Carlos Varela invited to Ottawa festival

THE organizers of the Ottawa Blues Festival have invited Cuban trova singer Carlos Varela to join the line-up of celebrities who, between next July 7 and 17, will light up the stage in that Canadian city. According to Varela’s promoter, La Rueda Producciones, the singer "will now have the opportunity to enter Canada and captivate thousands of Bob Dylan fans." The U.S. singer-songwriter is among the most famous artists invited to perform at the Cisco Bluesfest as the festival is also known.

The Cuban artist, author of "Una Palabra", a song that is heard twice in the film Man of Fire by U.S. director Tony Scott, will perform on the same bill as French-Spanish singer Manu Chao, Canadian artist Sarah Harmer, the Steve Miller Band and Los Lobos, among others.

Varela’s performances in Ottawa will be followed by others in Quebec, Calgary, Toronto and Montreal, the latter being the setting for the trova singer’s Canadian debut last year. Carlos Varela has recorded seven albums since his career took off in the 1980s, as part of the movement named by Cuban critics as "New Trova". This second generation of Cuban singer-songwriters followed that of Silvio Rodríguez and Pablo Milanés, among other founders of the New Trova Movement.

Several of Varela’s songs have been hits performed by Spanish singer Ana Belén and her compatriot Joaquín Sabina. Among those who have shared the stage with the Cuban musician are U.S. artists Jackson Browne and Bonnie Raitt, and the Argentines León Gieco, Fito Páez and Mercedes Sosa. •

Day of solidarity of Cuban young people with the Five

Camagüey, 19 ene. Like part of the actions that makes Cuban youth by the return of the Five unjustly imprisoned young people in the United States, a solidarity day will be carried out from 1ºde February to the 30 of April.
During this date the University Brigades Antimperialistas (BAU) will retake themselves, arisen in 1996 in City of Havana. Its initial objective was to explain in the main centers of production, services and sciences, the consequences of the law Helms Burton and the blockade economic, products of the genocida policy of the United States against Cuba.
This time, the BAU extend to all the municipalities of Cuba and will arrive at the main educational centers, of health, production and the sports to make, in addition to encounter to reflection and debates, conferences on the present time of the case of the Five, as it is known them world-wide.
In the province of Camagüey the brigades are integrated by university students, leaders of the Union of Jo'venes Comunistas (UJC) and the Student Federation of Education Average (FEEM), Social and Instructional Workers of Art, adding a total of 294 lecturers.

Social forum discusses problematic of the world.

Nairobi, 21 ene (PL) a vast phantom of preoccupations, from nourishing sovereignty, the information like communal property, infantile work, right commerce, and activism of the movement hip hop, was exposed today in VII Foro Social Mundial (FSM).
In the second day of megaevento that it takes place in Nairobi impressed the official testimonies and data that in the Forum Mali exposed to denounce the migratory situation of that country and the rest of Africa.
The ponentes described the atmosphere of violence that usually brings prepared the exodus towards the North, like part of an unbreakable circle by the accentuation of the poverty.
The nourishing sovereignty, subject of particular impact in the African context, appeared like a challenge in which the black continent call looks for to interlace networks for initiatives of work in favor of the right to the feeding of million people.
Members of the Caucus Human Dignity and Human rights, that were pronounced on the subject, said to Latin Press that a third of the population of sub-Sahara Africa is almost undernourished and the number grows progressively.
Supported in data recognized by the UN, the ponentes they indicated that almost half of the African residents to the south of the Sahara lives in the poverty, and more of the 40 percent of the homes has less of a dollar per day.
Other social sectors, for their side, pleaded for the defense of the information like a communal property of the humanity, and denounced the transnational companies that concentrate main means of diffusion at a time of convergence of technologies.
Culture and biodiversity, Arab diáspora and transnacionalismo, the right of the people to a worthy work within Metas de Desarrollo of the Millenium fixed by the UN, and free software like mechanism to share the power, was in debate.
Between than thousand 300 activities the more self-managed of VII the FSM, a factory questioned the European aid to countries of Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific, to condition it to which they create are good models of governability and democracy.
Also, the economic subject deserved incisors analysis, in as much condemned the agreements of free commerce impelled by the United States and the European Union, when considering them strategies to strengthen its agendas of corporative globalización.
The grouping Young Venezuelan against the imperialism and in defense of the revolution in its country presented/displayed an ample one and detailed information about the most needed the bolivarianas social missions to the service of.
The own exhibitors described as inevitable the mention to Cuba by the magnitude of the cooperation offered in the matter of health, education and social welfare to the Venezuelan town.
In the one of the carps raised in the Sport Center Moi International, seat of the forum, the Ecumenical Network on the Water demanded "to socialize" the vital liquid, while the Network South Jubileo denounced the ilegitimidad of the debts, public as as much external.
Members of the Cultural Association Rosso Point, of Italy, indicated to strategies and challenges of the world-wide movement front to the Socialism of century XXI, and the Global Platform of Citizens alerted of the negative consequences of the climatic change.
But the spaces of the FSM are so ample that singing of hip hop sensitized on the convenience of articulating actions with nongovernmental groups.

Voluntary promoters support fight against the VIH-SIDA

Thousands of Cuban, including carriers of the VIH-SIDA, are promotional volunteers in the campaign of prevention and control of that disease, that affects more than 41 million inhabitants in the planet.
Even though the country exhibits a low rate of prevalence, the education and qualification constitutes a sanitary priority like the welfare work, by means of which the totality of the affected ones has insured the antiretrovirales treatments.
In occasion to be celebrated today, the World-wide Day of fight against the AIDS, in the 14 provinces takes place an ample day that involve schools, centers of work, parks and other sites public where they are made video-you debate, didactic conferences, games, Gallic cultural and other initiatives.
The strategy in Santiago of Cuba was directed to elevate the sensibilización and the perception of the risk before that pandemic that has in the main prevention the therapeutic one.
Kenya doctor Fernandez, person in charge of qualification of that program in the territory, explained that in the matter of promotion three consultancies work, one of which is via telephone, another face to face and the anonymous one.
The work in student, labor centers and community puts emphasis in the adolescents and young people, men who have sex with other men and women, being those of greater incidences.
The specialist emphasized that in the medical report a service of clinical inmunología in the Hospital was inaugurated east year Dark brown Juan Zayas, where exists a novel technological equipment for an attention of quality to these patients.
A quarter of century after its appearance, the pandemic of the AIDS progresses to a rate of 11 thousand new contagios per day in the orb. (AIN)

It arrived Cuba at the number of two million visitors

The Ministry of Turismo (MINTUR) of Cuba informed that Cuba arrived today, 30 days ahead, to the number of two million visitors, said the Cuban television.
The MINTUR emphasizes that that number is surpassed by third consecutive year, which demonstrates the positioning of the Cuban tourist product, it needs the source.
Every time they are plus the people who arrive at the greater Antilla from different countries, attracted nonsingle by his exceptional beaches and sun, but also by a destiny that bet by the nature, the health and the security, historical and cultural values, as well as by the hospitality whereupon receive the visitor. (AIN)

They conclude Guatemalans campaign by the liberation of the Five

Guatemala-With a visit to the Cuban Medical Brigade in this capital concluded a route in motorcycle of Guatemalan young people by several institutions to today disclose the truth of the five Cuban prisoners unjustly in the United States.
"Daily of Motorcycle II" it is the name of this initiative, inspired by the trip that in its youth made Ernesto Che Guevara by Latin America.
To name of the promoters, Carlos Quiche' read a letter directed to the North American town where they denounce the abuses committed against the patriotic ones which they defended his town of the terrorist acts of the Mafia of Miami.
Cuban cooperators sealed the letter, which was signed by near a thousand of Guatemalans since periplo in this capital began, the 8 of last October.
The coordinator of the brigade, Yoandra Wall, thanked for the gesture and gave to the young people the book "Five ends of a star", that has been gathering poems and texts dedicated to the antiterrorist prisoners for eight years in American jails.
The act was presided over by the ambassador of Cuba in Guatemala, Omar Moral, and counted, in addition, with the attendance of friends of the island and credited diplomatic personnel in this country.
With this encounter it concluded the made visit to 10 institutions, among them the Office of the judge advocate general of the Human rights, the University of San Carlos and the Parties Alliance New Nation and Revolutionary Unit National Guatemalan.
A newspaper on this route, extended during almost two months, will be given to the mothers and relatives of René González, Antonio Guerrero, Ramon Labañino, Gerald Hernandez and Fernando González.
It presses Latina/Miércoles 29/11/06

Chosen Cuba vice-president of Congress of Latin Union

Paris, 30 of nov (PL) Cuba was elect vice-president of XXII the Congress of the Latin Union, event that sesionó in the seat UNESCO with attendance of delegates of 37 countries, announced the Antillean diplomatic mission today.
The Latin Union is an international organization of intergovernmental character founded on 1954 to promote and to spread the cultural inheritance of the Latin world, and already reunites near 40 states members of four continents.
The ex- Secretary General of the UN, the Peruvian Javier Perez de Cuellar, president of the Congress was reelecto, indicates the press note.
The Cuban ambassador before UNESCO and representative in the Latin Union, Héctor Brown Hernandez, was chosen to occupy one of the two vice-presidencies, next to the ambassador of Andorra.
The conclave debated the works, activities and financial aspects of the Organization, and mainly about the projection and programs to develop in next the two years.
In addition, he approved a declaration in which the delegates emphasized the reaffirmation and the defense of the cultural diversity, and the recognition of the political dimension of the latinidad in the international context.
The Congress also chose to the members of the new Executive Council of the Organization, who was formed by the representatives of Brazil, Green Cabo, Cuba, Ecuador, Portugal, Rumania, El Salvador, Spain, France, Italy, Uruguay and Moldavia.
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Military parade dedicated to the town and Fidel

Havana, 2 (AIN) To the combatant town, legitimate sustenance of the Revolutionary Armed Forces (Officers' Club of Revolutionary Armed Forces) and to their founder, the Commander-in-Chief Fidel I castrate, is dedicated to this military parade when being fulfilled anniversary 50 of the disembarkation of the expeditionary ones of the Granma, today expressed here army commander Raul I castrate, minister of the Officers' Club of Revolutionary Armed Forces.
In the historical Seat of the Revolution Jose Martí, the minister emphasized that the act celebrates a transcendental event of the history of Cuba, when being fulfilled half century of the disembarkation of the Granma the two of December of 1956, date that marks the birth of the Rebellious Army and its genuine successors, the Officers' Club of Revolutionary Armed Forces.
It indicated that the military parade symbolizes in the blocks that will march past history fights of the Cuban town by their definitive independence, from the confrontation to the Spanish colonialismo.
Raul I castrate greeted the presence of close friends of the Cuban Revolution ' ' that to their support and solidarity have offered us indispensables' ' throughout last the 50 years.
It specially mentioned to the representatives of the Guayasamín Foundation and to the relatives of that great friend and Ecuadorian painter (Oswaldo Guayasamín) that conceived the noble gesture of homenajear to Fidel in their birthday 80.
It honored the minister of the Officers' Club of Revolutionary Armed Forces that those festividades congregated in Havana to Chiefs of State and Government, other high dignitaries and personalities of the political and cultural life of diverse countries, to those who we thank for to name of our town the honor to accompany to us in this tribune, said.
Shortly before, Raul I castrate, when receiving the part of the troops who will participate in the Military parade, had expressed: in this day, the first thought to fallen in defense of the mother country and those that ofrendaron their lives in aid of other towns brothers.
By all of them, heroes to eter to us of the Cuban nation, were listened to a touch of silence and 21 safe ones of artillery.
A popular march of 300 thousand Havanans will follow the military parade and the political act, which they attend, next to Cuban leaders, the presidents of Bolivia, Evo Moral, of Haiti, René Preval, prime minister of San Vicente and the Granadinas, Ralph Gonsalves, and Elect president of Nicaragua, Daniel Ortega.
They are, in addition, the ex-president of Ecuador Rodrigo Borja, and Percival Patterson, to expremier of Jamaica, the Nobel prize Gabriel Garci'a Márquez and more than two thousand national and foreign delegates summoned by the Guayasamín Foundation to celebrate the birthday of Fidel.

They ratify bonds youthful organizations of Cuba and Angola

Havana, 3 dic (PL) Leaders of the youthful organizations of Cuba and Angola ratified in this capital their bonds of solidarity and cooperation, announced here periodic Rebellious Youth today.
Julio Martinez, first secretary of the Union of Communist Young people of Cuba (UJC), engaged in a dialog in Havana with Sara Mateus, member of the National Committee of Popular Youth for the Liberation of Angola.
Both youthful organizations ratified their deep friendship and cooperation, which will continue fortifying, declared Mateus.
During its encounter with the first secretary of the UJC, Mateus, also first secretary of its organization in the angolana province of Kuando Kubango, considered the possibility of extending the bows in social sectors like education and health.
The angolana youthful leader, who comprised of the delegation of its country in the festejos by the 80 birthday of president Fidel I castrate, emphasized the contribution of the town of the island to the liberation of Angola.
Mateus indicated to the paper of Cuban youth in the continuity of the Revolution and its principles, in the middle of an international situation that imposes so many challenges and needs an irreversible position in the line of fight, added.
The performance of the Cubans in the fights by the independence of Angola always will be remembered, and its internacionalist example is inseparable of its history, pointed Mateus.
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They ratify bonds youthful organizations of Cuba and Angola

Havana, 3 dic (PL) Leaders of the youthful organizations of Cuba and Angola ratified in this capital their bonds of solidarity and cooperation, announced here periodic Rebellious Youth today.
Julio Martinez, first secretary of the Union of Communist Young people of Cuba (UJC), engaged in a dialog in Havana with Sara Mateus, member of the National Committee of Popular Youth for the Liberation of Angola.
Both youthful organizations ratified their deep friendship and cooperation, which will continue fortifying, declared Mateus.
During its encounter with the first secretary of the UJC, Mateus, also first secretary of its organization in the angolana province of Kuando Kubango, considered the possibility of extending the bows in social sectors like education and health.
The angolana youthful leader, who comprised of the delegation of its country in the festejos by the 80 birthday of president Fidel I castrate, emphasized the contribution of the town of the island to the liberation of Angola.
Mateus indicated to the paper of Cuban youth in the continuity of the Revolution and its principles, in the middle of an international situation that imposes so many challenges and needs an irreversible position in the line of fight, added.
The performance of the Cubans in the fights by the independence of Angola always will be remembered, and its internacionalist example is inseparable of its history, pointed Mateus.
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IT PRESSES CUBAN EMPHASIZES THE CHAVEZ TRIUMPH

Havana, 4 (ANSA) - the Cuban newspapers today emphasized widely the re-election in Venezuela de Hugo Chávez, that dedicated its victory to the Caribbean country and to convalescent president Fidel I castrate. "It gained Chávez" and "Chávez yes" they greeted from his covers the Granma newspaper, organ of the Communist Party of Cuba, and the weekly magazine Working, respectively, "forceful" the victory of the Venezuelan who prevailed the eve to Manuel Rosales and will govern another period. "We dedicated this victory to the Cuban town and to president Fidel I castrate", said after confirming its Chávez victory, that in declarations in its country affirmed that next it will travel to Havana to visit his colleague Fidel I castrate, convalescent after a surgery by which it delegated the temporary command more ago than four months. Fidel I castrate, of 80 years, was the great absentee the week last of the festejos through its onomástico - that was the 13 of August and whose celebration was delayed because of its crisis of health -, in special of the military parade of Saturday by its anniversary and the 50 years of beginning of revolutionary fight, that the temporary governor presided over, Raul I castrate. I castrate declared its secret health of "State" and it has been only seen in photos and videos, the last one for more of a month when it left to the crossing of rumors of cancer of the United States. During the festejos by its birthday the last week its absence sent a message to the Guayasamín Foundation excusing not to be still "in conditions". At the moment in Havana any message has not been known congratulation of I castrate to Chávez, that when dedicating to him the triumph called "revolutionary father". Cuban the state means of press profusely covered the alternatives with the Venezuelan electoral process with special envoys and connections live. Caracas and Havana maintain one narrow political and commercial alliance. They impel meetings the Bolivariana Alternative for the Américas (WHITE) in opposition to the ALCA of Washington and the plan of gratuitous oftalmológica aid for Latin American poor men "Operation Miracle". 04/12/2006 14:43

Jaguars demand aim to the blockade from the Antimperialista Tribune

"In A the democracy corrupts very easily with the money", consider its members
GERALD ARREOLA
Havana, 12 of November. During its first and only concert in Cuba, the Mexican group Jaguars sent a message of breath to the inhabitants of the island in its persistence to eliminate the blockade economic of the United States.
"we cannot be gone without before demanding that the blockade that is affecting Cuba finishes, that dies", it said to the singer and leader of the band, Saúl Hernandez, almost at the end of the presentation last Saturday. "You are obtaining it: they are going it to obtain ", said.
The Mexicans at the same time evoked their permanent campaign "in defense of the individual liberties", in individual, the eradication of the violence against the women, like the feminicidios in Mexico: "We needed more men and less male", Jose Martí said to Saúl in the Antimperialista Tribune.
On the policy in Mexico, the vocalista of Jaguars said to the journalists whom a country in intense debate observes. "the important thing is that it does not become a fight of powers, but of construction of the democracy. If a democracy in Mexico existed, the governor of Oaxaca (Ulises Ruiz) would already have to be outside ", maintained.
On the other hand, Caesar Lopez, the vampire, assured: "What we are seeing in Latin America he is that the democracy corrupts very easily with the power of the money. The masters of the capital invest in the policy so that their candidate is chosen and favors their interests.
"That is what happened with Felipe Calderón. It gives to fear that gentleman me. It arrives clearly with a right ideology, that respect but I do not share."
Extasis and trips
After two hours of concert, the head jaguar made a balance of the presentation: "We were extasiados above and we traveled there. We were ourselves very far. Taking into account that is the first time that we come, was a great concert; I hope that he is not the last one, which more Mexican groups come and than this bridge of communication which there are been tending in this stay it does been accustomed to more ".
Before the eventuality of possible retaliation in the estadunidense market by its presence in Cuba, Saúl explained that it did not have fears: "Every one is free to do what wants".
The presentation of Jaguars had to overcome three adversities at least: to the same hour the trovador appeared in another place Carlos Varela, whom it summoned to an ample segment of the roquero public; the chronic shortage of public transport in the capital, that become serious the week ends, and ignorance between the island youth of the heirs of Caifanes.
In spite of everything, they arrived at touched about 5 thousand young people. Some traveled from the near provinces. An important portion of the public was young Latin American that attends expensive of medicine or the sports in very distant schools of the center of Havana.
Unlike previous occasions, these students did not have to their disposition gratuitous buses to go the spectacle, reason why they were and they came alternating the long walk with aventón.
Saúl told that it was to as much of that effort, but finished the performance when people still requested more numbers. "we go away contentments very, is an entrance with the right foot".
Musical review
The spectacle was a musical review from the first disc of Caifanes, Mátenme because I die, to most recent of Jaguars, Chronicles of a labyrinth, and finished, of course, with the Tomasa black. For Mexican and the other Latin Americans it was a celebration to hear live to one of his favorite groups and to practically corear everything. For the Cubans it was the first contact with that world.
The Mexican embassy offered Friday coctel, that became an unusual social gathering with personalities Cuban music: Silvio Rodriguez, Harold Gramatges, Ernán Lopez Nussa, White David, Eliades Ochoa and Edesio Alexander, among others. The Mexicans were, in addition, in the main programs of radio and television and thus they managed to seed its line and its work.

The Nicaraguan young people voted by the change

(taken of http://www.juventudrebelde.cu/internacionales/2006-11-12/los-jovenes-nicaraguenses-votaron-por-el-cambio/)
Thus he has been assuring Mario Ernesto Creek Salja, ex- student leader turned for years Secretary General of Sandinista Youth
12 of November of 2006 21:43:55 GMT
Photo: APThe flags rojinegras again flood the streets of Managua with a profusion that remembers the fervor of the revolutionary years, and although the Nicaragua Alliance Prevails headed by Daniel Ortega and the FSLN is integrated by ex- liberal and preservative, old cons grouped in the Nicaraguan Resistance and until by the party founded by Anastasio Somoza...
Some affirm that similar enthusiasm was not obvious in Nicaragua from the defeat of the dictator, when a process was opened for the first time in the country that put the Vista in the abandoned ones and it gave participation them in the political life them, the majorities.
Who single we observed from the distance, we imagined between the delighted ones to the members of that inclaudicable sandinista base that, with weighing, it saw the balance of the not declared contrarrevolucionaria war "" of the United States, in the electoral results of the 25 of February of 1990. Those elections marked the first defeat in the ballot boxes of a revolution. Now, nevertheless, and with the very own characteristics of the process that will open to the taking of possession of Daniel next the 10 of January, many understand that it is the first revolution that returns like result of the same electoral exercise...
But the mature men and women are not single who lived those ten revolutionary years that are distinguished in the photographies, and the little televising shootings where the joy by the triumph of Ortega can be appraised. Also there are many young people.
Among them fortune teller to Ernesto Aryan Salja Creek, ex- student leader turned for years Secretary General of Sandinista Youth. Kind and still obviously affected, he takes care of the call telephone of Rebellious Youth.
—What represents for Nicaragua this return from the sandinismo the government?
Mario Creek, Secretary General of Sandinista Youth. Photo: Calixto N. LLanes—A reedición of that glorious 19 of 1979 July (date of the revolutionary triumph) in which the hopes of the Nicaraguan town: from the woman, from youth, from the farmer, they return to bloom with a democratic project that responds to the interests of those popular classes; of all those marginalized sectors, in special, by the neoliberal policies of last the 16 years.
—- For which east triumph now, and not in the two previous electoral fights, when Daniel Ortega and the Sandinista Front also was postulated to the presidency?
—The capacity of the town was decisive to surpass the campaign of the terror, the campaign of the fear to that it has been put under historically by imperialism. After 16 years to be being put under the blackmails and pressures of the North American government, finally the town of Nicaragua, with much confidence, voted by its own hopes, their own interests and vindications. I believe that the speech of the imperialism that announced the return of the war and a situation imposed by they themselves to our country, totally is exhausted: no longer it works in our town.
—One affirms that the vote of youth was very important. To what you attribute that the young people have pronounced themselves in favor of Daniel Ortega?
—Without no doubt, the reasons are in their aspirations to a transformation of the dramatic reality that they have been put under by the neoliberal policies. I believe that that desire to see a different mother country, with options of social justice nearer us, is what mobilized to the great mass of youth. The youthful vote was mobilized in favor of a change project, of a project of social justice; a project that summons to the reconciliation and the unit of the family; a nationalistic project that responds to the interests of each one of the Nicaraguans and, of course, of the youth that dreams and aspires to being protagonist of true transformations. We bet for that reason.
"the challenges now are enormous, and we are conscious of the responsibility that we have assumed with this electoral result".
—In agreement with the program of the Sandinista Front, which is the first postulate that will be materialized in the work of you?
—To obtain a right and much more more equitable distribution of the wealth; to turn around the glance towards the social deficiencies; to return to our town the gratuitous health and the education to him: rights acquired and briefed with the revolution that went losing little by little after 1990. To return to our town the fundamental rights to him to the life, like the use; to give back the financing to our small and medium producers. To constitute a sensitized government who can be facilitador of the national development from our own capacities; and to obtain a transformation that vindicates social justice like transverse axis of all the governmental management.
"I believe that the fundamental task of our government is to continue contributing the reconciliation, and to end for always that imperialistic aggressive speech that has located to the Nicaraguan family within a division and fear frame. Today we can say that it is exiled.
"Daniel Ortega Won, the Nicaraguan revolution was vindicated, and the country is normal, festejando. The Nicaraguans we are celebrating an electoral process that it vindicates our capacity and political culture, and that without a doubt is been from that revolutionary process.
Photo: AP"Contrary to which it had been said during these years, today in the country there is war nor no social instability; there is no convulsion. What it is breathed is tranquillity, security and, of course, there are many hopes. It has them, inclusively, the liberal farmer, the farmer who did not bet by that project but that today, after days to know the result electoral, he has been pronounced with expectations and with the hope over which this government of the Nicaragua unit Prevails he is going to know how to respond to his aspirations, and to give the solution required to each one of the problems.
—- the Sandinista Front will have to take ahead such intentions counting on the members of this formed ample alliance facing the elections. It will be able to imply that the way is more difficult, it will put restrictions?
—- I believe that first of all it is necessary to hope on the part of the representatives of the right, of the rancid and reactionary oligarchy of our country. I believe that there would be to hope everything of North American imperialism to avoid that desires of the town take shape. But the Nicaraguans we have capacity and we have learned much. The experience of these years submissive those policies that have left nonsingle the poorest people, but also our national capital and our national industralists, has made the aspiration of a unit government common who know to systematize and to assimilate the necessity of this town to become, to solve the acute problems that it has. In our country hunger exists, exists illiteracy, exists unemployment; that we have supported the Nicaraguans to it in general.
— During the revolutionary stage, Sandinista Youth was protagonist of important projects. They have some concrete initiative as of January?
—- Sandinista Youth understands that the commitments are many. Our greater challenge is to be creators and to assume a protagónico roll in the transformation and the impulse of a management of popular government who considers to people like change subject.
"In our country, a 63 percent of the population is smaller of 30 years. The young people we are the fundamental factor, the people in charge to assume the change.
"Daniel Ortega has summoned to the young people throughout all the electoral campaign to being part protagonist of the government. The sandinista government, like all revolutionary executive, is going to be a commitment, change, youth government. The young people we have been prepared for that and anxious for 16 years in which that opportunity returned to participate to us and working by the development of our town ".

Exigen en Perú excarcelación de cinco cubanos en EE.UU.

Tomado de http://www.prensa-latina.cu/article.asp?ID=%7B35BD7CAE-9D78-4B13-BE67-5BE11C9D7E0D%7D)

Lima, 14 sep (PL) Diversas organizaciones peruanas de solidaridad con Cuba dieron hoy un fuerte espaldarazo al pedido de excarcelación de cinco luchadores antiterroristas cubanos retenidos en Estados Unidos desde hace ocho años.
Gustavo Espinoza, presidente del Comité Peruano por la Liberación de Los Cinco (como se le conoce a esos jóvenes presos), aseguró que la isla simboliza la lucha de los pueblos por su soberanía y por el desarrollo.
Durante un acto, efectuado frente a la residencia del embajador norteamericano aquí, los presentes reclamaron la inmediata liberación de Gerardo Hernández, Ramón Labañino, Antonio Guerrero, René González y Fernando González.
A la cita, que significó el inicio en Perú de la jornada mundial en más de 90 países por la liberación de los cinco jóvenes acudieron decenas de representantes de Casas de la Amistad Peruano-Cubanas y de fuerzas de izquierda.
La reunión que se desarrolló de forma pacífica fue custodiada por personeros de cuerpos de seguridad peruanos vestidos de civil y efectivos de la Policía Nacional, constató Prensa Latina.

They demand in Peru release of a prisoner of five Cubans in the U.S.A..

Tomado de http://www.prensa-latina.cu/article.asp?ID=%7B35BD7CAE-9D78-4B13-BE67-5BE11C9D7E0D%7D)

Diverse Peruvian organizations of solidarity with Cuba gave to this Thursday in Lima a strong accolade to the order of release of a prisoner of five retained Cuban antiterrorist fighters in the United States eight years ago. Gustavo Espinoza, president of the Peruvian Committee by the Liberation of the Five (as it is known him those imprisoned young people), assured that the island symbolizes the fight of the towns by its sovereignty and the development.During an act, conducted as opposed to the residence of the North American ambassador in that Andean country, the presents demanded the immediate liberation of Gerald Hernandez, Ramon Labañino, Antonio Guerrero, René González and Fernando González.To the appointment, that meant the beginning in Peru of the world-wide day in more than 90 countries by the liberation of the five young people went tens of representatives of Peruvian-Cuban Houses of the Friendship and forces of left.The meeting that was developed of pacific form was guarded by personeros of Peruvian bodies of security dressed civilian and cash of the National Police, stated Latin Press.

ADDRESS BY RAÚL CASTRO RUZ, PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCILS OF STATE AND MINISTERS OF THE REPUBLIC OF CUBA , OF THE XIV SUMMIT OF HEADS OF STATE OR GOVERNME

Tomado de http://www.cubanoal.cu/ingles/index.html

Your Excellencies,
Distinguished Guests,
It is with satisfaction and pride that Cuba once again assumes the responsibility of hosting a Non-Aligned Summit. I would like to say how grateful I am that you have honoured us with your presence and on behalf of our people I offer you a warm welcome.
We would all have liked these opening words to have been delivered by President Fidel Castro, who is not among us in this Hall today, for reasons known to us all. As he makes gradual and satisfactory progress, he has been following every aspect of the preparations for this momentous meeting, in order to ensure that it reaches levels of excellence and is a resounding success. Comrade Fidel has asked me to pass on to you his warmest regards and to thank you all for being here.
Dear friend, Dato Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, Prime Minister of Malaysia,
It is both our duty and wholehearted desire to pay tribute to your excellent work as President of the Non-Aligned Movement. Cuba, which now assumes this honourable responsibility, is convinced that with our combined efforts it will be possible to continue to revitalise and strengthen this forum of political coordination of the countries of the South. We represent almost two thirds of the members of the United Nations, but, with regard to international relations, we are not the decisive force that we could be.
This doesn’t mean that we haven’t made progress. Thankfully the period of uncertainty in the nineties, when quite a few people questioned the validity of the Non-Aligned Movement when the bipolar world order came to an end, is behind us.
The current international situation, characterised by the one superpower's irrational attempts to control the world, aided by its allies, shows that we need to be increasingly united in defense of the principles and purposes upon which the Non-Aligned Movement was established, which are those enshrined in the international law and the Charter of the United Nations.
Over recent years, several member countries have been the victims of inadmissible acts of aggression, basically motivated by an insatiable hunger for strategic resources, which have in turn taken their toll on international peace and security.
The announcement and immediate application of doctrines of preventive war and imposition on other States, the pretexts for which have been, inter alia, the fight against terrorism, the promotion of democracy or the existence of rogue states, has made the risk of attack and of successive wars of imperial conquest more serious and widespread than ever before.
We are speaking with the experience of a country that has withstood more than 45 years of blockade and aggression of all kinds. With the application of their irrational policy against Cuba, the United States has gone to the extreme of presenting an official plan aimed at destroying our social system, openly announcing that it has a secret annex containing measures and actions to achieve this end.
We assume that here present are the representatives of the majority, or maybe all of, the 'sixty or more dark corners of the world´, cited as possible targets of future attacks.
Only unity and solidarity, the united stance in defense of our common aims and interests offer an alternative to the overwhelming danger and challenges facing us.
Rather than worrying, we are proud that we form an amalgam of ideologies, religions, cultures, stages of development, past experiences and specific interests. It is precisely this diversity that should be a source of strength and creativity for us.
Building on its solid foundations of past victories in the struggle for decolonization and the eradication of apartheid; using the abundant experience of our tireless efforts to secure a New International Economic Order, and campaigns for peace, disarmament and the true exercise of the right to development, the Non-Aligned Movement now has to wage courageous battles against unilateralism, double standards and the impunity granted to those in power; for a fairer and more equal international order in the face of neoliberalism, plundering and dispossession; and for the survival of the human race in the face of the effects of rich countries’ irrational consumption.
Under the current circumstances, requisites for the Non-Aligned Movement are the defense of international law based on the Bandung Principles; the unlimited exercise and respect of the sovereignty and sovereign equality of all States; the defense of the peace and active opposition to war and threats; the essential democratisation of international institutions, particularly the United Nations and its Security Council; the defense of our values and necessary plurality in this diverse world, in which the right of all peoples to choose the political, economic and social system that they consider best suited to national interests, and to preserve and develop their own culture, are respected.
The work of the Movement must include defending the rights of our immigrants in the industrialised world and fighting against exploitation, racism and xenophobia, as well as against the construction of shameful walls, symbols of a new apartheid.
In light of recent events in the Middle East, we must repeat our condemnation of the intensified aggression against the Palestinian people, the aim of which is to quell their will to fight, deprive them of the most basic means of survival and take the lives of many of their children.
We denounce the aggression against Lebanon, to whose people and government we offer our full support, and whose case offers us another example of the double standards prevailing in international relations and of the impunity enjoyed by some, however flagrant their crimes, even the use of arms prohibited by international standards.
We all know who provides economic and military support for the Israeli government, who time and again vetoes the proposed resolutions in the Security Council and hampers plans for this organ to meet to discuss their brutal conduct.
We also know who act as their accomplices; who keep silent about the grave violations against prisoners held in the jail operated by the United States in their naval base in Guantánamo, land which was illegally seized from Cuba; who have cooperated with the secret flights and clandestine prisons to which Washington recently admitted, without the slightest hint of shame.
We defend the right of our countries to the peaceful use of nuclear energy. Let us call for a general and complete disarmament, including nuclear weapons. Let us reject the dangerous US doctrine of the ‘preventive’ use of nuclear weapons, even against countries that don’t have them and against supposed terrorist groups. Let us denounce the hypocrisy of the US government, which while supporting Israel’s bid to increase their nuclear store, is threatening Iran in an attempt to prevent the peaceful use of nuclear energy.
Non-Alignment also involves the struggle to change the current world economic order. This constitutes a system based on exploitation and plundering, the tendency of which is to propagate underdevelopment and increase the gap between a small group of rich countries, home to just 20% of the world population, and a vast periphery comprising our countries and home to 80% of humankind.
For the last 20 years, neoliberal discourse has tried to convince us that the key to economic success is unlimited privatisation, minimum State intervention in the economy and the complete opening to the world market and transnational corporations.
Because of this, some 1, 300 million people, the poorest of the poor, are responsible for only 1.3% of the world consumption expenditure. In other words, they are completely marginalized from the market that neoliberalism extols as the great generator of riches.
Some countries have paid the sum of their foreign debt several times over, which is now twice the amount they owed originally.
In this globalised and transnationalised world economy, controlled by huge corporations, free trade is a mere illusion.
The current situation regarding energy supplies is due, largely, to unlimited squandering and consumerism by wealthy countries. This is nothing new, comrade Fidel Castro alerted us to this situation and made specific proposals in this regard during the opening ceremony of the 6th Summit in 1979. The depletion of oil reserves is now a harsh reality in which the normal market rules cannot be applied to hydrocarbons and the prices shoot to unpredictable extremes, as do those applied to practically all of the goods and services that we have to import from the developed world.
Nowadays, Non-Alignment means supporting the right of the countries of the South to take the measures needed to ensure that they have control over their natural resources, for the benefit of their peoples.
We are also victims of the growing knowledge divide. Brain drain robs us of our qualified human resources. Approximately one third of all scientists trained in the Third World do not work in their countries of origin, and more than 50% of those who travel abroad to study for PhDs in North America and Europe never return home.
The outlook for our countries is becoming more terrifying by the minute. Someone from Sub-Saharan Africa lives an average of 33 years less than someone living in one of the most industrialised countries. Some 11 million children continue to die every year of causes which for the most part could have been avoided if just a few cents had been spent; the AIDS pandemic is decimating entire nations from the underdeveloped world, which is home to almost all of the 852 million starving people, the 876 illiterate adults and the 325 million children who have no access to schooling. Nature is ruined, the climate is deteriorating, drinking water is being contaminated and is in short supply; the seas are running out of food for humankind; non-renewable vital resources are being squandered on luxuries and frivolities; the rising sea level poses a threat to the very existence of many insular countries.
The funds needed to resolve this problem are not large when compared to the riches and expenses of developed countries. Around one trillion dollars is spent every year on weapons and troops, at a time when the cold war is long behind us, and a similar amount is squandered on advertising.
The belief that an economic and social order that has proved to be unsustainable can be maintained by force is simply ridiculous. As President Fidel Castro said before the General Assembly of the United Nations in October 1979, “the sounds of weapons, of threatening language and of arrogant behavior in the international arena must cease. Enough of the illusion that the problems of the world can be solved by nuclear weapons. Bombs may kill the hungry, the sick and the ignorant, but they cannot kill hunger, disease and ignorance”.
Your Excellencies,
We feel sure that a better and fairer world is possible and the struggle to achieve it should be the prime objective of the Non-Aligned Movement.
As always, the people and the Government of Cuba extend their most sincere sentiments of friendship and solidarity to each and every one of you, with whom we have shared trenches in the fight against colonialism, apartheid, disease and illiteracy, and from whom we have received support in the just endeavor to preserve the sovereignty and independence attained by our country following many years of bloody and courageous battle.
During the 6th Summit of our Movement, in this very Hall, President Fidel Castro made an invocation that I would like to repeat today, 27 years on, with even more conviction and experience, and completely certain that this is our only option. He said: “The strength of our united countries is very great (…) Those of us meeting here represent the vast majority of the people of the world. Let us close ranks and unite the growing forces of our vigorous Movement in the United Nations and in all other international forums to demand economic justice for our peoples and an end to foreign control over our resources and the theft of our labour. Let us close ranks in demanding respect for our right to development, to life and to the future".
Thank you very much.

WITH THE PASSION OF ALWAYS I SPEAK OF CHAVEZ, THE CUBAN MEDICINE... And OF ITS OWN DEATH
Story of the new great battle of Fidel
The Cuban leader showed how its recovery in the encounter with the Argentine deputy evolves. Also he praised to Hugo Chávez by his fight to enter to the Permanent Council of the UN and to ally itself to average sectors for "making the changes democratically" and showed his preoccupation to finish publishing his memories in life.

Castro and Bonasso shared 90 minutes. The Argentine deputy gave a trip computer to him.
Subnotas

The ideas of the aligned countries are not linear
"It is with a telephone giving orders"
Cuba wants to Argentina in the equipment


By Miguel Bonasso
From Havana
It had prepared to see it to me, but the reality was much more strong. It even took of gift a trip computer to him. It is to say a type of Argentine leather cartridge holder, that in its interior has spaces predetermined for papers, cards, passage, passport, annotations several, everything what a traveller needs. I know very well that Fidel I castrate does not take to credit cards nor money in its passages by the world, but the modest present locked up a subliminal message: "I hope that soon it is well for returning to travel".

But a thing is what one imagines, fears, it wishes, and another different good the fact in himself. Suddenly the telephone call: "It is to such hour in such side". And nothing else. It could be that it saw it personally or it could be that found me with some of its men of confidence in a preparatory meeting. It could not believe in my good luck: he was the first guest to the Not aligned Summit of the Movement of that had the privilege to see the Commander in its recovery, as they had already seen it before the Summit Hugo Moral Chávez and Evo.

So it was stunned that I forgot until an elementary note notebook in case had the additional luck of which it did a declaration to me.

But when arriving at the appointment I knew that it would see it. With its nearer collaborators I crossed the corridor like in travelling cinematographic where the visitor sees intensify the reality as she advances: in the beginning the men of its safekeeping dressed green olive, soon its personal doctor always wasting bonhomía, at the end of the running length a trio made up of two women and a high man, the three of white cover. Doctors, nurses? Finally one very amiable lady who introduced to me in the room. A fourth austere, white one, totally undressed of adornments. Fidel, who was seated in a bed, with a white and movable table ahead, put itself of foot to give a hug me.

It dressed a dressing gown color came and a pajamas doing game and, luckily, was Fidel of always. Thinner, it is truth, but not as much as they had shown recent photos to it.

"I lost forty and pounds - it remembered to me -, but I am recovering weight. Already almost half of which I lost."

Many kilos for that already seemed hidalgo Spanish of cervantina ancestry and show now a quixotic profile.

We seated to chat. They were the eleven and average in the morning Havanan of the dog days reverberated yesterday and outside. The knot that I brought in the throat relaxed of blow: he can sound incredible, but Fidel was so lúcido and filoso as always. The same confidential tone of conspirador that the listener must unravel, the same mysterious signs or the gestuales accentuations of some verbal finding, some order to its collaborators in high affluent voice, to demonstrate that it can return at any time to oratoria.

"You see", emphasized. "I can speak in high affluent voice if I want."

It happened long awhile before it did the confession to me that load of existencial weight this note. It always started like, enthusiastic by the collective, political facts, putting the personnel in a third or fourth plane of shade. It was excited with the fact that Venezuela wins the battle to occupy a seat of honor in the Security Council of the United Nations. "Genius and figure", I thought. The transit by the disease and the certain presence of the death has not diminished an apex the intensity of their dreams and obsessions.

"they are not going to be able to block the entrance", assured. And it emphasized that his great friend Hugo Chávez Fri'as has become a world-wide leader. "Chávez has been creating an indestructible model. He is not carrying of a socialism extreme, but realistic. Unquestionably it is going to be successful in creating a great party that reunites and represents all the Venezuelan revolutionaries. The diverse parties that supported it have responded to their call well to obtain the unit. In addition - it added - it has promised to make all the changes democratically, consulting the town. He is not extremist. It has promised to cooperate with the average layers and the respect and the collaboration with the private companies that accept the principles of the revolution. In addition it has developed social programs that do not have parallel in the world and that turns it an unbeatable leader. I think that a town so sacked as the Venezuelan deserves east change. And I see with joy the impulse towards the integration of Latin America, in which Venezuela will be an example of which it is possible to be done when a country puts its resources to the service of the town. Chávez not only uses well those resources but that multiplies them with fiscal measures that before were not taken."

Later it approached the subject of the "Operation Miracle", one of the health programs that plus get passionate it. And it did it with the same intensity of always. As if it had not happened through the edge of the knife leaving in terrible condition to million people. It remembered that in hardly two years, about 400 thousand Latin Americans had been operated of cataracts, pterigium and other diseases of the Vista with the new oftalmológica technique developed by the Cuban doctors. And which all those operations, many of which they had been carried out in Cuba, had been gratuitous, in benefit of Latin American the more poor men.

To the short while Fidel it offered more coffee to me, while they removed a pile to us from photos. With his everlasting enthusiasm, it commented to me admired: "these digital cameras Are incredible".

We were approached the confession. On the table there was a voluminous book. The sober cover, made well, announced One hundred hours with Fidel. And down: "Conversations with Ignacio Ramonet. Second edition. Reviewed and enriched with new data ".

Some months before it had seen with inocultable envies the first edition of that megaentrevista in which the Cuban leader reviews to his life and to the world-wide history that emphasizes it like one of its main protagonists. In last June, the Commander had shown his written by hand corrections to me the answers of the first edition. The questions of Ramonet, obvious, had been respected by the interviewed person. By the end of July, when I returned to see it in Cordova, traveled accompanied by the page tests, in the heat of process of revision and increase. But never it had imagined what it happened after the operation of the 27 of July.

"I continued It correcting at the worse moments - it whispered -. I did not stop to correct it. You do not believe that I did it when I improved. From the first days. And I did it not only by its content but because it had promised to the town that would review it before publishing it. So I spent many hours dictating to him to Carlitos (Valenciaga, its secretary). Many hours."

Then it watched to me, with the awares very been on and that expression like of astonishment that clears the mouth to him when it throws a decisive dart, to clarify in a tone deep, but undressed of emphasis and dramatic quality:

"It wanted to finish it because it did not know what time would have".

The shade of the great limit, of the impossibility of all possibility, still nested at heart of the glance like a coffee bottom. I commented:

"Another great battle".

It agreed in silence and it added:

"These things you the story like friend and writer".

Later it was excused of not being able to give me the book for protocolic reasons, until giving a copy to the Chiefs of State who concur to the Not aligned meeting of the Movement of. To our side, the untiring Carlitos Valenciaga - the young collaborator who read the historical proclamation on the crossing of powers weighed some incorporations to this new increased edition:

"There are unpublished letters to Sadam Hussein recommending to him that one retires of Kuwait. The contextualizadas letters to Nikita Kruschev ".

On the white table the cover of the book with the following legend was also a pamphlet reproducing: "Chapter the 24 - events of April of 2002 and other subjects of Latin America".

"it is translated to nine languages", clarified Valenciaga. I requested one to reproduce it as advance payment in Página/12, after it was given to the Chiefs of State. In individual to two faithful friends who the Commander waits with impatience: Moral Chávez and Evo. In that chapter 24, in addition to the privacies of the insolvent blow against Chávez, the reader will find interesting reflections on the nationalistic and progressive military of Latin America, like Omar Torrijos, Juan Velasco Alvarado or the own Juan Domingo Perón. And acute references to the defeat of Carlos Menem and the triumph of Néstor Kirchner in 2003.

The moment of the goodbye approached. Char it had extended during average hour and. Fidel indicated the modest television set that he in front of had the bed (nothing of plasma nor stereophonic equipment) and commented:

"tele is more and more violent. Everything is of an extreme violence. Everything is publicity and violence. From fiction to the international reporters ".

I said to him, with total sincerity, that went very contented to see it so well to me.

"Everything in its right means", noticed, while it gave a handshake me. "it is not necessary to forget that the machine to repair already is eighty years old."