>from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Radio Havana Cuba-10 August 2000 22:00 > Via NY Transfer News * All the News That Doesn't Fit > Radio Havana Cuba - News Update - 10 August 2000 22:00 >(Note: There was no english news report from RHC yesterday) > >*BRAZILIAN GOVERNOR PRAISES CUBA'S HEALTH SYSTEM >*BRAZIL'S SOCIAL ASSISTANCE MINISTER TO VISIT CUBA >*"HAITI: A DREAM OF LIFE" -- ON CUBAN DOCTORS IN HAITI >*SOLAR ENERGY FOR REMOTE MOUNTAINS OF EASTERN GUANTANAMO >*PINAR DEL RIO ANNOUNCES TOBACCO FESTIVAL FOR NEXT DECEMBER >*Viewpoint: CUBAN ECONOMY IMPROVES DESPITE BLOCKADE, US AGGRESSION > > >*BRAZILIAN GOVERNOR PRAISES CUBA'S HEALTH SYSTEM > >Havana, August 10 (RHC)-The Governor of the Brazilian state of >Amazonas, Amazonino Armando Mendes, praised on Wednesday the >successes of Cuba's health program and announced his decision to >develop a similar training program in his country. > >The Brazilian governor is in Cuba to explore possibilities of >purchasing vaccines and other technologically advanced Cuban >pharmaceutical products. The delegation that is accompanying Mendes, >toured pharmaceutical installations, Havana's Latin American School >of Medicine and the Health Ministry. > >The visit of the Governor of the Brazilian State of Amazonas has >been extended until Saturday. > > *BRAZIL'S SOCIAL ASSISTANCE MINISTER TO VISIT CUBA > >Havana, August 10 (RHC)-Brazilian Social Assistance Minister, >Waldeck Ornelas is scheduled to visit Cuba next week to meet with >Cuban officials and tour Havana's Latin American School of Medicine >and other Cuban institutions. > >Ornelas will meet with Cuba's Labor and Social Security Minister, >Alfredo Morales Cartaya, Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque and >Finance and Price Minister Manuel Millares. > > *"HAITI: A DREAM OF LIFE" -- CUBAN DOCTORS IN HAITI > >Havana, August 10 (RHC)-A new book entitled "Haiti: A Dream of Life", >by Cuban journalist Alberto Nunez Betancourt, has been called a >valuable testimony of South-South Cooperation. > >The book, which was launched on Wednesday in Havana, includes not >only the experiences of Cuban doctors who are offering their medical >services free of charge in Haiti, but it also portrays the what life >is like for the Haitian young people who are studying medicine on >scholarships in the eastern Cuban province of Santiago. > >The Cultural Attach� of the Haitian embassy in Cuba, Michel Casimir, >noted that the work of Cuban journalist Nunez Betancourt goes beyond >providing the reader with a picture of Cuba's medical cooperation, it >also promotes mutual understanding between two nations that have >historical and geographic ties he said. > >There are currently over 400 Cuban doctors offering medical services >in Haiti as part of an internationalist contingent of some 1,750 >Cuban doctors working in Latin America, Africa and Asia. > > *SOLAR ENERGY FOR REMOTE MOUNTAINS OF EASTERN GUANTANAMO > >Guantanamo, August 10 (RHC)-Over 200 family doctors' offices in >mountainous regions in eastern Guantanano province now have >electricity thanks to the installation of solar energy panels. > >The program was created by the Cuban society for the Promotion of >Renewable Energy Sources and Environmental Respect, or CUBASOLAR, >whose main objective is to support the country's energy program. > >The cost of the solar energy system is valued at over $5,400, >according to Jose Antonio Sotolongo, of CUBASOLAR. > >Over 75 per cent of Guantanamo province is mountains and many of its >remote areas are now receiving the benefits of solar panel >technology. > >The CUBASOLAR official pointed out that some 100 social centers in >remote areas have also received solar energy thanks to Cuban >government efforts to bring electricity to remote areas. > >As part of a program to develop renewable energy sources, CUBASOLAR >assists universities to educate professors and students on the issue >and about ecological problems in Cuba and the world. > > *PINAR DEL RIO ANNOUNCES TOBACCO FESTIVAL FOR NEXT DECEMBER > >Pinar del Rio, August 10 (RHC)-Cuba will take the opportunity to show >off its long tradition of producing the finest cigars in the world, >in a tobacco festival to be held in the western province of Pinar del >Rio next December. > >The tobacco festival's aim is to contribute to commercial >and scientific-technical exchange between business executives and >professionals, mainly in Central America and the Caribbean. > >Three simultaneous events will be held during the festival: An >international scientific-technical workshop, a trade fair and the >festival itself. > >The workshop will run December 14-17 in the tobacco-producing >province of Pinar del Rio. Participating will be researchers, >specialists, producers and business executives who will offer their >experiences in working commissions, conferences and round tables. > >Pinar del Rio province produces some 70 per cent of the island's >tobacco. > > *Viewpoint: CUBAN ECONOMY IMPROVES DESPITE BLOCKADE, US AGGRESSION > >When the Soviet Union and the Socialist Camp collapsed ten years ago, >few in the world believed that Cuba would resist the siege imposed on >the island by its powerful enemies. Cuba found itself alone in the >world after loosing its biggest economic partners, with which Cuba >had kept respectful, equal and fair economic relations for three >decades. > >The Anti-Cuba Mafia in Miami jumped the gun on their victory >celebration, however, and began packing their bags for a supposed >return to the homeland they had abandoned over the years following >Cuban independence in 1959. For decades ultra-right wing Cubans >living the U.S. have dreamed of recovering their former properties, >nationalized by the revolution, and the privileges they enjoyed under >the Batista dictatorship. In addition to the economic blockade >Washington has maintained against the island for four decades, >Cuba continues to remain isolated due to the collapse of the >socialist market of the former Soviet Union and eastern European >countries. > >Cuba remains an underdeveloped country, lacking the sufficient >capital necessary to develop its own economy, and continues to be a >victim of unequal trade relations. For a period of time, Washington >succeeded in expelling Cuba from the Organization of American States, >and led a powerful international propaganda campaign against the >island's social project. Times have changed, however, and Cuba >currently maintains ample economic and social ties not only with the >nations of the region, but internationally as well. > >Furthermore, the leaders of the Revolution, together with the Cuban >people, adopted a series of economic adjustment measures that have >opened the country to foreign investment, in partnership with the >Cuban state, resulting in better internal management which has >fostered greater economic efficiency and productivity. These changes >have demonstrated the flexibility of Socialism in the face of what >Cuban President Fidel Castro has termed as a double blockade. >Moreover, it affirms the Cuban people's determination to continue >their socialist revolution in the construction of fair and >just socio-economic structures. Cuba continues to resist >Washington's efforts aimed at destroying the social gains of its >revolution and categorically rejects the U.S. objective of setting up >a puppet government dancing on the strings of the regional hegemony. >Cubans have shown their capacity to resist the brutality of U.S. >imperialism and overcome the unparalleled difficulties of the current >economic crisis. This has been demonstrated by the fervent political >mobilizations of the Cuban people against U.S. imperialism and the >gradual but steady recovery of the national economy. > >Today, the number of joint ventures in Cuba has increased from 212, >in the first years of the crisis, known as the special period, to the >current number amounting to 374. Some 46 countries currently maintain >investments in Cuba. The GDP continues to grow while economic >indicators point toward future stability, even in light of the >economic war and continued sabotage against Cuba by the U.S. and its >Cuban-American partners in Miami. > >(c) 2000 Radio Habana Cuba, NY Transfer News. All rights reserved. > >================================================================= > NY Transfer News Collective * A Service of Blythe Systems > Since 1985 - Information for the Rest of Us > 339 Lafayette St., New York, NY 10012 > http://www.blythe.org e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >============== >nytcari-08.10.00-21:56:24-18342 > > __________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki - Finland +358-40-7177941, fax +358-9-7591081 e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.kominf.pp.fi ___________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe/unsubscribe messages mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___________________________________
