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CUBA-U.S. Culture Spotlight Sports © YEAR VIII THE Nº 24 DEC 30, 2018 HAVANA, CUBA ISSN 2224-5707 Price: avana eporter 1.00 CUC H YOUR SOURCE OF NEWSR & MORE 1.00 USD A Bimonthly Newspaper of the Prensa Latina News Agency 1.20 CAN CUBA-U.S. Culture Spotlight Sports P. 4 P. 6 P. 7 P. 15 Many Sectors Call Magical Havana Latin American Film Cuban Baseball-MLB for Closer Ties on the Road to 500 Years Festival Moved by Cuba’s Agreement Welcomed in Productions Havana At 60, the Revolution Remains on Course P. 2 2 CUBA At 60, the Revolution Remains on Course this year, including tourism, whose to improve this collective work, stressing By JoelMichelVARONA number of rooms increased as a result that no suggestion was left out. of the opening of new facilities and the “Each Cuban should feel proud of the HAVANA.- Against all odds, the Cuban restoration of others. Constitution,” said the secretary of the Revolution will celebrate on January 1 its The Cuban people are also celebrating Council of State, who added that hard 60th anniversary with great achievements another anniversary of their Revolution work will continue in order to improve reached by a nation that has to overcome with great altruism and solidarity. In this the legal system. new challenges in order to preserve its sense, over the past 50 years, Cuba has Acosta referred to positive topics social progress. provided assistance to 186 countries, and included in the document, such as the It’s amazing to see how Cuba, a third- more than one million Cubans rendered role and importance of state-owned world country, has reached notable services abroad, either in Latin America companies, which will gain autonomy achievements in about half a century, and the Caribbean or in Africa and Asia. as well as the municipalities. These steps some of which emulate the indicators An example of this assistance is the will contribute to the development of the (ONLY ONE REVOLUTION) of nations from the so-called developed More Doctors Program, an initiative that nation. world. The results obtained in the field of was in place for five years after having The debates of the draft constitution health, just to mention one example, are a been launched by the then Brazilian started on August 13 and finished on proof of this. president Dilma Rousseff in 2013. This November 15. The Cuban residents According to the Ministry of Public program, which has been sabotaged by abroad also participated in the process. Health, in the first five months of 2018, president elect Jair Bolsonaro, counted on The document includes the Cuba registered the lowest infant the participation of about 20,000 Cuban preamble and 224 articles (87 more than mortality rate in the country’s history: 3.9 professionals, who tended 113 million in the present Constitution), which are per 1,000 live births - 0.1 less than the rate people in more than 3,600 municipalities. divided in 11 titles, 24 chapters and 16 reported at the end of 2017. The Cuban Revolution will celebrate sections. The new record shows the another anniversary amidst a number of It was reported that 11 articles from strengthening of the mother-child transformations aimed at restructuring the current Constitution are maintained, program and the efforts the government the county’s social and economic fields. while 113 have been amended and 13 is making to provide primary care at For that reason, Cubans debated a draft were eliminated. the pregnant women centers and the Constitution. Cuba is moving forward through intensive-care pediatric units. Secretary of the Cuban Council of the path the country chose, though The Cuban health system was State Homero Acosta described the hampered by a reinforced economic, determined to maintain in 2018 a rate process of analysis of the draft as unique commercial and financial blockade lower than 4.0 - an all-time low record and democratic. imposed by Washington for more than 55 reached last year. “First, it was debated by Parliament in years. At present, and in view of 2019, July; then, the document was debated by According to official estimates, priority is given to maternal mortality and the people and now it’s being analyzed from April 2017 to March 2018, the U.S. the strategies to improve the neonatal, again by Parliament, to draft the final blockade cost Cuba more than 4.32 prenatal and labor care all over the document and hold a referendum in billion dollars while the accumulated country. 2019,” he noted. losses resulting from the implementation PL/Internet In spite of the difficulties facing the Acosta said that millions of Cubans of that hostile policy amount to 933.67 country, other sectors also made progress made proposals and expressed opinions billion dollars. PHOTOS: A Bimonthly Newspaper of the Prensa Latina News Agency SOCIETY.HEALTH & SCIENCE.POLITICS.CULTURE THE YOUR SOURCE OF NEWS & MORE ENTERTAINMENT.PHOTO FEATURE.ECONOMY HavanaReporter SPORTS.AND MORE President: Luis Enrique González. Graphic Designers: Paola A. González Publisher: Agencia Informativa Latinoamericana, Information Vice President: Hector Miranda. Chief Graphic Editor: Francisco González Prensa Latina, S.A. Editorial Vice President: Lianet Arias Advertising: Nelson Pérez Vergara Calle E, esq. 19 No. 454, Vedado, La Habana-4, Cuba. Chief Editor: Luis Melian Circulation: Commercial Department. Telephone: (53)7838-3496 / 7832-3578 Translation: Dayamí Interian/ Yanely Interián Printing: Imprenta Federico Engels Fax: (53)7833-3068 E-mail: [email protected] CUBA 3 Cuba, Closer to the World in 2018 By CossetLAZO cooperation, agreed to join hands in the HAVANA.- Despite increasing U.S. efforts production of rice and announced the to isolate Cuba from the rest of the world, Cuban government’s approval of the first in 2018 the island was at the center of administrative concession at the Mariel the world’s attention with the arrivals of Special Development Zone. presidents and top officials from more Several leaders came from Latin than 30 countries and the visits made America and the Caribbean as well, by Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel including the Presidents of Bolivia, Evo abroad. Morales, and Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, Neither the tightening of the who were the first ones to greet Díaz- economic blockade against Cuba during Canel in person after he took office in the first two years U.S. President Donald April. Trump has been in power nor the Also from Latin America, President hostile speeches made in Florida or the Juan Carlos Varela of Panama, and announcement of anti-Cuban measures Salvador Sánchez Cerén of El Salvador, have weakened the Caribbean island’s visited the island in November. Moreover, links with other countries. the then Chilean President Michelle The most important visits here made Bachelet fulfilled a busy agenda in in 2018 included the one by UN Secretary January. General António Guterres in the Caribbean leaders such as the framework of the 37thperiod of sessions Prime Minister of Saint Vincent and the of the Economic Commission for Latin Grenadines, Ralph Gonsalves, and Haitian America and the Caribbean (ECLAC). President Jovenel Moise also travelled to During the event held in May, Cuba Cuba to reinforce bilateral relations. assumed the presidency pro tempore of ECLAC, when Guterres called to redefine DÍAZ-CANEL ABROAD the concept of development in order The Cuban president participated in to reduce poverty, inequalities and meetings and made a tour of Asian and exclusion. European countries that strengthened The trip made in November by Cuba’s integration into the international Spanish President Pedro Sánchez also arena. stood out in 2018, as it was the first In July, he participated in a meeting official visit by a head of the Spanish of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Executive to Cuba since Felipe González held in Jamaica, where he talked with came to the island in 1986. regional leaders. Sánchez participated in a business From the end of October to the forum and toured the historic district middle of November, the president made of Old Havana, accompanied by Cuban a tour that included Russia, the People’s President Miguel Díaz-Canel on both Democratic Republic of Korea, China, occasions. Vietnam and Laos. In transit to those According to the visitor, Madrid’s countries he made a stopover in France, commitment is simple: “to take economic where he talked with Prime Minister relations to the same level of our historic Édouard Philippe and UNESCO director and friendly bonds.” EstudiosREVOLUCION general Audrey Azoulay. “We will not limit ourselves to be Díaz-Canel exchanged viewpoints mere witnesses of the Cuban economy’s PHOTOS: with Presidents Vladimir Putin, Kim growth but we will continue to foster Jong-un, Xi Jinping, Nguyen Phu Trong investments, participating in the the southern countries, enhanced by historic leader of the Cuban Revolution and Bounnhang Vorachith. During his country’s development and prosperity,” the visits made by heads of State such Fidel Castro. trip back to the island he visited the he stressed. as Mulatu Teshome, of Ethiopia; Uhuru During his stay in Cuba, the two sides United Kingdom, where he met with Also from Europe Cuba welcomed EU Keniatta, of Kenya, and Mahmoud Abbas, signed several cooperation agreements personalities such as Finance Minister Foreign Policy Chief Federica Mogherini, of Palestine, as well as by Namibian Prime such as one on the strengthening of links Philip Hammond -who is considered French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Minister Saara Kuugongelwa-Amadhila. between the Communist Party of Cuba the second most important figure of Drian and the Deputy Prime Minister of Likewise, the then Secretary General and its Vietnamese counterpart, the the British government and- and with Slovakia, Robert Kaliñák, among other of the Vietnamese Communist Party cancellation of the debt with the Asian the leader of the UK Labor Party, Jeremy top officials.
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