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LA ALBORADA
Washington, DC
nuevas@earthlink.net
Cuban American Alliance Education Fund
Friday, January 27, 2012
2012-01-27 | Water; PCC; Mercados; Camagüey | Opiniones
NOTICIAS
» Cuba to Devote Half of Water Available to Agriculture
Havana, Jan 26 (Prensa Latina) The National Hydraulic Resources Institute of Cuba (INRH) established in 2012 the consumption of nine billion cubic meters of water, nearly half of them in agricultural plantations, official sources said on Thursday.
» Comienza mañana Conferencia del Partido
La Primera Conferencia Nacional del Partido Comunista de Cuba comenzará este sábado, en cumplimiento de lo acordado por el VI Congreso. En ella se evaluará con objetividad y sentido crítico el trabajo de la organización. Su inicio, este 28 de enero, constituirá un homenaje de los comunistas cubanos a nuestro Héroe Nacional José Martí, en el 159 aniversario de su natalicio.
» ¿El mercado en carretilla?
Dentro del trabajo por cuenta propia, los llamados carretilleros han venido a engrosar la lista de formas de comercialización de los productos agrícolas. Su desempeño favorece a quien prefiere no moverse de casa para adquirir determinado alimento o a quien vive a una distancia considerable del mercado más cercano y esté dispuesto a pagar un precio mayor.
» Logra Recursos Hidráulicos de Camagüey lugar cimero entre sus similares de Cuba
Camagüey, 26 ene.- La Dirección del Instituto de Recursos Hidráulicos en Camagüey ocupó el primer lugar en Cuba en la emulación correspondiente al pasado año, por sus excelentes resultados al sobrecumplir sus planes de circulación mercantil y el de inversiones.
BREVES INTERNACIONALES
» Ron Paul calls for diplomatic relations with Cuba
Ron Paul took a risky position in Florida in Thursday’s debate, calling for communication and diplomatic relations with Cuba, saying that people's positions have changed dramatically over the last few years.
» Miami-based Cuban Journalist Denounces Threats
Havana, Jan 26 (Prensa Latina) Cuban journalist Miguel Fernandez, a Miami resident, reported on Thursday that he received numerous threats after publishing an article critical of the most right-wing Cuban emigrants.
» La cubana Zuleica Romay obtiene Premio Casa de las Américas 2012
En acto celebrado en la Sala Che Guevara de la Casa de las Américas, en La Habana, se entregaron este jueves los lauros de la edición 53 de su Premio Literario, en la cual concursaron cerca de 400 obras.
» Cuba, Destino Turístico del Año en Finlandia
La Habana, 26 ene (PL) Cuba resultó hoy elegida como Destino Turístico del Año por la Asociación Finlandesa de Periodistas de Helsinki, por sus bondades y desarrollo de la industria recreativa.
» Congress on Sex Education Closes in Cuba
Havana, Jan 26 (Prensa Latina) The president of the organizing committee of the 6th Congress on Sex Education, Counseling and Therapy, Mariela Castro Espin, was very pleased with the progress and outcome of the event, which ended on Thursday in Havana.
» Brazil Records Historical Low Unemployment Rate in 2011
Brasilia, Jan 26 (PL) In 2011, Brazil recorded an unemployment rate of six percent, the lowest in the series initiated in 2002, the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) reported on Thursday.
CASAS DE CRISTAL
» Many of the super-rich pay 15% tax rate like Mitt Romney
The number of super-rich Americans who pay about what Mitt Romney pays to the Internal Revenue Service has more than tripled in a decade.
OPINIONES
» Romney looks forward to reoccupying Cuba
La Alborada - Jan 27
In 2006, a high-level commission created by George Bush and headed by Condoleezza Rice and Carlos Gutiérrez --at the time, the Secretary of Commerce, of Cuban origin-- collected what was presented as the work of the best experts on Cuba in every relevant US agency. It predicted confidently that in the case of the "death, incapacitation, or ouster" of Fidel Castro, the Cuban people would rise up, to the point where the US had to be ready to mobilize within two weeks of such an event to intervene in Cuba at all levels of government and society. As it happened, Fidel did become incapacitated, but nothing of what the high commissioners predicted took place. Events proved that the US experts, including then-Secretary of State Rice, were wholly ignorant of Cuban reality.
This was no great surprise, as the Commission proposed, among its anticipated actions, to launch immediately a vaccination campaign (among one of the most vaccinated peoples in the world) and deploy an emergency network of field hospitals to provide medical care (ignoring the existing network of hospitals, polyclinics, and family-doctor offices in a country that in 2007 was ranked as having the lowest ratio of patients per doctor in the world).
Previously, the Torricelli law of 1992 and the Helms-Burton law of 1996 had been passed with the assurance that each would bring down the Cuban government. Sen. Jesse Helms' lieutenant explained that Fidel would leave office either standing up or boots-first.
Now, MItt Romney, still a leading Republican candidate for president, talks the same talk in Miami. "If I'm fortunate to become the next president of the United States it is my expectation that Fidel Castro will finally be taken off this planet," he said this week. "We've waited a long, long time for the opportunity that is represented by a new president, and by new leadership, or by old leadership finally kicking the bucket in Cuba."
Is he aware that Raul, not Fidel, Castro is the president of Cuba, and that he is implementing major changes in the economy of that country? Does he think that the absence of Fidel would change everything, as did the Bush commissioners of 2004 and 2006? Did he care about what he said this week, as long as he could drum up some votes and dollars among the Batistianos and terrorists of South Florida? Probably, he was quite serious.
Romney spoke about Cuba as if it were real estate properly belonging to the US, and about the island's government as if it were a tenant who, having overstayed the term of a lease, needed to be evicted by the sheriff. He spoke just a few months after the General Assembly of the United Nations voted against the US blockade against Cuba, leaving the US with only one supporting vote. Not long ago, all of the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, which oppose the US blockade, founded a new continental organization that pointedly excludes the US and Canada.
Romney's performance suggests that either he knows little about Cuba, or he is willing to mislead voters in his campaign. He also sounds like someone who does not care much for the opinion of the world, or even of the continental neighborhood. As was pointed out above, he remains a leading Republican candidate for the presidency. All but one of his party's other candidates have spoken in similar terms. The current president, while now permitting people-to-people travel, demands that Cuba behave as he dictates, on pain of maintaining the blockade in every other way.
US-Cuba relations remain on hold "until after the elections." Again.
ACTIVIDADES
» Chucho Valdes and his Messengers deliver Cuba's upbeat sounds
Centre Daily Times - Jan 26
By Jenna Spinelle for the CDT
Though central Pennsylvania is far from Africa and Latin America, Chucho Valdes and the Afro-Cuban Messengers promise to bring those sounds and influences here.
Valdes will perform at Eisenhower Auditorium on Jan. 31 as part of a tour supporting the album “Chucho’s Steps,” which won the Grammy for best Latin jazz album. In a recent interview, Valdes said the audience can expect material from that album, along with new songs he’s been writing over the past few months.
“We’re planning to record in July and will be trying out some new material at concert,” Valdes said through a translator. “We hope our fondness of Cuban music with come through in the performance.”
Valdes was born in Cuba to a musical family; his father, Bebo, was a fellow pianist and director of the Tropicana nightclub in Havana. He founded the group Irakere, one of Cuba’s best known jazz bands.
In addition to the Grammy for “Chucho’s Steps,” Valdes also has taken home the award for his “Live at the Village Vanguard” and “Live at Newport” albums, and for his contributions to works by other artists. More:
Chucho Valdes and the Afro-Cuban Messengers will perform at 7:30 p.m. Jan. 31 at Eisenhower Auditorium, University Park. Call 800-ARTS-TIX or visit www.cpa.psu.edu for more information.
» Cuban Pianist Chucho Valdés Plays Jorgensen
Hartford Courant - Jan 24
By Owen Mcnally, Special to The Hartford Courant
Still very much an irrepressible life-force at 70, Chucho Valdés, the renowned Cuban pianist, composer and bandleader, is on a winter tour of the United States that sets down for high-energy maneuvers Friday and Saturday, Jan. 27 and 28, at the cabaret series at the University of Connecticut's Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts. More:
DEPORTES (Titulares)
» Una parada peligrosa
ENLACES
» Vea en Cubadebate el documental “Esencias, La Colmenita en Estados Unidos” (+ Video). Cubadebate les ofrece el documental de Roberto Chile Esencias, la Colmenita en Estados Unidos, transmitido anoche por la Televisión cubana y que narra la gira que hiciera la compañía de teatro infantil por ese país y sus comunicaciones telefónicas con los Cinco y el encuentro con René González, quien se encuentra en Miami con libertad supervisada, un castigo adicional. Cortesía de su realizador y de La Colmenita, recibimos este filme que está subtitulado al inglés y muestra la sensibilidad que habita en el proyecto teatral y el lado más humano del drama de los Cinco, que dura ya más de 13 años. Hemos subido a nuestro Canal en Youtube este documental en su formato original, con calidad HD.
» Primera dama El Salvador asegura tener más afinidad con el FMLN. La primera dama y secretaria de Inclusión Social de El Salvador, Vanda Pignato, aseguró que tiene mayor identificación con el Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional (FMLN) que con otros partidos.San Salvador, 26 ene (PL) La primera dama y secretaria de Inclusión Social de El Salvador, Vanda Pignato, aseguró que tiene mayor identificación con el Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional (FMLN) que con otros partidos. No puedo mentir, el FMLN cumple un papel importante en la construcción de la institucionalidad, muy importante, afirmó en una extensa entrevista publicada hoy por el diario digital La Página, de oposición. Personalmente creo que en el futuro, para que las políticas públicas no estén en peligro y se pueda fortalecer ese proceso, el FMLN debe tener un buen resultado electoral, dijo.
+ Afirma FMLN profundizará cambios a favor de mayorías en El Salvador
» Prominent Fla businessman guilty in $135M fraud; investors include Roman Catholic prep school.. MIAMI — A prominent businessman pleaded guilty Wednesday to fraud in a $135 million real estate scheme that fleeced hundreds of investors, including the Roman Catholic prep school he once attended. Gaston Cantens, 73, faces up to five years behind bars after pleading guilty to a single count of wire and mail fraud conspiracy. U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams set sentencing for April 4. Cantens also lured investors from Miami’s close-knit Cuban-American community, many of them elderly and some Roman Catholic priests. One victim, 80-year-old Eduardo Arango, said he lost about $800,000 investing with Cantens. He called the plea agreement “a sweet deal” because Cantens could have faced more charges and a longer prison sentence. “Most of the victims were people who are very aged. They lost whatever their resources were. They have suffered,” Arango said. Federal prosecutors said Cantens operated his company, Royal West Properties Inc., like a Ponzi scheme in which he paid older investors with money raised from newer ones.
» Callejón de Hamel un espacio diferente - Galería
EFEMÉRIDES
1898 - Muere el Coronel del Ejército Libertador Néstor Aranguren
Nacido en La Habana, el 14 de febrero de 1873 y educado por padres patriotas, desde muy pequeño tuvo vocación por la lucha independentista. A los 14 años, obligado por la difícil situación económica de la familia, comenzó a trabajar en la compañía encargada de la construcción del Canal de Albear.
Fue uno de los jóvenes de la Acera del Louvre que custodiaron a Antonio Maceo durante su visita a La Habana en 1890. Conspiró en La Habana y posteriormente se incorporó como soldado al Regimiento de Caballería de Camagüey. Se destacó por su valor y dotes de mando en muchas acciones. No obstante, tres hechos se destacan de este heroico jefe mambí: el audaz asalto a la villa de Guanabacoa; el asalto al tren de Fesser, que pretendía capturar al Teniente Coronel Narciso de Fonsdeviela, sanguinario verdugo de los Mártires de la Jata; y el ajusticiamiento al Teniente Coronel de Ingenieros Joaquín Ruiz, ayudante de campo del Capitán General Ramón Blanco y Erenas.
Néstor Aranguren fue ascendido a Coronel el 26 de julio de 1897, cuando tenía sólo 24 años; antes de su muerte, por su valor, su constancia y destacado ejercicio del mando de fuerzas en la guerra, había sido propuesto para Brigadier del Ejército Libertador. El 27 de enero del año 1898 murió en desigual encuentro por la delación de un vil traidor.
1953 - Marcha de las Antorchas, en La Habana
En el Año del Centenario los jóvenes de todos los sectores: estudiantes, obreros, campesinos, desempleados, en más de un centenar, se reúnen en un salón del Palacio de los Yesistas, en la calle Xifré. Los une el Congreso Martiano por los Derechos de la Juventud que anhela, sueña y reclama que sus problemas sean resueltos de forma pacífica, civilizada. Y engrandecidos en un mar de antorchas que flameaban como la luz que dimana de su ejemplo, parten de la Escalinata de la Universidad, bajan San Lázaro, doblan por Espada y van hacia la Fragua Martiana. Quieren, exigen, un Centenario con libertad.
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