>Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2000 21:27:37 -0500 >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Radio Havana Cuba-06 November 2000 > >Radio Havana Cuba-06 November 2000 > >Via NY Transfer News * All the News That Doesn't Fit > >Radio Havana Cuba - News Update - 06 November 2000 > > . > >*FIDEL PARTICIPATES IN CLOSING CEREMONY OF NATIONAL FESTIVAL OF PRINT MEDIA > >*PASTORS FOR PEACE CARAVAN ARRIVES IN HAVANA > >*FOREIGN DELEGATES ARRIVE FOR WORLD SOLIDARITY MEETING > >*VISITING MEXICAN SENATOR CONDEMNS WASHINGTON'S BLOCKADE AGAINST CUBA > >*PAINTER RUPERTO JAY MATAMOROS AWARDED NATIONAL PRIZE FOR THE YEAR 2000 > >*NATIONAL MEETING OF CHARANGA ORCHESTRAS UNDERWAY IN PALMA SORIANO > >*Viewpoint: SUPER TUESDAY? HARDLY--THERE'S MEDIOCRITY IN THE AIR > > . > >*FIDEL PARTICIPATES IN CLOSING CEREMONY OF NATIONAL FESTIVAL OF PRINT MEDIA > >Havana, November 6 (RHC)-- "The press is a force, a revolutionary soldier on >guard," said Cuban President Fidel Castro during the closing of the Second >National Festival of Print Media, in which over 300 journalists from across >the island participated. > >The Cuban leader outlined the achievements of the island's print media over >the past several years and stressed its important role in the daily battle >of ideas. > >Fidel Castro helped to award prizes during a ceremony where journalists with >the most exceptional stories during the past ten years were awarded. The >ESCAMBRAY newspaper from the central province of Sancti Spiritus received >First Prize. > >Special prizes were also given to the island's newspapers Granma, Juventud >Rebelde, and Trabajadores for their efficiency during the fight for the >return of six-year-old Elian Gonzalez, who was illegally detained in Miami >against his father's will for seven months. > > >*PASTORS FOR PEACE CARAVAN ARRIVES IN HAVANA > >Havana, November 6 (RHC)-- The 11th U.S.-Cuba Friendshipment Caravan arrived >in Havana over the weekend, bringing with them material aid worth several >million dollars. According to Pastors for Peace founder and executive >director, the Reverend Lucius Walker, the 50 caravanistas will tour schools >and hospitals during their stay in Cuba, as well as participate in the >Second World Conference in Solidarity with Cuba, which gets underway later >this week in the Cuban capital. > >The Pastors for Peace caravan will deliver solar energy equipment, >computers, hospital equipment and medicine, as well as a school bus and two >ambulances. > >The solar panels will be used to provide electricity to a rural primary >school in the mountainous region of Pinar del Rio, Cuba's westernmost >province. Caravan participants will visit the area to learn about Cuba's >achievements in alternative energy, health, and education. > >One of the ambulances that the caravan is delivering to Cuba has been >donated by the Cuba Solidarity Campaign (CSC) of Great Britain. John Waller, >of Sheffield, England, material aid coordinator for the CSC, is accompanying >the group here in Cuba. Waller told reporters that the British solidarity >movement has conducted a national campaign to donate 50 ambulances to Cuba. >He stated that he wanted to join the U.S. Friendshipment Caravan because it >is a direct challenge to Washington's blockade of the island. > >This 11th Friendshipment includes participants from all regions of the U.S. >-- from Maine to Alaska, as well as international caravanistas from Quebec, >Britain and Germany, who joined the group to express their support for a >change in U.S. policy toward Cuba. > >Pastors for Peace has been organizing caravans of material aid to Cuba since >1992 in an effort to draw attention to the impact of the U.S. government's >economic blockade against the Cuban people. The faith-based solidarity >organization has delivered more than 3,000 tons of aid on its previous ten >caravans, including food, medicines, medical equipment and computers. > > >*FOREIGN DELEGATES ARRIVE FOR WORLD SOLIDARITY MEETING > >Havana, November 6 (RHC)-- Delegates from Vietnam, South Africa and the >United States have begun arriving in Havana to participate in the Second >World Conference in Solidarity with Cuba, which will get underway on Friday >in the Cuban capital. > >Over 3,500 delegates from 98 countries will participate in the solidarity >meeting, slated for November 10th through 14th. > > >*VISITING MEXICAN SENATOR CONDEMNS WASHINGTON'S BLOCKADE AGAINST CUBA > >Havana, November 6 (RHC)-- The President of the Mexican Senate's Directive >Board, Enrique Jackson, expressed on Sunday in Havana his condemnation of >Washington's blockade against Cuba and his support of the island's right to >choose its own destiny. > >The Mexican official told reporters that his country has always defended the >principle of non-intervention in the internal affairs of other states. Asked >about any change in Mexico's foreign policy in reference to Cuba, Enrique >Jackson ruled out that possibility. > >According to the senator, Mexico has been very consistent in the >international arena and Mexico has won itself a place in the world for its >foreign policy. > >He added that the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) is an >indispensable political power for Mexico's stability. > > >*PAINTER RUPERTO JAY MATAMOROS AWARDED NATIONAL PRIZE FOR THE YEAR 2000 > >Havana, November 6 (RHC)-- Renowned Cuban painter Ruperto Jay Matamoros has >received the Fine Arts National Prize for the year 2000, the island's >highest recognition in the field. > >After receiving the news, the 88-year-old artist said that he felt "like an >old tree receiving rain to continue reproducing." > >Born in the eastern region of Santiago de Cuba, Jay Matamoros mainly paints >Cuban rural landscapes. Among some of the other nominees for the prize were >photographer Alberto Korda, painters Adigio Benitez, Manuel Mendive, Roberto >Favelo and Pedro Pablo Oliva as well as sculptor Osneldo Garcia. > > > >*NATIONAL MEETING OF CHARANGA ORCHESTRAS UNDERWAY IN PALMA SORIANO > >Palma Soriano, November 6 (RHC)-- The 16th National Meeting of Charanga >Orchestras, currently underway in the eastern municipality of Palma Soriano, >is an example of Cuban musician's commitment to maintaining the charanga >genre alive as part of the island's national identity. > >The 36 groups participating in the event include traditional pieces in their >repertoire that distinguishes Cuban music in today's world with danzon, cha >cha cha, son, guaracha, boleros and the guajiras, which also includes some >modern elements that contribute to enriching the genre. > >The organizers of the event dedicated the program to bolero singer Santi >Garay, who has dedicated half a century to music; Tony Lamas for his 30 >years as a composer and director of programs on Radio Progreso and the >Conjunto Supremo group, celebrating its 55th anniversary. > > >Viewpoint: > >*SUPER TUESDAY? HARDLY--THERE'S MEDIOCRITY IN THE AIR > >Both candidates in tomorrow's U.S. presidential election have made great >efforts to attract voters, spending massive amounts of money in the process. > >The political, social and economic platforms of both candidates barely >differ from each other. Both favor the business sector to the exclusion of >many social programs. Both essentially seek to maintain the status quo >which, in today's USA, means higher profits for the rich multinationals in >what is being hailed as a booming economy - booming, of course, for the >rich. The poor, needless to say, become poorer - a requirement if the rich >are to become richer. Taken to an international level, this means that >today's First World economies boom on the back of the Third World. > >The prognostics for tomorrow's voter turnout are low, with many U.S. >citizens switched off by the hype or shallowness of their politicians. And >the prognostics for the poorer inhabitants of the U.S. and, indeed, the >planet are even lower. The self-serving, mediocre, vulgar campaigns of the >two principal political parties in the United States have ensured that. > > >(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-11.06.00-21:27:13-5006 > _______________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki - Finland +358-40-7177941, fax +358-9-7591081 e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.kominf.pp.fi _______________________________________________________ Kominform list for general information. 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