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THE CIA, FROM CENTRAL
AMERICA TO IRAQ
Negroponte and his U.S. gang for the
dirty war
March
16,
2007
“MISTER Bob”
Seldon Lady is a former chief of the CIA station in
Milan, where he was in charge of the 26 agents who
were tried in Italy for kidnapping, torturing and
then disappearing Muslim cleric Osama Moustafa
Hassan Nasr, also known as Abu Omar, in that city in
2003. To get a better idea of him, we should recall
that Seldon Lady was in Central America in the
1980s: he was a key element in the same network,
along with John Negroponte, Félix Rodríguez, Colonel
James Steele and Luis Posada Carriles, that sowed
death and terror among the Sandinistas.
•
Radio/TV Martí
has now cost more than $500 million
March
16,
2007
WHILE the
United States is accumulating debts and experts are
predicting a perilous deterioration of the budget
crisis, the fiasco of Radio and TV Martí – that
cannot even be seen – has now cost the taxpayer more
than $500 million. Since its creation in 1985, the
Office of Cuba Broadcasting (OCB) – the mother-ship
of Radio and TV Martí – has constituted a mechanism
for corruption to which various politicians are
fairly closely linked...
•
Cuban
Parliament holds hearing on electoral system
March
16,
2007
WITH
a profound analysis of the historical roots of
Cuba’s electoral system and its unique
characteristics, which are based on the broadest
popular participation throughout the election
process, making it into the basis of the political
authority held by People’s Power delegates, Ricardo
Alarcón de Quesada, a member of the Political Bureau
and president of Parliament, summed up the
parliamentary hearing on the issue.
Convened
by the National Assembly of People’s Power, the
hearing became an encounter with history, beginning
with a presentation by Professor Eduardo Torres
Cuevas...
•
Cuba describes
U.S. anti-terrorism campaign as cynical
March
15,
2007
GENEVA, March 14.—Cuba has described as false and
cynical the supposed U.S. commitment to combating
terrorism, in its reply to that country’s
representative in the Human Rights Council session,
PL reports.
• 30
YEARS SINCE HIS DEATH
Rodolfo Walsh: journalist and
activist
March
15,
2007
ON March 25, 1977 a repressive task force from the
Argentine military dictatorship killed the
outstanding journalist, writer and revolutionary
combatant Rodolfo Walsh in unequal combat on the
streets of Buenos Aires.
•
Fidel
converses with presidents of Venezuela and Haiti
March
14,
2007
PRESIDENT Fidel Castro Ruz has talked on the
telephone with Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez and
his Haitian counterpart René Préval, to whom he
confirmed the island’s support for his people.
•
Raúl visits new ophthalmological
center
in Pinar del
Río
March
13,
2007
IN barely 10 months, almost 13,000 natives of Pinar
del Río have undergone eye surgery as a result of
Mission Miracle. General of the Army Raúl Castro Ruz,
second secretary of the Party and minister of the
Revolutionary Armed Forces, was present at the
ophthalmological center in the province, the most
recent facility to be opened there for the
comprehensive treatment of patients.
•
Archeological
site discovered in Cuban capital
March
13,
2007
HAVANA, March 11
(PL).—Specialists from the Archeological Office of
the City Historian’s Office have uncovered the best
preserved archeological site to date in the Cuban
capital, according to TV reports.
•
Raúl verifies progress made by Pinar del Río
Military Region
March
12,
2007
NEVER before, except during the
Bay of Pigs invasion and the October [Missile]
Crisis, has Cuban undertaken within its territory a
mobilization process of such magnitude involving its
permanent troops, reserves and Territorial Troop
Militias (MTT) as the current Operation Caguairán,
General of the Army Raúl Castro Ruz affirmed after
observing the situation in the Pinar del Río
Military Region.
•
Party leader affirms Vietnam’s will to broaden links
with Cuba
March
9,
2007
HANOI, March 8.— Nong Duc Manh,
general secretary of the Communist Party of Viet Nam
(CPV), affirmed his country’s will to broaden links
with the island during an audience with Fernando
Remírez de Estenoz, member of the Secretariat of the
Communist Party of Cuba and head of the
International Relations Department at the CPV
headquarters, PL reports.
•
Anti-Bush
march paralyzes Sao Paulo financial center
March
9,
2007
SAO PAULO, March 8
(EFE).—A series of protests against the United
States organized by Brazilian trade unions,
political parties, social movements and even
ecological groups, today preceded today the arrival
of President George W. Bush in Sao Paulo, on the
first leg of a tour of five Latin American
countries.
•
Women: 66.1% of country’s technical and professional
force
March
8,
2007
THIS March 8, International Women’s
Day, Cuba can show the world achievements like
women’s wide participation in all the spheres of
political, economic, cultural and social life,
Yolanda Ferrer Gómez, general secretary of the
Federation of Cuban Women, informed Granma
daily.
•
Ecuadorian
electoral court dismisses 52 Congress members
March
8,
2007
QUITO, March 7.—The Supreme Court
of Ecuador (TSE) announced this Wednesday that it
has dismissed 52 Congress members who had sacked
Jorge Acosta, president of that body, for convening
a referendum on a Constituent Assembly, AFP reports.
•
Washington picks up the tab
March
7,
2007
IN Berlin, European Parliament Vice
President Edward McMillan-Scott and German Foreign
Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, will co-chair a
conference against Cuba in April, alongside some of
the most well-known and discredited elements of the
Miami terrorist fauna who count on orientation,
financing and logistical support from Washington.
•
Medical school in Cuba for young people from Solomon
Islands
March
7,
2007
THE governments of Cuba and the
Solomon Islands have signed a cooperation agreement
in Havana laying the bases for subsequent and
systematic progress on ties between the two nations
in different areas.
•
U.S. Free the Five campaign intensifies
March
5,
2007
WASHINGTON, March 4 (PL) —. The
ANSWER Coalition and the Free the Five Committee say
they are stepping up their activities in the United
States to spread the truth about the Cuban
anti-terrorists unjustly imprisoned in that country.
•
Denzil Douglas acknowledges Cuba’s solidarity
March
5,
2007
JAGUEY GRANDE, Matanzas.— Denzil
Douglas, prime minister of Saint Kitts and Nevis,
has expressed his gratitude for Cuba’s contribution
of solidarity in providing nursing training for
young people from his country.
•
Chávez reveals
assassination plans of Posada Carriles’ buddies
March
5,
2007
CARACAS, March 4 — Venezuelan
President Hugo Chávez warned today that that plans
to assassinate him “have become weightier” and he
accused associates of Cuban-born terrorist Luis
Posada Carriles of being involved, PL reported.
•
Back from the
horror
March
2,
2007
FRANCISCO José (Fran) Sevilla
frequently wakes up in the middle of the night
believing that he is in Iraq or Lebanon, and shaking
at the memory of people that he has seen suffer and
die in those wars.
•
War in Iraq
destroying the wetlands of Mesopotamia
March
2,
2007
DEFENDERS of the environment
throughout the world are full of concern because the
expansion of the war in Iraq is destroying the
little that remains of the wetlands of Mesopotamia,
where it is believed that the biblical Garden of
Eden was situated.
•
BRITISH PEER IN HAVANA
I am amazed at
this country’s capacity to face up to the U.S.
March
2,
2007
WELL-KNOWN British historian Asa
Briggs made a brief stopover in Havana during his
vacation on a cruise ship and was received in the
Cuban capital by officials from the Cuban Institute
for Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP), as well as
Rayda Suárez Portal, heritage director at the City
Historian’s Office, at the Palacio de los Capitanes
Generales.
•
Cuban foreign
minister on official visit to Panama
March
2,
2007
PANAMA, March 1.—Cuban Foreign Minister Felipe Pérez
Roque arrived in Panama today on an official visit
during which he will head the island delegation in
the 1st Inter-Foreign Ministers Consultation
Mechanism.
•
Prime Minister of Saint Kitts and
Nevis arrives in Cuba today
March
2,
2007
ON invitation of the government of the Republic of
Cuba, the Honorable Dr. Denzil Douglas, prime
minister of Saint Kitts and Nevis, arrives in our
country on an official visit today. His delegation
is also comprised of Earl Asim Martin, minister of
public works, utilities, transport, mail and
communications, and other members of his government.
•
Honduran
president receives Cuban foreign minister
March
1,
2007
AFTER meeting for close to two hours with Cuban
Foreign Minister Felipe Pérez Roque, President
Manuel Zelaya of Honduras affirmed that relations
with Cuba are now sealed.
•
Three
Bolivian provinces declared disaster areas
March
1,
2007
LA Paz, Feb. 28.—Bolivian President Evo Morales has
declared disaster areas the provinces of Cercado,
Marbán and Moxos in the northeastern department of
Beni, virtually totally flooded out for the last two
weeks.
•
Foreign Minister Pérez Roque in Honduras
Opens
ophthalmological hospital donated by the island
February 28,
2007
CUBAN Foreign Minister Felipe Pérez Roque has
arrived in Tegucigalpa to sign bilateral cooperation
agreements and open an ophthalmological hospital
donated by Cuba, PL reports from the Honduran
capital.
•
Fidel talks with
Chávez on "Aló Presidente"
"I feel
like I have more energy, more strength and more time
for studying"
February 28,
2007
Hugo Chávez.-
Who is speaking?
Fidel Castro.- Listen.
Hugo Chávez.- I’m listening.
•
The longest-running dispute in
contemporary history
February 28,
2007
The
Bush government’s so-called “plan for assistance to
a free Cuba” is nothing more than the last piece of
a history almost 200 years old stemming from the
annexationist voracity of the United States.
•
Agreements
in excess of $700 million to be signed
February 27,
2007
SOME 300 cooperation agreement projects are to be
discussed and signed during the working sessions of
the 7th Venezuela-Cuba Intergovernmental Joint
Commission, underway in the capital and headed by
Marta Lomas, minister of foreign investment and
economic cooperation, and Alí Rodríguez and Germán
Sánchez, ambassadors of the South American country
in Havana and of Cuba in Caracas, respectively.
•
Possible
evacuation of Bolivian city in case of flooding
February 26,
2007
BENI, Bolivia, Feb. 25 (PL) —.
Residents of Trinidad, capital of the northern
department of Beni, may be evacuated due to the
danger of flooding, something unprecedented in the
history of the region, according to authorities.
•
Largest
squid in the world caught
February 23,
2007
IT weighs 450 kilograms, is 10
meters in length and has eyes the size of tires. It
was caught by a group of fishermen from New Zealand
in the Antarctic Ocean, who took it into port to be
analyzed by scientists.
•
The Cuban
revolutionary process is irreversible
February 23,
2007
PROFESSOR Salim Lamrani works as
a researcher at the Paris VII University, and is a
well-known expert on relations between Cuba and the
United States.
•
Habeas
corpus application for terrorist Posada Carriles
declared inadmissible
February 22,
2007
HAVANA, Feb 21 (AIN).—U.S. Judge
Phillip Martínez has qualified as inadmissible the
application for habeas corpus presented by Luis
Posada Carriles before the El Paso Federal Court.
•
400 Cuban
doctors attending to flood victims in Bolivia
February 22,
2007
A
total of 400 Cuban doctors are attending to people
affected by natural disasters associated with the El
Niño meteorological phenomenon in eight departments
of Bolivia. To date the health professionals have
made more than 60,000 consultations free of charge.
•
U.S.
legislators propose easing restrictions on food
sales to Cuba
February 21,
2007
WASHINGTON. — A group of U.S. legislators is
proposing to ease restrictions on food sales to Cuba
and to allow transactions between banks in the two
countries, the EFE reported.
•
Cuban
doctors aid Bolivian flood victims
February 21,
2007
LA PAZ.— More than 100 Cuban
doctors are providing aid for victims of natural
disasters that have hit several Bolivian regions as
a result of the El Niño meteorological phenomenon.
•
Cuba will
continue to denounce violation of its national
airwaves
February 20,
2007
IN the framework of the 12th International
Informatics Convention and Exposition 2007,
Commander of the Revolution Ramiro Valdés Menéndez,
Cuba’s minister of informatics and communications,
met with Fabio Leite, assistant director of the
Radiocommunication Bureau of the International
Telecommunication Union (ITU) and special envoy of
ITU General Secretary Hamadoun Touré.
•
IN MIAMI
Round of
applause for terror
February 16,
2007
THE
Miami Herald
didn’t think it was worth reporting on even though
its journalists were witnesses to the incident. A
few days after having been the leading player in a
protest to support international terrorist Luis
Posada Carriles, Miguel Saavedra, head of the
so-called Vigilia Mambisa, has received a round of
applause from a group of Miami police officers.
•
“Chema”
Miranda confesses
February 15,
2007
ON February 13 “Chema”
Miranda, program director for TV Martí until last
November, confessed before a Miami criminal court to
having received $112 000 in kickbacks during the
first corruption scandal to shake that phantom
television station managed by protégés of the Cuban
American mafia.
•
Raúl tours
units in the capital military region
February 15,
2007
“SIMPLY, we’re on target,” was
how General of the Army Raúl Castro summed up the
value of the new structures and concepts being put
into practice at the Provincial Defense Training
Schools (EPPD), the basic pillars for the training
of members of the territorial defense structures,
reservists and militia.
•
INFORMATICS 2007
Radio-electronic aggression of Cuba condemned
February 14,
2007
THE illegal
radio and television transmissions to Cuba from the
United States are inadmissible and more so when they
are designed to foment internal subversion on the
island, stated Fabio Leite, director of the
Radiocommunications Office of the International
Telecommunications Union (ITU).
•
India and
Cuba extend exchange
February 14,
2007
HAVANA, February 13 (PL).—India
and Cuba have agreed to increase their exchange in
the use of eolian energy, sugar cane, biotechnology
and scientific cooperation, as part of the 6th
Intergovernmental Joint Commission.
•
“We need to
revise the U.S. travel policy to Cuba”
February 13,
2007
VARIOUS
Congress members and journalists in the United
States have highlighted the brutal case of Sergeant
Carlos Lazo, who was decorated with a Bronze Star by
the same government that is now denying him the
right to travel to Cuba to visit his sons.
•
Venezuelan
military delegation initiates activities in Cuba
February 12,
2007
HAVANA, February 12 (PL) .—With the
aim of creating stronger links of friendship and
Latin American integration, cadets and teachers from
Venezuelan military academies visiting the island
are beginning a wide range of activities in this
capital.
•
12th
International Convention and Fair Informatics 2007
February 12,
2007
INFORMATION technology and
communications and their contribution to a better
world is the slogan of the 12th International
Convention and Fair Informatics 2007, which runs
from today to Friday, February 16 in Havana’s
International Convention Center.
•
Fidel is
improving daily, Raúl affirms
February 9,
2007
FIDEL is improving
daily, and keeps himself informed of everything,
affirmed General of the Army Raúl Castro, second
secretary of the Party, on Thursday.
•
Cuba’s
enemies are losing ground
February 8,
2007
CUBA’S enemies in the U.S.
Congress are isolated, as even their former allies
admit. New winds are blowing through the Capitol, as
a result of the scandals surrounding Tom LeLay and
other Congress members, along with the war in Iraq
and the effect of both situations on the November
mid-term elections, and now in 2007, these events
have propitiated the introduction of several
bipartisan pieces of proposed legislation aimed at
ending the restrictions on travel to Cuba in place
for no less than 46 years.
•
Turkey and
Cuba increase economic and trade relations
February 8,
2007
CEMIL Cicek, the Turkish minister
of justice, deputy and member of the governing AKP
Party leadership, who is heading up the 7th
Turkey-Cuba Joint Commission for Economic,
Industrial and Trade Cooperation, assures that the
political will exists to strengthen cooperation in
various spheres.
•
2007 Havana
Book Fair begins today
February 8,
2007
THE 16th International Book Fair
in Cuba will be officially inaugurated this
afternoon at the La Cabaña Fortress, with an event
to welcome Argentina as the country of honor, and
pay tribute to poet, fiction writer and essayist
César López and historian Eduardo Torres Cuevas, to
especially dedicate to them this occasion of
sensitivity, knowledge and intelligence.
•
Lugo admits that
Posada Carriles recruited him to place bomb
February 6,
2007
One of the two masterminds behind the mid-flight
bombing of a Cubana airliner that killed 73 people
in 1976 talk about the crime to The New York
Times and claims he was just a peon in the
schemes of Cuban exiles
•
STATEMENT FROM THE MINISTRY OF
FOREIGN AFFAIRS
U.S. avoids
trying Posada for what he is: a murderer and
terrorist
February 5,
2007
ON January 31, the United States government once
again used a legal subterfuge to avoid bringing
charges against Luis Posada Carriles for what he
actually is: a murderer and a terrorist.
•
U.S. refuses
to provide information on José Couso’s killers
February 5,
2007
MADRID, Feb. 5 —
Spain’s National Courts have stated that the United
States has refused to provide Judge Santiago Pedraz
with the personal details of the three soldiers who
killed photographer José Couso in Baghdad in April
2003, Prensa Latina reports.
•
Quake of 6.1
degrees in Santiago de Cuba
February 5,
2007
SANTIAGO DE
CUBA.—An earthquake measuring 6.1 degrees on the
Richter scale and five in intensity, at 3:54 pm on
February 4, interrupted residents’ Sunday relaxation
or enjoyment of the baseball All Stars Game.
•
Raúl receives Prime Minister of Guinea-Bissau
Cuba increases
cooperation in health and education
February 1,
2007
GENERAL of the Army
Raúl Castro Ruz, first vice president of the
Councils of State and Ministers, received Prime
Minister Dr. Arístides Gomes of the Republic of
Guinea-Bissau, who is on an official visit to Cuba
for the 13th Session of the Cuba-Guinea Bissau Joint
Commission.
•
Enabling law approved
Venezuelan Parliament and people grant special
powers to Chávez
February 1,
2007
VENEZUELAN President Hugo Chávez can now issue
decrees carrying the range, value and force of the
law for 18 months, after being granted special
powers by the National Assembly.
•
More than 2
million people have learned how to read and write
via Cuban method
January 30,
2007
WITH the addition of its most
recent versions in Quechua and Aymara for Bolivian
indigenous people, the Cuban “I Can Do It” literacy
method is now in 12 languages, said César Torres,
dean of the Latin American and Caribbean Pedagogical
Institute (IPLAC), during the inauguration ceremony
of the 2007 International Pedagogy Congress at the
Karl Marx Theater in Havana.
•
FIDEL
One of the
greatest figures of the 21st century
January 25,
2007
FRENCH actor Pierre Richard,
described in the media as a “film great” had a
profound and interesting conversation with this
journalist, discussing topics such as poverty in the
world, Che Guevara and Fidel Castro.
•
Twelve new
joint ventures, 16 agreements signed
January 25,
2007
CARACAS, January 24.—Integration
in all contexts between Venezuela and Cuba was
strengthened today by a set of agreements in the
transport, communications, finance, agriculture,
mining, industry, tourism and energy sectors, signed
in the presence of President Hugo Chávez and Carlos
Lage, vice president of the Cuban Council of State.
•
The Cuban
Revolution is a bastion of socialism
January 24,
2007
NAIROBI, January 23.— The Cuban
Revolution has been and will be a bastion of
socialism in Latin America and of resistance against
imperialism, affirmed Cuban parliamentary deputy
Osvaldo Martínez here, at the 7th World Social Forum
(WSF).
•
European
Parliament admits governments’ involvement in CIA
flights
January 24,
2007
BRUSSELS, January 23.—
Governments of member countries of the European
Union (EU) knew about secret CIA flights to transfer
kidnapped terrorism suspects to secret prisons,
concluded a European Parliament commission today.
•
WTO should speak
out against blockade of Cuba
January 23,
2007
GENEVA, January 22.— The World Trade Organization
(WTO) should “speak out against the laws and
measures of the blockade” imposed by the United
States on Cuba for more than 40 years, Cuba said
today.
•
Posada Carriles
pleads not guilty to immigration fraud
January 23,
2007
EL PASO, Texas, January
22.—Terrorist Luis Posada Carriles, who masterminded
the sabotage of a Cuban passenger plane that left 73
people dead in 1976, and for planning and effecting
other acts of terrorism against Cuba and its maximum
leader, cynically pleaded not guilty to charges of
immigration fraud and false testimony in the city of
El Paso, Texas.
•
Energy
revolution guarantees supply but demands savings
January 19,
2007
SAVINGS is the key word in the
Energy Revolution that, after a year of major
effort, is showing results in all sectors of the
country’s economy.
•
Bush
ignores the rights of detainees in Guantánamo
January 19,
2007
THE Center for Constitutional
Rights in New York is part of the vanguard of the
struggle for the rights of detainees imprisoned on
the U.S. naval base in Guantánamo, as well as the
rights of citizens who have been unconstitutionally
sanctioned by the U.S. government for their supposed
ties to terrorism or for traveling to Cuba.
•
Attempt on the life of key witness
against Posada Carriles
January 19,
2007
WASHINGTON, January
18.—Accomplices of international terrorist Luis
Posada Carriles and faithful to the utilization of
explosive devices, tried to kill a key witness in
the case against the criminal, according to the
Miami press.
•
Pentagon manual allows execution of detainees on the
Guantánamo base
January 19,
2007
WASHINGTON, January 18.—The
Department of Defense has drawn up a manual
according to which it is allowed to incarcerate and
even execute detainees in the prison on the base
illegally occupied by the United States in
Guantánamo on the basis of non-confirmed evidence or
that obtained through coercion.
•
Energy
revolution completes first year
January 18,
2007
ONLY a stable electricity supply
can make it possible for agriculture, the new
programs and all the plans and objectives to be
achieved, affirmed Commander of the Revolution
Ramiro Valdés Menéndez at the event commemorating
the 48th anniversary of the arrival of Fidel and the
Victory Caravan in Artemisa.
•
Posada
Carriles transferred to prison in New Mexico
January 18,
2007
EL PASO, Texas, Jan. 17—.
Terrorist Luis Posada Carriles, responsible for the
1976 attack on a Cuban airliner that killed 73
people, was transferred to a prison in New Mexico
after spending a year and a half in a Texas
detention center, according to what his lawyer told
the AFP news agency on Wednesday, Jan. 17.
•
Statement from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Posada Case:
the moment of truth has arrived
January 15,
2007
The international media has reported that on January
11, 2007, the United States government, which for
more than 18 months has been protecting
international terrorist Luis Posada Carriles, has
been obliged to indict him on charges of fraud and
lying when applying for U.S. citizenship.
•
Rafael
Correa greets Fidel and wishes him a prompt recovery
January 15,
2007
QUITO, January 14.—The
president-elect of Ecuador, Rafael Correa, sent
greetings to President Fidel Castro and wished him a
speedy recovery, at the end of a meeting with Carlos
Lage, vice president of the Cuban Council of State.
•
Successful
visit to Cuba by UNDP administrator Kermal Dervis
January 15,
2007
KERMAL Dervis has expressed his appreciation for
human development advances in Cuba, as demonstrated
in the country’s achievements in education,
healthcare and social protection.
•
Posada
Carriles charged on seven counts, but no terrorist
ones
January 12,
2007
WASHINGTON, January 11.—a Federal Court in the
western district of Texas has brought formal charges
against Luis Posada Carriles on seven counts, which
include fraud in the naturalization process and six
others for giving false information during
interviews with immigration authorities.
•
In my
country dogs are treated better than the Guantánamo
prisoners
January 12,
2007
GUANTANAMO.—If dogs were treated
with the same cruelty in the United States that
prisoners in the Guantánamo base are treated, there
would certainly be a popular uprising on the part of
the owners of those animals, Cindy Sheehan, whose
son was killed in Iraq in 2004, affirmed here.
•
Now we are four in the ALBA
January 12,
2007
MANAGUA, January 11.—With the
official declaration that Nicaragua is to join the
Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas (ALBA) and
the signing of its founding document, there are now
four countries making up this new form of peoples’
integration.
•
U.S. pacifists criticize their government for
usurping Cuban territory
January 11,
2007
GUANTANAMO.— We apologize to the
Cuban people for the decision of the government of
our country more than one century ago to usurp part
of their territory and subsequently turn it into a
center for torture and humiliation.
•
Cindy Sheehan impressed by the Latin
American School of Medicine
January 9,
2007
“I am impressed by the school, the
quality of the students. I have never seen anything
like it in the world; it doesn’t matter what part of
the world we come from, or the fact that our
governments don’t get along, we have the same hearts
and they are filled with love.”
•
Bush’s
policies shame Americans
January 8,
2007
FERVENTLY embracing a cause that
she took up after her son’s death, pacifist Cindy
Sheehan affirmed in Cuba that the atrocities
committed by the government of George W. Bush in the
world is shameful for many Americans.
•
The
new wonders of the world
January 5,
2007
OF the seven wonders of the ancient
world, six have ceased to exist for some time now as
a result of erosion, natural phenomenon and human
barbarity. Of the monuments honored with this title
200 years before our time, we have lost the
Alexandria Lighthouse, the Temple of Artemis, the
statue of Zeus, the Colossus of Rhodes, the Hanging
Gardens of Babylon and the Mausoleum at
Halicarnassus. Only the pyramids of Giza in Egypt
are still surviving.
•
Raúl meets
with Pananamian President Martín Torrijos
January 4,
2007
GENERAL of the Army Raúl Castro
Ruz, second secretary of the Central Committee of
the Communist Party of Cuba and minister of the
Revolutionary Armed Forces, met last night with
Martín Torrijos Espino, president of the Republic of
Panama, who has been in our country on a working
visit since January 2.
•
To deal with the drought
Lage
inaugurates second Cuban factory of hydraulic pipes
January 4,
2007
HAVANA.— Carlos Lage Dávila,
secretary of the Executive Committee of the Council
of Ministers, inaugurated Hidroplast, the second
Cuban high-density hydraulic pipe factory, on
January 3.
•
Cuba with
lowest Latin American infant mortality rate
January 3,
2007
IN 2006, Cuba achieved the lowest
infant mortality rate in its history with a figure
of 5.3 per 1,000 live births; a figure that confirms
us as the leading country in Latin America with
respect to such an important indicator.
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President
of the Republic of Panama begins visit to Cuba
January 3,
2007
YESTERDAY afternoon, January 2,
His Excellency Mr. Martín Torrijos Espino, president
of the Republic of Panama, arrived in Havana on a
working visit. He is accompanied by a group of his
collaborators.
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