced the socialist character of the Cuban Revolution. In the people’s consciousness, like a bugle call, was the image of the heroic militiaman Educarto Garcia, a victim of the attack, who before dying wrote the name of Fidel with his own blood and in this way transmitted a message that multiplied the energy and revolutionary fervor to his other comrades. Generations of Cubans have resisted new and different acts of terrorism from the US government 47 years after the victory of the Bay of Pigs invasion. The US Naval Base and the Invasion of Bay of Pigshttp://www.solvision.co.cu/english/Gtmo_NB/bay_pigs_05117.html,
Tres palabras para Cuba
Nos hemos acostumbrado a recibir sin producir, nos hemos vuelto un pueblo dependiente de un estado paternalista, pero a cambio hemos hipotecado nuestras vidas al capricho del poder, aceptamos el chantaje a cambio de migajas, porque se nos han atrofiado las alas de tal forma que ni siquiera recordamos lo que significa el vuelo. Claudio (México)http://www.kaosenlared.net/noticia/tres-palabras-para-cuba-1,
Seamos hombres nuevos
De lo que se trata es, justamente, de revitalizar, hoy más que nunca, nuestro sistema social, político y económico a través de nuevas formas de gobierno para llegar, como dijo nuestro presidente Raúl, a una mejor y más eficiente gestión, aunque nunca, entiendase bien, nunca exenta de errores. Pero con el espacio abierto al debate libre y desprejuiciado de todos, por el bien de todos. Jorge Luis Acanda González http://www.kaosenlared.net/noticia/seamos-hombres-nuevos,
"RSF" political activities sponsored by US and France http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90780/91342/6392957.html,
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