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Cuba’s Dayron Robles Wins at PSD Meet

Cuba’s Beijing Olympic Champ Dayron Robles went virtually wire-to-wire to win the 60-meter hurdles in Dusseldorf, German on Wednesday in the PSD Bank Meet with a time of 7.50 seconds.

Cuban Children’s Theatre Co. Reaches 20

The Cuban La Colmenita Children’s Theatre Company will celebrate the 20th anniversary of its foundation starting next February 14 by climbing to Turquino Peak (the island’s highest), performances in the Ciénaga de Zapata lowlands and the premier of Elpidio Valdés and Los Van Van, announced its director, Carlos Alberto Cremata. La Colmenita is a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador.

Cuba Advises Venezuela on Energy Crisis

A Cuban government technical commission headed by Minister of Informatics and Communication Ramiro Valdes will provide advice to Venezuela to face the energy crisis the South American nation is going through. Cuba experienced similar situations that weighed down its economy in the early 1990s and later in 2004.

Cuban & US Doctors Together in Haiti

Seven US doctors leave for Haiti on Wednesday to work alongside the Cuban medical brigade in the earthquake recovery effort, reported the Interreligious Foundation for Community Organization (IFCO) in a press release.

Unpublished Letter to Granma

Some comrades speak of members of cooperatives and self-employed individuals as if they were capitalists. One should remember that capitalism is based on wage-labor and on someone exploiting another person’s labor power, from which comes surplus value. This is the dynamic law of capitalism.

Cuba Ends Medical Aid in Panama

The decision comes in response to the closing of the bilateral agreement signed in 2006, which has not been renewed by President Ricardo Martinelli. Up to now that free ophthalmologic care program had benefited close to 50,000 persons who had their vision restored or improved.

Cuba Opens Haiti Rehab Services

The Cuban medical contingent deployed in Haiti started up six rehabilitation wards for the victims of the January 12 earthquake, a type of healthcare service that did not exist in that Caribbean country, reported the local press. Up to now the island’s personnel, accompanied by students from Cuba’s Latin American School of Medicine (ELAM), have treated more than 50,000 persons.

Cuba Chess Master Finishes 8th

Cuba’s chess senstion Leinier Dominguez finished eighth in the tough Wijk aan Zee 2010 tournament in Holland that ended Sunday. The winner was 19-year-old Norweigian Margnus Carlsen, considered before hand as the player to beat. Leinier drew in his final match against second place finisher Alexei Sirvov, ending with 6.5 points.

Church Warns of Cuba Economic Collapse

The government-announced readjustments of expenditures and its “lack of definition in terms of perspective as well as means” in the face of the crisis could lead Cuba to an economic collapse, said Boris Moreno, priest and master in economic sciences, in an article published by the magazine Palabra Nueva of the Archdiocese of Havana. According to the economist, the state policy is “kidnapped by the ideological recentralization that wants to maintain at all costs an order of things that suffocates the country.”

Majority of Cuban Scientists are Women

Women represent 54 per cent of the persons linked to the scientific sector in Cuba, in which 71,000 persons work, the majority of them with a higher education, the Ministry of Science, Technology and the Environment (CITMA) reported. The island has 210 research, technological and innovation centers and areas.