RSS Builder by B!Soft http://www.granma.cu/ingles Granma International English Edition. Havana. CUBA en-us Granma International http://www.granma.cu/ingles http://www.granma.cu/granmai_rss.jpg 120 44 sáb, 27 ene 2007 14:00:12 +0100 2007/enero07/sabado27/fidel-i.html BY LUIS BAEZ FRIDAY, January 23, 1959. Early in the morning there was unusual movement in Columbia Airport (now Ciudad Libertad). The motive: A revolutionary delegation headed by Commander in Chief Fidel Castro was Ieaving for Venezuela. National Sat, 27 Jan 2007 14:00:10 +0200 2006/octubre/lun2/41escandalo-i.html WASHINGTON, October 2 (PL). — The Republican Party in the United States is being shaken by another scandal, leading up to the November 7 elections and the party’s attempt to hold on to its majority in both houses of Congress. International lun, 2 oct 2006 14:33:20 +0200 2006/octubre/lun2/41bajas-i.html KABUL, October 1.— Despite a significant rise in the number of occupying troops, the resistance has increased its attacks throughout Afghanistan and in the center of Kabul, where it was responsible for a bomb attack outside the headquarters of the Ministry of the Interior, causing the deaths of 12 collaborators – two of them from high-ranking posts within this... International lun, 2 oct 2006 14:32:21 +0200 2006/octubre/lun2/41braselec-i.html BRASILIA, October 1.—President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva emerged from this Sunday’s elections in the lead, but without obtaining the absolute majority he needed for being declared the winner, according to an official statement from the Supreme Electoral Court. Our America Mon, 2 Oct 2006 14:32:19 +0200 2006/septiembre/juev28/41rusiacuerdo-i.html RAUL Castro Ruz, first vice president of the Council of State and Ministers of Cuba and Mikhail Efimovich Fradkov, prime minister of the Russian Federation, presided over the signing of agreements between the two countries after finalizing official talks. Both activities took place in the Council of State during the first day of the Russian leader’s visit to the island. News Sun, 17 Sep 2006 11:21:39 +0200 2006/septiembre/domin17/fidel-i.html YESTERDAY afternoon Fidel Castro received His Excellency Dato Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, prime minister of Malaysia, with whom he had a fraternal one-hour meeting. News Sun, 17 Sep 2006 11:13:12 +0200 2006/septiembre/domin17/39clausura-i.html BY NIDIA DIAZ AND ELSA CLARO —Granma International staff writers— THE 14th Non-Aligned Movement Summit was closed this Sunday at 1:05 am and, as Cuban First Vice President Raúl Castro stated in his final comments, its results were fruit of the collective work of its participants and an example of the maturity the NAM has achieved during its 45 years of existence. News Sun, 10 Sep 2006 18:04:07 +0200 2006/septiembre/domingo10/cuba-i.html THE Cuban oil enterprise CUPET and the Indian company ONGC Videsh Ltd (OVL) signed today Sunday a production contract for the prospecting and exploitation of that hydrocarbon in Cuban waters in the Gulf of Mexico, PL reports. News Sun, 10 Sep 2006 18:03:08 +0200 2006/septiembre/domingo10/38cumbre1-i.html BY ELSA CLARO —Granma International staff writer— PRESIDENT Fidel Castro is to preside over the Cuban delegation to the 14th Non-Aligned Movement Summit and will receive various dignitaries, including UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, affirmed Foreign Minister Felipe Pérez Roque before close to 1,000 foreign and... News Sun, 10 Sep 2006 18:03:06 +0200 2006/septiembre/juev7/amigos-i.html Let the resounding defeat of Senator Joe Lieberman send a cold shiver down the spine of every Democrat who supported the invasion of Iraq and who continues to support, in any way, this senseless, immoral, unwinnable war. News jue, 7 sep 2006 19:22:31 +0200 2006/septiembre/juev7/viajes-i.html Hernando Today Florida) - Why is travel to Cuba barred? If we are truly free Americans, why can't we go to Cuba? News Thu, 7 Sep 2006 19:22:29 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/agosto/lun28/36iraq9.html BAGHDAD, 28 August (PL)— The U.S. Central Command confirmed today that there were nine casualties among their ranks this weekend in Iraq, where the resistance has intensified its actions against the occupation. A concise communiqué from the U.S. command admitted that four soldiers were killed between Saturday and Sunday to the north of the capital. International Lun, 28 Ago 2006 11:54:37 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/agosto/lun28/36protesta.html WASHINGTON (PL)— Dozens of Cubans protested against restrictions on travel to Cuba imposed by the government of President George W. Bush in his zeal to destroy the Cuban Revolution, reported the Nuevo Herald on Sunday. The daily referred to the case of Cuban Marta Berros, who cannot travel to Havana to visit her sick brother because she was there in 2004 and Bush has limited trips to one every three years. Under current restrictions, persons with immediate family members on the island can only spend a maximum of two weeks on the island once every three years. News Lun, 28 Ago 2006 11:54:07 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/agosto/lun28/36lisfos.html BAALBEK, LEBANON, (August 27).—At least three corpses with clear signs of having been attacked with white phosphorus, a chemical weapon banned for use against human beings, were taken to a hospital in the Lebanese city of Baalbek during the war, according to medical sources. International Lun, 28 Ago 2006 11:53:23 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/agosto/lun28/36tormenta.html TROPICAL storm Ernesto could hit some parts of southeastern Cuba today, which is why the country is closely following its evolution. According to the Institute of Meteorology’s Forecast Center (INSMET), the storm system has become more organized, although its maximum sustained winds remain at 85 kilometers per hour. S C I E N C E A N D T E C H N O L O G Y Lun, 28 Ago 2006 11:52:53 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/agosto/lun28/36wash.html CARACAS, August 27.—The detection of detonators and cables used for explosives in a cargo for the U.S. embassy is heightening suspicions that that country’s intervention in Venezuela is moving beyond rhetoric and financing the opposition. According to PL; the dispatch was found on August 23 in an air freight of 20 crates to be entered in the country via diplomatic exemption. International Sat, 26 Aug 2006 13:53:34 +0200 2006/agosto/sabado26/big-i.html BY MARC CAPUTO AND BETH REINHARD Of all the ''special interests'' that Jim Davis bashes on the campaign trail, none has caused him so much trouble as the agricultural and political juggernaut that is U.S. Sugar. International Sat, 26 Aug 2006 13:53:16 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/agosto/vier25/36preol.html UNDER the direction of Rey Vicente Anglada, Cuba is to present a team made up of 24 baseball players, of whom 21 participated in the 1st World Classic, with the sole objective of winning one of the two slots for the 08 Beijing Olympics awarded by the 3rd Pre-Olympic Baseball tournament, scheduled to open today at 8:00 p.m. in Havana’s Latin America stadium. Sports Vie, 25 Ago 2006 11:58:13 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/agosto/vier25/36complot.html LA PAZ, August 24.— In a message to the nation, Bolivian President Evo Morales today accused the opposition parties of organizing a new conspiracy against the nationalization of hydrocarbon resources, which was decreed on May 1. Our America Vie, 25 Ago 2006 11:57:42 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/agosto/vier25/bagdad.html BAGHDAD, August 24. — Three U.S. soldiers have died during the last 24 hours in southern Baghdad, according to the U.S. Army, ANSA reported. One of the soldiers died as a homemade bomb went off as his vehicle passed by. A few hours earlier, the Army reported the death of another soldier in the same area, during an armed clash with groups from the resistance. International Fri, 25 Aug 2006 11:57:40 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/agosto/mier23/35medic.html IF a system for training doctors en masse like the one implemented by the Cubans is not adopted, the future of the peoples is uncertain, because between epidemics and social marginalization the health of the poor of the planet is constantly threatened. News Mié, 23 Ago 2006 14:10:01 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/agosto/mier23/dudan.html WASHINGTON, August 22.—Conservative U.S. editorial writers and commentators are beginning to doubt the capacity of President George W. Bush to lead the United States and are questioning his foreign policy, particularly in Iraq, AFP reports. International Mié, 23 Ago 2006 14:09:10 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/agosto/mier23/35injus5.html GERARDO, Ramón, René, Fernando and Antonio are still behind bars in the United States, three of them in maximum security prisons, and all of them subjected to the hateful revenge of those in Washington who have made them the target of reprisals against the Cuban Revolution. News Wed, 23 Aug 2006 14:09:09 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/agosto/mar22/35fihav.html THE 24th edition of the Havana Trade Fair (FIHAV) takes place from October 30 to November 4 at its usual venue, Expocuba, the country’s largest fairground, the organizing committee has announced. In the official announcement, addressed to foreign companies and business owners, it is affirmed that for 23 years, FIHAV has been an important link in the promotion of exports and has contributed to closer relations with trading partners, Xinhua reported. Economy Mar, 22 Ago 2006 12:19:05 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/agosto/mar22/35isrviol.html BEIRUT, August 21.—The Israeli army has carried out another incursion into Lebanese territory, thus violating the ceasefire, with the toll of three Lebanese and four Israeli soldiers injured in the Bekaa Valley, according to ANSA. Last Saturday, Israeli helicopters transporting commandos also launched an attack on the Bekaa Valley in the south of that Arab country and killed four people, less than a week after the ceasefire. International Mar, 22 Ago 2006 12:18:25 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/agosto/mar22/35popindo.html Many of the international aid teams that descended on Indonesia after the 27 May earthquake in Java have packed up and gone home. But a medical team from Cuba has proved so popular that locals have asked it to stay on for another six months. More than two months after the quake, the 135-strong Cuban team sees up to 1,000 patients a day at two field hospitals set up in the earthquake zone, 30km from Jogyakarta. F R O M T H E F O R E I G N P R E S S Mar, 22 Ago 2006 12:17:53 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/agosto/mar22/35aznav.html PARIS (SE).— The celebrated French singer Charles Aznavour has announced his plan to travel to Havana to record a disc along with Cuban pianist Chucho Valdéz. Culture Mar, 22 Ago 2006 12:16:54 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/agosto/mar22/35expo.html MORE than 100 people attended the August 21 opening of a photographic exhibition on revealing moments in the life of President Fidel Castro at the International Press Center in Havana. Canto a la Vida (Song to Life) — the exhibition’s title — "impacts the inner world of our feelings because of the stamp left on us by the ideas and struggle initiated and led by an exceptional human being," said Tubal Páez, president of the Cuban Journalists Union, in remarks at the opening. Culture Mar, 22 Ago 2006 12:16:16 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/agosto/mar22/35conspir5.html THE most recent revelations about conspiracies by anti-Cuban counterrevolutionary groups in the United States could help the case of the Cuban Five, according to a U.S. newspaper, the Los Angeles Times. News Tue, 22 Aug 2006 12:16:14 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/agosto/lun21/35acusal.html BEIRUT, August 20.—Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Siniora accused the Israeli government this Sunday of committing crimes against humanity after bombing his country for more than 30 days. Siniora made his statement as he toured in the southern part of this capital, a city in ruins. International Lun, 21 Ago 2006 11:08:07 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/agosto/lun21/35inaugc.html CARACAS, August 20.—Today Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez inaugurated in the capital the Latin American Children’s Cardiology Hospital, considered the government’s most important achievement in the public health field. Our America Mon, 21 Aug 2006 11:09:23 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/agosto/lun21/35sumaniraq.html WASHINGTON, August 20.—Two Infantry Marines from New York died at the hands of the resistance while patrolling streets in Anbar province, the Pentagon stated. Pentagon losses are now more than 2,600 and to date this month 30 U.S. troops have lost their lives in that Arab country. According to New York’s La Prensa daily, Corporal Michael Glover, aged 28 and Captain John J. McKenna IV, aged 30, perished in bullet fire. International Mon, 21 Aug 2006 11:09:32 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/agosto/lun21/35noal.html UP until this Saturday more than 500 Cuban and foreign journalists have applied for accreditation to cover the 14th Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM), from September 11 through 16 in Havana. José Luis Ponce, director of the International Press Center, told the National Information Agency (AIN) that this total could increase in the next few days. News Mon, 21 Aug 2006 11:06:06 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/agosto/vier18/35pernod.html ONE week alter Bacardi began to sell Havana Club rum in Florida, Pernod Ricard has filed another suit to prevent the company selling the product in U.S. stores. The lawsuit, filed before the Federal Court of Delaware on Tuesday by the Pernod Ricard subsidiary in the United States, is in response to maneuvers by the George W. Bush government to favor Bacardi, a firm charged with buying Congress members and officials to achieve its aims. International Vie, 18 Ago 2006 14:30:28 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/agosto/vier18/35comision5.html BRASILIA, August 18 (PL).— Efforts to free the five Cuban heroes imprisoned in the United States acquired fresh impetus today with support from the National Commission on Human Rights (CNDH) of the Brazilian Order of Attorneys (OAB). - MIAMI 5 News Vie, 18 Ago 2006 14:29:39 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/agosto/vier18/35raul.html • Affirms Raúl in a statement to Granma • He affirmed that Fidel continues to improve and thanked people for the thousands of messages of solidarity and support from our country and abroad • Measures have been taken to prevent any attempt at aggression • The people are giving a conclusive demonstration of confidence in themselves National Vie, 18 Ago 2006 14:29:11 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/agosto/vier18/35suman.html BAGHDAD, August 18 (PL).— The U.S. occupation forces command in Iraq today reported the death of another of its solders, bringing the total killed to 2,604 since Washington initiated its war on this Arab country. The communiqué from the military command specified that the U.S. soldier was killed as the result of a bomb that went off in the southern area of the capital, where he was part of an operation to secure the area. International Fri, 18 Aug 2006 14:29:10 +0200 2006/agosto/juev17/35nas-i.html THE International Relations Commission of the National Assembly of People’s Power of the Republic of Cuba has condemned the decision adopted by the Atlanta Court of Appeals against the five Cubans who remain imprisoned in the United States for fighting against terrorism. News jue, 17 ago 2006 14:45:08 +0200 2006/agosto/juev17/35armas-i.html BY JUAN C. ALFARO THE new threat of a "terrorist attack" is intimidating the world. But: whose interests does "international terrorism" really serve? From the Foreign Press Thu, 17 Aug 2006 14:45:05 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/agosto/juev17/35DESARMEL.html BEIRUT.— Lebanese President Emil Lahud stated on Monday that it is "shameful" to demand the disarmament of Hizbollah, "the only Arab force in the world to face up to Israel", AFP reports. International Jue, 17 Ago 2006 13:25:46 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/agosto/juev17/34bacardi.html THE decision by the discredited government of George W. Bush allowing the Bacardi company in the United States to take over the well-known Havana Club rum brand comes at the same time as accusations that the administration’s former housing secretary illegally accepted funds from that powerful company, owned by Cuban-born businessmen. International Thu, 17 Aug 2006 13:25:34 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/agosto/mier16/34emigracion.html IT is highly possible that the British, French, or Belgians do not consider as immigrants the enormous contingents of their ancestors that went to other lands as officials of their governments or as go-getters of all types. But they were. They settled in those distant territories, depriving the native inhabitants of authority and riches. News Mié, 16 Ago 2006 13:56:29 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/agosto/mier16/34retirol.html THE Israeli Army is withdrawing from the positions it took during its offensive south of the Litani River, as laid down in UN Security Council Resolution 1701, to give way to the Lebanese soldiers and UN peacekeeping troops who will monitor the ceasefire. Hizbollah’s resistance led to 117 deaths and 400 injuries for the Israeli forces, dozens of them officers. International Mié, 16 Ago 2006 13:53:14 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/agosto/mier16/34noal.html CUBA has presented the Coordination Bureau of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) with a draft final declaration to be discussed at the 14th Summit of this body in September. A Cuban Foreign Ministry source confirmed to Prensa Latina today that the document has been handed over to representatives of the member countries at the UN headquarters in New York by Abelardo Moreno, deputy minister of foreign affairs on the island. News Wed, 16 Aug 2006 13:53:12 +0200 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/agosto/mier16/34hermano.html FIDEL Castro is laughing, making jokes, receiving gifts, feeling the joy of friendship and spending more than three hours with his brother in ideas, as highlighted by the major international press, television and radio media, which are still publishing features related to Fidel’s 80th birthday and his recovery, emphasizing the footage presented on the TV "Roundtable" program on Monday (August 14), in which the Cuban leader is shown with Hugo Chávez Frías, president of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. National vie, 11 ago 2006 17:44:52 +0200 2006/agosto/juev10/33corte5.html BY DEISY FRANCIS MEXIDOR—Granma daily staff writer— JUST one year after the decision of a panel of three judges in the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta, Georgia, who unanimously overturned the Miami trial of the five Cuban anti-terrorist fighters and annulled the sentences handed down, the plenary of that judicial... News vie, 11 ago 2006 17:42:53 +0200 2006/agosto/vier11/34weinglass-i.html BY JEAN-GUY ALLARD —Special for Granma International— "THIS decision is not the end of the case," emphasized attorney Leonard Weinglass of the United States, commenting on a ruling by the Court of Appeals in Atlanta revoking a favorable decision for the Five by a three-judge panel from that same court that had acknowledged the hostile environment in Miami where the trial was held and ordering a new trial. News vie, 11 ago 2006 17:41:36 +0200 2006/agosto/vier11/34voto.html SAN JOSE, August 11 (PL).— Always in solidarity with Cuba, Costa Ricans are wishing for President Fidel Castro’s prompt recovery. According to sources in the Cuban Consulate in this capital, hundreds of people have communicated with the island’s diplomatic mission. News vie, 11 ago 2006 17:40:05 +0200 2006/agosto/vier11/33ruta.html BY MIREYA CASTAÑEDA—Granma International staff writer— PHOTO: ALBERTO BORREGO IT is just the right moment to accept the offer of the City Historian’s Office. To look attentively at colonial Havana. To know its wealth. National vie, 11 ago 2006 17:38:06 +0200 2006/agosto/vier11/34alarcon.html BY JEAN-GUY ALLARD —Special for Granma International— JUDGE Wilson must “feel very satisfied at this moment” because “he knows that he would be the last person targeted for a bomb attack in Miami,” commented Ricardo Alarcón, president of the National Assembly, in a special edition of the “Informative Roundtable” on Cuban... News Mon, 7 Aug 2006 17:05:46 +0200 2006/agosto/lun7/33lpatr-i.html BEIRUT, August 7 (PL).—More than 1,000 people, 30% of them under 12, have died as a result of the Israeli aggression of the Lebanon that began 27 days ago, and where the resistance is making the occupation of this Arab state impossible. International Mon, 7 Aug 2006 17:05:40 +0200 2006/agosto/lun7/33mexico-i.html BY NIDIA DIAZ —Granma International staff writer— WHILE many predicted it, there was always a question. After so many years of hearing about the "independence" of the three branches of government in "representative democracy," more than a few people believe in it, and speaking of belief, some thought that Mexico’s Supreme Electoral Court (TSE) would shoulder the demand of the For the Good of... Our America Mon, 7 Aug 2006 17:04:15 -0500 2006/agosto/vier4/32Indonesia-i.html DR. Luis Oliveros, leader of the Cuban medical brigade currently in Indonesia assisting victims of the May earthquake, the number of whom has increased due to two more tremors and a powerful tsunami, has reported that to date brigade members have attended to more than 45,000 patients. Science and technology Vie, 4 Ago 2006 19:49:26 -0500 2006/agosto/vier4/33becados-i.html BY NAVIL GARCIA ALFONSO —Granma International staff writer— IN 1961 Cuba began to host youth from all continents to study and thus guarantee the future development of their respective countries. scfience and technologu Vie, 4 Ago 2006 19:48:36 -0500 2006/agosto/vier4/33minrex-i.html THE Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Cuba expresses its most energetic condemnation of the cowardly, vile and criminal attack perpetrated on the Lebanese town of Qana by the Israeli government on July 30, 2006, in which at least 60 civilians were killed, including 34... News Vie, 4 Ago 2006 19:47:45 -0500 2006/agosto/vier4/33iglesia-i.html HAVANA, August 4 (PL).—The Conference of Catholic Bishops of Cuba (COCC) called today on its congregation to pray for the recovery of President Fidel Castro, who announced that he had undergone surgery last Monday. News Vie, 4 Ago 2006 19:46:37 -0500 2006/agosto/vier4/33raulmon-i.html BY MARTA ROJAS —Granma daily staff writer— THIS is a facsimile which I kept from the front page of the Santiago de Cuba Oriente newspaper, datelined July 30, 1953. For its eloquence it is worth reproducing. National Vie, 4 Ago 2006 19:45:46 -0500 2006/agosto/vier4/33mensag-i.html "I am calling to reiterate what our brother Gerardo has already said in the name of the Five. News Vie, 4 Ago 2006 19:44:24 -0500 2006/agosto/vier4/33frusodi-i.html BY DEISY FRANCIS MEXIDOR —Granma daily staff writer CALM reigns in Cuba, although over there in the United States, and particularly in Miami, that is upsetting a small group of extreme-right dinosaurs. National Fri, 4 Aug 2006 19:44:22 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/julio/vier28/32atlet.html CARTAGENA, July 28.—Cartagena fans only have words of acknowledgement for the devastating force of Cuban representatives in the athletics meet of the 20th Central American and Caribbean Games, says a PL cable from this city. Sports Vie, 28 Jul 2006 12:57:54 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/julio/vier28/32victleb.html BEIRUT, July 27.—More than 400 dead and 1,200 injured – in their majority civilians – is the result of 15 days of Israeli air and artillery attacks on the south and east of Lebanon, according to official estimates, PL reports. The operation launched by the Tel Aviv army on alleged Hizbollah (Party of God) positions has also caused the displacement of 750,000 people, the evacuation of foreign residents and the hasty exit of tourists. International Fri, 28 Jul 2006 12:57:50 +0200 2006/julio/jue27/31fuerte-i.html BEIRUT, July 26 .— Hizbollah has caused heavy losses to the Israeli forces that are attempting for the fourth day to take over a crucial mountaintop town in southern Lebanon, with 14 soldiers killed, according to news reports. International jue, 27 jul 2006 14:29:55 +0200 2006/julio/jue27/31granma-I.html PRESIDENT Fidel Castro emphasized the progress achieved in Granma province during his closing remarks at the central event celebrating the 53rd anniversary of the assault on the Moncada and Carlos Manuel de Céspedes Garrisons, in Patria de Bayamo Plaza in that eastern province. National Thu, 27 Jul 2006 14:29:54 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/julio/lun24/31bombardeo.html BEIRUT, July 23 .— Israeli troops have penetrated deeper into Lebanon’s southern region, where they had already taken over the village of Marun al Ras the day before, ordering residents of 13 towns to leave the area, which they began bombing, as well as parts of Beirut that have not as yet been attacked. International Lun, 24 Jul 2006 12:59:51 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/julio/lun24/31amigos.html ALTAGRACIA, Argentina, July 22.—Seated on the wall of the house porch, hands gripping the edge, legs hanging out of his shorts and a fixed gaze in the direction of the gate, as if anticipating this long-awaited reunion, Ernesto received his brother Fidel and Hugo Chávez, who, without any doubt, would have been an ideal friend for sharing long conversations and Latin American dreams. News Mon, 24 Jul 2006 12:59:51 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/julio/mier19/30expmerc.html CORDOBA, Argentina, July 18.— The national and technical coordinators and other experts of the five member countries of Southern Common Market (MERCOSUR) are meeting this Wednesday to draft an agenda for the 30th summit of this Common Market Council and for the meeting of heads of states scheduled for Thursday and Friday at the Fairground Complex where they are still making the finishing touches befitting such an important meeting. Our America Mié, 19 Jul 2006 11:25:30 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/julio/mier19/30lebanese.html GENEVA/BEIRUT, July 18 .— More than one million people have fled their homes in Lebanon, and "the city of Beirut and southern Lebanon have been left practically empty," affirmed Marie Heuzé, UN spokesperson in Geneva, who warned that those figures could increase if the Israeli attacks continue. International Wed, 19 Jul 2006 11:25:02 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/julio/mier19/30rbelarus.html GENERAL of the Army Raúl Castro Ruz, Second Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party and Ministry of the Revolutionary Armed Forces (FAR), received in the MINFAR headquarters Colonel General Leonid Semionovich Maltsev, defense minister of the Republic of Belarus, and his accompanying delegation. News Mar, 18 Jul 2006 13:19:09 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/julio/mar18/30miami.html FOR the fifth time in the last 10 weeks, the Association of Christian Women in Defense of the Cuban Family is organizing a demonstration to demand that the government of George W. Bush respects their right to travel to Cuba and visit their families without restrictions. News Mar, 18 Jul 2006 13:18:39 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/julio/mar18/30bprogr.html WASINGTON, July 17.—U.S. President George W. Bush has postponed for six months starting August a regulation that suspends cases being brought against Cuba by U.S. Americans for properties nationalized on the island, which is contemplated in Title III of the Helms-Burton Act. International Mar, 18 Jul 2006 13:18:06 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/julio/mar18/30salvador.html "WE do not like terrorism and we are not going to give asylum to a foreign terrorist," René Figueroa, Salvadoran minister of government, announced after a cable from the AFP news agency referred to contact between Luis Posada Carriles and "influential government" figures, including President Antonio Saca. Our America Mar, 18 Jul 2006 13:12:55 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/julio/mar18/30libano3.html BEIRUT, July 17 — At least 208 Lebanese civilians have been killed by Israeli bombardments of their territory, after a sixth day of aggression left at least 80 dead and dozens of injured following the destruction by Tel Aviv’s aviation of southern and eastern sectors of this capital, and attacks on the cities of Sidon, Tyre and Ba’albek. International Mar, 18 Jul 2006 13:07:11 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/julio/mar18/30mercosur.html CORDOBA, Argentina, July 18 .— The final stretch of the Summit of MERCOSUR Heads of State and associate states began today in this beautiful city in the province of the same name, with the meeting of national coordinators. Our America Tue, 18 Jul 2006 13:07:09 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/julio/lun17/30juegos.html CARTAGENA, Colombia July 17 (PL).— Cuba’s athletes gave outstanding performances in canoeing and other sports, enough to displace Mexico from the top of the 20th Central American and Caribbean Games, Cartagena 2006, which are going into their third day today. Sports Lun, 17 Jul 2006 12:04:39 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/julio/lun17/30mexdem.html MEXICO.—Presidential candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador called yesterday for civil resistance in defense of democracy in Mexico and the legitimacy of the July 2 elections, according to various news agencies. Our America Lun, 17 Jul 2006 12:03:56 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/julio/lun17/30agresion.html BEIRUT, July 17 (PL). — An intense day of more than 60 Israeli air and artillery attacks on Lebanese positions resulted in at least 19 people dead and 53 injured, while a mass withdrawal of foreigners has begun. Air force attacks were aimed at damaging the capital’s infrastructure, including bridges, the port, and once again the capital’s airport and residential areas, according to eyewitnesses. International Mon, 17 Jul 2006 12:03:53 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/julio/vier14/29mauricio.html CUBAN cinema has a new offering. This is the feature film Páginas del Diario de Mauricio (Pages from Mauricio’s Diary), by Manuel Pérez in a Cuban Film Institute (ICAIC), Fénix PC and Estudios Churubusco Azteca coproduction. Culture Vie, 14 Jul 2006 13:45:34 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/julio/vier14/29estudiantes.html JULIO Marcelo Arias Castañeda is a fresh electrical engineer graduate from the José Antonio Echevarría Higher Polytechnic Institute of Havana. The young Ecuadorian was elected best all round foreign university student. Along with him, 2,000 new professionals that have finished their studies in Cuba are ready to return to their countries of origin. News Vie, 14 Jul 2006 13:44:43 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/julio/vier14/29solar2.html EMIR Madruga, manager of ECOSOL, considers solar energy a fundamental strategic element for sustained development. "Every square meter of Cuban territory receives a volume of solar energy equivalent to half a kilogram of combustible oil or 5 kilowatts of electrical energy per day, an average value that is virtually invariable throughout the year and almost uniform throughout the country," he informed Granma International. S C I E N C E A N D T E C H N O L O G Y Vie, 14 Jul 2006 13:44:02 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/julio/vier14/29mexico01.html TWO weeks have passed since the overwhelming majority of the 41 million Mexicans entitled to vote decided to go to the polling booths to elect the new president of Mexico in a contest in which there were two options: either to vote for the continuance of a neoliberal model that privileges a minority plus everything in that country that has represented genuflection before the empire; ... Our America Vie, 14 Jul 2006 13:43:12 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/julio/vier14/30planbushven.html CARACAS.—The U.S. report on Cuba is a "new aggression against Venezuela," whose name is quoted on nine occasions in it, according to the Venezuelan Foreign Minister. "It is evident that the plan of the current U.S. government is to utilize the constant hostility and terrorism characteristic of its relations with the sister Cuban people in order to extend actions of that kind against our country as well," the minister noted in a communiqué quoted by EFE. News Fri, 14 Jul 2006 13:43:10 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/julio/juev13/30bombardeo.html BEIRUT, July 12.—Israeli military forces have penetrated into southern Lebanon, while their U.S.-manufactured hunters attacked some 20 civilian locations and installations under the pretext of punishing those responsible for the death of eight of their soldiers and rescuing a further two from Hizbollah guerrillas. International Jue, 13 Jul 2006 14:00:50 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/julio/juev13/30tony.html ONES prison cell is no workshop for an artist. It is not that unlimited space in view, full of light and, centrally, of freedom. Antonio (Tony) Guerrero, a man of exceptional will and sensibility, has overturned that idea. Culture Jue, 13 Jul 2006 13:59:29 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/julio/juev13/30kampfb.html TOM Crumpacker (*) was not exaggerating one iota when he compared the Bush annexation Plan with Hitler’s Mein Kampf. They are, effectively, the only available examples of publicly announced plans to subjugate a nation. They are also similar in their genocidal and racist nature. In my previous article on this subject, I recalled that the Bush Plan, if it were carried out, would liquidate Cuba, the nation, but also enslave Cubans to extermination. News Thu, 13 Jul 2006 13:59:28 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/julio/lun10/29nicaragua.html TORONTO— Four months before the presidential elections, Nicaragua is a study in political pessimism. A ship adrift. Sin a pilot. Sin a rudder. Sin anything. Queen of Sin. In Spanish the word for sin is sin. In Nicaragua, national politics and Washington’s sinful interference have turned the word into an accursed, normal way of life. One day sin water. Another day sin electricity. Our America Lun, 10 Jul 2006 12:45:04 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/julio/lun10/29pastor1.html "WE have come at a time when there are new threats coming from the administration of George W. Bush, which indicate how much fear they have of Cuba’s achievements," said Rev. Lucius Walker, upon arriving in Havana at the head of the solidarity caravan. News Lun, 10 Jul 2006 12:43:36 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/julio/lun10/29meximpug.html MEXICO, July 10.—The challenge to the presidential elections of July 2 in Mexico has now been placed in a legal framework after the For the Good of All coalition opposition formally filed its disagreement before a judge on Sunday. Our America Mon, 10 Jul 2006 12:42:43 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/julio/lun10/29miacuarta.html MIAMI.—Some 90 people, mostly Cuban émigrés plus other Latin American and U.S. citizens, defied bad weather in this city to protest at the prohibition on travel to Cuba imposed by the Bush administration. The demonstrators included a woman called Mirta, who went with her 7-year-old daughter and 9-year-old son, desperate because her mother is seriously ill in Cuba and the Treasury Department has refused her the license needed to be able to travel. News Jue, 6 Jul 2006 11:46:03 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/julio/juev6/29mexincert.html MEXICO, July 6.—The government presidential candidate Felipe Calderón today gained a slight advantage over his opponent Andrés Manuel López Labrador in the count following on from last Sunday’s elections in Mexico. Calderón, from the government National Action Party (PAN), accumulated 35.6% of the votes, to the 35.59% of López Obrador, ... Our America Jue, 6 Jul 2006 11:45:05 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/julio/juev6/28africa.html FOREIGN Minister Felipe Pérez Roque has confirmed "Cuba’s unvarying solidarity with the African peoples and governments in their battle against poverty and underdevelopment inherited from centuries of slavery, rapine wars, colonialism and a profoundly unjust and exclusive international economic order. International Jue, 6 Jul 2006 11:44:39 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/julio/juev6/29isrtanq.html GAZA (PL).—This Wednesday Israeli tanks penetrated dozens of meters further into the territory of the Gaza Strip via the Erez border post and took up positions in the former settlements of Elei Sanai and Nisanit, witnesses affirm. International Jue, 6 Jul 2006 11:44:09 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/julio/juev6/28futbol.html WITH their loyalties divided between Argentina, Brazil and Italy, members of Cuba’s national football team haven’t missed a single World cup match and are dreaming of the 2010 tournament. "If Trinidad and Tobago and Costa Rica qualified, why can’t we?" asked Odelín Molina, the island’s captain. Molina hasn’t missed a match since the start of this World Cup in which Italy has been his favorite team. "I love their strong, defensive play and goalie Buffon is a star." Sports Thu, 6 Jul 2006 11:44:07 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/julio/mier5/28maxico3.html MEXICO CITY, July 4.—Sources from the highest levels of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) have revealed to the daily Universal that the governors and one sector of the party have already agreed to a pact with Felipe Calderón, who considers himself the winner of last Sunday’s presidential elections, PL reports. Our America Mié, 5 Jul 2006 12:14:51 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/julio/mier5/28washington.html TO be uneasy is one of the human sensations that they have possibly never experienced given how difficult it is to battle with. So much the master of all situations and so sure of having control over everything human and divine, the empire’s representatives feel as if something is squirming beneath their feet and burning them. Our America Mié, 5 Jul 2006 12:14:15 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/julio/mier5/28cronicas.html ON May 20, 2004, with all pomp and ceremony, George W. Bush announced his Plan for the annexation of Cuba. The interminable monster document – of more than 450 pages – provoked a volley of criticism from all sides. Above all, from the Cuban people, who are threatened with extermination and with the liquidation of their nation. International Wed, 5 Jul 2006 12:14:14 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/julio/mar4/28boleros.html THE first signs of the genre arrived with the old trova musicians. Just that now life has transformed their clothes in line with the times. From the second half of the 19th century it has been a kind of preparing the ground for emotions. Magical and unpredictable, it is currently moving along many and dynamic paths. Culture Mar, 4 Jul 2006 14:13:10 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/julio/mar4/espana.html UPON arriving in Spain as "George Bush’s personal representative" — as he identified himself, U.S. Ambassador Eduardo Aguirre Jr., a Cuban-born nationalized U.S. citizen, said he was "anxious" to work in a country that was a "friend and great ally." International Mar, 4 Jul 2006 14:12:23 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/julio/mar4/28gaza.html THE signs are overwhelming and all of them lead in the same direction: Israel had already planned the invasion of Gaza and the soldier hostage has served as the pretext for it to advance its offensive. The fact that that is what would occur when the different Palestinian groups have just signed a commitment to unity and shared goals, confirms suspicions. International Mar, 4 Jul 2006 14:11:38 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/julio/mar4/28mexico2.html MEXICO, July 3— Andrés López Obrador, presidential candidate of the "For the Good of All" coalition in Mexico, yesterday rejected the results of the preliminary count by the Federal Electoral Institute (IFE) which gave a slim advantage to his conservative rival Felipe Calderón, Prensa Latina reports. Our America Mar, 4 Jul 2006 14:10:40 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/julio/mar4/28partido.html HEADED by Fidel Castro Ruz, first secretary of our Party, the 5th Plenary of the Central Committee took place on July 1. The meeting covered different issues related to the functioning of the Party, defense, the incorporation of new members onto the Central Committee and matters related to the development of the country and the convulsed and complex international panorama in which we are living. National Tue, 4 Jul 2006 14:09:48 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/julio/lun3/28israelofic.html GAZA (PL).—Israel has escalated the level of its aggression against this autonomous Palestinian area by attacking the office of prime Minister Ismael Haniye and announcing that leaders of the Islamic movement are to be tried. International Lun, 3 Jul 2006 14:05:57 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/julio/lun3/28aznar.html MADRID, June 28 .— The Spanish government, the governing PSOE Party, the United Left (IU) and Spanish nationalists have called on José María Aznar, the conservative former prime minister, to explain the payments he has been receiving since 2004 from the Murdoch media group on behalf of a company he formed while still a member of the Council of State. International Mon, 3 Jul 2006 14:06:52 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/julio/lun3/28noticia.html IF four buildings – four twin towers for example – full of boys and girls, killing 12,000 were destroyed, surely it would not occur to anyone to argue against that terrible news being the lead story on all news broadcasts, all front pages. No one, on any editorial board, or in any radio or television studio, would object if the news of those 12,000 dead children dominated all the headlines and columns, opinions and reports, photos and testimonies. SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY Lun, 3 Jul 2006 14:04:16 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/julio/lun3/28bolconsol.html LA PAZ, 3 July (PL)— Today the Bolivian government has entered a consolidation phase after a Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) triple victory in the Constituent Assembly elections and in a referendum regarding autonomy, affirmed President Evo Morales. Our America Lun, 3 Jul 2006 14:03:39 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/julio/lun3/28mexico.html MEXICO, July 3 (PL).—Mexicans woke up this morning to a day of uncertainty as to who is to be their president for the next six years, increased by the decision of two of the candidates to proclaim themselves the winner. Close to midnight, the Federal Electoral Institute (IFE) announced that the official count will only begin up until Wednesday in the district and local councils, closing July 9. Our America Mon, 3 Jul 2006 14:03:38 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/junio/vier30/28uscorte.html WASHINGTON .— This Thursday the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that President George W. Bush does not have the authority to order military trials for detainees in Guantánamo. The ruling is an admonishment to the Bush government, which has been accused of using the war against terrorism as a pretext for exceeding its constitutional powers, reported AP. International Vie, 30 Jun 2006 14:30:12 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/junio/vier30/28kirch.html BUENOS AIRES, July 29.—The presidents of Argentina, Néstor Kirchner, and Bolivia, Evo Morales, emphasized the Latin American focus and the integration oriented essence of the new energy sector agreements signed by the two countries. During a public event in the Hurlingham neighborhood of the capital, Morales expressed thanks for the solidarity demonstrated by the Argentine government in accepting a price increase in the natural gas that Bolivia exports to that country. Our America Fri, 30 Jun 2006 14:30:09 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/junio/mier28/27rechaza.html LA PAZ, June 27 — The Bolivian government today accused the United States of launching new attacks on the country’s stability, qualifying them as political provocations. Juan Ramón Quintana, minister of the presidency, responded in those terms to a statement by Washington’s top anti-drug official, John Walters, who said that the Bolivian administration is not cooperating sufficiently with Washington in the combating drug trafficking. Our America Mié, 28 Jun 2006 12:26:59 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/junio/mier28/27gasoducto.html CARACAS, June 28 (PL).—Engineering plans and construction costs were among issues discussed at the 2nd meeting of the Ministerial Committee of the Great Gas Pipeline of the South, an integration project currently being promoted by the Venezuelan government. Our America Mié, 28 Jun 2006 12:26:18 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/junio/mier28/27alcohol.html THE Cuban sugar industry is about to embark on an accelerated program of alcohol production, increasing productive capacity fivefold by modernizing existing distilleries and installing new sugar cane fermentation plants. Economy Wed, 28 Jun 2006 12:26:17 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/junio/mar27/27centroam.html THE Cuban baseball pre-selection team has begun its final training for the Central American and Caribbean Games, scheduled for July 15-30 in Colombia, with the intention of recovering the regional title. Sports Mar, 27 Jun 2006 14:16:29 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/junio/mar27/27consti.html WHEN Bolivians go to the polls this Sunday, July 2 to elect their representatives in the Constituent Assembly, responsible for giving the country a new Charter whose words and spirit protect their equal rights and defend their national heritage from foreign plunder, attempts by the opposition and Washington to bring down the first indigenous government of Latin America and close the door on further experiences of this kind in the region could be interred. Our America Mar, 27 Jun 2006 14:15:48 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/junio/mar27/27alarcon.html RICARDO Alarcón, president of the National Assembly of People’s Power, affirmed today that not only must the prison on the U.S. naval base in Guantánamo, Cuba, be shut down, but that that territory illegally occupied by the United States must also be returned. News Mar, 27 Jun 2006 14:13:30 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/junio/mar27/27parlacen.html GUATEMALA (PL).—Julio Palacios, president of the Central American Parliament (PARLACEN), highlighted this Monday Cuba’s fulfillment of the UN Millennium Goals on the reduction of poverty, access to education and health and a lower infant mortality rate. News Tue, 27 Jun 2006 14:13:28 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/junio/lun26/lula.html BRASILIA.— Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva received a strong ovation as the candidate for reelection during the Workers Party (PT) convention here on Saturday. The meeting also confirmed José Alencar, from the Brazilian Republican Party (PRB), as vice president. Our America Lun, 26 Jun 2006 11:40:38 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/junio/lun26/27esp5.html MADRID (PL).— Friends of Cuba in Malaga demonstrated in front of the U.S. consulate here to demand the release of Gerardo Hernández, Ramón Labañino, Antonio Guerrero, René González and Gerardo González, who are being held in U.S. prisons for combating terrorism. Known as the Five, those anti-terrorist fighters infiltrated counterrevolutionary groups operating in Miami and sheltered by the government in Washington, and were convicted in a rigged trial that was overturned by the U.S. Court of Appeals in Atlanta. News Lun, 26 Jun 2006 11:39:15 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/junio/lun26/27israel.html TEL AVIV (PL).— On Sunday the Israeli Army deployed it troops in the Gaza Strip, in what could be a large-scale offensive against the Palestinian people, a military spokesman affirmed. International Lun, 26 Jun 2006 11:38:32 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/junio/lun26/27mexico.html MEXICO’s six-year presidential mandate is about to conclude; hence, Vicente Fox is in his final moments as that nation’s leader, even though the official handover of power to the new president is not until December 1. Our America Lun, 26 Jun 2006 11:37:27 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/junio/lun26/27jovclub.html PRESIDENT Fidel Castro was presented with a painting alluding to the recent figure of one million graduates from the Youth Computer Clubs, by Julio Martínez Ramírez, first secretary of the Young Communist League during the Cuban TV Informative Roundtable program on June 23. S C I E N C E A N D T E C H N O L O G Y Mon, 26 Jun 2006 11:37:24 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/junio/vier16/26posada.html WHILE thousands of U.S. youth —many against their will— were sent to die in Vietnam, Luis Posada Carriles was being trained in counterinsurgency techniques at Fort Benning and later assassinated and tortured individuals in Venezuela where he was employed as a henchman in 1975 when the Vietnam War ended. International Fri, 16 Jun 2006 13:34:44 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/junio/vier16/26infociego.html HAVANA, June 15.—"An accessible web: a need for people with disabilities" is the title of the thesis with which Roberto Pérez de Paz, a totally blind Cuban student, today became the first computer engineering graduate on the island with that kind of limitation. News Vie, 16 Jun 2006 11:38:01 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/junio/vier16/26guantanamo.html THE U.S. government ban on lawyers or representatives of the Red Cross or humanitarian groups from entering the Guantánamo naval base prison is a revealing boomerang. If, to date, access to the improvised prison was limited, preventing all contact with the outside world indicates that something must be very wrong there, when nobody – not even in a brief, controlled way – can have contact with the prisoners or witness the real conditions of their incarceration. International Vie, 16 Jun 2006 11:36:53 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/junio/vier16/25deporte.html CUBA is going to take advantage of a visit to the island by International Olympic Committee President Jacques Rogge in October to advocate baseball’s return to the Olympic Games, affirmed José Ramón Fernández, president of the Cuban Olympic Committee. Sports Vie, 16 Jun 2006 11:35:49 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/junio/vier16/26lage.html QUITO, June 16 (PL).— Cuban Vice President Carlos Lage today inaugurated two ophtalmalogical hospitals in Ecuador, with equipment and doctors from Cuba, as a contribution to reinforcing cooperation between the two nations. The official opening of those facilities, which are part of the Operation Miracle program, was presided over by Ecuadorian President Alfredo Palacio and Lage, representing a step forward in building closer bilateral relations. News Fri, 16 Jun 2006 11:35:47 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/junio/juev15/25migracion.html A report published by the UN on the issue of international emigration confirms that the exodus of millions of individuals from their countries of origin, principally for economic reasons, has a positive impact in the receiving nations not only on account of resolving problems of unskilled worker shortages, but also, increasingly, by supplying highly educated migrants. International Jue, 15 Jun 2006 13:48:22 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/junio/juev15/26sitio.html A website for the 14th Non-Aligned Movement Summit (www.cubanoal.cu), to be hosted by Havana this September 11-16 was inaugurated at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs this Wednesday, June 14. National Jue, 15 Jun 2006 13:47:53 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/junio/juev15/26seguimos.html LA HIGUERA, Bolivia, June 14.—For those who are fighting today in Our America for equality, justice, solidarity and for a life in harmony with nature, the only path we have to follow is that taken by Che Guevara, affirmed the president of this South American nation, addressing hundreds of Bolivians, Venezuelans and Cubans gathered here to celebrate the 78th anniversary of the birth of the heroic guerrilla. News Jue, 15 Jun 2006 13:47:17 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/junio/juev15/26brazil.html RECIFE, BRAZIL (PL)— While touring various municipalities of the Brazilian state of Pernambuco, a Cuban delegation was greeted by expressions of solidarity with the five Cubans illegally held in the United States. Cuba’s representatives were received in the Municipal Legislative Assembly of Recife, the state capital, as well as by its governor, Mendonça Filho, and the mayor of Ingaraçú municipality, Severino de Saouza Silva. News Jue, 15 Jun 2006 13:46:53 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/junio/juev15/26raul.html GENERAL of the Army Raúl Castro, Cuban first vice president, affirmed Wednesday (June 14) that the cost of any U.S. aggression against the island would be greater than what Washington is willing to pay. The likewise minister of the Revolutionary Armed Forces (FAR) remarked on the Cuban people’s success in preparing its defense, and particularly congratulated the Western Army on the 45th anniversary of its founding. National Thu, 15 Jun 2006 13:46:51 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/junio/mar13/25alberto.html MORE than 25,400 people were evacuated in the westernmost Cuban province of Pinar del Río due to heavy rains associated with the passing of Tropical Storm Alberto, the first of the current hurricane season, and which at the close of this edition was heading for the Florida peninsula. National Mar, 13 Jun 2006 13:57:34 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/junio/mar13/25crece.html APPEALS for the closure of the U.S. concentration camp on the Guantánamo naval base, Cuban territory illegally occupied by the United States, have intensified after the recent suicides of three detainees. International Mar, 13 Jun 2006 13:54:29 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/junio/mar13/25papeles.html Yesterday, June 12, a rabid lapdog of the empire and the terrorist mafia in Miami, El Nuevo Herald, published an article titled, "U.S. Interests Section in Havana Under Siege," in which it accuses the Cuban government of cutting off electricity and water supplies to that office as a response to what it describes as "a deepening of the diplomatic crisis," that began when "the electronic billboard was installed on the facade of the Interests Section." News Tue, 13 Jun 2006 13:54:14 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/junio/lun12/25suicidio.html LONDON, June 12 (PL).— The suicides of three prisoners held on the U.S. naval base in Guantánamo — in Cuban territory illegally occupied by the United States — have been described by some as acts of desperation and by others as tragedies that were waiting to happen. International Lun, 12 Jun 2006 13:32:00 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/junio/lun12/25asamblea.html PRESIDENT Fidel Castro urged territorial leaders to have a greater ability to take action, particularly municipal authorities and People’s Power delegates, when faced with changing climate conditions and food and energy prices on a world scale. "We must work with a mentality that is economic but revolutionary, and have at our disposal information that is up to date and precise in order to take advantage of diverse situations in the international markets," Fidel affirmed. National Lun, 12 Jun 2006 13:31:29 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/junio/lun12/25lluvias1.html CUBA is keeping close watch today on Tropical Storm Alberto, the first of the current hurricane season, which has provoked heavy rainfall in the western provinces and prompted the evacuation of thousands of people. The volume of the rains, the most important aspect of the meteorological occurrence, has forced the evacuation of some 25,000 people in the province of Pinar del Río, which has been on alert since midday Saturday. National Lun, 12 Jun 2006 13:31:02 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/junio/lun12/25capitalismo.html "IF we teach people to read and write we will have hundreds of millions of revolutionaries, of fighters capable of changing the world," affirmed President Fidel Castro during the closing session of the International Literacy and Post-Literacy Seminar that brought together more than 700 delegates from 33 nations at the International Conference Center. The leader of the Revolution stated: "Capitalism has no interest in abolishing ignorance. National Mon, 12 Jun 2006 13:31:01 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/junio/vier9/24bayamo.html A unique artistic discovery has injected renewed interest in the rich history of Bayamo, the capital of Cuba’s southeastern province of Granma, the cradle of the country’s independence movement. Culture Vie, 9 Jun 2006 13:31:57 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/junio/vier9/25futbol.html IN Cuba, where soccer stands in the shadows of baseball, it is hoped that the World Cup Germany will finally ignite a passion for the sport in Cuban youth. José Ramón Fernández, president of the Cuban Olympic Committee, told journalists that with the start of the World Cup more Cuban children can be seen kicking footballs around. "I see the World Cup as an incentive to awaken interest in developing soccer among children, youth, and adults." Sports Vie, 9 Jun 2006 13:30:34 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/junio/vier9/25bagdad.html BAGHDAD, June 9 (PL).—This city awoke today under a state of emergency decreed by the government in anticipation of demonstrations and guerrilla operations in the wake of the death of the insurgency leader Abu Musab al Zarkaui in a U.S. bombardment. International Vie, 9 Jun 2006 13:29:36 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/junio/vier9/25metodo.html The International Support Front for the Cuban literacy and post-literacy program "Yes, I Can Do It" has called on UNESCO to recognize that initiative as a global education program. News Fri, 9 Jun 2006 13:29:32 -0500 Jue, 8 Jun 2006 13:01:50 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/junio/juev8/25fidminint.html PRESIDENT Fidel Castro has highlighted the valuable contribution of combatants from the Ministry of the Interior (MININT) to the survival of the country in the struggle against the enemies of the Revolution. Summing up the 45 years of that armed body, the leader noted that the missions and functions assumed in defense of the values, achievements and security of the Cuban people have been many. National Jue, 8 Jun 2006 13:01:07 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/junio/juev8/25oea.html TORONTO, Canada.— It’s classically typical of the George W. Bush administration: more lost than a homeless dog. One has only to look at what happened to the under secretary of state in the Dominican Republic this past week. Robert Zoellick, leading his country’s delegation, arrived ill-prepared at the 36th General Assembly of the Organization of American States (OAS) in Santo Domingo. One would assume that a delegation leader would come to such events after thoroughly consulting with State Department experts. Not so. News Jue, 8 Jun 2006 13:00:16 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/junio/juev8/25posada-i.html WASHINGTON, June 7.—The defense of the international terrorist Luis Posada Carriles is currently evaluating another maneuver for the release of the criminal, this time based on testimonies from U.S. politicians and former soldiers, according to a Prensa Latina cable. News Thu, 8 Jun 2006 13:00:14 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/junio/mier7/24forbes.html "Steve Forbes enters the restaurant full of voters with all the poise and self-confidence of a sardine entering a shark tank," wrote Roger Simon for U.S. News & World Report during the campaign leading up to the 2000 presidential elections, when Forbes was once again trying to win the Republican nomination. "He scrunches down his head and scrunches up his shoulders, he curls his fingers over the too-long sleeves of his ill-fitting suit, he looks plaintively around for a campaign aide..." International Mié, 7 Jun 2006 13:04:26 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/junio/mier7/24vuelos.html LONDON, June 7 (PL) .— At least 14 European nations were involved in U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) secret flights with alleged terrorists on board, The Guardian newspaper reported today. Those nations, including the United Kingdom, were aware of the clandestine transfer of those prisoners to detention centers, where on many occasions they were subjected to torture. International Mié, 7 Jun 2006 13:03:16 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/junio/mier7/24alfa.html COCHABAMBA, BOLIVIA, June 6 (PL).— Bolivian President Evo Morales described as "historic" the graduation of the first 1,000 students who completed the "I can do it!" literacy campaign, advised and equipped by Cuba. Our America Mié, 7 Jun 2006 13:00:23 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/junio/mier7/24viajes.html WASHINGTON (PL) .— The George W. Bush administration has suspended the operations of three leading agencies offering travel and remittance services to Cuba as part of its economic war on the island. News Wed, 7 Jun 2006 13:00:21 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/junio/mar6/24minit.htm GENERAL of the Army Raúl Castro Ruz, together with Army Corps General Abelardo Colomé Ibarra, minister of the interior, presided over the main event celebrating that institution’s 45th anniversary in the presence of combatants from every one of its branches and relatives of their fallen comrades. National Mar, 6 Jun 2006 12:52:39 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/junio/mar6/24post.html FOR people in the United States in solidarity with the Five, the Washington Post article on the case of these anti-terrorist Cuban fighters held in U.S. prisons brings important encouragement, after such a long struggle to win space in the U.S. media. "Just imagine. News Tue, 6 Jun 2006 12:52:38 -0500 2006/junio/vier2/24matanza-i.html WITHOUT clearing up the scandal of the massacre of 24 civilians perpetrated by U.S. soldiers in the Iraqi town of Haditha, a new massacre was denounced this Friday, June 2 in the city of Ishaki, where women and children were also killed. International Vie, 2 Jun 2006 16:15:38 -0500 2006/junio/vier2/guantanamo.html THE existence of the prison on the Guantanamo naval base is becoming increasingly unsustainable for the United States. International Vie, 2 Jun 2006 16:14:29 -0500 2006/junio/vier2/raul.html BY JORGE MARTIN BLANDINO – Granma daily staff writer – GENERAL of the Army Raúl Castro Ruz, second secretary of the Party and minister of the Revolutionary Armed Forces (FAR), paid a visit to the Western Army’s repair facilities, where he observed the progress on measures aimed at guaranteeing engine replacements for a considerable number of armored and other vehicles used by the FAR. National Vie, 2 Jun 2006 16:13:28 -0500 2006/junio/vier2/fidel.html THE provincial and municipal presidents of People’s Power began one of their periodic working conferences with the leadership of the Revolutionary Government yesterday, June 1, to evaluate the country’s most pressing affairs. National Fri, 2 Jun 2006 16:13:25 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/junio/juev1/24cierre.html BRUSSELS, May 31 — Austrian Foreign Minister Ursula Plassnik, speaking on behalf of the European Union, demanded that the United States shut down – as soon as possible – the military prison on the base occupied by that country in Guantánamo, Cuba. International Jue, 1 Jun 2006 13:42:48 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/junio/juev1/24aumenta.html THE May 27 earthquake that shook the center of the densely-populated Indonesian island of Java has killed at least 6,234 people, a spokesman for the Social Affairs Ministry said on Thursday, June 1. International Jue, 1 Jun 2006 13:42:03 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/junio/juev1/24argentina.html THE Argentine president repudiated military sectors that continue to vindicate procedures of the last dictatorship, telling them he was "not afraid," and calling on the Army to remain "at a definitive remove from state terrorism." Our America Thu, 1 Jun 2006 13:42:02 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/mayo/mar30/23asesinan.html KABUL, May 29 — At least 30 people died today in Kabul after troops that are part of the U.S. occupation forces opened fire on people participating in a demonstration against their presence in Afghanistan, Al Jazeera television reported. International Mar, 30 May 2006 13:36:22 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/mayo/mar30/23aumentan.html WASHINGTON, May 29 — The number of prisoners participating in a hunger strike at the Guantanamo Naval Base has gone up to 75, a Pentagon spokesman confirmed today, according to Prensa Latina. Navy Commander Robert Durand told reporters that hunger strikers on the base, which is located on illegally-occupied Cuban territory, numbered three in February and currently number 75. News Tue, 30 May 2006 13:36:12 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/mayo/lun29/23indonesia.html THE earthquake that took place in Indonesia last Saturday, May 27, and the large number of people affected has had a tremendous impact in Cuba, a nation which had demonstrated exceptional sensitivity in similar cases by rapidly coming to the aid of poor nations, as was demonstrated following the tragedy experienced by Pakistan, when the Caribbean island sent medical brigades to assist. International Lun, 29 May 2006 13:48:24 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/mayo/lun29/23iraq.html WASHINTON, May 28 — Democratic Representative John Murtha today denounced the Pentagon’s attempts to cover up an alleged civilian massacre in Iraq committed by U.S. soldiers. In declarations to ABC television network, the war veteran, now a U.S. legislator, accused the military of trying to bury the case in which U.S. soldiers are suspected to have murdered 24 Iraqi civilians, reports PL. International Lun, 29 May 2006 13:47:53 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/mayo/lun29/29fracaso.html GENERAL Bantz Craddock, outgoing head of the U.S. Southern Command, urged the U.S. government to review its failed policy on Cuba, and criticized the ban on contact between military officers of the two nations. International Mon, 29 May 2006 13:47:51 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/mayo/juev25/23fidel.html LIES were demolished again during a special presentation on Wednesday, May 24, when President Fidel Castro affirmed that the Bush administration was left with a "no hit, no run" after failing to provide any answer or defense against the irrefutable truths of the Cuban Revolution. National Jue, 25 May 2006 13:55:33 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/mayo/juev25/23afectaciones.html THE rapidly-formed, unpredictable hydrometeor event that occurred in Cuba’s capital on Tuesday afternoon, May 23, brought on by heavy rain of nearly 120 millimeters in approximately two hours, resulted in the lamentable deaths of seven people and caused extensive material damage. National Jue, 25 May 2006 13:54:36 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/mayo/juev25/pakistan.html "YOUR example will endure in the hearts of the Pakistani people and it is with great sadness that I bid farewell to you now," said General Pervez Musharraf, the president of Pakistan, to Bruno Rodríguez, deputy foreign minister and head of the Cuban State Mission here, during a meeting held at the presidential headquarters, in which other leaders of the island’s medical brigade also took part. News Thu, 25 May 2006 13:54:34 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/mayo/mar23/22lluvias.html SANTIAGO DE CUBA—The National Baseball Directorate (DNB), taking into account the continuous rain in this eastern province, decided to postpone until today, Friday May 19, at 9 pm, the continuation of the inaugural game of the National Baseball Series finals at Guillermón Moncada stadium, stopped at the bottom of the first inning last Wednesday. National Mar, 23 May 2006 15:47:38 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/mayo/mar23/22ramonet.html "MY book is intended for the new generations that have not had access to the thoughts, to the work of Fidel Castro and that have difficulty learning about his work due to the wall of lies, the slander, and the systematic criticism of the Cuban Revolution, especially in Europe," affirmed French journalist Ignacio Ramonet at a press conference in Havana on May 19. Culture Mar, 23 May 2006 15:47:14 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/mayo/mar23/22santa.html IN Havana, Saint Lucia Prime Minster Kenny D. Anthony praised aid received from Cuba, especially via Operation Miracle, through which 14,000 low-income people have been attended in that country, free of charge, and another 1,800 have received treatment in Cuba to recover their vision. News Mar, 23 May 2006 15:46:30 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/mayo/mar23/22coi.html JACQUES Rogge, president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), is to attend the 11th Sport For All Congress, scheduled to take place in Havana next October. Pedro Cabrera, press director at the Cuban Sports Institute (INDER), said that Rogge has confirmed he will attend the IOC-sponsored event from October 31 to November 3. Sports Mar, 23 May 2006 15:45:58 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/mayo/mar23/22posada.html WITH absolute discretion - a total secret that the U.S. media apparently respected scrupulously - a grand jury in El Paso, Texas began a formal investigation "last week" into Luis Posada Carriles’ illegal entry into the country over than a year ago. The news supposedly reached Miami via the very terrorists – who are frequently sources for the local media – implicated in the crime, two of whom have been the only witnesses to date in the legal proceedings that could culminate in Posada being charged with a crime that he has repeatedly committed over the years. International Tue, 23 May 2006 00:11:05 +0200 2006/mayo/mar23/22meteoro-i.html THE Meteoro 2006 exercise, which has the objective of preparing the population and leadership bodies at all levels for dealing with disaster situations, will take place May 20-21, a few days before the start of the hurricane season, during which 15 tropical organisms are expected to form, nine of which are expected to reach hurricane status, and at least one of which could affect Cuba. National Tue, 23 May 2006 00:10:01 +0200 2006/mayo/mar23/22washington-i.html MIAMI, May 21.— Last Saturday, more than 160 people - principally Cuban émigrés - assembled in the center of this city to protest against restrictions preventing them from traveling to Cuba to visit relatives and other loved ones. International Tue, 23 May 2006 00:08:46 +0200 2006/mayo/mar23/22afganistan-i.html IN Afghanistan, intolerance is increasing against foreign troops in this Central Asian country invaded by the United States. International Tue, 23 May 2006 00:08:29 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/mayo/lun22/22cubadisco.html "AÑORANZA por la conga," by Ricardo Leyva and Sur Caribe (EGREM) carried off the Song of the Year Award, established for this 10th international festival of CUBADISCO 2006. On awards night, at the Karl Marx Theater, the judges announced that the Grand Prize would be shared for the albums Goza Pepillo, by Interactivo (Bis Music) and Cancionero Cubano, by Chucho Valdés (EGREM). Culture Lun, 22 May 2006 14:09:12 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/mayo/lun22/22bernabe.html IN Havana, Dr. Eduardo Bernabé Ordaz Ducungé has died at the age of 84 years, the result of chronic kidney failure. He was born in Bauta in Havana province on October 13, 1921 and became director of the Psychiatric Hospital of Havana. His life as a student began in this area, but he alternated his activities with a variety of unrelated jobs: newspaper seller, shoeshine boy, grocery store attendant and messenger, among others. News Lun, 22 May 2006 14:08:42 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/mayo/lun22/22manifestaciones.html MIAMI, May 21.— Last Saturday, more than 160 people - principally Cuban émigrés - assembled in the center of this city to protest against restrictions preventing them from traveling to Cuba to visit relatives and other loved ones. News Lun, 22 May 2006 14:08:04 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/mayo/lun22/22stlucia.html Kenny D. Anthony, the prime minister of St. Lucia, begins an official visit to Cuba this Monday, during which he will hold official talks with President Fidel Castro and other Cuban leaders, as well as visiting sites of scientific, economic, cultural and social interest News Lun, 22 May 2006 14:07:18 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/mayo/lun22/22ferro.html ROBERT Ferro, the Cuban-American arrested in California in possession of 1,571 machine guns, grenades and rifles – the biggest arms cache seized in U.S. history, according to that country’s federal authorities – has been formally indicted on five counts of illegal weapons possession, the Los Angeles Times reported on May 20. International Mon, 22 May 2006 14:06:25 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/mayo/lun22/22bombardeo.html KABUL, May 22 (PL).— More than 50 Afghans died today and another 17 were injured during a U.S. air strike in the troubled southern province of Kandahar, according to the Pentagon’s command in this capital. International Vie, 19 May 2006 13:25:35 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/mayo/vier19/longevity.html . AGING with health is the maxim of the 4th International Conference on Satisfactory Longevity: an Integral Vision, which took place in Cuba’s Hotel Nacional, sponsored by the Caribbean Medical Association and the 120 Years Club 120 Years Club. Vie, 19 May 2006 13:25:08 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/mayo/vier19/22tres.html IN the past few hours, eminent French intellectual and journalist Ignacio Ramonet has presided over a further three launches of his book Cien horas con Fidel (One Hundred Hours with Fidel), at venues of particular symbolic value for our people: in the Birán area of Holguin province; outside the replica of Fidel’s birthplace, and at the former Saturnine Lora Civil Hospital in Santiago de Cuba where, on October 16, 1953, the leader of the Revolution gave his famous speech "History Will Absolve Me." Culture Vie, 19 May 2006 13:24:33 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/mayo/vier19/22ecuador.html QUITO (PL).— Fernando González, president of the state-owned oil company Petroecuador, this Thursday (May 19) rejected pressure from the transnational Occidental Petroleum (Oxy) transnational in its demands for the return of assets held in that country. After declaring the expiry of the contract with Oxy, Petroecuador took control of the U.S. corporation’s oilfields and wells, which will continue to be under State control, González said. Our America Vie, 19 May 2006 13:23:54 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/mayo/vier19/22marti.html On May 18, 1895, the day before his fall in combat fighting for the independence of the island, José Martí, the Cuban National Hero, wrote this unfinished letter to his intimate friend Mexican Manuel Mercado and it is considered his political testament, in which he expresses his anti-imperialism and his struggle to prevent "the United States from spreading through the Antilles as Cuba gains its independence, and from empowering with that additional strength our lands of America." National Fri, 19 May 2006 13:23:53 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/mayo/juev18/22europa.html PARIS.— The First Encounter of Cubans Resident in Europe Against the Blockade came to a close in this city with a final declaration condemning the hostile policy adopted by the United States and European governments against our country. News Jue, 18 May 2006 15:03:15 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/mayo/juev18/22afganistan.html KABUL, 18 May (PL)— Violent clashes and a suicide car bomb caused at least 74 deaths, including U.S. and Canadian military personnel, in the turbulent southern provinces of Helmand, Kandahar and Herat, reported official sources. International Jue, 18 May 2006 15:02:02 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/mayo/juev18/22petroecuador.html QUITO, May 18 — The state-owned oil company Petroecuador today took over 100% of the oilfields belonging to U.S. transnational Occidental Petroleum (Oxy), after declaring that the company’s contract with the State had expired, PL reported. Our America Thu, 18 May 2006 15:02:00 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/mayo/mier17/21campesinos.html IN 2005, Cuban campesinos and agricultural cooperative members contributed to the nation 94% of its tobacco, 62% of its tubers, 61% of vegetables, 71% of fruits, 77% of beans, 20% of sugarcane and 59% of coffee, informed Orlando Lugo Fonte, president of the National Association of Small Farmers (ANAP). National Mié, 17 May 2006 12:51:50 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/mayo/mier17/21feria.html CUBAN, Venezuelan and Bolivian companies are to participate in the 1st International Fair of the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas (ALBA) and the People’s Trade Agreement (TCP), set for May 25 and 26 in the Bolivian city of La Paz. News Mié, 17 May 2006 12:50:35 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/mayo/mier17/pakistan.html THE Cuban Medical Brigade in Pakistan is ending its cooperation effort in that Central-Asian country having attended to more than 1.7 million patients, of whom 49.1% were women. At the farewell event, Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, first deputy foreign minister, described the work carried out by these health professionals as a heroic humanitarian feat. Science and technology Mié, 17 May 2006 12:50:07 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/mayo/mier17/21cien2.html AS an invaluable reinforcement in the battle to open the road to the truth around the world about the Cuban Revolution and the ideas of its leader, May 16 saw the launch of the first Cuban edition of the book Cien Horas con Fidel (One Hundred Hours with Fidel), which contains conversations held over the last three years between the Cuban president and Spanish-born French journalist and essayist Ignacio Ramonet. News Wed, 17 May 2006 12:50:02 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/mayo/mar16/21prevallazo.html PORT-AU-PRINCE.—René Préval, the president of Haiti, yesterday received the Cuban delegation headed by Esteban Lazo, vice president of the Council of State, whose members participated on Sunday in the investiture of the new leader of that country. Lazo was accompanied by Marta Lomas, minister for foreign investment and economic cooperation; Yilliam Jiménez Expósito, deputy minister of foreign affairs; and Raúl Bárzaga, the Cuban ambassador. News Mar, 16 May 2006 11:52:57 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/mayo/mar16/21cien.html THE book Cien horas con Fidel Castro (One Hundred Hours with Fidel Castro ) by writer and journalist Ignacio Ramonet , which has made news in the media after its launch in Spain, is to be published in Havana this Tuesday. Ramonet, who has converted his interview, which he calls talks with the president of Cuba, into 600-plus pages of debate, is in the capital for the launch at the International Conference Center. News Mar, 16 May 2006 11:52:05 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/mayo/mar16/21fidel1.html PRESIDENT Fidel Castro has challenged and called on Bush, the CIA, the 33 U.S. intelligence agencies, the thousands of banks in the world and the "servants" of Forbes magazine, which claims that Fidel has a fortune of $900 million, to prove that he has even one dollar in an overseas account. National Tue, 16 May 2006 11:52:04 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/mayo/lun15/preval.html PORT-AU-PRINCE (PL).—With majority popular support, the former Haitian leader René Préval (1996-2001), was sworn in for the second time this Sunday. Before parliamentarians meeting in the National Assembly the people’s choice, as the governor is also known, accepted the challenge to restore democracy and stability to the most impoverished country in this hemisphere. Our America Lun, 15 May 2006 12:03:54 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/mayo/lun15/21beisbol.html THE Industriales team is to play against Santiago de Cuba for the title of the 45th Cuban Baseball Championship, after winning the semifinal against Sancti Spíritus on Sunday, May 14, at José Antonio Huelga Stadium in the city of Sancti Spíritus. Sports Lun, 15 May 2006 12:03:10 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/mayo/lun15/21forbes.html PRESIDENT Fidel Castro is to make a special News Mon, 15 May 2006 12:03:09 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/mayo/vier12/21laborat.html CUBA is to acquire 12 new laboratories for genetic population studies, announced Doctor Beatriz Marcheco, director of the National Center for Genetic Medicine, during the TV and radio "Roundtable" program attended by President Fidel Castro. Science and Technology Vie, 12 May 2006 15:05:06 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/mayo/vier12/21cumbre2.html VIENNA, May 11. – The contents of the Declaration approved by the foreign ministers and to be adopted today by the heads of state and government is a victory for the Revolution and the positions we defend, affirmed Carlos Lage, vice president of the Cuban Council of State, during a press conference with accredited media at the event. News Fri, 12 May 2006 15:05:05 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/mayo/juev11/21cumbre1.html VIENNA, May 10.—“We are in the time of Pachakutik, which means returning to better moments, a time in which the peoples are defending their liberation,” affirmed Ecuadorian indigenous leader Blanca Chancoso at the start of the political-cultural event that opened the Throwing up Alternatives Summit in Vienna’s Stadhalle hall. Johan Galtung, the outstanding peace fighter, ratified his prediction that the fall of imperialism is visible, because it will be shattered by the very social movements in the United States. News Jue, 11 May 2006 17:28:06 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/mayo/juev11/20palesti-i.html LEADING up to his resignation as special envoy of the Middle East Quartet (the United States, Russia, the European Union and the United Nations), James Wolfensohn objected to the cutting humanitarian aid for the Palestinian National Authority (PNA), which is equivalent to starving that Arab people to death. International Jue, 11 May 2006 17:27:05 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/mayo/juev11/21boliv.html Latin America PAZ, May 11 (PL).—Bolivia’s nationalization of hydrocarbons would appear to be consolidated today, while still pending arduous negotiations, after Brazil’s evident compliance with the measure. Brazil’s position dispatched predictions of conflict with La Paz and was recorded in a joint communiqué issued last night, at the end of five hours of closed-door negotiations in a hotel in the Bolivian capital. Our America Jue, 11 May 2006 17:26:05 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/mayo/juev11/21genetics.html THE application in Cuba of minimum-access surgery for cochlear implants has enabled 53 children – 18 deaf-mutes and 35 deaf – to have partial hearing, providing them with a means of communication that empowers their development and improves their quality of life. S C I E N C E A N D T E C H N O L O G Y Thu, 11 May 2006 17:26:00 +0200 2006/mayo/juev11/20palesti-i.html Elsa Claro LEADING up to his resignation as special envoy of the Middle East Quartet (the United States, Russia, the European Union and the United Nations), James Wolfensohn objected to the cutting humanitarian aid for the Palestinian National Authority (PNA), which is equivalent to starving that Arab people to death. International mié, 10 may 2006 22:52:21 +0200 2006/mayo/juev11/20intelec2-i.html BY GABRIEL MOLINA Form a national organization to show that there is no monolithic position among Cuban-Americans; rather, it is always the same small group that is consulted and interviewed. News Wed, 10 May 2006 22:52:19 +0200 2006/mayo/mier10/20expertos-i.html THE use of biotechnological products in cancer therapy was analyzed by close to 50 experts and officials from scientific institutions in Cuba and central and provincial bodies in China at a recent seminar in Beijing organized by the Biotech Pharmaceutical joint venture and the Cuban embassy in China. Science and Technology mar, 9 may 2006 22:27:01 +0200 2006/mayo/mier10/20electa-i.html UNITED NATIONS May 9 (PL).— By 135 votes Cuba was today elected onto the new UN Human Rights Council, in the first round of voting by the General Assembly. News Tue, 9 May 2006 22:26:58 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/mayo/mar9/20cia.html HOWEVER, it is not only Spain that is under suspicion. The scandal over stopovers in Spanish airports by planes used by the CIA to transport prisoners and engage in torture is barely subsiding, and once again they are landing in Madrid. International Tue, 9 May 2006 12:38:56 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/mayo/mar9/20vacuni.html DR. Lea Guido, representative of the Pan-American Health Organization (PAHO) in Cuba, praised the vaccination model developed in Cuba and affirmed that the rest of the world has much to learn from the island in the area of immunization. Science and Technology Mar, 9 May 2006 12:36:32 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/mayo/mar9/20inaugom.html COPACABANA, BOLIVIA (PL)— A veritable fiesta of Latin American solidarity was the order of the day for the inhabitants on the border of Bolivia and Peru this Monday when President Evo Morales inaugurated the fourth Operation Miracle ophthalmologic center in Bolivia. News Mar, 9 May 2006 12:34:09 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/mayo/mar9/afganistan.html ISLAMABAD (PL).— U.S. attack helicopters International Tue, 9 May 2006 12:34:08 +0200 2006/mayo/mar9/20guantanamo-i.html BY ELSA CLARO —Granma International staff writer— DANISH Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen says that he is upset about the situation of the prisoners being held on the U.S. base in Guantánamo. International mar, 9 may 2006 00:11:35 +0200 2006/mayo/mar9/20serbia-i.html BY ISABEL CASTAÑEDA BLANCO THE dramatic death of former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic, in a cell in The Hague, put an end to the judicial process and opened another: a wave of speculations reaffirming the belief that his death had been decided at the same time that the United States and NATO decided to destroy the Yugoslav Federation. International Mon, 8 May 2006 16:21:13 -0500 file:///z:/ingles/2006/mayo/lun8/chernovil.html FIVE years after the radioactive cloud caused by a nuclear accident spread over Chernobyl in the midst of the Soviet Union’s process of disintegration, the first Ukrainian patients, victims of the explosion, arrived in Cuba. They included many children who had been exposed to high levels of radioactive iodine and cesium 137. News Mon, 8 May 2006 16:21:09 -0500 file:///z:/ingles/2006/mayo/lun8/20olimpiada.html PRESIDENT Fidel Castro presented the awards to athletes and teams that won the most medals in the 3rd Cuban Sports Olympiad, and attended the closing ceremony. Christian Jiménez, president of the Cuban Sports Institute, who gave the closing speech, described the event as "the festival of sports and solidarity" and called for another round in 2008. Sports Lun, 8 May 2006 16:19:21 -0500 file:///z:/ingles/2006/mayo/lun8/20silvio.html CUBAN composer and singer Silvio Rodríguez received the Latino Lifetime Achievement Award at the 10th Music Academy Awards Ceremony in Madrid, with the entire audience on its feet. During a gala at the Palacio Municipal de Congresos del Recinto Ferial Juan Carlos I, he received the prize from the hands of Spanish singer Luis Eduardo Aute, who described Silvio as his "soulmate." Culture Lun, 8 May 2006 16:18:41 -0500 file:///z:/ingles/2006/mayo/lun8/20caravana.html MIAMI. – With the slogans: "Terrorists belong in jail!" "Extradition for Posada Carriles!" "Freedom for the Five!" "We demand justice!" and others on placards taped to their cars, dozens of drivers formed a caravan of vehicles with Cuban and U.S. flags fluttering from them, the headlights on and horns honking, through the main streets of this metropolitan area on Sunday, May 7. News Mon, 8 May 2006 16:18:39 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/mayo/vier5/20raul.html HOLGUÍN—General of the Army Raúl Castro Ruz, second secretary of the Party’s Central Committee, visited two factories – the Heroes del 26 de Julio and 60 Aniversario de la Revolucion de Octubre – and congratulated their workers for the contribution they have made to the country’s defense. National Vie, 5 May 2006 13:28:40 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/mayo/vier5/20cumbre.html BUENOS AIRES – A long, very good meeting was how Argentine President Néstor Kirchner described four-party summit held yesterday in the city of Puerto Iguazú, where participants backed Bolivia’s nationalization of hydrocarbon resources. During a press conference, Kirchner read out a communiqué in which the four presidents (Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil and Venezuela) voiced their support for regional energy integration and for contributing with joint investments to Bolivia’s development. Our America Fri, 5 May 2006 13:28:38 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/mayo/juev4/20bolven.html LA PAZ.—The presidents of Bolivia and Venezuela agreed on Wednesday to create a "strategic alliance" between the state companies YPFB and PDVSA to develop projects including the industrialization of Bolivia’s huge reserves of natural gas. Evo Morales and Hugo Chávez announced the agreement at close to midnight after a three-hour meeting in the governmental palace in La Paz, the night before a meeting of both of them with their counterparts in Argentina and Brazil. Our America Jue, 4 May 2006 15:20:14 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/mayo/juev4/20panama.html DOCUMENTS handed over by the U.S. embassy relating to the investigation ordered by the Panama Anti-Corruption Prosecution Office into former officials involved in the release from prison and exit from the country of Luis Posada Carriles and three Miami terrorists pardoned along with him, could finally reveal who helped Santiago Alvarez to take the old assassin out of the country. International Jue, 4 May 2006 15:19:39 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/mayo/juev4/20premio.html THE winner of the 2000 Nobel Prize for News Jue, 4 May 2006 15:18:53 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/mayo/juev4/20perdidas.html NEW YORK .— While it is still difficult to discover the economic impact of the boycott carried out by immigrants in the United States on May 1, California and other states have suffered multi-million dollar losses, the DPA news agency reported. Millions of people responded to the call to carry out a May Day strike and boycott to demand the legalization of undocumented immigrants in the United States. News Thu, 4 May 2006 15:18:50 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/mayo/mier3/19alarcon.html CUBA has declared its decision to resist, as it has for the last 47 years, any new measure by the United States in reaction to a possible intensification of the policies of threats and aggression by the George W. Bush government. News Mié, 3 May 2006 17:53:00 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/mayo/mier3/mision.html May 1st, 2006, is the third anniversary of the end of "major combat" in Iraq. It was a glorious day when George Bush flew onto the deck of the Abraham Lincoln and was hailed by the rapturous throngs of toadie "news" persons like Chris Matthews ("And that's the president looking very much like a jet, you know, a high-flying jet star." "Hardball," May 1, 2003) and Bob Schieffer ("As far as I'm concerned, that was one of the great pictures of all time. International Wed, 3 May 2006 17:52:21 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/mayo/mier3/posicion.html "Every time the embargo, travel restrictions or any other issue related to Cuba comes up, it is the same small group of people who are consulted and interviewed," she said. "We want everybody to know that, among Cuban-Americans, there are many different positions. News Vie, 28 Abr 2006 14:30:44 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/abril/vier28/19oramas.html OUR compañero Joaquín Oramas Roque died last night as the result of a heart attack. A founder of the Granma daily, he was 74 when he died and was working as news editor of the Granma International weekly. With a long journalistic career, Oramas was a member of our Party and was recently awarded the José Martí National Journalism Award, and had received many other medals and distinctions. News Vie, 28 Abr 2006 14:30:01 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/abril/vier28/19evochav.html THE presidents of the Republic of Bolivia, Evo Morales Ayma, and the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela Hugo, Chávez Frías arrived in Cuba today, April 28, the first anniversary of the signing of agreements between Venezuela and Cuba to implement the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas (ALBA).Scheduled for this historic visit is the signing of documents to facilitate the membership of the Republic of Bolivia. Said documents equally include ideas proclaimed by President Evo Morales regarding People’s Trade Agreements (TCP). News Vie, 28 Abr 2006 14:29:21 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/abril/vier28/19informacion.html IN a meeting on April 26 led by its First Secretary, compañero Fidel Castro, the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC), addressed several issues related to the process of constant improvement of party work, in order to provide a superior response to the demands of these times in which achievements and advances are being discerned and materialized in solving the limitations accompanying the Special Period, which we are beginning to leave behind. National Vie, 28 Abr 2006 14:28:26 -0500 Boycott movement for May Day growing in the United States WASHINGTON, April 27.—More religious, social and business organizations in the United States have today promised to join the boycott planned for May Day with the aim of pressuring Congress to pass a migratory reform favorable to undocumented immigrants. International Fri, 28 Apr 2006 14:28:25 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/abril/juev27/19cabrisas.html TEHRAN, April 26—Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, president of the Islamic Republic of Iran, received Ricardo Cabrisas Ruiz, Cuban minister of government, who is leading a delegation in Iran that participated in the 11th Session of the Intergovernmental Commission on Economic and Scientific/Technical Cooperation between the two countries. News Jue, 27 Abr 2006 14:48:24 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/abril/juev27/18inmigrantes.html THE U.S. Congress is coming back from its Easter recess. Huge demonstrations throughout the United States during the last few weeks by a sent a clear message to U.S. legislators from a large sector of the country’s population regarding their rejection of a proposed immigration law passed by the House of Representatives. News Jue, 27 Abr 2006 14:47:49 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/abril/juev27/19congreso.html THE Alabama state congress has approved a resolution urging the U.S. Congress to annul all trade, financial and travel restrictions related to Cuba. The AP and AFP news agencies reported that trade agreements signed on April 26 by Cuba’s food import firm Alimport and Alabama Agriculture Commissioner Ron Sparks provide for $20 million worth of sales in agricultural goods to Cuba, and $7 million of that was concretized during a trade delegation’s visit to the island. Economy Thu, 27 Apr 2006 14:47:47 +0200 2006/abril/mier26/18olyusneg.html THE U.S. government has refused travel permits to its boxing team, whose members were hoping to compete in the 3rd Cuban Olympiad, according to Sarbelio Fuentes, chief trainer of the island’s national selection. Sports Wed, 26 Apr 2006 17:10:39 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/abril/mier26/18guatemala.html Between the sword and impotence Our America Mié, 26 Abr 2006 12:17:51 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/abril/mier26/18santri.html TERRORIST Luis Posada Carriles illegally entered the United States on March 18, 2005 aboard the Santrina, owned by Santiago Alvarez Fernández-Magriñá, according to documents presented before a federal court in Florida by U.S. district attorneys. "By affirming that Posada Carriles entered the United States on the Santrina with Santiago Alvarez Fernández-Magriñá, the prosecution itself is questioning the credibility of Posada, Alvarez, his accomplices and even the White House," lawyer José Pertierra told Cubadebate. International Mié, 26 Abr 2006 12:17:25 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/abril/mier26/18olyusneg.html THE U.S. government has refused travel permits to its boxing team, whose members were hoping to compete in the 3rd Cuban Olympiad, according to Sarbelio Fuentes, chief trainer of the island’s national selection. "We have just received the news that the U.S. selection of nine boxers has not received authorization to compete in our Olympiad," said Fuentes, as AFP reports. Sports Wed, 26 Apr 2006 12:17:24 +0200 2006/abril/mar25/18belint-i.html BY ELSA CLARO —Granma International staff writer— Fleeting and hard won, this exclusive with Sergei Sergueievich Sidorskiy, prime minister of Belarus, was a fruitful one. We were able to confirm at first hand and with authority information that not even the most arrogant and polarized press could conceal in its campaign against the Belarusian authorities before and after the recently concluded electoral process that led once again to the win by Alexander Lukashenko and his working team. International mar, 25 abr 2006 17:06:29 +0200 2006/abril/mar25/18iraq.html THE U.S. administration is navigating a sea of well-deserved criticism, but each one would seem to be miring it. International Tue, 25 Apr 2006 17:06:12 +0200 2006/abril/mar25/18olimpiada-i.html PRESIDENT Fidel Castro has opened the 3rd Cuban Sports Olympiad that takes place April 24 to May 6 and, as he put it, will follow the impetus given by the island’s success in the Baseball World Classic. Sports Tue, 25 Apr 2006 17:05:29 +0200 2006/abril/mar25/18integracion.html BY NIDIA DIAZ —Granma International staff writer— THE U.S. government is concerned. It has been so engrossed in unleashing wars and fomenting conflict throughout the world that it has been minimizing the importance of what was happening in its back yard where its fanatic insistence on imposing neoliberalism has provoked not only the unmanageability of the... Our America Tue, 25 Apr 2006 16:59:51 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/abril/lun24/18emig.html MANY attempts have been made to distinguish Cuban emigration, but from one angle it was and is not very different from other conglomerates residing outside of their native lands. Thus, from other angles and like any other human group, there is no homogeneity. What is referred to as the "Cuban community" abroad was initially called the exile community. International Lun, 24 Abr 2006 12:57:56 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/abril/lun24/18bioidia.html A modern plant has been opened in India for the production of a human monoclonal antibody developed by Cuban specialists, which is being used with promising results in the treatment of head and neck tumors in combination with radio therapy. News Lun, 24 Abr 2006 12:57:16 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/abril/lun24/18inauguran.html WITH a parade featuring representatives of the participating delegations, the 3rd Cuban Sports Olympiad is to be inaugurated today in Havana. Sports Lun, 24 Abr 2006 12:56:32 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/abril/lun24/18evo.html LA PAZ (PL).— Bolivian President Evo Morales has blamed the free trade agreements (FTAs) signed by Colombia and Peru with the United States for Venezuela’s withdrawal from the Andean Community of Nations (CAN). Our America Lun, 24 Abr 2006 12:55:45 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/abril/lun24/18benefic.html CARACAS. (PL)— Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez spoke this Sunday with visitors from the United States who have benefited from the program that provides fuel at solidarity prices sponsored by the CITGO oil company, an affiliate of PDVSA in that nation. Representatives of a group of 65 individuals visiting Venezuela explained during the "Aló Presidente" radio-television program how that fuel was distributed in their communities. News Mon, 24 Apr 2006 12:55:42 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/abril/vier21/18olimpiadas.html WITH participation by more than 1,400 foreign athletes, the 3rd Cuban Sports Olympiad sets a record for the event, according to Manuel Trobajo, programming director of the National Sports Institute, in comments on Thursday, April 20. Sports Vie, 21 Abr 2006 12:21:19 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/abril/vier21/18venezuela.html CARACAS (PL) — Nicolás Maduro, president of the National Assembly of Venezuela, announced on April 20 that he will present public accusations before several international bodies regarding assassination plans against President Hugo Chávez. Our America Vie, 21 Abr 2006 12:20:54 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/abril/vier21/18belarus.html BELARUSSIAN Prime Minister Serguei Sidorski spoke in favor of broader bilateral relations with Cuba after arriving Thursday (April 20) in Havana, on invitation of President Fidel Castro. "Our country and Cuba are united through strong, friendly relations," Sidorski said, adding that existing agreements between the two nations are developing well, Prensa Latina reported. News Vie, 21 Abr 2006 12:20:26 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/abril/vier21/18confiesa1.html CUBAN Robert Ferro, arrested with an arsenal of more than 1,000 weapons in a house in Upland, California, claims to be a member of Alpha 66, a U.S.-based terrorist group with offices in Miami, with a long history of criminal actions against Cuba. However, authorities have not yet pressed charges invoking anti-terrorism laws. International Fri, 21 Apr 2006 12:20:25 +0200 2006/abril/vier21/18confiesa.html BY JEAN-GUY ALLARD CUBAN Robert Ferro, arrested with an arsenal of more than 1,000 weapons in a house in Upland, California, claims to be a member of Alpha 66, a U.S.-based terrorist group with offices in Miami, with a long history of criminal actions against Cuba. International Thu, 20 Apr 2006 12:08:15 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/abril/juev20/18gasoducto.html ASUNCION, Paraguay—Before the end of the year, Bolivia, Uruguay, and Paraguay will know if they will be able to carry out their project to unite the three nations with a gas pipeline, a plan that already has partial funding assured by Venezuela, said the presidents of those countries. Our America Jue, 20 Abr 2006 12:06:22 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/abril/juev20/18belarus.html In response to an invitation from President News Jue, 20 Abr 2006 12:05:48 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/abril/juev20/18aniversario.html "THEY were never able to bring us to our knees, and there is no power in the world that can do it," affirmed President Fidel Castro during his closing remarks at the main event in Havana celebrating the 45th anniversary of the Bay of Pigs victory. National Thu, 20 Apr 2006 12:05:46 +0200 2006/abril/mier19/outrage-i.html Communities in Milwaukee are continuing to voice outrage over an all-white jury's decision to acquit three white police officers charged with brutally beating an African-American man. International mié, 19 abr 2006 17:20:48 +0200 2006/abril/mier19/18viajes-i.html A rare visit to SLO next week by a musician from Cuba brings into the spotlight the U.S. ban on travel to and from our Caribbean neighbor. International Wed, 19 Apr 2006 17:20:31 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/abril/mier19/17niquel.html AN ambitious program to expand the annual capacity of the Cuban-Canadian nickel plus cobalt joint venture to 49,000 tons per year has begun in the eastern province of Holguín. On March 4, 2005 Granma daily ran an article on an agreement between the CUBANIQUEL Corporation and the Canadian company Sherritt International to increase productive capacity with capital from both partners. Economy Mié, 19 Abr 2006 13:53:23 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/abril/mier19/17preval.html IN Havana President-Elect of Haiti René Préval expressed his satisfaction at reestablishing cooperation with Cuba, particularly in the area of health. Minutes before his departure after a working visit to the island, Préval said that during his stay very precise decisions were made, especially relating to medical coverage in his country. News Mié, 19 Abr 2006 13:52:42 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/abril/mier19/17giron.html THE Bay of Pigs invasion began in mid-1960, when the brainiest cloak-and-dagger men joined their successful – up until then – science for overthrowing unfriendly governments and decided that Fidel Castro would never be a welcome person. National Mié, 19 Abr 2006 13:52:04 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/abril/mar18/17alca.html AFTER four days of intense debate, the 5th Hemispheric Conference against the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) concluded in Havana April 15. Participants included 400 representatives from 36 nations, with the goal of continuing the consolidation of alternatives for confronting this new strategy of colonial domination that the empire has decided to impose on us. News Mié, 19 Abr 2006 13:51:22 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/abril/mar18/17rsf.html ROBERT Ménard, the permanent secretary of Reporters sans frontières (RSF), which feigns to defend press freedoms, cannot listen to a few home truths. He has just publicly threatened to sue French investigator and writer Maxime Vivas for having exposed him in the Paris Metro daily as an accomplice to the U.S. Department of State. International Mié, 19 Abr 2006 13:50:38 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/abril/mar18/17naval.html PORT-OF-SPAIN, April 17 .– The combat group of aircraft carriers led by the USS George Washington, which is engaged in maneuvers in the Caribbean Sea, is soon to arrive – with its veiled messages of war and threats – in the ports of Honduras, Nicaragua, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, Aruba, Curacao and St. Kitts and Nevis. Internacional Mon, 17 Apr 2006 14:47:59 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/abril/lun17/16invasion.html Arthur M. Schlesinger, advisor to that president who was later mysteriously assassinated, wrote what the U.S. big-business media did not have the courage to say outright: "The reality was that Fidel Castro turned out to be a far more formidable foe and in command of a far better organized regime than anyone had supposed. National Mon, 17 Apr 2006 14:48:01 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/abril/lun17/17editorial.html AS was stated in the informative note made public on April 6, under the headline "Human trafficking and death travel on speedboat with U.S. passport," at dawn on the previous day, Cuban Border Guard forces prevented a boat with U.S. registration from carrying out an operation of human smuggling via Bacunagua Cove south of Pinar del Río. National Mon, 17 Apr 2006 14:43:43 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/abril/vier14/17barril.html LONDON, April 13.—This Thursday Brent North Sea oil reached $70.57 per barrel in London, thus marking a new historical record within the framework of the nuclear dispute between the United States and Iran and oil reserves in the former country. According to AFP, the Brent price – a European reference – for handover in June, reached a value of $70.20 at 16:45 GMT, 34 cents than the previous day, on the Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) of London. Economy Vie, 14 Abr 2006 12:42:38 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/abril/vier14/17fisprev.html YESTERDAY afternoon, President Fidel Castro received René Préval, president-elect of the Republic of Haiti at the Palace of the Revolution, where they had official talks in a spirit of friendship, respect and fraternity, all symbolic of the links between the Haitian and Cuban peoples. National Vie, 14 Abr 2006 12:37:22 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/abril/vier14/17bandas.html MEXICO CITY, April 13 – At least five gangs involved in trafficking of undocumented Cubans are operating in Cancun and other tourist areas in the Mexican Caribbean with the complicity of authorities, the newspaper Por Esto revealed today. News Fri, 14 Apr 2006 12:37:19 +0200 2006/abril/juev13/17posada-i.html BY JEAN-GUY ALLARD — Special for Granma International AFTER using him as an agent for more than 40 years, the U.S. government is soon to interview Luis Posada Carriles to consider his application for citizenship on the basis of "honorable service to the nation," affirmed his lawyer, Eduardo Soto. International Thu, 13 Apr 2006 13:02:55 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/abril/juev13/17venezuela.html CARACAS, April 12 – Venezuelan groups today announced a mobilization to repudiate the U.S. military presence in the Caribbean, particularly a military exercise involving more than 6,500 Marines. In an interview with Telesur, Commander William Izarra, former deputy prime minister of Venezuela, said that the military operations are aimed at intimidating progressive governments in the region. Our America Thu, 13 Apr 2006 13:02:57 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/abril/juev13/17frisco.html LOS ANGELES, California, April 12—San Francisco has passed a resolution prohibiting the enforcement of any federal law that criminalizes undocumented immigrants or those who help them, an unprecedented action nationwide, according to a Notimex article. International Jue, 13 Abr 2006 11:37:38 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/abril/juev13/16preval1.html "IT is very clear that cooperation is going to continue," affirmed René Préval, president-elect of Haiti, after his arrival at 6:00 p.m. yesterday at José Martí International Airport in response to an invitation from President Fidel Castro. News Thu, 13 Apr 2006 11:37:36 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/abril/mier12/16bush.html WASHINGTON, April 11 (AFP). – President George W. Bush’s image is at its lowest point in the United States since he took power in 2001, according to a survey published on Tuesday by The Washington Post newspaper. International Mié, 12 Abr 2006 12:10:28 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/abril/mier12/16preval.html THE president-elect of Haiti, René Préval, initiated a working visit to Cuba this April 12, in response to an invitation from President Fidel Castro. Préval traveled with a delegation composed of various members of his future government and other Haitian figures, according to an official note published in Granma daily at the close of this edition. His visit coincides with the arrival of a group of Haitian scholarship students, as well as patients from that country who are to receive medical attention in Haiti under Operation Miracle, a Cuban-Venezuelan project that offers free ophthalmological care to poor patients in the Third World. News Wed, 12 Apr 2006 12:10:26 +0200 2006/abril/mar11/15mujeres-i.html BY ROSE ANA DUEÑAS—Special for Granma International— ANONYMOUS women. You may see them at the market, or standing in line to get on the bus, or watering their garden. Culture Tue, 11 Apr 2006 14:53:34 +0200 2006/abril/mar11/16trafico-i.html THE Human Rights Commission of the state of Quintana Roo in the Yucatan peninsula (east), has exposed the complicity of Mexican migration agents with the speedboat trafficking of Cubans, as charged by the island government and denied by the Mexican authorities, AFP reports. International mar, 11 abr 2006 00:06:59 +0200 2006/abril/mar11/16apoyo-i.html WASHINGTON.—Popular support for President George W. Bush hit a new record low when only 38% of those surveyed by a recent media poll expressed support for his policies. International Tue, 11 Apr 2006 00:06:41 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/abril/lun10/16villepin.html PRESIDENT Jacques Chirac today put aside the employment law that provoked mass protests and strikes, in the face of the pressure of students and trade unions that have made the government suffer a heavy setback, especially for Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin, the law’s author. International Lun, 10 Abr 2006 13:10:49 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/abril/lun10/16humala.html LIMA, April 9.—Nationalist candidate Ollanta Humala gained the highest number of votes in the Peruvian elections, according to exit polls, which also show a close duel between former president Alan García with 24.5%, and Flores with 24.2% according to Apoyo, one of the most important polling agencies in Peru, when voting closed, an AFP cable notes. Our America Lun, 10 Abr 2006 13:10:07 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/abril/lun10/16maniobras.html THE United States is leading a series of military maneuvers in the Caribbean, with the participation of forces from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and countries in the hemisphere, except for Cuba and Venezuela, which could be in the sights of that show of force, Prensa Latina reports. International Mon, 10 Apr 2006 13:10:02 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/abril/vier7/16scotia.html THE power of the U.S. dollar as the principal currency of international business is now being used to pressure Cuba even more under the guise of the Patriot Act and could easily be used to exclude others from the international market, warned the Kingston Jamaica Gleaner daily. International Vie, 7 Abr 2006 15:41:20 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/abril/vier7/vacuna.html COINCIDING with World Health Day, from today to next Thursday, the second stage of the 45th Campaign against Poliomyelitis is being implemented throughout the country, and "two little drops" of the oral vaccine will be administered to 524,000 boys and girls. National Vie, 7 Abr 2006 15:40:29 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/abril/vier7/16descalbush.html WASHINGTON, April 6.—The sordidness around the CIA-gate case has become even more murky since it emerged that President George W. Bush authorized the information leak on the identity of an agent from that intelligence agency, according to legal documents released today. International Vie, 7 Abr 2006 15:39:54 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/abril/vier7/16heridos.html PARIS, April 6—Five students and a police officer were slightly injured on Thursday when police violently evacuated a train station in Toulouse (southwest France), where a protest was being held against the youth labor law being promoted by the government. Internationales Fri, 7 Apr 2006 15:42:53 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/abril/vier7/16maniobra.html A new political maneuver is underway aimed at smoothing the road for terrorist Luis Posada Carriles. On April 20, in El Paso, Texas, immigration authorities and lawyers are to meet with the terrorist to decide whether or not to grant him naturalization as a U.S. citizen. International Fri, 7 Apr 2006 15:39:14 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/abril/mier5/15fidel.html "TODAY has been a great day for everyone, and I am happy to have shared in this day of celebration with the children and young people who have attended this event in representation of the entire country," affirmed President Fidel Castro during the ceremony celebrating the 45th anniversary of the José Martí Pioneers Organization and the 44th of the Young Communist League at the Karl Marx Theater in the capital. National Jue, 6 Abr 2006 16:52:30 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/abril/juev6/16chinasalud.html JOSE Ramón Balaguer, Cuban minister of public health and member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of Cuba, who is on a working visit to China at the invitation of that country’s government, met with his Chinese counterpart Gao Qiang. News Jue, 6 Abr 2006 16:52:03 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/abril/juev6/16ciaescan.html LONDON, April 5.—A new scandal has been stirred up with the revelation that the CIA used front companies for more than 1,000 flights throughout Europe for the illegal transportation of alleged terrorism suspects, PL reports. International Jue, 6 Abr 2006 16:50:38 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/abril/juev6/editorial1.html ANOTHER grave event, as a consequence News Thu, 6 Apr 2006 16:50:34 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/abril/lun3/15marcha.html NEW YORK, April 2—Tens of thousands of immigrants, mostly Latinos, participated in a massive march in this city to demand just immigration reforms, surprising even organizers with the scale of participation. International Lun, 3 Abr 2006 11:38:04 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/abril/lun3/15evo.html LA PAZ—Bolivian President Evo Morales has 80% of citizen support, according to the results of a survey published yesterday (Sunday, April 2), and in spite of intense efforts by the opposition and the media to discredit the government. Our America Lun, 3 Abr 2006 11:37:10 -0500 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/abril/lun3/15rice.html BAGHDAD—U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw traveled to Baghdad, Iraq, on Sunday, April 2, to pressure for the appointment of a new government in that occupied country. International Mon, 3 Apr 2006 11:37:04 +0200 2006/marzo/vier31/15jamaica.html KINGSTON.—Portia Simpson Miller became the first woman prime minister of Jamaica yesterday. Our America vie, 31 mar 2006 17:07:48 +0200 2006/marzo/vier31/15colom.html HER Excellency Carolina Barco Isakson, minister of foreign relations of the Republic of Colombia, is scheduled to arrive in our country on a working visit this afternoon, Friday, March 31. News vie, 31 mar 2006 17:06:14 +0200 2006/marzo/vier31/15sitio-i.html THE family members of the victims of the sabotage of the Cubana passenger plane in 1976, which led to 73 deaths, have launched an Internet page with information on the masterminds behind the attack, who include terrorist Luis Posada Carriles, detained in the United States since last year. International vie, 31 mar 2006 17:04:57 +0200 2006/marzo/vier31/15cortef.html PARIS.—The French Constitutional Court today declared legitimate the law of equality of opportunity contemplated in Article 8 of the First Job Contract and left it in the hands of President Jacques Chirac to ratify it or withdraw it. International vie, 31 mar 2006 17:03:04 +0200 2006/marzo/vier31/15posada1.html MIAMI (U.S.A.), (EFE)—The United States is maintaining terrorist Luis Posada Carriles in jail because his release would represent a danger “to both the community and the national security of the United States,” according to an official document. News Fri, 31 Mar 2006 17:02:52 +0200 2006/marzo/mar28/14vacancer.html CUBAN scientists, whose field studies of therapeutic vaccines for the treatment of cancer have demonstrated encouraging results, have begun to work toward applying these therapies in the early stages of the disease. Science and Technology mar, 28 mar 2006 19:26:27 +0200 2006/marzo/mar28/14bolivia-i.html EVEN before Evo Morales won the presidential elections on December 15, 2005 and took possession on January 22, his government entered one of Washington’s exclusion lists, in this case one of "populism," an epithet that serves the White House and the U.S. State Department, in charge of issuing warnings, to denote an executive that does not please or suit them. Our America mar, 28 mar 2006 19:25:37 +0200 2006/marzo/mar28/14francia-i.html LATE last year, there was an urban revolt that originated in the poor suburbs of Paris and other major French cities. International mar, 28 mar 2006 19:24:40 +0200 2006/marzo/mar28/14brigada.html YOU have all left a strong impression on the lives, on the way of thinking and in the hearts of the Pakistani people, affirmed Shaukat Aziz, prime minister of that nation, to a delegation of the Cuban medical brigade that has been... National mar, 28 mar 2006 19:23:56 +0200 2006/marzo/mar28/14arrakhan2.html KATRINA’S victims are still suffering the effects seven months after that disaster occurred, affirmed Louis Farrakhan in remarks during the Cuban TV/radio program “Roundtable.” News mar, 28 mar 2006 19:23:02 +0200 2006/marzo/mar28/14farrakhan.html THE demand for the U.S. government to “lift the blockade and provide justice for the Five” Cuban anti-terrorist fighters held in U.S. prisons was made public by African-American religious leader Louis Farrakhan during a press conference in Havana, right before ending his visit to Cuba. News Tue, 28 Mar 2006 19:21:01 -0600 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/marzo/vier24/13dracula2-i.html CIA collaborator Robert Kent, inventor of the miniscule Friends of Cuban Libraries group dedicated to spreading disinformation on Cuba to library organizations, has been assigned a new assistant. Pursuing the plan to join forces with East Europeans in order to attack Cuban socialism, the obsessive New Yorker has carried out his latest operation against the American Library Association in cooperation with a U.S. poet of Romanian origin, Andrei Codrescu. International Vie, 24 Mar 2006 11:49:16 -0600 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/marzo/vier24/13milosevic.html THERE are inopportune suspicions as to the real cause of the death of Milosevic (the fourth of Serbs imprisoned in The Hague) which, even if it was the most natural of all, leaves behind it a trail of reservations as to the legitimacy of the court that has held him for more than four years and that subjected him to a trial whose probity is questionable. Even with motives for having put him on trial for faults committed, that should have happened within his country, where legislation prevents the extradition of prisoners, ... International Vie, 24 Mar 2006 11:48:17 -0600 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/marzo/vier24/14posada2-i.html LUIS Posada Carriles was actively working for the CIA in February 1976 in Caracas, just a few months before the sabotage of the Cubana Aviation passenger plane, although the agency tried to cover up the relationship by means of a deceptive document. International Vie, 24 Mar 2006 11:47:53 -0600 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/marzo/vier24/ecuador.html QUITO, March 24 (PL).—Given the rejection by Ecuadorian president Alfredo Palacio of the demands made by the popular sector, the indigenous movement is today to assume power itself and convene a popular consultation on the Free Trade Agreement. Our America Vie, 24 Mar 2006 11:46:47 -0600 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/marzo/vier24/anuncian.html IN its on-line edition last night (Thursday) and its printed edition today, the U.S. newspaper El Nuevo Herald published an insidious article titled "U.S. and Cuba clash over World Classic earnings," which, citing a so-called spokesman for baseball’s Major Leagues, attempts to ignore Cuba’s decision to donate to the victims of Hurricane Katrina earnings that legitimately should go to our country for having won second place in the tournament, which would not be handed over to Cuba by virtue of the criminal and shameful laws of the blockade. News Fri, 24 Mar 2006 11:37:05 +0100 2006/marzo/jue23/13farrakhan-i.html "IF we had this type of preventative system we would have been spared a large part of the disaster caused by Katrina." NATIONAL mié, 22 mar 2006 21:05:58 +0100 2006/marzo/mierc22/13 tapar.html THE State Department Bureau for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs on March 1 released its not very eagerly-awaited 2006 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report during a lengthy press conference offered by its chief, “blonde” Assistant Secretary Anne W. Patterson. SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY Wed, 22 Mar 2006 16:01:35 +0100 2006/marzo/mierc22/13 tapar.html RAMON SANCHEZ THE State Department Bureau for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs on March 1 released its not very eagerly-awaited 2006 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report during a lengthy press conference offered by its chief, “blonde” Assistant Secretary Anne W. Patterson. S C I E N C E A N D T E C H N O L O G Y Wed, 22 Mar 2006 16:00:28 +0100 2006/marzo/mierc22/13 terapia.html A Cuban combination therapy for the treatment of chronic Hepatitis C is to be put on the market by the Heber Biotec S.A. company in Latin America, Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Europe, where this firm has registered the Heberon Alfa R (human recombinant Interferon lfa 2b). International Wed, 22 Mar 2006 15:59:19 +0100 2006/marzo/mierc22/13 Iraq.html GEORGE W. Bush is brimming with confidence in his war agenda. With every speech, things are going better in Iraq, and he doesn’t even blush when affirming over and over his certainty that victory will be attained. International Wed, 22 Mar 2006 15:58:20 +0100 2006/marzo/mierc22/13 premios.html CUBA is to donate its earnings as runner-up in the 1st World Baseball Classic to victims of Hurricane Katrina in the southern United States, reaffirmed President Fidel Castro at the end of his welcoming speech to the brilliant Cuban team. S P O R T S Wed, 22 Mar 2006 15:51:06 +0100 2006/marzo/mierc22/13 boutef.html ALGIERS, March 21.—Felipe Pérez Roque, Cuban minister of foreign affairs, was received today by the president of Algeria, Abdela-Aziz Bouteflika, with whom he discussed bilateral relations, according to official sources. news Wed, 22 Mar 2006 15:50:53 -0600 http://granmai.cubaweb.com/ingles/2006/marzo/lun20/12tourism.html THE Havanatur international group of tour operators and travel agencies and TAME, the Ecuadorian airline, have created a strategic alliance to bring tourism to Cuba and offer multi-destination flights. According to Pedro Hernández, general director of Havanatur, TAME began weekly charter flights to Havana on February 11 with the aim of making it a regular route. Tourism Lun, 20 Mar 2006 13:29:40 -0600 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/marzo/lun20/13chile.html THE task of Michele Bachelet would seem easy assuming that she is going to change very little or nothing in Chile, as predicted. The idea of continuation has been pursuing her since she was campaigning. There was a moment of doubt when the Communist Party (PCCH) lent its support – and its votes – seemingly decisive for her obtaining more than 50% of votes cast. Our America Lun, 20 Mar 2006 13:28:53 -0600 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/marzo/lun20/13zulia.html CLOSE to 40% of the 2.5 million barrels of oil produced by Venezuela is daily pumped from the oilfields of Zulia, its agricultural produce supplies 80% of what is consumed by the country, it possesses an important port and Maracaibo Lake that increase internal economic life, and that state of four million inhabitants in the west of the country – one million of them legal or undocumented Colombians – has a governor opposed to the government of Hugo Chávez. Our America Lun, 20 Mar 2006 13:27:51 -0600 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/marzo/lun20/13protesta.html CHICAGO, March 19.—Tens of thousands of people all over the world demonstrated to protest the U.S. war against Iraq, marking the third anniversary of the start of that aggression launched on the basis of lies, AP reported. International Lun, 20 Mar 2006 13:26:53 -0600 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/marzo/lun20/13ecuad2.html QUITO, March 20 (PL).—Ecuador today is starting another week of indigenous mobilizations against the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with the United States, with marches and road blocks in various provinces. "The national mobilization will continue and will be more forceful and courageous," with more demonstrations throughout the nation from dawn this Monday," states a communiqué from the Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador Federation (CONAIE). Our America Lun, 20 Mar 2006 13:26:20 -0600 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/marzo/lun20/13final.html SAN DIEGO, California—Nobody expected a final like today’s will be. There were a lot of favorites to compete for this title. But by their own merits and their players’ drive, two nations recognized as powerhouses in the international sphere, Cuba and Japan, will go out onto Petco Park field to seek the championship of the 1st World Baseball Classic. Sports Fri, 17 Mar 2006 19:31:23 +0100 2006/marzo/vier17/13louipres-i.html THE U.S. Senate has passed a gigantic budget of $2.8 trillion budget, inflated by military costs and settled by the granting of delayed aid to Louisiana to confront the damage inflicted by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. International Fri, 17 Mar 2006 19:27:35 -0600 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/marzo/vier17/13sanjuan.html SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico.—It is not easy to organize one’s thoughts only a few hours after a historic moment in Cuban baseball. But there is no way around it: suitcases must be packed and loaded on the plane that will bring all the delegation members to the city of San Diego. Sports Vie, 17 Mar 2006 11:32:47 -0600 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/marzo/vier17/13vietnam.html LAST night, President Fidel Castro Ruz received Nguyen Van An, president of the National Assembly of Vietnam, who is on a friendly visit to the island. National Vie, 17 Mar 2006 11:32:10 -0600 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/marzo/vier17/13editorial.html ON this side of the world, when all of Cuba was shouting and embracing in delight at our own victory and the moving dignity of the defeated team; when tears were falling only because we would have liked to have had Puerto Rico with us in the upcoming difficult days of the (World Baseball) Classic, ... News Thu, 16 Mar 2006 15:11:45 +0100 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/marzo/juev16/13ecuador.html QUITO, March 15—The Ecuadorian government is today confronting the third day of a national indigenous mobilization that has blocked off nearly the entire Andean region of the country in protest against the Free Trade Agreement that Ecuador is negotiating with the United States. Our America Thu, 16 Mar 2006 15:11:13 +0100 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/marzo/juev16/13beisbol.html SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico—In a game that will go down in history as one of the tightest every played at Hiram Bithorn Stadium, Cuba beat Puerto Rico, just barely, becoming the second semifinalist in the first World Baseball Classic. Sports Thu, 16 Mar 2006 15:09:50 +0100 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/marzo/juev16/13masacre.html ISAHAQI, Iraq, March 15.—At least 11 people, most of them women and children, died on Wednesday when a home north of Baghdad was bombed by the U.S. forces, according to the police and relatives of the victims, as AP reports. The U.S. military forces acknowledged four deaths – one man, two women and one child – in an operation that allowed, they said, the capture of an alleged rebel in the rural area of Isahaqi, some 80 kilometers north of the capital. International Wed, 15 Mar 2006 11:25:15 -0600 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/marzo/mierc15/12refrig.html QINGDAO, China, March 14 (PL).—The Industrial Park belonging to the Chinese Haier corporation in this port city in the eastern province of Shandung, was the scenario today of the handing over of the first consignment of refrigerators contracted by Cuba in this country. News Wed, 15 Mar 2006 11:24:36 -0600 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/marzo/mierc15/12guantanamo.html ON February 7, 1901, President Tomás Estrada Palma signed the agreement ceding Cuban territory to the United States in order to construct its naval base in Guantánamo. Guantánamo Bay is one of the country’s deepest and largest bays. Christopher Columbus discovered it during his second voyage to the New World on April 30, 1494. It has some very special natural characteristics: profundity, security and the capacity to receive large ships. International Wed, 15 Mar 2006 11:25:00 -0600 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/marzo/mierc15/12semifinalista.html SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico—The Dominican Republic team goes into the semi-finals of the World Baseball Classic by beating Venezuela during a game that was worthy of the two baseball powerhouses, and during which the pitching was much better than the offensive play. Sports Wed, 15 Mar 2006 11:25:05 -0600 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/marzo/mierc15/12classic.html SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico—The Hiram Bithorn Stadium is going to fill up to bursting point for the second time. Everyone here wants to see another game between Cuba and Puerto Rico, only this time it will be very tense: whoever wins will pack their bags and head to San Diego, California. Whoever loses goes home. Sports Wed, 15 Mar 2006 11:21:59 -0600 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/marzo/mierc15/12ecuador.html THE battle against the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with the United States is continuing in Ecuador. After his surprise visit to the United States, President Alfredo Palacio has seemingly returned willing to sign the agreement. The capitalist theory of "divide and rule" appears to be working for the U.S. government; what it was unable to achieve with a bloc of countries, it is trying to do in a bilateral form. Our America Wed, 15 Mar 2006 11:25:10 -0600 http://www.granmai.cubasi.cu/ingles/2006/marzo/lun13/12josone.html WHAT place in Varadero sits on nine hectares of land right in the middle of that beach resort, between the so-called “southern sea” and the first avenue and tunnel link with the desirable blue waters and their white, powdery sand? Answer: Josone Park. T O U R I S M Lun, 13 Mar 2006 15:04:43 -0600 http://www.granmai.cubasi.cu/ingles/2006/marzo/lun13/12chilelage.html SANTIAGO DE CHILE, 12 March—Cuba’s Vice President Carlos Lage reaffirmed here today his confidence in the future of Chile and wished new President Michelle Bachelet success in her term of office. “We totally share the hopes of the Chilean people at this historic moment,” affirmed the leader, who arrived Friday in Santiago accompanied by a Cuban delegation to attend the investiture ceremonies, reported PL Our America Lun, 13 Mar 2006 15:03:54 -0600 http://www.granmai.cubasi.cu/ingles/2006/marzo/lun13/12beisbol.html SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico—Cuba has demonstrated that it can go head-to-head with a team of Major League players by beating Venezuela’s super-strong selection, taking that victory in the opening of the second round of the first World Baseball Classic. Sports Lun, 13 Mar 2006 15:03:14 -0600 http://www.granmai.cubasi.cu/ingles/2006/marzo/lun13/12aquit.html WHEN notorious terrorist Sixto Reynaldo “El Chino” Aquit was noticed sitting in the front row while George W. Bush gave a speech on Cuba on May 20, 2002 in Miami, some people commented that it must have been a Secret Service error. International Lun, 13 Mar 2006 15:01:59 -0600 http://www.granmai.cubasi.cu/ingles/2006/marzo/lun13/12salud.html CUBA possesses valuable human capital available for serving the world; that is our greatest wealth, and we have nothing to exhibit other than that fortune and our willingness and desire to cooperate with the neediest people, affirmed President Fidel Castro Ruz in closing remarks at the 9th International Seminar on Primary Healthcare. News Mon, 13 Mar 2006 15:01:57 -0600 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/marzo/viern10/12chile.html CARLOS Lage Davila, vice president of the Council of State, left for Chile today as head of a Cuban delegation that is to participate in the inauguration ceremony of Chilean President-elect Michelle Bachelet, on Saturday, March 11. Bachelet was elected president on January 15, and is the first woman in the country’s history to occupy that post. News Vie, 10 Mar 2006 10:29:32 -0600 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/marzo/viern10/12pakis.html NO other country has left such a great imprint on Pakistan, from Shakote to Banna Alai, affirmed Major General Farooq Khan, federal aid commissioner, speaking in an event at the Cuban field hospital in Mansehra. International Vie, 10 Mar 2006 10:29:08 -0600 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/marzo/viern10/12grande.html SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico—Cuba has swept to victory against Holland, in its second consecutive win, thus assuring its place among the top eight countries in the World Baseball Classic and going on to the second stage of the tournament. Sports Fri, 10 Mar 2006 10:29:07 -0600 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/marzo/juev9/12rechaza.html “WE will never return to the past, this country and its men, women and children will never return to that regime of opprobrium, discrimination and misery forecast for us and that the Plan Bush wants to impose on us,” affirmed Ricardo Alarcón, president of the National Assembly of People's Power, speaking in the national event to celebrate International Women’s Day, which took place last night at the Flag Memorial in the Anti-Imperialist Tribunal National Jue, 9 Mar 2006 12:35:22 -0600 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/marzo/juev9/11constitiz.html ONE of the major issues and promises of Evo Morales’ political campaign was the formation of a Foundational and Sovereign Constituent Assembly to re-found the Bolivian nation. The creation of this Assembly was backed by an overwhelming majority in the elections last December 18. The Indigenous, Native and Campesino Unity Pact, along with other organizations of civil society, convened the country’s indigenous peoples, campesinos, neighborhood councils, miners, trade unionists, construction workers, industrial workers, artisans, transportation workers, women, youth, intellectuals, and all social sectors to the social summit for a Constituent Assembly in the city of Santa Cruz, February 15-17, 2006. Our America Jue, 9 Mar 2006 12:34:53 -0600 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/marzo/juev9/12marchan.html CARACAS, March 8—Thousands of Venezuelan women led an impressive march here today, ending with a rally in front of the U.S. embassy, where they delivered a document containing the signatures of more than 2 million people opposed to U.S. militarist policies. Arriving from all parts of the country, demonstrators held aloft the national flag, photos of President Hugo Chávez, and placards that read: “Imperialism out of Iraq” and “We Women Demand Peace.” International Jue, 9 Mar 2006 12:34:25 -0600 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/marzo/juev9/12baseball.html SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico— If someone doubted that the Cuban players were going to "give it their all," yesterday’s triumphant game against Panama has proven it, after being up against the wall on several occasions before pulling out a win in this First Baseball World Classic. Sports Thu, 9 Mar 2006 12:34:23 -0600 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/marzo/mier8/11computacion.html AT the end of the upcoming Youth Computation Club course in June, one million students will have enrolled in this program, guaranteeing that informatics is becoming a powerful scientific, economic and political force for Cuba, affirmed President Fidel Castro at the event celebrating the 15th Anniversary of the Central Palace of Computation and the inauguration of 300 new centers of this type throughout the country. S C I E N C E A N D T E C H N O L O G Y Mié, 8 Mar 2006 11:47:25 -0600 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/marzo/mier8/11lazo.html SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico—Cuba’s team will go head to head against Major League players for the first time in an official tournament today when, at 2 p.m. (local time and Cuban time), the game begins between Cuba and Panama, as part of Group C of the World Baseball Classic. Sports Wed, 8 Mar 2006 11:47:23 -0600 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/marzo/mart7/11mujeres.html INTERNATIONAL Women’s Day was established some 100 years ago to fight for women’s rights in the context of the broader struggle of the working class. Since then, every year it is an opportunity to celebrate victories and face the challenges that remain. This year, the date is being marked by anti-war protests, and the Federation of Cuban Women (FMC) – with some four million members – is joining in that campaign. National Mar, 7 Mar 2006 12:29:28 -0600 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/marzo/mart7/11verdad.html EXACTLY what happened on September 11, 2001 in New York is still is a mystery. Investigators say that they are just waiting for the Bush administration to fall to demand the declassification of documents that would reveal the truth about what happened that day. International Mar, 7 Mar 2006 12:28:14 -0600 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/marzo/mart7/11venezuela.html CARACAS, March 7 (PL)—Broad sectors of Venezuelan society began mobilizing today to express their disapproval of secession plans by the wealthy state of Zulia, believed to be part of U.S. interventionist designs. Our America Mar, 7 Mar 2006 12:26:36 -0600 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/marzo/mart7/11piedra.html PRESIDENT Fidel Castro participated in the 9th International Seminar on Primary Heath Care (PHC) that is in session in Havana’s International Conference Center. During the opening of the event, attended by more than 1,000 delegates from 21 countries, Dr. José Ramón Balaguer Cabrera, member of the Political Bureau and Cuban minister of health, ... SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY Mar, 7 Mar 2006 12:25:52 -0600 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/marzo/mart7/11cindys.html NEW YORK, March 6—Cindy Sheehan, the U.S. pacifist who last year lost her son in Iraq, was detained today in New York along with three other people after a protest at the gate of U.S. mission to the UN. International Tue, 7 Mar 2006 12:25:50 -0600 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/marzo/lun6/11represasa.html WASHINGTON, March 5.—Journalists and their information sources within the U.S. state apparatus are in the sights of the Bush administration, according to today’s edition of The Washington Post. The daily informs that new measures include various FBI tests, the use of lie detectors within the CIA and a warning from the Justice Department to the press, PL reports. News Lun, 6 Mar 2006 12:11:15 -0600 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/marzo/lun6/11recibe.html ON Sunday, March 5, at the Palace of the Revolution, President Fidel Castro Ruz received the selection for the national baseball team that is representing Cuba at the World Baseball Classic, minutes after they were presented with the national flag at the José Martí national monument. Sports Lun, 6 Mar 2006 12:10:26 -0600 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/marzo/lun6/11colombia.html THE game is up. All that remained was the date and time to make it public. The debasement in this case, had been brewing for at least 21 months of intense negotiations and night sealed the pact. In Colombia – as many have noted – the people were sleeping when the Alvaro Uribe government gave into the pressure; ... Our America Lun, 6 Mar 2006 12:09:57 -0600 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/marzo/lun6/11brenda.html “DESTROY that seed before it grows...!” shouted Luis Posada Carriles, alias Comisario Basilio, to one of his men who was interrogating Venezuelan Brenda Esquivel in July 1972, at a locale of the political police (DISIP) in Maracay, Venezuela. Posada had just found out that the young woman was eight months pregnant. News Sat, 4 Mar 2006 12:42:14 +0100 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/marzo/sab4/cinco.html SANTIAGO, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC.—Five people, handcuffed and wearing prison uniforms, flanked by young people carrying placards drawing attention to a rigged tria, paraded in the closure of the Santiago de los Caballeros Carnival to call for the release of the five Cuban patriots incarcerated in the United States for combating terrorism. News Sat, 4 Mar 2006 12:41:30 -0600 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/marzo/sab4/11contrar.html MIAMI.—Lately, the Cuban counterrevolution, which has always been excellent business, is blooming, enjoying another “fat kine” period. It should be recalled that during the Kennedy administration, from 1962-3, Operation Mangosta was the most lucrative occupation of the time, the most costly CIA operation to that point, on which the federal government spent nearly $1 billion – dollars at that time – and employed thousands of counterrevolutionary Cubans. International Vie, 3 Mar 2006 14:07:46 -0600 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/marzo/vier3/11clasico.html THE national baseball team that will represent Cuba in the World Classic was announced yesterday, March 2, during the televised "Roundtable" program on that event, which also gave the timetable for broadcasts of the tournament on Cuban radio and TV. Sports Vie, 3 Mar 2006 14:06:55 -0600 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/marzo/vier3/11niegan.html HAVANA.—The U.S. authorities have denied visas to a group of Cuban academics who were hoping to attend a meeting of Latin American experts in Puerto Rico, in yet another incident of U.S. action against the island’s representatives. News Vie, 3 Mar 2006 14:06:20 -0600 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/marzo/vier3/11cdhaum.html UNITED NATIONS, March 2.—The creation of a UN Human Rights Council today appeared today to be submerged in doubt, without any clear indication for now of a consensus before March 13, the date by which it should be approved, PL reports. Jan Eliasson, the Swiss ambassador and president of the General Assembly, has insisted that the beginning of the labors of the Human Rights Commission in Geneva on March 13 is crucial for deciding on the creation of the Council. International Fri, 3 Mar 2006 14:05:34 -0600 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/marzo/jue2/11bushindia.html NEW DEHLI, March 1.—Hundreds of thousands of people demonstrated to Bush today that he is the most repudiated president in the world, from the very start of his visit to India, a country with which he is trying to achieve nuclear and commercial cooperation agreements. Bush arrived at Palam airport in the capital – from Afghanistan, where he spent four hours – in the midst of a deployment of more than 100,000 police – some of them armed – "to avoid any breach of the peace," according to PL. International Jue, 2 Mar 2006 14:20:12 -0600 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/marzo/jue2/1oecuador.html THREE key unfulfilled demands have brought the Ecuadorian people to the point of revolt: the cancellation of the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) being swiftly negotiated with Washington, the withdrawal of the U.S. army from the Manta base – center of operations for the Andean Plan – and the convening of a Constituent Assembly to reestablish the country. The social explosion in the country occurred when, after a prolonged confrontation with the government of Alfredo Palacio, who replaced the deposed Lucio Gutiérrez, blocked various social sectors’ call for a Constituent Assembly. Our America Jue, 2 Mar 2006 14:19:35 -0600 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/marzo/jue2/11aereoem.html COCHABAMBA, March 1.—President Evo Morales and Vice President Alvaro García Linera were involved in a flight incident on Monday afternoon when they were approaching Cochabamba from Orinoca, the president’s native city. According to the website Bolivia.com Yuri Muñoz, chief of transport in Cochabamba, stated that the helicopter transporting them was forced to make an emergency landing when it began to descend out of control, apparently due to technical failure. Our America Jue, 2 Mar 2006 14:18:48 -0600 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/marzo/jue2/10mesa.html CUBA has a "tremendous" challenge in the Baseball World Classic and the first game against Panama is critical, affirmed the legendary shortstop Germán Mesa. Sports Jue, 2 Mar 2006 14:18:15 -0600 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/marzo/jue2/11manucaho.html TENS of thousands of young people wrapped themselves around Manu Chao last night in the concert he gave in the José Martí Anti-Imperialist Tribunal, where the famous Spanish-French singer-songwriter reaffirmed his commitment to insurgency and protest songs and affirmed his strong solidarity with Cuba. Culture Thu, 2 Mar 2006 14:16:12 -0600 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/marzo/mier1/10minrex-i.html WE are bearing witness to a new blow to multilateralism and to the United Nations. The United States is threatening to call for a vote and to vote against the draft resolution presented on February 23 by the President of the UN General Assembly, with the aim of establishing the form of the Human Rights Council, a body that is to replace the current Human Rights Commission. News Thu, 2 Mar 2006 14:16:53 -0600 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/marzo/mier1/10india.html NEW DELHI, March 1.—At least 100,000 Indians, shouting "Death to Bush" and singing Imagine, the anti-war song of the deceased Beatle John Lennon, today repudiated the visit to this capital of the president of the United States. The U.S. president is about to arrive in New Delhi from Afghanistan on a surprise three-day visit during which he will be accompanied by major protests, as Indian organizers informed the press. International Thu, 2 Mar 2006 14:16:44 -0600 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/marzo/mier1/10norteam.html NINE more young people. Well, actually, eight new ones and one returning after special permission to be absent due to her mother’s illness have just arrived in Cuba, joining a contingent of more than 80 young people from the United States who are studying medicine at the Latin American School of Medicine (ELAM). News Thu, 2 Mar 2006 14:16:33 -0600 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/marzo/mier1/10violencia.html BAGHDAD, February 28.—At least 60 people died this Tuesday in Iraq after an intensification of the violence in the capital, where a mortar attack on a Shiite mosque once again raised fears of a civil war. Acts of violence also led to the death of two British soldiers in Amara, in the south of the country, and of two Iraqi policemen in the north, AFP reports. International Thu, 2 Mar 2006 14:16:24 -0600 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/marzo/mier1/10obispo.html LAST night, President Fidel Castro received the Most Reverend Frank Tracy Griswold, Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church of the United States, accompanied by a delegation from this religious U.S. institution who arrived in Cuba last Friday at the invitation of the Episcopal Church in Cuba. National Wed, 1 Mar 2006 14:22:40 -0600 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/marzo/mier1/10sheraton.html AUTHORITIES in the Cuauhtémoc district of Mexico City decided to close the María Isabel Sheraton Hotel given that an administrative proceedure applied to the company after it evicted 16 Cuban guests who were meeting with U.S. businessmen accredited only one of 16 irregularities detected in a February 8 verification visit. News Mon, 27 Feb 2006 14:29:26 +0100 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/febrero/lun27/10cuchi.html LAST week, Tang Rouxin, president of SINOSURE, the Chinese enterprise for securing export credits, completed his visit to Cuba. News Mon, 27 Feb 2006 14:28:09 +0100 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/febrero/lun27/10-79evo.html LA PAZ, FEBRUARY 26.—A poll published this Sunday by a national daily indicates that the Bolivia’s President Evo Morales is supported by 79% of the population after one month in government, five percent up on when he assumed the position January 22, according to an AFP dispatch. Our America Mon, 27 Feb 2006 14:27:36 +0100 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/febrero/lun27/10iraq60.html BAGHDAD, February 26—At least 60 people were killed in Iraq, three of them U.S. soldiers, in different incidents this Sunday, mostly in Baghdad, where the impact of various projectiles affected the south of the capital. International Mon, 27 Feb 2006 14:26:41 +0100 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/febrero/lun27/10dominicana.html SANTO DOMINGO, February 26—Oscar Moreta, member of the Patriotic Anti-Imperialist Committee of Barahona, once again called on the Dominican people to support demonstrations protesting the presence of U.S. soldiers in the country. Noticia Mon, 27 Feb 2006 14:25:48 +0100 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/febrero/lun27/10mexsol.html MEXICO, February 27.—Delegates to the 11th National Solidarity with Cuba Conference here decided to develop greater efficiency and coordination at national level for their solidarity actions with the people of the island and its Revolution. News Sat, 25 Feb 2006 12:07:41 +0100 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/febrero/vier24/10iraq-i.html BAGHDAD, February 23.— An outbreak of violence after Wednesday’s attack on a Shiite shrine in Samarra, Iraq, one of the most important holy places for that branch of Islam, has resulted in the deaths of 141 people and the burning of 168 mosques in the last 24 hours, as warnings grow of the risk of civil war between Sunni and Shiite followers, ANSA reports. International Sat, 25 Feb 2006 12:06:58 +0100 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/febrero/vier24/10rechaza-i.html LA PAZ, February 23 – Bolivian President Evo Morales today defended governing party Senator Leonilda Zurita before the international community after she was prevented from entering the United States under false accusations of suspected terrorism. Our America Sat, 25 Feb 2006 12:05:44 +0100 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/febrero/vier24/10franklin-i.html THE most dangerous spy in recent U.S. history, Lawrence "Larry" Franklin, 59, is currently working as a parking attendant at an exclusive Casino and Racetrack in West Virginia while waiting to testify in the trial of his two accomplices. News Sat, 25 Feb 2006 12:05:07 +0100 Raúl Castro presides over Military Council “The country’s perspectives, what is being achieved thanks above all to savings, principally of fuel, demands even greater attention to the tasks of defense. It is necessary to be on top of everything. We cannot forget that the enemy will use any slip that we make; that he, too, is preparing and perfecting his armaments and ways of making war.” National Sat, 25 Feb 2006 12:04:22 +0100 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/febrero/vier24/10fdomin.html PRESIDENT Fidel Castro Ruz, president of the Councils of State and Ministers, received the Honorable Roosevelt Skerrit, prime minister of the Commonwealth of Dominica yesterday afternoon in the Palace of the Revolution. National Sat, 25 Feb 2006 12:03:14 +0100 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/febrero/vier24/10pakis.html THE white-coated army comprising the Henry Reeve International Contingent, whose vanguard arrived in Pakistan on October 14 last year to give humanitarian aid to the victims of the devastating earthquake six days previously, have attended to 1,043,125 patients, of which 439,894 were treated in field hospitals in the northern mountains of this country. International Sat, 25 Feb 2006 12:02:12 +0100 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/febrero/vier24/10acto.html IT was 111 years ago, on February 24, 1895, that Cuba once again rose up in arms, with the guidance and the ideas of Martí, in the Necessary War that would free us from the decadent and oppressive metropolis and prevent intervention from the nascent and voracious Northern empire national Thu, 23 Feb 2006 15:26:53 +0100 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/febrero/mierc22/09mexico.html WHEN the United States, with its usual arrogance, adopted the legal aberration known as the Helms-Burton Act in 1996, Mexico – like several other countries – approved legislation to prevent that interventionist and extraterritorial law from having a domestic impact. News Thu, 23 Feb 2006 15:26:00 +0100 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/febrero/juev23/10export.html CUBA’s foreign trade grew by 23% last year, and nearly 10 billion pesos worth of trade was carried out, surpassing what was registered in 1991, before the start of the Special Period. Growth in exports of goods and services in 2005 compensated for spending on imports, affirmed Raúl de la Nuez, minister of foreign trade, in an interview with Granma daily. Economy Thu, 23 Feb 2006 15:25:28 +0100 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/febrero/juev23/10dominica.html THIS afternoon, Thursday, the Honorable Roosevelt Skerrit, prime minister and minister of finance, planning, national security and foreign residents of the Commonwealth of Dominica, arrives in Cuba. News Thu, 23 Feb 2006 15:24:48 +0100 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/febrero/juev23/10muertos.html WASHINGTON, February 22—Almost 100 prisoners have died in the prisons maintained by the United States in Afghanistan and Iraq since August 2002, according to a study reported by BBC Television. International Thu, 23 Feb 2006 15:23:51 +0100 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/febrero/juev23/10cdh.html U.S. government hawks have been desperately maneuvering since the beginning of February to impose a different version of the new Human Rights Council that would allow an escape route from the UN experts’ demand to close the prison they are maintaining on the Guantánamo Naval Base located on Cuban territory usurped against the will of the people. International Tue, 21 Feb 2006 15:18:03 +0100 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/febrero/juev16/09herald.html LAST weekend, the Mexican government and the Starwood Hotels and Resorts learned just how messy U.S. policy on Cuba can be when both were dragged into a dispute over a conference of Cuban officials and U.S. business delegates. To prevent future conflicts with important U.S. allies and to preserve the reputation of U.S. brands worldwide, the U.S. government should reconsider how it applies sanctions. International Tue, 21 Feb 2006 15:16:41 +0100 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/febrero/lun20/09iran.html IN an exclusive with Granma and Cuban Television, Dr. Gholam Ali Addad Adel, president of the Iranian Parliament, affirmed that he was grateful for this interview in order to greet the Cuban people, friends of the Iranian people, because they have great respect for the Revolution and its leader Fidel Castro. International Tue, 21 Feb 2006 15:16:03 +0100 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/febrero/mar21/09relig.html PORTO ALEGRE (Brazil), February 20—Samuel Kobia, secretary general of the World Council of Churches (WCC), commented on the political changes taking place in Latin America with the election of new governments in Bolivia and Chile. He qualified as historical advances the election of Evo Morales as the first indigenous president of Bolivia, and that of Michelle Bachelet as the first woman to be elected president of Chile. Kobia noted that the WCC’s 9th General Assembly, underway in this Brazilian city, is occurring soon after those important events, which in his opinion is an example of significant changes in the region in the last two years. Our America Tue, 21 Feb 2006 15:15:20 +0100 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/febrero/mar21/09pescad.html A tribute to workers in the fishing sector began yesterday in the José Martí Anti-Imperialist Tribunal with the reading out of a list of more than a dozen fishers killed by counterrevolutionary groups financed by U.S. governments over the last 40 years. Lissete Díaz Francis, the daughter of Artagñán Díaz Díaz, a fishing technician, recalled the 30th anniversary of the premeditated death of her father, killed in 1976 in Mexico by imperialist agents. She condemned the fact that those who committed that crime are still walking freely through the streets of the country whose leaders are protecting and sheltering them. National Tue, 21 Feb 2006 15:14:41 +0100 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/febrero/mar21/09manip.html UNITED NATIONS, February 20.—Cuba today warned that it would not be an accomplice or silent spectator in the face of what it called the "evident pretension of imposing the creation of a Human Rights Council under the conditions of the United States and its allies." News Tue, 21 Feb 2006 15:12:46 +0100 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/febrero/mar21/09reclamg.html NEW YORK, February 20.—Government leaders, politicians, the media and academics from all over the world have joined forces to demand the closure of the prison maintained by the United States in the base that it illegally occupies in Guantánamo, Cuba. International Tue, 21 Feb 2006 15:09:11 +0100 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/febrero/mar21/09polvo.html AT about 11:35 a.m. yesterday, February 20, 2006, it was learned that an illegal departure had been organized with help from persons in the United States, leaving from Guajaibón Beach in La Habana province. Both women and children were aboard the blue-and-white, black-topped Scorpion speedboat, registration number FL1186EY, with two 250-horsepower Mercury motors. News Tue, 14 Feb 2006 15:48:54 +0100 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/febrero/mar14/08palang.html IN a display of protagonism highly characteristic of his personality, the former president of the Spanish government José María Aznar has just proposed himself “the savior of Latin America,” in the face of what he called the “populist tide” currently extending through that region. The overthrown Spanish leader announced his new ultra-right self-proposal at the weekend after visiting George W. Bush, head of the U.S. regime in Washington. Aznar considers Bush as his most faithful ally and one of the few “friends” that he can count on these days. International Tue, 14 Feb 2006 15:48:14 +0100 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/febrero/mar14/08consejc.html CHEN Zhili, state minister of the People’s Republic of China, highlighted her visit to Cuba as successful.Minutes before traveling to Mexico, she informed Granma that she had met on three occasions with President Fidel Castro Ruz, including the interview at the 2006 University Congress. National Tue, 14 Feb 2006 15:47:29 +0100 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/febrero/lun13/08pvictim.html A small group of six children, two young women and six men, victims of the earthquake last October in Pakistan, arrived in Cuba aboard a Cubana Aviation IL-62 in order to be fitted with prostheses and complete their rehabilitation treatment that began in Cuban field hospitals located in the area of the disaster in the north of the country. News Tue, 14 Feb 2006 15:46:30 +0100 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/febrero/mar14/08edithai.html AFTER two years of foreign occupation after the coup d’état against Jean Bertrand Aristide orchestrated by Washington with French collaboration, long-suffering Haiti held elections one week ago to proclaim a new president. There was a good turnout for the elections in spite of some acts of violence and delays in the polling stations in the poorest districts. New