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Soldado de las Ideas
Twelve US business associations, including the Chamber of Commerce, sent a letter to US President-elect Barack Obama urging him to lift the almost fifty-year-old trade, financial and economic blockade of Cuba.
Cuba is estimated to close this year with a 4-percent economic growth in spite of the US economic blockade and the destruction caused by three hurricanes that hit the island in the past few months, said a Deputy Minister of the Cuban Council of State on Wednesday.
Bolivian President Evo Morales presided over the launch on Tuesday of the book ‘La Paz en Colombia’ (Peace in Colombia) by the leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro.
“Every country should look into the future thinking of the energy problem; it’s important for any country, but much more so for the oil importing Third World nations. Even countries with large energy resources are making great efforts in this respect."
Cuban Vice President Esteban Lazo visited this Sunday central Ciego de Avila province to assess the recovery process from the wake of Hurricane Ike that battered this region last September.
In the United States there are a growing number of people that go hungry.
Cuban President Raul Castro Ruz today attended the beatification here of Friar Juanino Jose Olallo, the first ceremony of its kind that takes place in Cuba.
The President of the Russian Federation Dimitri Anatolievich Medvedev met with Fidel Castro before concluding his working visit to Cuba on Friday. He described as very interesting his meeting with the historic leader of the Cuban Revolution.
DIMITRI A. MEDVEDEV
It was to me a very rewarding meeting. I was very well impressed by Medvedev’s intellectual capacity which I had already perceived. He is the youngest among the most important Heads of State in the world, and the one who commands the largest territory.
The President of the Russian Federation, Dimitri Anatolievich Medvedev, arrives on Thursday in Havana for a working visit at the invitation of his Cuban counterpart, Raul Castro.
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