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This WEEK •
ARMENIAN
FOREIGN MINISTER’S VISIT
Health
is the starting point for everything
Armenian
Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian and Cuban Health Minster
Damodar Peńa have signed a health cooperation protocol that
both consider opens up possibilities for exchanges in other
sectors.
• First group of Cuban sports experts go to
Venezuela
January
19, 2001
THE president of Venezuela’s National Sports Institute (IND),
Francis Terán, announced from Caracas that a mission of 288 Cuban sports experts will
arrive in Venezuela over the next few days to evaluate the present state of the
country’s sports, in line with an agreement signed between both nations, reported
AFP.
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False relaxation of the blockade is a
deception for the world
November 11, 2000
ANYONE would think that it is Cuba who is
blockading the United States if they were exclusively led by what is published these days
by the disinformation apparatus, and this is no coincidence. This was the opening of Cuban
Parliamentary President Ricardo Alarcón’s speech to close to 3760 delegates at the
2nd World Friendship and Solidarity with Cuba Conference, in Havana’s Karl Marx
Theater.
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Solidarity with Cuba is defending European
dignity
November 11, 2000
"WHEN we are in solidarity with Cuba, when we help her, we are not only helping her
on the road to justice, we are also defending European dignity...and this assembly of
different peoples must call on Europe to be brave and not give into to the country which
wants to impose its own laws on it," .......
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We demand the right to travel freely to Cuba
November 11, 2000
THE 27-year-old Californian was concise in her demands from the podium of the Karl Marx
Theater.
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The blockade has not been eased but further tightened
November 10, 2000
STATEMENT
DELIVERED BY H.E. MR. FELIPE PEREZ ROQUE, MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS OF THE REPUBLIC OF
CUBA, AT THE 55 th SESSION OF THE UNITED NATIONS GENERAL ASSEMBLY, UNDER AGENDA ITEM 35.
NEW YORK, 9 NOVEMBER 2000
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U.S. presidential
election still undecided
November 9, 2000
EDITORIAL
A BANANA REPUBLIC
SOMETHING unprecedented, which perhaps hundreds of
millions of people in the world and even in the United States never imagined possible,
occurred during the U.S. presidential elections this Tuesday.
• Royal Canadian
Mounted Police ship calls at Havana
November 9, 2000
WITH the aim of encouraging the Canadian people to remember important events in their
history in the new century, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police ship Nadon II called
at the port of Havana, retracing the voyage of the St. Roch, the first ship to
circumnavigate North America, which also docked in the Cuban capital 50 years ago.
•
General secretary of the Communist Party of
South Africa visits the island
November 9, 2000
THE meeting on November 6 at the headquarters of the Central Committee between Political
Bureau member José Ramón Balaguer and Blade Nzimande, general secretary of the Communist
Party of South Africa, turned into an exchange of experiences on Party work.
•
‘The majority of
children are poor and the majority of the poor are children’
November 8, 2000
FOR every traveler, the beautiful image of Latin
American geography is always and inevitably tarnished by the sadness in the eyes of
thousands of children in cities and rural areas.
•
Two people illegally enter Cuba’s
embassy in Madrid
November 8, 2000
THE Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of
Cuba wishes to inform the public that at around 9 p.m. on Monday, November 6, two females
jumped over the fence that surrounds the exterior of Cuba’s embassy in Madrid.
•
Money governs the White House and Congress
November 8, 2000
A bitterly fought U.S. election between two lackluster candidates, George W. Bush and Al
Gore, has gone down in history as the most expensive ever.
• The world’s
only blockaded country
November 7, 2000
"CUBA is now the only blockaded country
in the world, because a group of countries that previously had sanctions imposed against
them, such as Iran, Libya, Sudan, North Korea and Syria, have been authorized to trade
with U.S. companies under new legislation."
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Statue of distinguished man of the Americas
is unveiled
November 7, 2000
PRESIDENT Fidel Castro headed a sizeable representation of Cubans, Mexicans and other
Latin Americans who paid tribute to the distinguished man of the Americas, Benito Juárez
(1806-1872), during the unveiling in Havana of a beautiful bronze statue showing his
severe and austere likeness.
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FIHAV confirms its place
among the continent’s principal commercial exhibitions
November 7, 2000
 TOGETHER with the
agreements and letters of intention signed, the outstanding feature of the 18th Havana
Trade Fair was the high quality of the thousands of products, equipment and machinery
displayed by 1,500 foreign companies and around 500 of their Cuban counterparts.
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The power of solidarity
November 6, 2000
WHEN more than 1,500 Cuba friendship groups decided to meet in Havana to confirm their
unwavering support for the island, they were assisted by 72 Cuban organizations which
arranged the forthcoming 2nd World Friendship and Solidarity Encounter (November 10-14).
• More flexible response to foreign investors
November 6, 2000
A new system under the name of Window of Opportunity is now being applied in Cuba
to upgrade attention to agencies and persons interested in doing business with the
country, and to make the process more flexible. Marta Loma, minister of foreign investment
and economic cooperation (MINVEC), announced this news during a meeting with entrepreneurs
and journalists at the 18th Havana Trade Fair.
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Friendshipment caravan against ‘cruel
embargo’ reaches U.S.-Mexican border
November 6, 2000
MIAMI (AFP).- The U.S.-Cuba Friendshipment, made in protest of the "cruel
embargo" imposed on the island nation, will cross the U.S. border with Mexico on
Thursday, November 2, carrying humanitarian aid to Cuba in an "act of civil
disobedience" ag ainst U.S. authorities, the caravan’s organizers announced on
Wednesday.
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A Mexican and a
Cuban in Madrid
November 6, 2000
I have never felt such emotion as the time
Manolo Alvarez and I went to meet Alfonso Reyes in the Nacional Hotel. I had devoutly read
several of his books and now here he was standing in front of me, a small man, his face
illuminated with a smile. The event was a world meeting of intellectuals, which had been
called by the Society of Nations. The year was 1941, in the middle of World War II.
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From punishment to
street vendor’s cry
November 6, 2000
THEY say that in the streets of 16th-century Havana a slave named Antón shouted out the
draconian orders of the Town Hall and the punishments meted out to slaves who had violated
colonial Spanish laws.
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Breaking with protocol
November 3, 2000
THE Venezuelan president had promised that one day Fidel would be received in that nation
in the manner he deserved. The Cuban leader was welcomed by a sea of people, and their
predicted love in encounters exceeded analysts’ expectations and ran counter to press
campaigns surrounding the visit.
• ZOOM
November 3, 2000
• It’s
the end of the world, gentlemen!
November 3, 2000
THE young woman walked with a cadence,
wearing tight jeans. Two young men watched her from the corner. They clicked their tongues
as she walked by and said: "How fine she is!" This is a phrase commonly used on
the island to characterize good-looking women with sculpted figures, but it is modest
compared to other, more vulgar expressions.
• Former Chilean
ambassador charges Pinochet with Prats homicide
November 2, 2000
BUENOS AIRES, November 1 (PL).- A former Chilean ambassador to Argentina
affirmed here today that the 1974 order to assassinate former Chilean General Carlos Prats
came from the regime headed by General Augusto Pinochet.
• Cienfuegos against
injustice
November 2, 2000
IT is a traditional day of singular revolutionary importance in Cuba. The
seas surrounding the island, along with its rivers and streams, are filled with flowers,
in honor of that gentleman of the vanguard, Camilo Cienfuegos, who disappeared in rough
seas 41 years ago.
• Economic integration is
the route to survival
November 2, 2000
BASSETERRE, St. Kitts.— Venezuela’s new resident ambassador to
the Federation of St. Kitts and Nevis, Her Excellency Ms. Myriam Troconiz Luzardo, says
economic integration is the only route of survival for the countries of Latin America and
the Caribbean.
• Governor
of St. Petersburg in Havana
November 2, 2000
THE second secretary of the Central Committee
of the Communist Party of Cuba, General of the Army Raúl Castro Ruz, had a friendly
meeting with the governor of St. Petersburg, Vladimir Yakoviev, a few hours before the
departure of the distinguished visitor, who arrived in the country on October 25 at the
head of two delegations, one official and the other a trade mission.
• Fidel and Chávez
sign energy agreement
October 30, 2000
THE presidents of Cuba and Venezuela, Fidel Castro and Hugo Chávez, have signed the
Caracas Energy Agreement in the Ayacucho Salon of Caracas’ Miraflores Palace, marking
the conclusion of an official visit by the Cuban head of state.
• Our cooperation
with Venezuela is inspired by ideals which go beyond simple trade
October 30, 2000
KEY ADDRESS BY DR. FIDEL CASTRO RUZ,
PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF CUBA, TO A SOLEMN SESSION OF THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY MEETING IN
THE FEDERAL LEGISLATIVE PALACE. VENEZUELA, OCTOBER 27, 2000
• The blockade has been
tightened rather than loosened
October 30, 2000
CARLOS Lage, vice president of the Council of State, denied that there has been an alleged
relaxation of the U.S. economic blockade of Cuba and reiterated that his country
"does not negotiate its dignity with anyone," according to Prensa Latina.
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Homage to Bolívar on second day of Fidel’s visit to
Venezuela
October 30, 2000
CARACAS, October 27 (PL).— President
Fidel Castro initiates today—the second in his official
visit to Venezuela—by paying tribute to Venezuelan
liberator Simón Bolívar.
• Favorable conditions
for investment
October 30, 2000
ACCORDING to Hartwig Berghaus, head of foreign trade policy at the German Federal Ministry
of Economy and Technology, who is heading a broad-based delegation from that country to
the 18th Havana Trade Fair (FIHAV 2000), this is a good moment to promote German
investments in Cuba.
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Fidel Castro will always be an example of dignity, says
President Chávez
October 30, 2000
CARACAS (PL).- Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez affirmed on Wednesday, October 25, that
Cuban leader, Fidel Castro, is and will always be an example of dignity for the people of
Latin America and the Caribbean, adding that the integration accord that will be signed by
his country and Cuba is one more step towards Latin American and Caribbean integration.
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Increased quality at FIHAV
2000
October 30, 2000
THE 18th Havana Trade Fair (FIHAV 2000), the principal Cuban commercial exhibition and one
of the most important staged on the American continent, will open its doors on October 29
with an impressive and wide-ranging display of vehicles, machinery and other products.
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Taxes on telephone
services between Cuba and the United States
October 25, 2000
BY way of an immediate response to
the immoral plundering of Cuban funds illegally frozen in the United States and
their handing over to terrorist mafia groups in Miami, the Council of State of the
Republic of Cuba has announced Decree-Law No. 213.
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Solidarity
delegation in Venezuela
October 25, 2000
A representative delegation from various sectors of
Cuban society is visiting Venezuela with the aim of strengthening relations between the
two countries and expressing the island’s solidarity and selfless support.
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The CIA’s bandits were defeated
October 25, 2000
THE bandit group burst into the Mederos’ house in the
Escambray Mountains. The family members were gathered around the radio listening to one of
Fidel’s speeches and this "crime" drove the outlaws into a frenzy. In the
name of democracy and liberty, they delivered a brutal beating to everyone, including the
women.
• On the front line of a
cultural battle
October 20, 2000
THE celebration of Cuban Culture Day has special significance in these
times when centers of power, calling themselves communications and entertainment
transnationals, leave little room for indigenous artistic creativity in any country. This
undeniable fact can only give rise to the promotion of awareness of that which is
national, such that people do not lose perspective about what is their own.
• Cuban specialists to
participate in special FAO program
October 20, 2000
MORE than 250 experts are slated to work as technical advisors in Third
World nations as part of a special food security program sponsored by the UN Food and
Agriculture Organization (FAO), in order to strengthen South-South cooperation.
• Beyond
the electoral campaigns
October 19, 2000
A few days ago, I heard a neighbor
who had recently returned from Miami expressing his amazement over the fact that the
daughters of the relatives he visited in that city do not attend school. The girls receive
lessons in their home instead and only visit school premises in order to take exams.
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A traditional trio
October 19, 2000
I’M not going to write about their origins, because much has been said about
coffee, tobacco and rum. Over recent years, they have become globalized and they can be
found in abundance almost everywhere in the world. However, each has its own culture and
well-defined personality.
• The
‘six-billion baby’
October 19, 2000
ACCORDING to her parents and her family doctor, Débora Mora Mena turned one year
old in excellent health and with all the conditions to continue growing strong. The
playful and smiling baby appears to confirm this.
• Lookout point in the
Caribbean
October 18, 2000
IF you ask around Montreal, Toronto, Vancouver, Calgary or any other
Canadian city what is Cuba’s biggest attraction, many people would reply by naming
the increasingly well known and loved Jardines de Rey.
• Taca Group expands
flights to Canada
October 18, 2000
WITH the inauguration on October 31 of the Taca Group’s flights
between San José, Costa Rica, and Montreal, Canada, this Central American company is
incorporating into its services a new destination which will contribute to tourism and
trade between the two regions.
• Chamber of Commerce
agreement to boost trade with Russia
October 18, 2000
AN agreement has been signed in Havana between the Chamber of Commerce and
Industry in the Ural Mountains region and its Cuban counterpart, with the aim of
increasing bilateral trade, investments and cooperation between the Russian Federation and
the island.
• 'Relaxing'
the blockade
October 17, 2000
THE distortion perpetrated by certain members
of the U.S. House of Representatives to the bill to "relax" the blockade of
Cuba, in terms of food and medicine sales, has created a crisis of credibility regarding
the very system they wish to impose on the people of Cuba.
• ZOOM
October 16, 2000
• Shots
of life
October 16, 2000
ALTHOUGH pistols are usually associated with death, new techniques from France for the
artificial insemination of livestock use these instruments to engender new life by
injecting semen into the female bovine through a small tube which resembles a child’s
pick-up stick.
• Mexican
entrepreneurs project new investments on the island
October 12, 2000
MEXICAN entrepreneurs are interested in the growing boom in commercial prospects in Cuba,
stated José Yamil Hallal, president of the Confederation of National Chambers of
Commerce, Services and Tourism, in his first exploratory visit to the island on the
invitation of his Cuban counterpart.
• 12% growth expected in number of visitors this year
October 12, 2000
DURING the 1990s, tourism in the country grew, on
the average, 19-20% annually and the number of visitors increased from about 500,000 in
the beginning of the decade to 1.8 million this year, an increase of 12-13% in comparison
with 1999.
• Che: from the bottom of our
hearts
• The harvest of chefs
• Fidel is presented with
Khadafi Human Rights Prize
• Products for human and
animal health
• Marketing: a fashion?
• Iranian president receives Carlos Lage in Tehran
• The challenges to justice
• Solidarity without contradictions
• U.S.
Supreme Court covers up for Bacardí
• U.S.
Supreme Court covers up for Bacardí
• No
Third World athlete is represented on the IOC
• In Search of Elián
• Planet AIDS
• Cuba and Japan to expand trade and cooperation
• Tourism and gardens
• ZOOM
• Friendship and solidarity between Cuba and Iran
• Healthy night life for
Havana
• In vitro plant production
increases by more than 20%
• Central Americans’ search of the American dream: a
nightmare
• Irresponsible journey
• Singular
and traditional recollections of the Grito de Dolores
• 35
years of ‘Granma’
• Cuisine
is culture
• The world continues to shows its worst side to women
• Cuba in 2000 Design Biennial
• Friendship
and solidarity between Cuba and Iran
• An
abundance of energy and valor
• First
Cuban virtual university
• British government opposes Helms-Burton
• Get
there or die in the attempt
• Official visit by the president of Iran
• Chávez confirms invitation for
Cuba to join Caracas Energy Agreement
• Germany in favor of cooperation
with Cuba
• An act which compensates with death
• New proof of the U.S. authorities’ lies and
a challenge
•
Un report
• First Cuban
virtual university
• Huge popular
protest against killer law
• Hijacked aircraft falls into sea en route to Miami
• Act now to end the misery
• Ibrahim Ferrer, the most popular singer of the
moment
• Turbulence
in the fuel market
•
Spanish
specialists present course on drug trafficking
• Rigoberta
Menchu: Impunity and justice do not go hand-in-hand
•
Emir of
Qatar in Havana
• OPEC agrees
to raise petroleum production
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SAKURA: Japanese specialties in Cuba
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