Cuban Workers to Discuss Social Security Draft Legislation
HAVANA, Cuba, Aug 2 (acn) The discussion by all Cuban workers of a draft bill on social security proposed during the First Period of Sessions of the Cuban Parliament, held last month, will strengthen the legislation. Over 4, 500 union leaders will guide the discussion process. Addressing the provincial plenary session of the Cuban Workers Federation (CTC) in the province of La Habana, on Friday, Federation secretary general Salvador Valdes Mesa underscored the importance of the discussion process and noted that it will include 80 key questions and answers. The text of the draft bill has been printed for all union organizations in work centers; also printed is the statement given by Cuban President Raul Castro during the Period of Sessions, which Valdes Mesa described as the best political support to the modifications including in the draft bill. The CTC general secretary termed as priorities the meeting of a plan of action approved by the provincial plenary session, aimed at boosting food production and lower imports, as well as the guidelines in that direction given by Cuban First Vice-President Jose Ramon Machado Ventura.Another significant aspect considered by the meeting was the call issued by Raul Castro to retired teachers and professors so that they return to the schools, an initiative that is crucial for La Habana province, given the current deficit of teachers in the territory, which borders the capital Havana. The provincial CTC plenary session approved the 2009 working guidelines and elected Milagros Caridad Cabrera as Provincial Secretary General of the Cuban Workers Federation in the province, which is made up of 19 municipalities.
Over 26 Thousand Health Professionals Graduated in Cuba
HAVANA, Cuba, Aug 2 (acn) Some 26, 649 health professionals from 20 nations of the world graduated from Cuban medical universities during the 2007-2008 school year. The figure of graduates in medicine, dentistry, infirmary and health technologies include 24, 825 Cubans, said deputy health minister, Doctor Roberto Gonzalez. The central graduation ceremony takes place today at Havana's Carl Marx Theater, in which new professionals from Cuban and other 27 countries will receive their diplomas. Most of them are part of the fourth graduation of the Havana-based Latin American School of Medicine (ELAM), which has formed 5, 960 health professionals for the world, since its inauguration some years ago. Havana's Higher Medical Institute alone graduated 905 professionals, which includes 782 medical doctors and a large group of dentists, said Jorge Gonzalez, rector of that institution.The large group of graduates from the Higher Medical Institute also includes professionals from the United States, Congo, Nigeria, Mongolia, Viet Nam and several Latin American countries. The institute reported a registration of 4, 850 students in 2001, but that figure has increased to nearly 32,000 youths at present.
Ocho médicos de EEUU se gradúan en Cuba con becas de Castro
http://about.reuters.com/dynamic/countrypages/venezuela/1217621492nN01495298.ASP,
La Habana sumergida
La rearticulación de procesos migratorios hacia la capital y problemas sociales asociados, sugieren cambios en el análisis y enfrentamiento a este fenómeno
http://www.juventudrebelde.cu/cuba/2008-08-03/la-habana-sumergida/,
Consecuencias de la mentira
-Eliades Acosta Matos
http://www.cubadebate.cu/index.php?tpl=design/especiales.tpl.html&newsid_obj_id=12125,
Cuba, ese oscuro objeto del deseo de la diplomacia internacional
Cuba ha tenido desde 1959 un enorme papel en el concierto internacional de la mano de un proceso social y político que siempre ha propiciado una intensa e inteligente actividad diplomática
-Jose Miguel Arrugaeta y Joseba Macías
http://www.kaosenlared.net/noticia/cuba-ese-oscuro-objeto-deseo-diplomacia-internacional,
Democracy
-By: Randy Alonso Falcon
When the weapons of mass destruction didn’t appear and the supposed nuclear facilities “vanished,” Bush told the world that the war against Iraq was a war to bring democracy to the Arab country. Five years after having unleashed the invasion, “American democracy” shows palpable results in that nation.
http://www.juventudrebelde.co.cu/columnists/2008-08-01/democracy/,
Cuba encanece
-Por: José Alejandro Rodríguez
De súbito, las estadísticas son doctorados capsulares. En segundos, y sin pudor alguno, te ilustran lo que argumentos y monsergas recurrentes no han podido hincar en el nervio de la curiosidad o del sentimiento.
http://www.juventudrebelde.cu/opinion/2008-08-03/cuba-encanece/,
En camino al Socialismo
- Por: Paúl Fortis
Para quienes el socialismo ha sido lucha constante sin importar los grandes sacrificios, pérdida de seres queridos, persecución, cárcel, tortura, asesinatos públicos, condenas inapelables, masacres y todo el coctel de horrores que la maquinanaria imperialista aún sigue inventando, la situación latinoamericana e internacional debe darnos esperanzas.
http://www.eldiariodeyaracuy.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=19333:en-camino-al-socialismo-&catid=43:opinion&Itemid=64,
Why did Raúl revive Fidel's 1973 speech?
-BY BRIAN LATELL, Cuba's July 26th anniversary has always been an occasion for the glorification of Fidel Castro and the revolutionary process he initiated in ...
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/issues/story/626510.html,
A Ignacio Ramonet sobre su artículo "Las tres crisis"
-Juan Luis Rodríguez
http://www.rebelion.org/noticia.php?id=71066,
Bush Made the World More Dangerous
-Wayne Smith, former head of the US Interests Section in Havana, tells Granma newspaper
http://www.granma.cubaweb.cu/english/news/art103.html,
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