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• Reflections of Fidel
The odious tyranny imposed on the world
May.10.10
OUR era is characterized by an unprecedented fact: the threat to human survival imposed on the world by imperialism. The painful reality should not come as a surprise to anybody. We have seen it coming at an accelerated pace in recent decades, at a rate difficult to imagine.

• The Celia that…I never knew?
May.10.10
"IF only Celia was here!" I grew up hearing that phrase repeated by adults when some official proved unworthy of his or her post or if errors continued being committed right before their eyes.

• Remembering José Martí on the 115th anniversary of his death
May.7.10
THE Martí Institutions Committee is to remember the 115th anniversary of the death in combat of José Martí via a program of conferences, roundtables, book launches and exhibitions, scheduled to run up until May 28.

• Esteban Lazo receives Mauritanian foreign minister
May.7.10
CUBAN Vice President Esteban Lazo Hernández received on Thursday Naha Mint Hamdi Ould Moukass, minister of foreign affairs and cooperation of the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, who is on an official visit to Cuba.

• Esteban Lazo receives Angolan delegation
May.6.10
VICE President Estebán Lazo Hernández, member of the Political Bureau and the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba, received this Wednesday a delegation from the Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA), headed by Jorge Inocencio Dombolo, member of the Political Bureau and coordinator of the Discipline and Audit Commission of the Central Committee.

• 20 years of relations between Sol Meliá and Cuba
Fidel recognized as honorary founder
May.6.10
A plaque for "honorary founder of the Sol Palmeras Hotel" was awarded yesterday to Commander in Chief Fidel Castro Ruz, on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of this hotel, whose opening marked a change in political strategies for the development of this sector and gave impetus to a new stage of tourism in Cuba.

• Raúl receives Japanese minister of agriculture, forestry and fishing
May.5.10
PRESIDENT Raúl Castro Ruz had a meeting yesterday, May 4, with Hirotaka Akamatsu, Japanese minister of agriculture, forestry and fishing. In an open and cordial conversation they discussed bilateral relations and the aim of strengthening them, as well as current international issues.

• Security and diversity: pillars of the Cuban image
May.5.10
CUBA is to continue providing secure, diverse and quality tourism, affirmed Manuel Marrero, minister of this sector, addressing participants in FITCuba 2010, the 30th edition of the Tourism Fair, dedicated this year to Russia.

• Official Note
May.4.10
At the proposal of its president, the Council of State has agreed the following:
1. To release Jorge Luis Sierra Cruz from his posts as vice president of the Council of Ministers and minister of transport, due to errors committed in the fulfillment of his functions.

• Esteban Lazo inaugurates tourism convention
May.4.10
ESTEBAN Lazo Hernández, vice president of the Council of State and member of the Political Bureau, inaugurated FITCuba 2010, the 30th International Tourism Fair, last night here in the capital. Also attending the ceremony were Manuel Marrero, tourism minister; Communist Party and government representatives; workers from the Ministry of Tourism (MINTUR) and special guests from Russia, the guest country of honor.

• Raúl greets general secretary of the Communist Party of Spain
May.3.10
CUBAN President Raúl Castro Ruz and José Ramón Machado Ventura, member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party, met with José Luis Centella, general secretary of the Communist Party of Spain, after the mass May Day parade.

• More than 1.6 million vote in second round
May.3.10
BY 5:00 p.m. yesterday afternoon, 1.6 million (87.65) of the 1.85 million citizens on the Electoral Register, updated in the case of constituencies moving on to the second round of elections for 2,121 delegates to the Municipal Assemblies of People's Power, had cast their vote.

• Millions of Cubans take to plazas and avenues this May Day
May.1.10
FROM an early hour, millions of Cuban men and women have been invading the principal plazas and avenues of the island’s municipal and provincial cities, where parades for International Workers Day are taking place this Saturday.

• Raúl receives Angolan defense minister
April.30.10
PRESIDENT Raúl Castro had a fraternal meeting with General Candido Pereira dos Santos Van-Dunem, minister of defense of the Republic of Angola, who was on a private visit to Cuba.

• Municipal Elections
95.86% of registered electors voted
April.30.10
ANA María Mari Machado, president of the National Electoral Commission (CEN) has announced that the process of validation of data from the electoral colleges has been completed and information on inclusions and exclusions of voters on the day of the elections has been checked against the Electoral Register.

• May Day: Cubans once again to take to the plazas
April.29.10
CUBANS are once again preparing to return to plazas throughout the country in celebration of International Workers Day and with renewed enthusiasm this year.

• 12,986 delegates elected
April.27.10
ACCORDING to the final figures on last Sunday’s elections, 12,986 delegates were elected, 86% of the 15,093 seats to be covered in the 169 Municipal Assemblies of People's Power.

• Youngest generations to lead and close the May Day parade in Plaza de la Revolución
April.27.10
THE youngest generations are to lead and close the parade on Saturday at Plaza de Revolución, in which workers from the capital and their families will celebrate May Day.

• Reflections of Fidel
The insanities of our era
April.26.10
THERE is no alternative but to call things by their name. Anyone with minimal commonsense can observe without much effort how little realism remains in the current world.

• Results up to 5:00 p.m.
93.49% of registered voters go to the polls
April.26.10
BY 5:00 P.M. yesterday, Sunday, and with one hour to go before the polling stations close, 8,094,419 Cuban citizens had exercised their right to vote, 93.49% of registered voters.

• Fidel and Raúl vote in municipal elections in Cuba
April.25.10
THE Cuban leader Fidel Castro voted from his residence for this Sunday’s municipal elections and his sealed vote was sent via the electoral authorities to be deposited in a ballot box, as filmed by national television. President Raúl Castro was the first voter in Electoral College No.1 of Constituency 107, in Plaza de la Revolución municipality.

• Cuba votes to maintain and improve its Revolution
April.25.10
A vote for the merits, capabilities and conditions of candidates will be an unequivocal message of Cubans’ confidence in their political system and of their will to maintain and improve it, states a statement from the National Electoral Commission made public today.

• Elections underway in 29,800-plus polling stations in Cuba
April.25.10
A total of 24,854 polling stations were open this Sunday throughout Cuba, to welcome the 8.5 million citizens who are to elect delegates to the Municipal Assemblies of People’s Power. Alina Balseiro Gutiérrez, secretary of the National Election Commission, stated that only two constituencies will not hold partial...

• Raúl returns to Cuba
April.22.10
CUBAN president Raúl Castro Ruz returned to Cuba around midday this Wednesday after concluding a intense and fruitful working visit to Venezuela, where he also participated in the 9th ALBA summit and festivities surrounding the bicentenary of the beginning of the independence struggle in that sister Bolivarian nation.

• Reflections of Fidel
Sisterhood between the Bolivarian Republic and Cuba
April.19.10
I had the privilege of talking for three hours last Thursday 15th with Hugo Chávez, president of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, who had the gentility to once again visit our country, this time arriving from Nicaragua.

• Chávez meets with Fidel and Raúl
April.16.10
PRESIDENT Hugo Chávez Frías, accompanied by a governmental delegation yesterday made a working visit to Cuba, arriving from Nicaragua.

• Trade Unionists from 21 countries to celebrate May Day in Cuba
April.14.10
TO date, more than 500 trade union workers from 21 countries have confirmed their presence at the central May Day activities in Cuba, to reaffirm their solidarity with the Revolution.

• Informative Note
April.13.10
DURING the last 15 months wide areas of the Cuban archipelago have registered notable deficits in accumulated rainfall, reaching an extreme in certain places.
Thus the National General Staff of the Civil Defense has issued the following Informative Note:
The current drought that is affecting the country began in November 2008 and notably intensified in 2009, classified as fourth in terms of least rainfall in the last 109 years.

• Dignity against lies
April.13.10
IN the People’s Council of Peñalver, Bacuranao, the neighbors went out to celebrate. They did so, because yesterday was the date for an emulation check in the Guanabacoa municipality. Many CDR (Committee for the Defense of the Revolution) members, families and areas were feted on account of their tremendous undertaking to do more for the Revolution from each CDR.

• Raúl receives Venezuelan vice president
April.12.10
CUBAN President Raúl Castro Ruz yesterday afternoon received Rafael Ramírez Carreño, Venezuelan vice president and minister of energy and oil.

• Residents of Guayabal and Santa Cruz express gratitude to Fidel and Raúl
April.9.10
GUAYABAL, Las Tunas.— Residents of this southern costal town sent a message full of gratitude and spirit to Fidel and Raúl via Vice President José Ramón Machado Ventura.

• EDITORIAL
We will defend the truth with our ethics and our principles
April.8.10
THE empire and its allies have launched a new crusade in an attempt to demonize Cuba. Its powerful political and media machinery has set in motion a colossal operation of deception with the object of discrediting the revolutionary process, destabilizing the country and provoking the conditions for the destruction of our social system.

• Tribute to Vilma on her 80th birthday
April.8.10
SANTIAGO DE CUBA.— Cuban Vice President José Ramón Machado Ventura presided over the inauguration of the Vilma Espín Guillois Memorial, which testifies to the humane influence of our Cuban heroine, outstanding combatant and paradigm of revolutionary womanhood.

• Concert for 80th anniversary of Wilma Espín
April.6.10
A special concert was given yesterday to mark the 80th anniversary of the birth of Wilma Espín Guillois, an everlasting example of Cuban women who, on receiving the Utility of Virtue recognition, declared that she was a follower of Martí to her roots.

• We will never give in to coercion from any country or group of nations no matter how powerful they are
April.5.10
Delegates and Guests,
Compañeros:
We have had a good Congress, which really began last October with the open meetings attended by hundreds of thousand of youths and continued with the evaluation meetings of the grass roots organizations and municipal and provincial committees, during which the agreements adopted in these final sessions were shaped.

• Summary of the central report to the 9th UJC Congress
April.5.10
Compañeras and compañeros:
ON December 5, 2004, during the closing session of the last Congress of the Union of Young Communists, we heard with emotion our Commander in Chief state, and I quote:

• Raul meets with Leonid Kuchma, special envoy of the Ukrainian president
April.2.10
CUBAN President Raúl Castro Ruz received former Ukrainian president Leonid Kuchma, specials envoy of current President Víctor Yanukóvich, on Thursday at the commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the medical care program for children affected by the nuclear catastrophe in Chernobyl.

• Ukrainian government and people recognize Cuban treatment of the children of Chernobyl
April.2.10
A distinction for Commander in Chief Fidel Castro, chief inspiration of the humane project constituted by the treatment program in Cuba for Ukrainian children and their families affected by the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, was presented during a ceremony marking the 20th anniversary of the first patients’ arrival.

• Machado Ventura receives top Chinese youth leader
April.1.10
VICE President José Ramón Machado Ventura received yesterday a delegation headed by Lu Hao, member of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party and first secretary of Communist Youth League, at the headquarters of the Central Committee.

• Two decades of communion in struggle
March.31.10
THE 20th anniversary of a meeting between leaders of protestant and evangelical churches and Cuba’s Jewish community with Commander in Chief Fidel Castro on April 2, 1990, was commemorated yesterday at an event presided over by President Raúl Castro Ruz.

• Reflections of Fidel
Health reform in the United States
March.25.10
BARACK Obama is a fanatical believer in the imperialist capitalist system imposed by the United States on the world. "God bless the United States," he ends his speeches.

• Raúl pays tribute to Commander of the Revolution Juan Almeida and the combatants of the Third Front
March.25.10
RAUL’S tribute at the grave of Commander of the Revolution Juan Almeida Bosque, his intimate comrade in struggle for more than 50 years, initiated the Cuban president’s intensive working day in the eastern provinces. He also placed flowers on the grave of the brothers Israel and Benjamín Pardo Guerra; the latter died fighting in the Sierra Maestra on January 19, 1958.

• Raúl on intensive visit to Guantánamo
March.24.10
THE news ran like wildfire: "Raúl’s at Isora’s house!" Within minutes, the neighbors began to gather in front of No. 68 Marina Street, a narrow block in the town of Caimanera, close to the shore of Guantánamo Bay.

• Raúl in Santiago de Cuba
March.23.10
"HOW’s Fidel?" "Thanks for coming here so rapidly!" "¡Viva la Revolución!" Phrases like these were reiterated at every one of President Raúl Castro’s meetings with residents in the Second Front and Santiago de Cuba municipalities on the second day of his stay in this province, where he arrived less than 24 hours after last Saturday’s earthquake.

• May Day Parade in Plaza de La Revolución
March.23.10
THE José Martí Plaza de la Revolución will once again be the stage for the May Day Parade (May 1st), whose leaders will be Havana workers and their families, marching under the slogan "United in Duty." On the same day there will be similar marches and activities in municipal centers throughout the country, so that everyone in Cuba will simultaneously celebrate International Workers Day in mass activities in which popular initiative and the rational use of resources will predominate.

• Raúl in Santiago de Cuba
March.22.10
PRESIDENT Raúl Castro Ruz arrived in this eastern Cuban city a few hours after a 5.5-magnitude earthquake on the Richter scale was recorded on Saturday the 20th. It was felt throughout the region, and followed by several aftershocks of lesser magnitude, three of them between 3 and 4.8 degrees.

• Cuba notes 50th anniversary of U.S. declaration of unilateral war
March.18.10
HAVANA, March17.—In the face of another hostile media campaign directed by Washington, Cuba recalls today the 50th anniversary of former U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower’s executive order approving covert and terrorist action against the island.

• Latin American School of Medicine enrollment in Cuba reaches 10,000
March.16.10
THE Latin American School of Medicine (ELAM) in Cuba is now 10 years old, and has an enrollment of 10,000 students from dozens of countries, who are studying to be doctors without any cost for their families.

• Statement from the National Assembly of People’s Power
March.12.10
IN the wake of a media campaign mounted by powerful corporations, fundamentally in Europe, which have ferociously attacked Cuba, and after a dirty debate, the European Parliament has just passed a resolution of condemnation against our country that manipulates sentiments, brandishes lies and conceals realities.
- European Parliament aligns itself with anti-Cuba media campaign

• Reflections of Fidel
The dangers that are threatening us
March.8.10
THIS is not an ideological issue related to the irremediable hope that a better world is and must be possible.
It is known that homo sapiens has existed for approximately 200,000 years, equivalent to a minuscule space in the time that has passed since the first forms of elemental life on our planet emerged around three billion years ago.

• Fidel awarded medal for 80 Years of the National School of Public Health
March.5.10
THE commemorative medal for 80 years of the National School of Public Health (ENSAP) was conferred this Thursday on the leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro Ruz, for his exceptional contributions to the development of Cuban society, and for building the foundations of and consolidating the health care system in its national and international projections.

• Orlando Zapata Tamayo, a case of political manipulation
March.4.10
CUBAN television’s March 1 national nightly news report on February 1 featured the statements of doctors who treated Orlando Zapata Tamayo, and of his mother, Reina Tamayo, who acknowledged the attention provided to her son by the health center. Here, Granma International provides below a transcript of that report by journalist Gladys Rubio

• Prime Minister of Grenada grateful for training of nurses for the Caribbean
March.3.10
JAGÜEY GRANDE.—Prime Minister Tillman Thomas of Grenada, who is currently visiting our country at the invitation of President Raúl Castro, praised here the Cuban training program for Caribbean nurses.

• The terrorist attack on the La Coubre:
50 years later, Washington remains silent
March.3.10
DESPITE Cuba’s repeated accusations of Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) responsibility for the March 4, 1960 explosion of the French ship La Coubre in the port of Havana, the U.S. government, 50 years later, continues to hold the documents in its archives.

• Reflections of Fidel
The latest meeting with Lula
March.2.10
I met him in Managua in July 1980, thirty years ago, during the commemoration of the first anniversary of the Sandinista Revolution, thanks to my contacts with supporters of Liberation Theology, which were initiated in Chile when I visited President Allende in 1971.

• Raúl receives prime minister of Grenada
March.2.10
CUBAN President Raúl Castro Ruz received the Honorable Tillman Thomas, Prime Minister of Grenada on Monday afternoon in the Palace of the Revolution. Thomas is on an official visit to Cuba.

• To the Cuban doctors
March.1.10
CUBAN doctors and their humanitarian work in Haiti have demonstrated to the world a worthy example of fraternal dedication, humane generosity, elevated professionalism, skilled medical experience, and pure love for other people, and action that should be admired and broadcast by all the media outlets on the planet.

• For whom is death a useful tool?
March.1.10
THE total lack of martyrs within the Cuban counterrevolution is proportional to its lack of scruples. It is not easy to die in Cuba, not because life expectancy now parallels that of the developed world – nobody dies of hunger, despite a lack of resources — but because the law and honor prevails. Cuban mercenaries can be detained and tried in accordance with existing legislation.

• Lula: there is no reason for the economic blockade against Cuba
February.26.10
LUIZ Inácio Lula da Silva, president of the Federative Republic of Brazil, this Thursday called on President Barack Obama to lift the economic, commercial, and financial blockade of Cuba because there is no reason for this measure to be in place.

• Fruitful exchange between Raúl and Lula
February.25.10
CUBAN president Raúl Castro Ruz and Luis Inácio Lula da Silva, president of the Federative Republic of Brazil, held productive talks on Wednesday afternoon in the Palace of the Revolution, as part of the Brazilian president’s working visit to Cuba.
- Several new agreements between Cuba and Brazil

• Fidel and Lula hold fraternal meeting
February.25.10
ON Wednesday afternoon, February 24, a meeting took place between the leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro Ruz, and the president of the Federative Republic of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who is currently on a working visit to our country.

• Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva visits Cuba
February.24.10
LUIZ Inácio Lula da Silva, president of the Federal Republic of Brazil, arrived in Havana yesterday, Tuesday, on a working visit, at the invitation of Cuban President Raúl Castro.

• Statement from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
February.22.10
AS opportunely announced, on February 19, 2010, a new round of migration talks took place in Havana with the United States government.
As was the case during the round held in New York, other issues were discussed during this exchange. This time, Cuba’s delegation reiterated the proposals made in July to the U.S. side, referring to cooperation in confronting drug trafficking, terrorism and human trafficking, protecting the environment and responding to natural disasters.

• Impact of drug-trafficking in 2009
A never-ending threat and the inevitable response
February.19.10
THE increase in international drug trafficking activity in our geographical area, encouraged by the insatiable market in the United States, had its principal impact on Cuba in terms of the increased volume of drugs confiscated by Cuban authorities in 2009. This figure rose to more than three tons, according to information provided by the Ministry of the Interior.

• Evo Morales calls for bringing dignity to Bolivia’s justice system
February.19.10
SUCRE, Bolivia, February 18.— President Evo Morales made a call to bring dignity to Bolivia’s justice system during a ceremony where he swore in 13 members of the Constitutional Court, the Supreme Court, and the Judiciary Council, PL reports.

• Nadine Gordimer, Nobel laureate, fighting for the five
Such cruelty is unacceptable
February.18.10
SOUTH African Nadine Gordimer, 1991 Nobel Prize for Literature, read out letter to President Obama calling for the release of the five Cuban heroes. Gordimer is in our country as an invited guest to the 19th Havana Book Fair.

• Raúl attends tribute to Juan Almeida
No one surrenders here!
February.18.10
YESTERDAY, representing the stage and visual arts, an outstanding group of artists and performers proclaimed the permanent validity of the historic phrase shouted by Juan Almeida shortly after the Granma yacht landing – "No one surrenders here!" – during a commemoration evening attended by President Raúl Castro.

• Esteban Lazo receives President of the National Assembly of the Republic of Cape Verde
February.17.10
AT the headquarters of the Central Committee of the Party, Vice President Esteban Lazo Hernández received Arístides Raimundo Lima, president of the National Assembly of the Republic of Cape Verde who is visiting our country at the head of a large delegation at the invitation of the president of the Cuban Parliament.

• Machado Ventura receives president of the Canary Islands
February.16.10
VICE President José Ramón Machado Ventura has received Paulino Rivero Baute, president of the Canary Islands, who is on an official visit to Cuba.

• Raúl meets with Russian foreign minister
February.12.10
ON Friday, February 13, President Raúl Castro Ruz held a meeting with Sergey V. Lavrov, foreign minister of the Russian Federation, who had arrived in Havana the previous day at the invitation of his Cuban counterpart.

• Cuba-Russia
A truly strategic association
February.12.10
CUBA and Russia ratified this Thursday their historic ties of friendship and cooperation during a meeting between Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parilla and his Russian Federation counterpart Sergey Lavrov at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Havana.

• Henry Reeve Brigade members leave for Haiti
February.11.10
AMID slogans and heartfelt emotions, the "victory flag," as José Ramón Balaguer Cabrera described it, was presented to the Henry Reeve International Medical Brigade, composed of graduates from the Latin American School of Medicine (ELAM). Some members of the brigade are already in Haiti and others will leave shortly for that sister nation.

• José Ramón Machado Ventura meets with ex-chancellor of Austria
February.11.10
FIRST Vice President José Ramón Machado Ventura yesterday received the former chancellor of Austria, Alfred Gusenbauer.
During the meeting, the two leaders discussed issues of common interest, such as the current international economic crisis, climate change and its consequences in relation to human survival.

• The Bolivarian Revolution and the Caribbean
February.8.10
I liked history, as most boys do. Wars as well, a culture that society sowed in male children. All the toys offered us were weapons.

• Operation Miracle medical brigade returns to Cuba from Panama
February.3.10
“TODAY this reception has a special connotation. You are arriving with pride in having fulfilled your work, you are arriving full of stories of joy and pain.

• Raúl signs book of condolences for Haiti earthquake
February.3.10
PRESIDENT Raúl Castro visited the Haitian Embassy on Tuesday afternoon to express, in the name of our people, his deepest sympathy and solidarity with the victims of the earthquake that shook that sister nation on January 12.
 
• Raúl receives Mona Gamal Abdel Nasser
February.1.10
CUBAN President Raúl Castro received on Sunday afternoon Mona Gamal Abdel Nasser, daughter of the eminent Egyptian leader and president of that country from 1954 to his death in 1970.

• For social justice in the face of permanent aggression
January.29.10
THE Havana Book Fair has accustomed us to good, interesting publications. Its 19th edition brings us Eva Golinger, the Venezuelan-American writer and lawyer, for the launch of her book, USAID, NED and the CIA: Permanent Aggression, an ambitious compilation and analysis of current situations, written by Golinger and Jean-Guy Allard, a Canadian journalist resident in Cuba.

• There has been no change in U.S. policy on Cuba
January.28.10
IN opening the conference of Cubans Resident Abroad against the Blockade and in Defense of National Sovereignty this Wednesday, Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parilla, noted that "we all share the pride of being the sons and daughters of rebel Cuba, marked since the birth of the nation by the dilemma of annexation and independence."

• The revolutionary for all time
January.28.10
THE image of Martí — the revolutionary who spoke of yesterday and today — is like one of those giant trees whose roots take hold and grow more and more as time goes by.

• Machado Ventura receives prime minister of Guyana
January.26.10
PRIME Minister Samuel Hinds of the Co-operative Republic of Guyana, was received yesterday, January 25, by José Ramón Machado Ventura, first vice president of the Councils of State and Ministers.

• Reflections of Fidel
We are sending doctors, not soldiers
January.25.10
IN my "Reflection" of January 14, two days after the disaster in Haiti that destroyed that neighboring sister nation, I wrote: "In the field of healthcare and other areas, Cuba – despite being a poor and blockaded country – has been cooperating with the Haitian people for many years. Around 400 doctors and healthcare experts are offering their services free of charge to the Haitian people. Our doctors are working every day in 227 of the country’s 337 communes. On the other hand, at least 400 young Haitians have trained as doctors in our homeland. They will now be working with the reinforcement brigade which traveled there yesterday to save lives in this critical situation. Thus, without any special effort being made, up to 1,000 doctors and healthcare experts can be mobilized, almost all of whom are already there and willing to cooperate with any other state that wishes to save the lives of the Haitian people and rehabilitate the injured."

• Cuban Five send message to the Haitian people
January.20.10
THE Cuban Five, held as political prisoners in the United States for fighting terrorism, have sent a message of encouragement and hope to the Haitian people, devastated by a powerful earthquake.

• Reflections of Fidel
Haiti is putting the spirit of cooperation to the test
January.18.10
THE news arriving from Haiti paints a picture of the tremendous chaos that was to be expected given the exceptional situation created by the disaster.

• Reflections of Fidel
The lesson of Haiti
January.15.10
TWO days ago, at almost six o’clock in the evening Cuban time and when, given its geographical location, night had already fallen in Haiti, television stations began to broadcast the news that a violent earthquake – measuring 7.3 on the Richter scale – had severely struck Port-au-Prince. The seismic phenomenon originated from a tectonic fault located in the sea just 15 kilometers from the Haitian capital, a city where 80% of the population inhabit fragile homes built of adobe and mud.

• Cuba increases aid to Haiti
January.14.10
ON Wednesday morning, Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla received his counterpart from the Republic of Suriname, Lygia Louise Irene Kraag-Keteldijk, who is on an official visit to our country.

• Message from Raúl to Préval
January.14.10
Havana, January 12, 2010
His Excellency Mr. René García Préval
President of the Republic of Haiti
My dear friend,
News of the earthquake that has devastated the sister Republic of Haiti in recent hours has filled us with profound pain and consternation.

• Speed, discipline, and cooperation in Baracoa in response to tsunami threat
January.13.10
BARACOA, January 12 (AIN). – Speed, discipline and cooperation characterized the conduct of around 30,000 people evacuated today under orders from the Municipal Defense Council (CDM) in Baracoa, in response to the possible threat of a tsunami.

• Repudiation of U.S. measures continues
January.12.10
CAMPESINOS, workers, students, and relatives of victims of terrorism have recalled once again the humanitarian and anti-terrorism tradition of our country.

• The Revolution has Celia’s imprint
January.12.10
THE example of Celia Sánchez lives on in the Cuban people today, and her exceptional trajectory should be more studied by the new generations, affirmed Yolanda Ferrer, general secretary of the Federation of Cuban Women, at the house where the national heroine was born.

• The finest image of the people
January.12.10
IT is hard work to admit that 30 years have gone by since that gray afternoon of January 1980 when, with tears in our hearts, our people accompanied Celia to what would not be her final resting place as the hackneyed saying goes, but to her first rest in a life entirely dedicated to the Revolution. And that is not only because of how rapidly a life laden with efforts and victories has passed by, but, above all, because of how present we still feel her among us, how valid we feel her fertile work to be and her incomparable example.

• Celia of the Revolution
January.12.10
FOR Cubans, the first month of the year is always accompanied by the sadness caused by the death on January 11, 1980 of Celia Sánchez Manduley, a woman whose name appears on the most glorious pages of the history of this Revolution.
 

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