• Call for Obama to release the five Cuban heroes
December.30.09
Olga Salanueva, wife of one the five Cuban anti-terrorist fighters unjustly incarcerated in the United States today led a call in the capital for the President of that country, Barack Obama, to release these patriots.

• Why is it the 52nd year of the Revolution?
December.30.09
Granma has received numerous calls from readers questioning why 2010 is being defined as the 52nd Year of the Revolution when we have just finished celebrating the 50th anniversary of that historic event.

• REFLECTIONS OF FIDEL
The right of humanity to exist
December.28.09
CLIMATE change is already causing considerable damage and hundreds of millions of poor people are suffering the consequences.

• Fidel and Raúl decorated with 50th Anniversary of MINREX Medal
December.24.09
THE medal commemorating the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MINREX) was awarded this Wednesday to the leader of the Cuban Revolution Fidel Castro Ruz, President Raúl Castro Ruz and, posthumously, to Commander of the Revolution Juan Almeida Bosque, in an event in the capital.

• UNICEF: Cuba free of severe child malnutrition
December.24.09
THE United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has confirmed that Cuba is the only country in Latin America and the Caribbean to have eliminated acute child malnutrition, thanks to the efforts of its government.

• Medicine graduates of 1959 honored
December.23.09
JOSE Ramón Machado Ventura, first vice president of the Council of State and Ministers, and José Ramón Balaguer, minister of public health, yesterday congratulated the medical students who graduated as doctors in 1959 for their work in training subsequent generations.

• Cuban Education Distinction awarded to Cuban Five
December.23.09
IN recognition of their relevant merits in defense of our people’s sovereignty and right to self-determination; for being an example to our young people and of the noblest human values of fighting terrorism, of boundless love for their country and Revolution, and of the admirable resistance of revolutionaries, the Ministry of Higher Education has awarded the Cuban Education Distinction to the Cuban Five, national heroes.

• Cuban foreign minister: Copenhagen was a failure and a step backwards
December.22.09
THE recently-concluded 15th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Copenhagen, Denmark, was a failure, and it signified a step backwards in the international community’s actions to prevent or mitigate the effects of global warming, Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla said at a Monday press conference at the Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

• Teachers Association of Cuba awards Fidel
December.22.09
THE Teachers Association of Cuba has awarded the leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro Ruz the Outstanding Educator of the 20th Century Recognition, as an exceptional teacher of his people and revolutionaries of the world.

• United, we will be in a better condition to confront the crisis
December.21.09
Speech by General of the Army Raúl Castro Ruz, president of the Councils of State and Ministers at the opening of the ALBA Summit

• Reflections of Fidel
The truth of what happened in the Summit
December.21.09
YOUNG people, more than anybody, are interested in the future.
Until very recently, there was discussion as to the kind of society in which we might live. Today the discussion is about whether human society will survive.

• I congratulate our heroic and revolutionary people and wish them renewed success in the 52nd year of the Revolution
December.21.09
WITH this message, President Raúl Castro ended his closing speech at the final session of the National Assembly of People’s Power.

• Reflections of Fidel
The moment of truth
December.18.09
NEWS arriving from the Danish capital paints a picture of chaos. After planning an event in which around 40,000 people were to participate, the hosts have no way of keeping their promise. Evo, who was the first of the ALBA presidents to arrive there, expressed certain profound truths emanating from the millenary culture of his people.

• Forging unity
December.17.09
THE speeches given by presidents and heads of delegations from the member countries of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America –Trade Treaty of the Peoples meeting in Havana demonstrated in the closing session of the Summit a coordinated strength unprecedented in the history of the region.

• We have every confidence in youth
December.17.09
LAS TUNAS.-José Ramón Machado Ventura, first vice president of the Councils of State and Ministers, ratified in this eastern city the full confidence of the country's maximum leadership in Cuban youth, having assured himself that they are working well and fulfilling the role that corresponds to them.

• On AH1N1
Cuba undertaking unprecedented health action with pregnant women
December.16.09
IN an unprecedented effort on the part of Cuba’s public health services, medical personnel and those from other sectors are undertaking daily epidemiological screening throughout the country of all pregnant women and new mothers to check for respiratory symptoms.

• A commitment to the peoples of the Alliance
December.16.09
WITH the announcement of having taken a priority place on the agenda of the 8th ALBA Summit which recently concluded in Havana, Cuban Deputy Health Minister Marcia Cobas received the 116 geneticists, physiotherapists, psychologists and other Cuban specialists who, in just one month, have undertaken a study of people with disabilities in four regions in the Republic of Bolivia.

• 8th ALBA Summit: Final Declaration
December.16.09
THE heads of state and government of the member countries of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America-Trade Treaty of the Peoples (ALBA-TCP), meeting in Havana on December 13-14, 2009, on the occasion of the 5th anniversary of the signing of the Joint Declaration of December 14, 2004

• Not only fighting for justice, but for the survival of the species
December.16.09
THE idea that humanity today has to fight not only for justice but for the very survival of the species, contained in the message from Commandante en Jefe Fidel Castro to Hugo Chávez, had a profound impression on those attending the final session of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America Summit, which came to a close on Monday, December 14 in Havana in which, during his closing speech, Cuban President Raúl Castro reiterated the shared commitment of working toward the maxim that "a better world is possible."

• Reflections of Fidel
Message to the president of the Bolivarian Republic of  Venezuela
December.15.09
DEAR Hugo,
Today is the 15th anniversary of our encounter at the University of Havana’s Aula Magna on December 14, 1994. The previous night, I had waited for you at the foot of the steps of the plane that brought you to Cuba.

• Trinidad & Tobago states will to repay Cuba's solidarity
December.15.09
PAULA Gopee-Scoon, the foreign minister of Trinidad & Tobago, was received by her Cuban counterpart Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla at the Cuban Foreign Ministry in Havana, where they held fraternal talks during which the two diplomats confirmed their governments’ will to strengthen the historic links of friendship between the two peoples.

• Raúl meets with Mexican foreign minister
December.15.09
IN the afternoon of Friday, December 11, President Raúl Castro Ruz received Her Excellency Ms. Patricia Espinosa Cantellano, foreign minister of the United Mexican States, who was on an official visit to our country.

• Cuba: a good example of agroecology
December.15.09
CUBA is a beacon that is illuminating the way for countries around the world in the task of achieving food sovereignty, affirmed Peter Rosset, a specialist from the International Sustainable Agriculture Commission of the Vía Campesina international organization, which brings together many organizations throughout the world.

• United, we will be in a better condition to confront the crisis
December.14.09
Speech by General of the Army Raúl Castro Ruz, president of the Councils of State and Ministers at the opening of the ALBA Summit

• Raul receives Chinese ambassador
December.11.09
CUBAN President Raúl Castro Ruz, received this Thursday Zhao Rongxian, ambassador of the People’s Republic of China, who is concluding his diplomatic mission in Cuba.
- Friendship Medal for Zhao Rongxian

• Education: a beacon of light
December.10.09
THE Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA) is casting an illuminating influence on its member countries. It is bearing education like a banner, using it as an essential tool for eliminating poverty and social exclusion. It is turning to the finest language, that of solidarity.

• Human Rights in Cuba
A missed shot on the wrong flank
December.9.09
THE December 1 edition of Miami’s El Nuevo Herald published a full report on an "African-American Statement in Support of Civil Rights in Cuba," which accuses our country of currently being a racist society, drawing on an alleged increase in civil and human rights abuses of Cuban activists with the courage to raise their voices against the island’s racist system. It stated that "those isolated and courageous defenders of civil rights have been subjected to unprovoked violence, intimidation on the part of the authorities and imprisonment."
- Message from Cuba to African-American intellectuals and artists

• Raúl presides over tribute to Maceo and Cuban internationalists
December.8.09
PRESIDENT Raúl Castro Ruz presided over the tribute to Major General Antonio Maceo Grajales, his aide Captain Panchito Gómez Toro, and the 2,000-plus internationalists whose bodies were returned to the beloved homeland 20 years ago to receive a dignified burial.

•  Knowing each other, recognizing each other and integrating
December.8.09
IF there is one acronym that possesses an anticipatory symbolic responsibility it is that which defines the Bolivarian Alternative of the Peoples of Our America. The first light before the dawn, the ALBA ("dawn" in Spanish) is, in political terms, the launch of a long-dreamed of hope: continental integration on the bases of independence, cooperation and the full community of identities.

• Machado Ventura receives vice president of El Salvador
December.4.09
IN the framework of a working visit to Cuba being undertaken by Vice President Salvador Sánchez Serén, minister of education, the senior Salvadoran leader held official talks this Thursday with José Ramón Machado Ventura, first vice president of the Councils of State and Ministers.

•  Honorary doctorate conferred on Fidel
December.3.09
DURING its 45th anniversary celebrations yesterday, the José Antonio Echeverría University City (CUJAE) awarded an honorary doctorate to the leader of the Revolution, Fidel Castro Ruz.

• Raúl meets with South African Foreign Minister
December.3.09
CUBAN President Raúl Castro Ruz met this Wednesday with Mrs. Maite Nkoana-Mashabane, minister of international relations and cooperation of the Republic of South Africa, shortly before she concluded her official visit to Cuba.

• Raúl presides over welcoming ceremony for Tanzanian president
December.2.09
CUBAN President Raúl Castro Ruz headed the official reception ceremony on Tuesday for Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete, president of the United Republic of Tanzania.

• Raúl meets with Prime Minister of Singapore
December.2.09
CUBAN President Raúl Castro Ruz met yesterday, Tuesday, with Lee Hsien Loong, prime minister of the Republic of Singapore, who is on an official visit to the country.

•  Reflections of Fidel
Is there a margin for hypocrisy and lies?
December.1.09
IN its battle against the Cuban Revolution, the United States had its finest ally in the government of Venezuela: that of the illustrious Don Rómulo Betancourt Bello. We did not know that then. He had been elected president on December 7, 1958 and, prior to him taking office, the Revolution triumphed on January 1, 1959. A few weeks later, I had the privilege of being invited by the provisional government of Wolfgang Larrazábal to visit the homeland of Bolívar, who had demonstrated such solidarity toward Cuba.

•  Raúl holds official talks with Ugandan President
December.1.09
CUBAN President Raúl Castro Ruz and the President of Uganda, Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, held official talks yesterday, Monday, in the Palace of the Revolution.

• Raúl receives President of Seychelles
November.30.09
IN the afternoon of Sunday, November 29 at the Palace of the Revolution, President Raúl Castro Ruz received His Excellency Mr. James Alix Michel, president of the Republic of Seychelles, who is on an official visit to Cuba.

• Cuba’s increased defense capacity
November.30.09
WHILE the Bastión 2009 strategic exercise improved the military readiness of the country’s leadership and command bodies, National Defense Day, given its mass nature, raised Cuba’s defensive capacity even more.

• Raúl checks on development of the 2009 Bastión
November.27.09
President Raúl Castro Ruz checked on the status of the actions planned for the first day of the 2009 Bastión Strategic Exercise, which began on Thursday throughout the entire country.

• Chávez concludes visit to Cuba; meets with Fidel and Raúl
November.26.09
HUGO Chávez Frias, president of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, concluded a visit to Cuba on Tuesday night by embracing President Raúl Castro at José Martí International Airport.

•  Russian edition of Fidel’s Reflections
November.24.09
HAVANA, November 23.— The book Fidel Castro: the Aggressive States of North America, a selection of Reflections by the leader of the Cuban Revolution, is to be published in Russia next month. Fidel’s Reflections have been published since March, 2007 on the CubaDebate website and in Granma daily.

• Machado Ventura receives Australian foreign minister
November.24.09
IN the morning of Monday, 23rd November, José Ramón Machado Ventura, first vice president of the Councils of State and Ministers, received the Honorable Stephen Smith, foreign minister of the Commonwealth of Australia, who is on an official visit to our country.

•  Victims of terrorism against Cuba and the world call for justice
November.23.09
BOCA DE SAMA.—I couldn’t wear the new shoes that I had bought for my quince (15th birthday). The shell fired by Cuban terrorists, organized in the United States on CIA orders, destroyed my right foot and cut short my adolescent dreams. My sister also suffered that night, affirmed Nancy Pavón Pavón, victim of an attack on the little town of Boca de Samá, on October 12, 1971.

•  Alarcón highlights importance of international solidarity in the case of the Five
November.20.09
IF Barack Obama really wanted to try and convince us that he is aspiring to a new start in relations with Cuba and Latin America, nothing else occurs to me other than to ask him to make use of his attributes and release the Five, affirmed Ricardo Alarcón de Quesada, president of the National Assembly of People's Power, who was giving an update on the case of the Cuban anti-terrorists incarcerated in the United States to participants in the 8th International American Studies Conference.

•  Cuba to begin initiate clinical trials of vaccine against pneumococcus
November.20.09
CONCEPCION Campa, member of the Political Bureau and director of the Finlay Institute, announced yesterday that Cuba is to begin the first clinical trial of the vaccine against pneumococcus next year.

•  Reflections of Fidel
The Bolivarian Revolution and peace
November.19.09
I know Chávez very well; no one would be more reluctant than him to allow bloodshed between the Venezuelan and Colombian peoples. These are two peoples as fraternal as Cubans who live in the east, center and extreme west of our island. I can find no other way of expressing the level of fraternity that exists between Venezuelans and Colombians.

• 10th anniversary of the Latin American School of Medicine
ELAM is the realization of Fidel’s ideas
November.16.09
THE Latin American School of Medicine (ELAM) is the realization of Fidel’s ideas, an expression of his concept of human beings and of the world, of the principles that sustain a genuine revolution, highlighted Dr. José Ramón Balaguer Cabrera, minister of public health, in the event commemorating the institution’s 10th anniversary, on November 15, in its Plaza de las Naciones.

• Interesting details
November.13.09
Since 2005, when the first class graduated from the Latin American School of Medicine, 7,256 Doctors of Medicine from 45 countries and 84 indigenous communities have passed through this institution. In 2005 there were 1,496 graduates, 1,419 in 2006, 1,545 in 2007, 1,500 in 2008, and 1,296 in 2009.

• Visitors’ Book
November.13.09
MARGARET CHAN, director general of the World Health Organization
It is a great privilege to visit this University and learn about your experiences. Diversity and cultural exchange provides an excellent learning environment for students above and beyond what is learned in the classroom.

• Opinions of ELAM students
Why study medicine?
November.13.09
ARGENTINA
In response to the fact that in our countries, doctors are needed for the people who, because of social inequalities, have no access to health. Also because it is a profession that brings me closer every day to the reality of the most disadvantaged, and I think that ‘the head thinks where the feet walk.’ Medicine provides tools for being able to change the current unjust system.

• Fidel’s ideas
November.13.09
(Taken from the inaugural speech of November 15, 1999)
In the Latin America and Caribbean areas with the severest lack of doctors, more than one million people are dying every year, 500,000 of them children, due to preventable and curable diseases. Tens of thousands of Latin Americans...

• 10TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE LATIN AMERICAN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
Creators of a more humane world
November.13.09
TEN years ago a former military installation – the Granma Naval Academy – was converted, in an action of solidarity on the part of a little country criminally besieged and blockaded by a contemporary Goliath, into a Latin American medical university...

• Raúl receives Russian minister of civil defense
November.13.09
PRESIDENT Raúl Castro Ruz yesterday received Serguei Shoigu, minister of civil defense and emergency situations of the Russian Federation, who is on a working visit to Cuba.
 
• Reflections of Fidel
A science fiction story
November.12.09
HOW I regret having to criticize Obama, knowing that in that country there are other potential presidents worse than him. I understand that in the United States that office is currently a tremendous headache. Perhaps nothing could explain it better than the information in yesterday’s Granma...

• Reflections of Fidel
The annexation of Colombia to the United States
November.9.09
ANY person who is even moderately well-informed can immediately see that the sugar-coated "Complementation Agreement for Defense and Security Cooperation and Technical Assistance between the Governments of Colombia and the United States," signed on October 30 and made public in the afternoon of November 2 amounts to the annexation of Colombia to the United States.

• Cuba signs contracts for almost $150 million
November.6.09
CUBA has signed trade contracts worth approximately $150 million at the Havana Trade Fair, according to Abraham Maciques, president of the organizing committee for FIHAV 2009, in his closing remarks during the Thursday night awards ceremony at the International Convention Center.

• Raúl receives European Commissioner Karel De Gucht
November.5.09
IN the afternoon of Wednesday November 4, President Raúl Castro Ruz received His Excellency Mr. Karel De Gucht, European Commissioner for development and humanitarian aid, who is on an official visit to our country.

• Raúl meets with Brazilian minister of development, industry and foreign trade
November.5.09
PRESIDENT Raúl Castro Ruz on Wednesday received Miguel Jorge, Brazilian minister of development, industry and foreign trade.

• Brazil increases investments in Cuba
November.5.09
MIGUEL Jorge, Brazilian minister of development, industry and trade, announced new investments by his country in Cuba, and told accredited reporters at FIHAV 2009 that "there is no way relations are going backward with the island," adding, "they have never been better."

• Gerardo grateful for solidarity
November.5.09
GERARDO Hernández Nordelo, unjustly given a double life sentence plus 15 years in prison, sent a message of thanks from him and his family to the Cuban people and friends around the world for "all the expressions of support that he has received in such difficult moments."

• Reflections of Fidel
The best tribute to the mother of a Hero
November.4.09
YESTERDAY Carmen Nordelo Tejera died, the selfless mother of Hero of the Republic of Cuba Gerardo Hernández Nordelo, unjustly sentenced to two terms of life imprisonment plus 15 years.

• The Five are a genuine expression of the values that emanate from our youth
November.4.09
ON the morning of November 3, Cuban President Raúl Castro attended the burial of Carmen Nordelo Tejera, mother of Gerardo Hernández Nordelo, Hero of the Republic of Cuba, and one of the five anti-terrorist fighters unjustly imprisoned in U.S. jails.

• Raúl attends interment of Carmen Nordelo, mother of one of the Five
November.3.09
At the Colón Cemetery in Havana, President Raúl Castro attended the interment ceremony of Carmen Nordelo Tejeda, mother of Gerardo Hernández Nordelo, one of the five anti-terrorist Cubans incarcerated in the United States.
- Carmen Nordelo Tejera dies

• Beginning today, FIHAV 2009
November.2.09
THE 27th Havana Trade Fair (FIHAV 2009) kicks off today at the Expocuba exhibition center. For the next six days, it will host more than 1,600 representing 652 companies from 51 countries.

• Reflections of Fidel
RELEVANT NEWS
November.2.09
SIGNIFICANT events have taken place in our country lately. On October 28, at 7:30 am, the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the physical disappearance of Camilo Cienfuegos took place; the sad event occurred one stormy evening as he was traveling in a light aircraft from Camagüey to the capital, along the north of Cuba.

• Esteban Lazo receives governor of Federation of Saint Kitts and Nevis
October.30.09
VICE President Esteban Lazo Hernández on Thursday afternoon received Sir Cuthbert Montraville Sebastian, governor general of the Federation of Saint Kitts and Nevis, who is on an official visit to our country.

• Raúl inaugurates Mausoleum of the Las Villas Northern Front
October.29.09
YAGUAJAY, Sancti Spíritus. — President Raúl Castro Ruz on Wednesday lit the eternal flame at the Mausoleum of the Las Villas Northern Front in Yaguajay, in a military ceremony coinciding with the 50th anniversary of the disappearance of Commander Camilo Cienfuegos.

• Fidel meets with WHO director general and PAHO director
October.28.09
ON Tuesday afternoon, the leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro Ruz, met with Dr. Margaret Chan, director general of the World Health Organization (WHO), accompanied by Dr. Mirta Roses, director of the Pan-American Health Organization (PAHO). Both health officials have carried out an extensive program of exchange with Cuban health professionals and have visited various scientific and healthcare centers.

• Camilo accompanies Che in the Plaza of the Revolution
October.28.09
SINCE October 27, the image of Camilo Cienfuegos has been accompanying that of Che Guevara in Havana’s historic José Martí Plaza de la Revolución, half a century after Camilo’s disappearance, on October 28, 1959.

• Margaret Chan in Cuba
You have done a tremendous job in the healthcare field
October.26.09
TOUCHING down in Cuba for the very first time, Margaret Chan – director general of the World Health Organization – said that it was a great pleasure for her to visit this country, small but of tremendous significance for the WHO, "so that we may observe and learn about the excellent efforts underway in the Cuban healthcare system."

• Fidel meets with Ecuadorian Vice President Lenín Moreno Garcés
October.22.09
Leader of the Cuban Revolution Fidel Castro Ruz held a fraternal meeting with His Excellency Mr. Lenín Moreno Garcés, vice president of the sister Republic of Ecuador.

• Ecuadorian vice president sends message of thanks to the Cuban people
October.22.09
Varadero.— The Ecuadorian vice president Lenín Moreno Garcés ended his visit by leaving a cordial message of thanks for the Cuban people who, like their leaders, are very kind and act with solidarity, he said. His visit to the island lasted four days.

• Reflections of Fidel
The ALBA and Copenhagen
October.20.09
THE festivities at the 7th ALBA Summit, held in the historic Bolivian region of Cochabamba, demonstrated the rich culture of the Latin American peoples and the joy elicited in children, young people and adults of all ages through the singing, dancing, costumes and expressive faces of the individuals representing all ethnic groups, colors and shades: indigenous, black, white and mixed race people. Thousands of years of human history and treasured culture were on display there, which explains the decision of the leaders of several Caribbean, Central and South America peoples to convene that summit.

• Raúl receives Spanish foreign minister
October.20.09
ON the afternoon of Monday October 19, Cuban President Raúl Castro received His Excellency Mr. Miguel Ángel Moratinos Cuyaubé, minister of foreign affairs and cooperation of the Kingdom of Spain, who is on an official visit in our country at the invitation of the Cuban foreign minister.

• Reflections of Fidel
A Nobel Prize for Evo
October.16.09
IF Obama was awarded the Prize for winning the elections in a racist society despite being African-American, then Evo deserves it for winning in his country despite being an indigenous man, and moreover for keeping his promises. It was the first time in the two countries that someone from each of their respective ethnic groups became president.

• Cuban youth must rise to the occasion
October.15.09
"THIS is a very important time for the youth, particularly for those activists in the vanguard of the Revolution. It is one of those moments, of which there have been so many throughout history, when young Cubans have to rise to the occasion," stated José Ramón Machado Ventura, first vice president of the Councils of State and Ministers, at the 10th Plenum of the National Committee of the UJC.

• Machado Ventura receives Prime Minister of Guinea-Bissau
October.13.09
FIRST Vice President José Ramón Machado Ventura received Prime Minister Carlos Gomes of the Republic of Guinea-Bissau on Monday morning, as the latter began an official visit to our country.

• Reflections of Fidel
The bells are tolling for the dollar
October.12.09
THE Empire dominated the world more through the economy and lies than by force. It obtained the privilege of printing convertible currency at the end of World War II; it had a monopoly of nuclear weapons; it had virtually all the gold in the world; and was the only large-scale producer of productive equipment, consumer goods, food and services at global level. However, it did have a limit on printing paper money: the backing of gold, at the constant price of $35 per troy ounce.

• Strange barrier to medical genetics
October.12.09
WHEN the human genetic code was deciphered relatively recently, it was a leap of infinite magnitude in the long and complex road to understanding the origin of many diseases with a high incidence in the world’s population.

• Guinea Bissau can count on Cuba
October.12.09
THE government and the people of Guineas Bissau are happy to be able to count on Cuba, affirmed Carlos Gomes, prime minister of that African nation, on his arrival in Havana yesterday, Sunday.

• Raúl heads inauguration of Las Villas Front Mausoleum
October.9.09
SANTA CLARA.— President Raúl Castro presided over the family and military interment ceremony of combatants who died in the liberation struggle or after the triumph of the Revolution in this city’s Las Villas Front Mausoleum.

• Esteban Lazo receives foreign minister of Benin
October.8.09
ESTEBAN Lazo Hernández, vice president of the Council of State, yesterday afternoon received Jean-Marie Ehouzou, minister of foreign affairs, African integration, la francophonie, and Beninese abroad. He is on an official visit to our country.

• Reflections of Fidel
History cannot be ignored
October.7.09
THE 60th anniversary of the People’s Republic of China was commemorated this past October 1.
On that historic day in 1949, Mao Zedong, as leader of the Communist Party of China, presided over the first parade of the People’s Army and the people of China in Tiananmen Square. The victorious soldiers bore the arms seized in combat from invaders, oligarchies and traitors to their homeland.

• 33rd anniversary of the Cubana plane sabotage
Cuba demands justice
October.6.09
ANTI-CUBA terrorism organized and financed in the United States on this date 33 years ago took its worst form when 73 people lost their lives in the sabotage of a Cuban airliner over Barbados.
- CRIME OVER BARBADOS

• 33 YEARS AFTER THE CRIME OVER BARBADOS
Revealed: Cuban terrorists planned to blow up planes on 14 different occasions
A recent investigation has revealed that, between 1959 and 1998, Miami’s Cuban-American terrorists planned to blow up Cuban planes on 14 different occasions, according to Dr. José Luis Méndez, author of several books on anti-Cuba terrorism.

• Reflections of Fidel
A victory for the Third World
October.5.09
MIGHTY economic powers competed for the venue of the 2016 Olympics, including the two most industrialized on the planet: the United States and Japan. Nevertheless, the winner was Rio de Janeiro, a Brazilian city.

• Cuba gets ready for confront second flu wave
October.2.09
LUIS Estruch, deputy minister of public health, informed the Health Commission of the Latin American Parliament that Cuba is preparing to face a second wave of the Influenza A H1N1 virus, which has affected 435 people on the island.

• Prime minister of the Kingdom of Lesotho begins official visit
October.2.09
BETHUEL Pakalitha Mosisili, prime minister of the Kingdom of Lesotho, arrived in Cuba on Thursday for an official visit that ends Saturday, on the invitation of President Raúl Castro Ruz.

• WORLD ECONOMIC CRISIS
Are women harder hit?
October.1.09
IT is not the first time that the world has faced a crisis like the one affecting the global economy at the present time. This phenomenon generated by the capitalist system has its greatest impact on the most vulnerable sectors of society, including, almost by general rule, women.

• Raúl presides over anniversary of the People’s Republic of China
October.1.09
PRESIDENT Raúl Castro Ruz presided over the official ceremony celebrating the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) in the Universal Hall of the Revolutionary Armed Forces in this capital.

• Raúl decorated with high Malian distinction
October.1.09
A demonstration of gratitude, respect, and friendship was how the presidents of the Republics of Mali and Cuba described the high distinctions that they received yesterday during a ceremony at the Palace of the Revolution, after the official welcoming ceremony for the fraternal head of state Amadou Toumani Touré, offered by Cuban President Raúl Castro Ruz.

• Fruitful meeting between Raúl and President Bouteflika
September.30.09
YESTERDAY afternoon, September 29, President Raúl Castro Ruz received at the Palacio de la Revolución, His Excellency Mr. Abdelaziz Bouteflika, president of the People’s Democratic Republic of Algeria who is making an official and friendly visit to our country.

• Fidel awarded the Order of the Zambian Eagle
September.29.09
THE Order of the Zambian Eagle in the first category, the highest distinction awarded by the government of that African nation, has been conferred on the leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro.

• Raúl and president of Cyprus hold official talks
September.29.09
PRESIDENT Raúl Castro Ruz and President Demetris Christofias of the Republic of Cyprus held official talks on Monday at the Palace of the Revolution.  Their meeting took place in the context of the solid friendship between the Cuban and Cypriot peoples, forged over the course of many years and based on respect and cooperation.

• Reflections of Fidel
Pittsburgh and the Margarita Summit
September.28.09
THE Leaders’ Statement of the G-20 Summit in Pittsburgh on Friday, September 25, would appear to be unreal. Let us look at the principal points of its content:
"We meet in the midst of a critical transition from crisis to recovery to turn the page on an era of irresponsibility and to adopt a set of policies, regulations and reforms to meet the needs of the 21st century global economy."
• Raúl decorates Vietnamese president with Order of José Martí
September.28.09
PRESIDENT Raúl Castro conferred the Order of José Martí on President Nguyen Minh Triet of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam in a ceremony on Sunday in the Palace of the Revolution.

• Reflections of Fidel
A revolution is being born there
September.25.09
ON July 16, I stated textually that the coup d’état in Honduras "was conceived of and organized by unscrupulous individuals on the extreme right, dependable officials of George W. Bush and promoted by him."

• Calls at UN for anti-Cuba blockade to be lifted
September.24.09
NEW YORK, September 23.— Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva stated that without a political will, obsolete measures such as the U.S. blockade of Cuba will continue to exist. The dignitary was the first speaker at the 64th Session of the UN General Assembly, which took place today.

• Statement from Cuban Parliament on situation in Honduras
September.24.09
THE National Assembly of People's Power of the Republic of Cuba yesterday issued a statement repudiating the flagrant violation of human rights being suffered by the people of Honduras.

• Reflections of Fidel
The serious Obama
September.23.09
Bolivarian President Hugo Chávez was really original when he spoke of the "enigma of the two Obamas."
Today the serious Obama spoke. Not long ago, I acknowledged two positive aspects of his conduct: the attempt to bring healthcare to the 47 million Americans who lack it and his concern over climate change.

• Reflections of Fidel
An endangered species
September.22.09
I would have liked to talk today about the exceptional Peace without Borders concert that took place in the José Martí Plaza de la Revolución 24 hours ago, but brute reality obliges me to write about a danger that is threatening not only peace but also the survival of our species.

• Juanes and more than one million with white shirts for peace
September.20.09
COLOMBIAN Juanes arrived on the stage of the Peace without Borders concert via his own initiative. He was received with an ovation and the unrestrained enthusiasm of young people for whom the sun was no obstacle (and thanks for the afternoon clouds).

• Megaconcert in Havana begins with a fraternal embrace of love and peace
September.20.09
ALL the artists taking part in the second Peace without Borders concert, dressed in white, came out to greet the tens of thousands of youth...

• PEACE WITHOUT BORDERS CONCERT IN HAVANA
A few hours away from the megaconcert
September.20.09
EVERYTHING is ready in Havana for the mega-concert organized by the multi-prizewinning Colombian singer Juanes, under the title Peace without Borders.

• Raúl holds official talks with Croatian president
September.18.09
GENERAL of the Army Raúl Castro Ruz, president of the Councils of State and Ministers, and His Excellency Mr. Stjepan Mesic, president of the Republic of Croatia, held official talks yesterday afternoon at the Palacio de la Revolución, as part of an official visit to our country by the leader of that European nation.

• Press statement from the Cuban delegation to talks with the U.S. on direct mail between the two countries
September.18.09
ON September 17, 2009 talks began between representatives of Cuba and the United States to normalize direct mail between the two countries. The Cuban delegation was headed by Josefina Vial Ferreiro, director of the North American Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the U.S. delegation by Bisa Williams, deputy assistant secretary for Western Hemisphere affairs.

• Raúl receives Russian first deputy minister of defense
September.18.09
CUBAN President Raúl Castro Ruz and Army Corps General Julio Casas Regueiro, minister of the FAR, yesterday received Army General Nikolai Egorovich Makarov, first deputy minister of defense and chief of the general staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. Makarov is on an official visit to Cuba.

• Cuba once again demands end of the blockade
September.17.09
CUBAN Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla has detailed the principal points of a report presented to the UN General Assembly, titled "The need to put an end to the economic, commercial, and financial blockade imposed by the United States on Cuba, which the international agency will vote on for the 18th consecutive occasion.

• Moving farewell for Comandante Juan Almeida
September.16.09
CRUCE DE LOS BAÑOS.— President Raúl Castro Ruz, president of the Councils of State and Ministers, led the funeral honors for Commander of the Revolution Juan Almeida Bosque yesterday, September 15, at the historical complex that perpetuates the legacy of the heroes and martyrs of the Doctor Mario Muñoz Monroy Third Eastern Front.

• Raúl presides over celebration of 50th anniversary of Ciudad Escolar Libertad
September.15.09
PRESIDENT Raúl Castro Ruz presided over the ceremony celebrating the 50th anniversary of the handover of the former Columbia military garrison to the Ministry of Education to be transformed into the Ciudad Escolar Libertad educational complex.
- 50th anniversary of the first school year in 1959
The most beautiful act of the Revolution

• Santiago: solemn mobilization in tribute to Comandante Almeida
September.15.09
SANTIAGO DE CUBA. — Residents of Santiago de Cuba are to solemnly mobilize today to accompany the remains of Commander of the Revolution Juan Almeida Bosque to his final resting place.

• Reflections of Fidel
Almeida is more alive today than ever
September.14.09
I have spent hours listening by television to the entire country’s tribute to Commander of the Revolution Juan Almeida Bosque. I think that confronting death was for him a duty like all of those that he fulfilled throughout his life; he did not know, nor did we, how much sadness the news of his physical absence would bring to us.
- Santiago prepares mass tribute at Almeida’s burial on Tuesday

• Raúl heads tribute of the people
September.14.09
GENERAL of the Army Raúl Castro Ruz, president of the Councils of State and Ministers, led the tribute given yesterday by the Cuban people to Commander of the Revolution Juan Almeida.

• The brilliance of your modesty
September.14.09
LAS TUNAS.—With thousands of memories, the people of Las Tunas recalled Juan Almeida yesterday, Sunday. But one – quite recent – lies deep in the heart of the city. It dates back to July 2007 when, dressed in white, the Commander of the Revolution entered a shoeshine parlor on the first stretch of a boulevard under construction.

• Raúl Castro heads tribute to Almeida
September.13.09
PRESIDENT and General of the Army Raúl Castro Ruz this morning headed the tribute given by the Cuban people to the deceased Commander of the Revolution Juan Almeida Bosque, at the José Martí Memorial in Plaza de la Revolution.

• Reflections of Fidel
A clear conscience
September.11.09
I would not have wished to harshly criticize one of the companies dedicated to the production of medical equipment that does no obtain its profits by manufacturing weapons to kill, but by combating disease, suffering and death. For that reason, I have always treated all of them with respect and have enjoyed conversing with them on their scientific advances.

• Raúl decorates Asela de los Santos Tamayo with the Order of Playa Girón
September.11.09
THE Order of Playa Girón, one of the highest decorations conferred by the Council of State, was presented in a moving ceremony last night to the outstanding revolutionary combatant Asela de los Santos Tamayo by President Raúl Castro Ruz.

• Reflections of Fidel
The double betrayal of Philips
September.6.09
THE United States owns the most patents in the world. It has stolen scientists from every country, developed or developing, who are undertaking research in a myriad of spheres, from the production of weapons of mass destruction to medicines and medical equipment. For that reason, the economic and technological blockade is not something that merely serves as a pretext for blaming the empire for our own difficulties.

• USA blocking scientific visits to Cuba
September.7.09
BAYAMO, September 6. – The U.S. government is once again preventing its scientists from traveling to Cuba to participate in the 20th International Congress of Orthopedics and Traumatology, scheduled for September 21 to 26 in this city.

• Fidel receives Wu Bangguo
September.4.09
IN a friendly, fraternal atmosphere, a meeting took place yesterday morning, Thursday, between Fidel and Wu Bangguo, member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party and president of the Standing Committee of the 11th National People’s Congress of China, who led the delegation that has been in Cuba on an official and friendly visit.

• Raúl bids farewell to the Chinese leader
September.4.09
CUBAN President Raúl Castro Ruz bade farewell this Thursday to Wu Bangguo, chairman of the standing committee of the 11th People’s National Congress of China, at the end of his official and friendly visit to our country.

• Machado Ventura receives Miguel d’Escoto
September.4.09
JOSE Ramón Machado Ventura, first vice president of the Councils of State and Ministers, met yesterday with Miguel d’Escoto, president of the 63^rd Session of the UN General Assembly, who is on a working visit to Cuba.

• Cuban foreign minister affirms viability of socialism despite blockade
September.3.09
BEIJING, China, September 1. — Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla today affirmed the viability of socialism in his country despite the U.S. policy of aggression, which, he said, remains intact.

• USA ONCE AGAIN DENIES ENTRY TO ADRIANA PEREZ
Cuba accuses the Obama administration of continuing Bush’s practices
September.3.09
CUBA has charged the government of President Barack Obama with continuing the practices of his predecessor George W. Bush and of violating U.S. law by denying a visa to Adriana Pérez.

• Reflections of Fidel
The end does not justify the means
September.3.09
ON occasions direct news coming from the United States prompts indignation and sometimes repugnance.

• Raúl receives Wu Bangguo
September.3.09
CUBAN President Raúl Castro Ruz received Wu Bangguo, president of the Standing Committee of the 11th National People’s Congress (NPC) of the People’s Republic of China, on Wednesday afternoon at the Palacio de la Revolución. Bangguo is on an official and friendly visit to our country.
- Wu Bangguo highlights Cuba’s struggle against the U.S. policy of coercion

• This visit will further strengthen relations between China and Cuba
September.2.09
“THIS visit will strengthen relations between our two countries even more,” affirmed Wu Bangguo, member of the Permanent Committee of the Political Bureau of the Chinese Communist Party and president of the Permanent Committee of the 11th National People’s Assembly...

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