Raul Castro Meets with Brazilian Foreign Minister

Havana, Aug 31.- President Raul Castro met with Fernando Pimentel, Brazil's Minister of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade, who is on an official visit to the Caribbean island. During the cordial meeting, both officials exchanged on the upward development of the bilateral relations, and reiterated their purpose to work for their constant strengthening. They also discussed current international…

Cuban President Raul Castro Sends Message to NAM Summit

HAVANA, Cuba, Aug 31.- Cuban President Raul Castro sent a message to the 16th Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement, underway in Iran. The message, which was conveyed to the summit by Cuban First Vice-president Jose Ramon Machado Ventura, expressed the wish for a successful Iranian leadership of the Movement over the next three years. “Today we are facing the most serious and complex economic,…

Ban Ki Moon Calls for Ban on Nuclear Tests

Havana, Cuba, Aug 30.- UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon called for the signing of an international treaty banning the tests of nuclear weapons, since he considered it an initiative that would guarantee a safer world. In his speech marking International Day against Nuclear Tests on August 29, Ki Moon said that such actions continue to pose a threat on human health and on global stability, Prensa Latina…

Salvadorian Vice-president Grateful to Cuba

Havana, Cuba, Aug 30.- El Salvador’s Vice-president Salvador Sanchez expressed his gratefulness to Cuba for its historic solidarity with his nation and he said that the Caribbean island inspired him and his compatriots to fight for a better society. Sanchez, who is the candidate to his country’s 2014 general elections for the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front, made his statements…

Cuban Young Pianist Makes His Debut in Madrid

Havana, Aug 30.- Young Cuban pianist Rodrigo Garcia Ameneiro, barely 14 years old, successfully made his debut at Yemaya Cultural Center in Madrid, where he played a varied program of classical and folk sonorities. Ameneiro Garcia, student of teacher Hortensia Upmann at the Conservatory Manuel Saumell of Havana, interpreted pieces of German Robert Schumann, Catalonian Frederic Monpou, Argentinean…

Victims of Fire at Cuban Gas Station in Serious Conditions

Santiago de Cuba, Cuba, Aug 30.- The burns unit at the Bruno Zayas General Hospital in this eastern Cuban city reported that 26 of all 32 victims of a large fire that occurred Tuesday in a local gas station are in serious conditions. Provincial Public Health director Alberto Miranda said that the patients were classified into eight extremely critical cases, six critical, twelve in serious conditions…

Growth in Charcoal Exports Generate New Jobs in Central Cuba

Camagüey, Cuba, Aug 30.- The Local Industries Enterprise in the Cuban province of Camagüey, some 500 kilometers east of Havana, hired 165 workers to produce charcoal to export, thereby helping to create jobs in rural areas of the territory. Jose Antonio Echeverria, director of human resources of the entity, told ACN news agency that the average monthly salary of each worker reached the 536…

Aris’ Backyard: A Semi-urban Vegetable Garden of Excellence

Because of its diversification and results, Cuba’s National Urban Agriculture Group granted the double crown of Excellence to the “Patio de Aris” (Aris’ Backyard), a semi-urban vegetable garden that is located in the community Flor de Mayo, in Santa Cruz del Sur, some 82 km south of the city of Camagüey. There on a one-half hectare, Lázaro Castillo Santos has built…

Cuban Universities are Ready for New School Year

Havana, Cuba, Aug 30.- All universities under the Cuban Higher Education Ministry will open doors September 3 with the largest number of courses offered to students ever, despite shortages facing the sector. In a press conference on Thursday, Higher Education minister Rodolfo Alarcon said that the total quota of universities courses was completed, with the particularity of being a larger percent if…

Over 150,000 March in Chile

Santiago de Chile, Aug 29.- More than 150,000 students and workers marched at the Alameda in demand for free education and other structural changes. Today, most of the people ifs fighting for a common purpose, which is recovering our right to quality, free public education for every Chilean, stressed the student leader Camila Vallejo. Chile University Students Federation VP noted the large number…

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