Viewing from November 2005
US blocks experts from attending Cuban biotech conference
Campaign News | Monday, 28 November 2005
Dozens of scientists denied visasHAVANA,November 28: US authorities blocked dozens of US experts from attending a major Cuban biotechnology conference that opened here this weekend, its Cuban chairman said Saturday.Carlos Borroto, chairman of the Havana Biotechnology Conference 2005 which opened on Sunday with some 550 specialists from 35 countries, said ... read more
Cuba's economy likely to reach 9 percent growth this year
Campaign News | Saturday, 26 November 2005
Economy Minister says progress energy, transport and food are having effectHavana (VNA) - Cuba is expected to obtain over 9 percent economic growth in 2005, Jose Luis Rodriguez, Minister of Economy and Planning of Cuba, told the the sixth congress of Cuban economists and accountants on Nov. 24.Cuba has seen ... read more
Miami seizes terrorist arsenal
Campaign News | Thursday, 24 November 2005
Posada's benefactor had log-range weaponsHavana, Nov 24 (Prensa Latina) The seizure of a stockpile of long-range weapons in the possession of Cuban-born counterrevolutionary Santiago Alvarez Magriña, detained since last Saturday in the United States, shows terrorist groups are still alive in Miami.Federal US authorities have captured Alvarez, linked to terrorist ... read more
Cuba announces new increases in wages and Social Security
Campaign News | Thursday, 24 November 2005
More than 3 million workers to benefitHavana, 22 November: MORE than three million Cubans are to benefit from new wage increases announced by the government as a continuation of the policy of social benefits.A statement issued on November 22 by the Executive Committee of the Council of Ministers and the ... read more
UK Seeks Cuban Aid for 2012 Olympics
Campaign News | Wednesday, 23 November 2005
Lord Moynihan in Havana seeking coaching talentHavana, Nov 22 (Prensa Latina) Lord Colin Moynihan, the Chairman of the British Olympic Association (BOA), said in Havana on Tuesday that his country will seek the support of Cuban sports expertise to prepare the UK team for the 2012 Olympic Games in London.After ... read more
Hip Hop festival to kick off in Havana
Campaign News | Tuesday, 22 November 2005
11th annual contest under wayHavana, Nov 22 (AIN) The 11th Havana Hip Hop Festival will be running in this capital from Wednesday November 23 until Saturday November 28.According to Granma newspaper, hip hoppers from all over Cuba are in Havana to participate in this festival which will take place in ... read more
Cuba regains world boxing title
Campaign News | Monday, 21 November 2005
Team wins four golds, on silver and three bronze medalsBeijing, Nov 20 (Prensa Latina) With an outstanding performance of its super heavy weigh Odlanier Solis, who won his third consecutive crown, Cuba recouped Sunday the World Boxing title in Miangyang, China, by winning four golds, one silver and three bronzes.Under ... read more
Electricity rate increases announced
Campaign News | Monday, 21 November 2005
No change to the subsidized rate for the first 100 kilowatt-hoursHavana 23 November: THE Cuban government has announced a set of measures affecting electricity rates, wage increases and Social Security and Social Assistance payments, in a decree signed by President Fidel Castro issued on November 22.The document informs that for ... read more
Cuba group takes out ad against Posada
Campaign News | Saturday, 19 November 2005
Cuba group takes out New York Times ad against PosadaThe campaign against Cuban emigre terrorist Luis Posada Carriles reached a pinnacle on Friday when the New York Times published a full-page advertisement from a Cuba-based group urging the US government not to harbour him.The expensive ad inside the A section, ... read more
Castro laughs off CIA claim that he has Parkinson's
Campaign News | Friday, 18 November 2005
They have killed me many times, says FidelHAVANA 17 November - Cuban President Fidel Castro on Thursday dismissed a CIA assessment he is suffering from Parkinson's disease as a fabrication by his U.S. enemies who wish to see him dead."They say Castro has this or that illness. The last thing ... read more
Cuba considers making a bird flu vaccine
Campaign News | Wednesday, 16 November 2005
There are not enough medicines in the world to treat a pandemic , say scientistsHAVANA 16 November - Cuba said on Thursday it was considering researching a vaccine against bird flu, warning that antiviral drugs available today are barely enough to protect "the rich people in rich nations" from a ... read more
Cuba calls for democracy on the Internet
Campaign News | Wednesday, 16 November 2005
Speech by Cuban Communications Minister, Ignacio Gonzalez PlanasTunis, Nov 17 (Prensa Latina) Cuba has called for a "new multilateral and democratic institution" that should administer Internet, while at the same time regulating and promoting international cooperation, transfering financial and technological resources and fostering equality on the information age.Following is the ... read more
Census data is released
Campaign News | Tuesday, 15 November 2005
Cuba is pictured in detailCubans now number more than 11 million.Population grew by 1,454,138 inhabitants between the 1981 and 2002 CensusesMen: 50.03%; women: 49.7%Those 60 or over make up 14.7% ? 75.9% reside in urban areasThe provinces of City of Havana, Holguín and Santiago de Cuba each have more than ... read more
British priest accuses US of delaying legal process for the Five
Campaign News | Tuesday, 15 November 2005
Father Geoffrey Bottoms in HavanaBRITISH priest Father Geoffrey Bottoms affirmed yesterday (Thursday) in Havana that the United States is trying to delay the legal procedure for the five Cuban anti-terrorist fighters unjustly imprisoned in that country.By requesting a reconsideration of the previous Appeals Court decision, U.S. prosecutors are just playing ... read more
Bush ignores UN vote against blockade and toughens policy team on Cuba
Campaign News | Friday, 11 November 2005
Hardliners at the centre of Cuba policy makingBy Circles RobinsonHavana, Nov 11 (Prensa Latina): Fresh off a near unanimous 184-4 vote rebuke from the United Nations General Assembly on the 45-year US blockade of Cuba, President George W. Bush may be headed to further increase tensions with the island.Press reports ... read more
Cuban Foreign Minister?s Speech at UN General assembly
Campaign News | Friday, 11 November 2005
Mentions how UK firm Amersham was stopped from trading with Cuba in biotech after being bought by General ElectricPrior to a historic vote by the UN General Assembly, the Cuban Foreign Minister, Felipe Perez Roque, delivered a speech condemning the US blockade of his country and providing evidence of its ... read more
How the Czech Republic is a pawn for the US in its war against Cuba
Campaign News | Friday, 11 November 2005
By Larry Birns, Director of the Council on Hemispheric AffairsTuesday, November 8, 2005Citing 'bitter memories' springing from its communist past, and with its strong, if highly selective, commitment to backing democratic political systems abroad, the Czech Republic today has become one of Cuba’s most lethal enemies worldwide.It also now operates ... read more
Cuba reflects on record blockade vote at UN
Campaign News | Thursday, 10 November 2005
UN General Assembly’s 182-4 vote topic of Cuban radio and TV program “The Round Table.”Havana, Nov 10 (AIN) The overwhelming rejection of the US blockade against Cuba, recorded by the UN General Assembly’s 182-4 vote on Tuesday, was the topic of Wednesday’s edition of the Cuban radio and TV program ... read more
Free Trade Area 'dead and buried '
Campaign News | Sunday, 6 November 2005
Cuba TV highlights victory for southern nations in Mar Del PlataHavana, Nov 5 (AIN) The Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) was pronounced dead and buried by the peoples of the Americas on Friday in Mar del Plata, Argentina, asserted panelists on Friday's edition of "The Round Table."Eleven years ... read more
Cuban ambassador to Britain says Bush is carrying out an 'economic war'
Campaign News | Saturday, 5 November 2005
'US policy tougher than ever'LONDON, Nov 4 - In an interview with Reuters news agency the new Cuban ambassador to Britain has said that the United States is trying harder than ever to isolate Cuba and is leaning on countries to back its economic blockade.The blockade on Cuba has been ... read more
Cuba never accepted US aid for hurricane
Campaign News | Friday, 4 November 2005
Statement from the Ministry of Foreign AffairsHavana 04 November: ON October 25, the head of the U.S. Interests Section in Havana (USIS) asked to be received at MINREX to hand over a diplomatic note via which the U.S. government offered to send a team of three officials from the Overseas ... read more
Court reinstates Miami Five convictions
Campaign News | Wednesday, 2 November 2005
Appeals court overutrns August ruling - case could be in limbo for monthsATLANTA, 2 Nov: An appellate court has reinstated the convictions of the Miami Five, five Cubans jailed in 1998 on alleged conspiracy charges and found guilty in a 2001 Miami federal trial.The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ... read more
Trade with Venezuela and rest of Latin America is booming
Campaign News | Wednesday, 2 November 2005
American continent overtakes Europe as Cuba's main trading partnerTrade volume between Cuba and Venezuela will reach 1.4 billion US dollars this year and 2.0 billion in 2006, Venezuelan Foreign Trade Minister Gustavo Marquez said on Tuesday.On the second day of the 23rd International Fair of Havana, opened Monday, Marquez contributed ... read more
US steps up radio aggression
Campaign News | Tuesday, 1 November 2005
In September a total of 2,267 hours and 10 minutes of broadcasting per week transmitted over radio and the ill-named Television Martí? A military aircraft (EC-130J), used in military actions in Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq, employed to transmit these signals that interfere with frequencies and channels used by the islandBy ... read more
