yes fisky this hopefully will shut your pie hole for some time....now for the rest of those mouth breathing simpeltons...C.C. aka belial/dagmar or whatever he is calling himself today....this is the end of the begining ...let us hope the whole rotten structure begins to collapse...VIVA CUBA LIBRE

This is the beginning. Next they have to open up the prisons to let the people out who disagreed with Castro. Oh what a day!

Belial and Dagtan are not the same people. Both claim education but only one writes as if that was possible.

" FREE AT LAST FREE AT LAST THANK GOD ALMIGHTY I AM FREE AT LAST" M.L.K.

Raul will, of course, be elected president by the council of state, a committee of legislators that shares executive power of the state with the council of ministers, as is customary in most parliamentary forms of democracy where the top legislative body picks the head of state or the head of government rather than the voters directly.

Fidel, it appears, will keep his seat in the legislature and he may also keep his seat on the council of state, but not as its president.

Raul will likely nominate the people he wants in top offices of the state and the council of state will likely grant his request.

The key positions to be filled are:

(1) Raul's current job as defense minister. Raul may want keep the defense job and serve as president as the same time. My guess however is that Raul will promote somebody to replace him in the defense job.

CON'T

(2) Raul's current as first vice president of the council of state. The person who has this job is the number two official of the Cuban state. My guess is that Raul will nominate African-Cuban Commander of the Revolution Juan Almeida who now serves in the legislature and as one of a number of lessor vice presidents on the council of state.

(3) Juan's current lessor vice presidency. My guess is that Raul will lift Commander of Revolution and current minister informatics and telecommunications Ramiro Valdez over the heads of a lot of people and give Ramiro Juan's current vice presidency. Ramiro may want to keep his current job as informatics minister.

(4) The shifts will leave one vacancy on the council of state. It's almost impossible to guess who will get this seat, other than to say either he or she will be a members of the legislature.

CON'T

So, the new chain of command

Raul Castro, pres.

Juan Almeida, 1st VP
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Almeida_Bosque

Ramiro Valdez, VP

Carlos Lage, VP
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Lage

As for the defense minister's job, Raul will, I guess, pick somebody from the military.

Let's see what happens.

THE END

you are finito party stooge it wont be long now ...buy your ticket to north korea.....belial are you wearing black today...you bet it is THE END

Don't let your rotting bourgeois democratic state in Canda fall on you?

George W. Bush may order his Canadian slaves, especially the cowards who serve US imperialism in the Canadian military, to make some kind of counter-revolutionary move in the Caribbean.

Scum will rise from Canadian landfills to join the Canadian forces that recognize Bush as their commander in chief rather than the harlot prime minister Stephen Harper.

Gouletcolonial, rise from your grave in the landfill. Your services as a tart are required by US imperialists.

it has already out lived one person...unlike Naziism and Cuban communism....finito....2008 rip this is your last year get your bags packed

As long as he's still breathing, he or his shadow will be ruling

ruling no,,,,,,, influencing yes.....the end is near

When gouletcolonial died ... may his soul rest in peace ... the Canadians dug a deep hole in a landfill and dumped him.

Gouletcolonial's presence on the premises of the landfill attracted more maggots, flies, and rats.

Canadians will be overjoyed if George W. Bush sent gouletcolonial to the Caribbean in some kind of counter-revolutionary move that serves US imperialism..

The people of Cuba rule Cuba, own the means of production, and distributes the national income.

The peoples of the USA and Canada kiss the behinds of their ruling capitalist classes.

you have now tipped into paranoid psychopathic loon....its the rubber room for you....C.C. /belial whatever your name is today

Canada (gouletcolonial)--you are right, I should have said influencing. Now, Belial, do you honestly believe the Cuban people in Cuba rule their country? hmmmmm.....sounds like you need to visit Cuba and head off the beaten path that Fidel wants you to see....

white chick we all await the other shoe.to drop............. I believe it is just a matter of time.....one way or the other...we all know the new leader is not living in Miami....and I dont mean Raoul

Typical commies,love to talk from the comfort of the hated capitalist systems instead of living in their socialist paradises!

I'm sure Cuba,Venezuela and N Korea would take them in as part of the party of slaves,but they are such hypocrites that don't mind suffering of others to the completely failed and murderous ideology but they would never be so brave as to venture themselves into the abyss of socialism!

Pepe32: I hope the 32 is not your years....as we all grow up we realize that there are many reasons one may be geographically in one location. You have no idea who I am or anyone else on this site is, and why we are living where we are at this time. Perhaps my father is dying and the only comfort he can find is through therapy here; there are so many factors. Furthermore, you have absolutely no idea how I am helping my people and others around the world who are suffereing. You can comment on my ideology or politics but please do not make assumptions about where I can and can not live; as I will not make about you.

"Typical commies,love to talk from the comfort of the hated capitalist systems instead of living in their socialist paradises!"

0000

You're always talking about commies, but you never say anything about cappies.

Don't you believe cappies are disgusting, revolting, repulsive, and intrinsically offensive?

Now, Belial, do you honestly believe the Cuban people in Cuba rule their country?

0000

Yes. Don't you?

On a day like today it is kind of lonely not to have a communist stooge to kick around.....I wonder where they went?

Two observations are key, here.

1. Fidel has all of his lucidity.

2. Fidel is physically infirm.

By stepping down from the presidency, keeping perhaps his seat in the legislature and in the party, Fidel aims at two things:

1. He hopes to extend his longevity which his physical infirmity strives to abbreviate.

2. Using his lucidity, Fidel hopes to supervise the succession of power not only from himself to his brother, but also from his generation, which includes his brother, to the next generation.

The US imperialists and the Miami mafia don't want to see a succession in Cuba. They want a transition in form and content of the Cuban state.

In a succession, the form and content of the state remains the same. Only the names of the individuals who exercise power change.

In a transition, the form and content of the state change into their opposites or something close to their opposites whether the names of individuals who exercise power remain the same or change.

Mr. gouletcolonial, a question: How can you possibly believe that the cubans will be able to maintain their standards in health and education considering that, once the rednecks from Florida have taken the political and economical power on the island, the first thing that they'd do will be to PRIVATIZE those said public services, along with the beaches and everything else on the island? Because, from what I have read about the subject, the main characteristic of privatized services in any economy is that THEY'RE NOT AVAILABLE FOR ANYONE WITHOUT $$$$$$, so it's a given that the shadows of illiteracy and epidemics will show their nasty heads once the cuban people loses those hard won services to the greed of the floridan sharks.

Fidel Castro will be long remembered because he managed to remain a thorn in the side of the U.S. Had the U.S. government learned to co-opt Fidel as opposed to holding him up as the enemy of the world, he and his ilk would have long ago been replaced by hip-hugging blue jeas, McDonalds, Starbucks and hip hop music. Unfortunately, no one in the U.S. government had the prescience to understand that the U.S. was the prop that held Castro in place and now, unless he American's grow up, Brother Raoul will be in the same position.

The form of the state sets forth how power is exercised and it is described in the constitution if the officials respect the constitution. If they don't observe the constitution, then the form is the underlying patterns by which the officials actually exercise power, regardless of what the constitution says. Form is largely procedural -- democratic, oligarchic. monarchic, autocratic, etc.

The content of the state sets forth who or what social class -- the proletariat, the lumpen, the middle class, the bourgeoisie, etc. -- chiefly exercises
power regardless of the form and for whom or for what social class power is chiefly exercised.

A state of any given content, e.g., bourgeois or proletarian, may assume any given form -- e.g.,democratic, oligarchic. monarchic, autocratic, etc.

The factors that determine form and content are balance of power among classes, the ethics of the classes, and the ideological, political, and organizational maturity of the various classes .

"Fidel Castro will be long remembered because he managed to remain a thorn in the side of the U.S."

0000

Not eactly.

He will be remembered because he led the Cuban people in the establishment of a state with a democratic form and proletarian content with the highest ethical worth, a state too strong for the rotten US imperialists, their imperial allies, and the outsed Cuban bourgeoisie to overthrow.

you got that right hartman he neededthe U.S.A. as an enemy to enslave the cuban people

lautaro i do not think you are of cuban ancestry or you would not have asked that question .....first let me say the new leader of cuba is not living in florida and I dont mean Raul....second a good education and health care does not go away just because you release the political prisoners that castro imprisoned....and permit the people to breathe the air of free expression.....human rights can be combined with some of the good things left behind ...but human rights must be observed

"he and his ilk would have long ago been replaced by hip-hugging blue jeas, McDonalds, Starbucks and hip hop"

0000

There are a lot of hip-hugging blue jeans in Cuba, mostly from China. McDonald's with their mad cow, samonella, and E coli burgers are barred largely by the US regime which economically blockades Cuba. Coffee is a big thing in Cuba and Starbucks can learn something about coffee from the Cubans. Hip hop ... too much of it in my opinion ... is on the TV, radio, CDs, live performances, and everywhere in Cuba. Cuban artists in this genre of music travel all over the world and are highly respected by the top US artists of this genre and even by the great Clombian artist Shakira who have, of late, moved toward this genre.

In other words, public access to the arts and culture in Cuba is extremely high.

In literature, dance, theater, cinema, a wide varieties of musical genres [especially jazz], sports, painting, and chess, Cuba competes with advanced countries

That's precisely it, mr. goulet, the few good things of the regime (health and education) will not be maintained, they'll be privatized by the floridan corporate sharks and trust me, they'll not let some "jibaro" islander to take the political power from them, or, if a jibaro ends up with the seat, he will only be a puppet president manipulated by those groups. Using your words, the jibaro would be a "phony" president. Regarding human rights and freedom of speech, they'll have the same uses that they have on Hispaniola: the right to die from curable diseases, hunger and bullets from "intercambio de disparos" between the police and the gangs, and the freedom of speech to vent eveything you want against the politicos or the system and in turn to get the cold shoulder from them. Oh, and regarding the jails, they'll not remain empty for long, believe me.

The political struggle between Cuban revolutionaries and US imperialists, at least on the surface, is over the form of state we call democracy.

Democracy, they say, is a form of state (1) where supreme power resides in the body of citizens entitled to vote, (2) where these citizens elect representatives who exercise power, (3) where these representative are accountable to the citizens, and (4) where these representative exercise power in accordance with the rule of law.

Although the Cuban state doesn't ape, in form, the undemocratic US regime , the Cuban state satisfies all four of these conditions.

The US imperialists snivel mostly over the absence of a propaganda apparatus owned and dominated by the bourgeoisie ... the so-called "free press" in bourgeois lingo, and the Cuban preference for multi-candidate over multi-pary elections.

"they'll be privatized by the floridan corporate sharks"

0000

This is only a wet dream of the US imperialists and Cuban American bourgeoisie.

I would certianly hope not..... the educated elites in cuba today will thrive in a free market society or I have misjudged their potential in Cuba "Let a thousand capatalists bloom" their has never been a situation like this .....Poland /hungary etc does not apply here Cuba will pole vault to the head of the class.... in Latin America Cubans were not known as the jews of the caribbean for nothing...an educated public ....plus local educated elites ....and expatriate educated elite that is business oriented combined will be formidable in the market place....VIVA CUBA LIBRE

please stop it, you guys think that fidel would it done that has he been in god health. don't think so.

Hey see what a non profit had to say about Fidel! Leftist media group!

http://www.mrc.org/SpecialReports/2007/castro/welcome.asp

Belial do you ever read the crap you write? How can YOU even believe that drivel?

I would suggest DR to get ready, there's a "CUCU" awakening !!!!

I would say over 50% overseas DR investor, would hold their cash for little while.

I can hear some noise in the background !!!!!!!

Also, Cuba has a Metro already. beside Baseball players.

If you hate us so much, why do you keep posting on this site, señor unperceptive?

"Belial do you ever read the crap you write? How can YOU even believe that drivel?"

0000

Unlike you and "president" Bush, your slimy master, I'm not adverse to truth or facts.

So, I judge his lies and those of his followers about Iraq's WMDs, Iraq's complicity in 9/11, the legality and morality of torture, the "fundamental soundness" of the financial system of US capitalism, that "God instucted me to attack Iraq," that the "US constitution is godd---- piece of paper," that all US citizens should be bugged and eavesdropped on, that 1.2 million Iraqi deaths occasioned by the US occupation is not genocide as a whole lot of crap and drivel, .

boy... this is constructive......can't you guys find a special page to to throw darts at each other and not bother us civilized people

not bother us civilized people

0000

Comesolo comments !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

blanco speak up what do you have to say about el leder taking the gaspipe...will you miss him?

VIVA FIDEL!!!!
VIVA HUGO!!!!!!
Down with Bush!!
Down with Leonel!!!
Down with US Democrats and Republicans!!!!
Down with the millionaire Miami Cubans, and the Cuban American National Foundation!!!!
Down with the Fanjuls!!!!!!

Dominicans smarten up! There's more Dominicans fleeing poverty in RD in yolas to Puerto Rico than people fleeing Cuba and Haiti combined.

Some boldly or foolishly forecast what will happen in Cuba one year or five years from now.

Above I tried to guess the chain of command that will emerge from the meeting of the council of state this Sunday.

If you can't guess what will happen THIS Sunday, what ... other than bourgeois conceit ... makes you believe that you can predict what will happen one or five years from now?

Some people don't know how to bet.

So, they bullshit in a grand and vague style that transcends verification by real events in the proximate future.

Unfortunately all will remain the same cuba will not change as soon as we all hope the political elite is too compromised with the people and will pay dearly if the system collapses. I hope is tomorrow but it wont happen.

guess again o running dog commie boot licker....a rearranging of the wardens of giant gulag with palm trees is taking place .....but the ceausescu fate awaits them

The only political prisoners in the Cuba are held by the US imperialists at the Guantanamo concentration camp where the imperialists and their savage and barbarous scumbags torture and murder political prisoners and prisoners of war, claiming that torture, at least, by US citizens of others is not only a legal right for which US law affords both criminal and civil immunity from prosecution, but also a moral or even religious obligation of those US citizens fortunately enough to be authorized by the imperialist state in Washington to torture.

Cuba holds in its prisons a number of spies and saboteurs of Cuban, US, and other origin whom Cuba revolutionaries will likely trade for the glorious, heoric, and noble Cuban Five, five political prisoners or hostages unjustly and illegally held in US prisoners because the Cuban Five opposed ... on US soil, ...the terrorist activities of counter-revolutionary Cuban-American fanatics in Miami who get enjoyment from blowing up Cuban passenger jets over the sea, hotels in Havana, bridges in Cuba, and, above all, making attempts ... in Cuba, Chile, and Panama ... on the life of the Cuban head of state.

Naturally, the slimy and rotten US capitalist media and most of the repulsive animals that feed exclusively off of this media will deny each and every fact set forth, so precisely and impartially, above.

"you beli are the turd in the punchbowl of life....the ring on the toilet bowl of life.... a boil on the behind of society....and soon you and the beard and all his henchmen will be flushed away.....take the granma toilet paper with you"

0000

GC, must you always live down to my descending expectations?

Your metaphors suggest that the room where you compose is too small a place to perform this activity.

"The adversary to be defeated is extremely strong; however, we have been able to keep it at bay for half a century," Fidel, the great revolutionary, said yesterday.

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This "adversary" is US imperialism, not the USA as bourgeois media, US regime, and US reactionaries insist. US imperialism is not the USA, rather imperialism is politico-economic and moral degeneration within the body of the USA which the majority of the US people continuously struggle to expel.

US imperialism is "extremely strong," but it used to be even stronger than it is today. Politically, morally and economically, it is weaker and getting weaker everyday.

"We" have been able to keep it at bay. Exactly. Not Fidel, Che, Raul, Juan, Celia, Vilma, and Camilo, but this "we," the whole of the Cuban people, kept it at bay.

"For half a century." And the Cuban people will do it for another half century if necessary. Neither dialectics nor revolutionary struggle have an end, even after the beast falls.

GIDYAP WHOA BACKUP GIDYAP WHOA BACKUP they are playing your song C.C.

http://www.latimes.com/news/la-fg-castro20feb20,0,3783611.story?track=ntothtml L.A. times thinks possibly other shoe to drop on Sunday announcement

"GIDYAP WHOA BACKUP GIDYAP WHOA BACKUP they are playing your song C.C."

0000

You're a very happy degenerate.

"be happy in your work " thats what the sign said

"be happy in your work " thats what the sign said

"Fidel Castro has resigned as President of Cuba. And true to his word, he always said he would quit being a dictator when it wasn’t fun anymore......... I guess his heartlessness just wasn’t in it anymore! "

"Fidel Castro has resigned as President of Cuba. And true to his word, he always said he would quit being a dictator when it wasn’t fun anymore......... I guess his heartlessness just wasn’t in it anymore! "

"Fidel Castro has resigned as President of Cuba. And true to his word, he always said he would quit being a dictator when it wasn’t fun anymore......... I guess his heartlessness just wasn’t in it anymore! "

GOULET,
Have you spoke to Castro.. You seem to have alot of knowledge again maybe you playing CIA agent again..

The guy is old.. very good! not much gets passed you!

Castro has not stopped control things.. He just works through his brother between naps,tea, and 14yrs of sleep a day.. mmm sounds like how you live now!

Wake up goulet,your Cuba is not booming yet!

Give it 15 yrs

GOULET,
Have you spoke to Castro.. You seem to have alot of knowledge again maybe you playing CIA agent again..

The guy is old.. very good! not much gets passed you!

Castro has not stopped control things.. He just works through his brother between naps,tea, and 14yrs of sleep a day.. mmm sounds like how you live now!

Wake up goulet,your Cuba is not booming yet!

Give it 15 yrs

oooo

They say that tradecraft, the art of class struggle from the side of the opposition, consists of these steps -- expose, discredit, disrupt, misdirect, or other neutralize.

GC seems to have a genius of inadvertent misdirection.

"his retirement will not change the relationship Cuba has with the United States. Cubans will still not legally be allowed to enter the United States unless they have............ an overpowering fastball"

Havana, Feb 26 (Prensa Latina) The Cuban Catholic Bishop Conference expressed confidence in President Raul Castro, the new State Council, and the National Assembly, said a note published by the national media on Tuesday.

The religious authorities wish a good performance by the Parliament, the State Council and its new President Raul Castro "to make important decisions that we know should be progressive."

In the message, they recalled that they had asked the faithful to pray for nothing to disturb peace in Cuba after July 31, 2006, when President Fidel Castro, due to his health condition, delegated the nation's leadership to Raul Castro and other leaders.

Today, we want to thank God, because that peace made it possible for the country's top authorities to suggest that workers, students and the people in general to debate the most urgent problems of all kinds that were affecting our people, the text says.

0000

Watch your back when experts on divine beings are near.

C.C.you and cheeseball make a great team......dumb and dumbest....

The Vatican Secretary of State, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone is obviously an imperialist running dog or swine [or, perhaps, more correctly, sow] whose visit to Cuba was timed, by the CIA, to coincide with the elections of the new council of state.

Bertone will report on his discussions with Raul to the CIA director, bypassing the stupid, clownish and phony "Pope" in Rome.

The problem that this papal swine or sow Bertone faces is that neither he nor his "holy" father ... the big shot Pope himself ... knows who will be elected the next president of USA this November and how much influence, if any, the next US president will have over the operations of the CIA.

Council of State members
As elected by the National Assembly in 2008

Position

Member
President of Cuba Raul Castro
First Vice President José R. Machado Ventura
Vice President Juan Almeida Bosque
Vice President Abelardo Colomé Ibarra
Vice President Carlos Lage Dávila
Vice President Esteban Lazo Hernández
Secretary José M. Miyar Barrueco
Director of the William Soler Hospital Nidia Diana Martínez Piti
Vice Dean of the Salvador Allende Faculty María T. Ferrer Madrazo
Director of Santiago de Cuba Education Marta Hernández Romero
Minister of Health José Ramón Balaguer
First Secretary of the Provincial Committee of the PCC in Havana Pedro Sáez Montejo
First Secretary of the National Committee of the Young Communist League Otto Rivero Torres
Vice President of the Council of Ministers Pedro Miret Prieto
Minister of Foreign Affairs Felipe Pérez Roque
Minister of Basic Industry Yadira García
Minister President of the Central Bank of Cuba Francisco Soberó

Con't

Member of the Council of State Carlos Valenciaga Díaz
Director of the Jose Martí Program Office Armando Hart Dávalos
President of the Casa de las Américas Roberto Fernández Retamar
President of the Electronics Group Ramiro Valdés
First Vice President of the National Institute of Sports Julio Cristhian Jiménez Molina
Minister of Science, Technology and the Environment Rosa Elena Simeón Negrín
General Director of the Genetics and Biotechnology Luis S. Herrera Martínez
Territorial Delegate of the Ministry of Science Iris Betancourt Téllez
Secretary General of the Central Organization of Cuban Trade Unions Pedro Ross Leal
President of the Federation of Cuban Women Vilma Espín Guillois - died 18 June, 2007
President of the National Association of Small Farmers Orlando Lugo Fonte

" a massive power outage hit south Florida yesterday, leaving millions of people without electricity. A lot of people in Miami felt they were back in Cuba again." then they woke up screaming

belial“I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would affront your intelligence.”

" a massive power outage hit south Florida yesterday, leaving millions of people without electricity. A lot of people in Miami felt they were back in Cuba again." then they woke up screaming"

0000

After the total collapse of democracy in Florida in 2000 and 2004, they will "wake up screaming" in Nov. 2008 if the Florida election is free and fair, because they will find the resemblance between Florida and Cuba unbearable.

lame....I like your comedy work on the brit tourist.....this is really lame though

"lame....I like your comedy work on the brit tourist.....this is really lame though"

0000

limp ... I find your repartee ... limp as your wrist.

that was a Freudian slip....".but it does not make you a bad person".....a la Seinfeld...."not that there is anything wrong with that "

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7270179.stm BBC on raul loosening screws

Perhaps, the US imperialist regime in Washington will follow Cuba's example and someday respect the human rights of the Cuban Five and half million political prisoners ... so-called "detainees" or "terrorist suspects" ... in the network of secret US concentration camps in Iraq, Afghanistan, Poland, Romania, Czech Republic, Cuba, Kuwait, etc.

The US imperialists make no secret of their practice of torturing political prisoners. The Imperialists have granted immunity to US torturers.

Canadians who servile toward the US imperialists are very active in the US concentration camps in Afghanistan

"THESE words will be published tomorrow, on February 29. A great many tasks lie immediately ahead of us. The 10th International Conference of Economists on Globalization and the Problems of Development, a conference I have always attended and in which I have always expressed different points of view, will begin on Monday the 3rd. Judging by the international developments we’ve witnessed, this conference will doubtless be of great importance, owing to the presence of prestigious economists, some Nobel Prize laureates and two eminent heads of State," Fidel said yesterday.

http://www.granma.cu/ingles/index.html

By the words "a conference I have always attended" is Fidel hinting that he will attend the conference that begins Monday, the 3rd of March?

If so, it will be Fidel's first public appearance since July 2006.

"you have finally revealed yourself and your sources of your verbatim copying aka. plagiarism.....granma newspaper, toilet paper for the masses......you are like the strawman in wizard of oz.....if you only had a brain"

0000

The usual trash or, more correctly, rubbish from a bourgeois point of view.

http://www.plenglish.com/article.asp?ID={C78C4446-F6C7-4C63-8131-CE9D2F386526})&language=EN

The importance of enlisting women in the defense of the country, especially through the female voluntary military service, was also stressed.

During the meeting, Raul Castro read a message from the leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro, who congratulated General Julio Casas Regueiro for his promotion to Minister of the Revolutionary Armed Forces (FAR).

"I think the enemy has not managed to entangle us thanks to Raul Castro's wise and serene speech," Fidel Castro noted in that text.

On behalf of the Military Council, Western Army chief Lieutenant General Leopoldo Cintra, praised Raul Castro´s work as FAR minister for almost five decades.

"We know you are the right person to preside over the Council of State and Ministers, because like Fidel Castro, you have taught us the meaning of the Cuban Revolution," Cintras stated.

oooo

General Julio Casas Regueiro

http://www.trabajadores.cu/news/i....ployment-and-productivity-in-cuba

"... it happened this time with one figure that, in my judgement, is of great relevance for workers: the decrease of the unemployment rate to 1, 8 % of the working population (it was 1, 9% in 2006) which technically puts Cuba into a full employment situation."

"This favourable index, which according to Osvaldo Martínez, president of the Commission on Economic Affairs of the Cuban Parliament, is the lowest in Latin America and the Caribbean and also in the world; furthermore this rate shows an accurate assessment in relation to the figures of other nations, deserving careful analysis."

...

"So, with these indices the unemployment rate in Cuba is not a concern anymore with respect to the right (and duty) to work, according to the principle of a Socialist Society that no worker should be jobless and everybody’s contribution is more than just desirable, it is fundamental."

RESUMED

Most operations are on granulated tissues and cataracts, although there are small surgeries like eyelid cysts and other pathologies.

In addition of this center, there is another one, the Jose Joaquin Palma hospital in the northern department of Alta Verapaz, and a third is expected to open in western Guatemala. (Cubaminrex-PL).

Cuba Recovering Guatemalans Vision
http://www.cubacoop.com/cubacoop%20ingles/2007/Cuba%20Recovering.html

GUATEMALA, February 5, 2008.- Over 5,300 low-income Guatemalans have so far received free eye surgery in the "Jose Marti"

Ophthalmologic Center, equipped by Cuba in the eastern department of Jalapa.

The modern hospital, opened a year ago in one of the poorest zones of Guatemala, has two wards to operate between 50 and 60 people daily, the center's director Rolando Melian told Prensa Latina.

Melian said that the entire process, from the diagnosis of the disease, hospitalization, surgery, food and patient's progress is free of charge.

"People from everywhere come here, not only from Jalapa, but also from the capital and distant departments like Escuintla, Totonicapan and Santa Rosa," the doctor stated.

The center currently has 23 Cuban workers, among them two surgeons, a clinical ophthalmologist, anesthesiologists, nurses and optometrists.

CON'T

RESUMED


Most operations are on granulated tissues and cataracts, although there are small surgeries like eyelid cysts and other pathologies.

In addition of this center, there is another one, the Jose Joaquin Palma hospital in the northern department of Alta Verapaz, and a third is expected to open in western Guatemala. (Cubaminrex-PL).

OOOO

Meanwhile, the US imperialists and their huge herd of cheerleaders are all over the bourgeois media with lies about all the "good" that the imperialists and their cheerleaders are doing.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/06....s/06cuba.html?pagewanted=2&hp more defectors of importance....Jose alcaron humiliated by students in havana.....The end is near C.C. smuggled out watch on you tube

THE INCIDENT THAT CONVINCED FIDEL TO RESIGN

"On August 26, 2007, Sir John Compton, 83, prime minister of St. Lucia, was admitted to the Tapion Hospital in Castries, St. Lucia because he was having trouble breathing due to pneumonia. While there, it was learned that he had suffered another stroke while "recovering," in NYC, from the previous strokes. On September 1, he was flown to Martinique for treatment of his pneumonia. While there, his condition worsened and he was placed on a ventilator. On September 4, doctors decided that his condition was hopeless; on September 5, he was returned to the Tapion Hospital in Saint Lucia to die. He died there on September 7, 2007."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_John_Compton

LESSONS:

(1) When old, don't hang on to power. Sir John did.

(2) When sick, go to Cuban doctors. Sir John didn't.

(3) When old and sick, stay out of NYC. Multiple strokes.

(4) When doctors call you "hopeless," don't return to St. Lucia.

who cares ...they should freeze dry him and prop him up in a chair for the tourists to see 10 bucks a pop..Raul is gonna need every penny to keep that stinking rotten ship afloat

Please request that Steve Harper in the future keeps his face at a distance from the rear of the White House occupant.

it wont be long now ...raul has his suitcase under the bed

http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2008/marzo/lun24/13barrio3-i.html

CARACAS.— The free health care program called Barrio Adentro saved 347,789 lives in five years as part of the medical attention provided to around 95% of Venezuelans, President Hugo Chávez announced on Monday, March 24.

On Monday, President Chávez re-launched the Barrio Adentro III program, which in its initial phase will provide cutting-edge technology for 130 hospitals.

At the inauguration of new health facilities, Chávez said the figure represented one life saved every hour, just in the first two stages of Barrio Adentro: the first providing primary care, and the second, diagnoses and rehabilitation.

The president noted that in the Barrio Adentro I program (comprising doctor’s offices in low-income areas) alone, 284 million consultations were recorded over five years, an average of 1.5 patients per second.

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[Venezuela is developing one of the finest health care systems in Latin America.]

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With the inauguration of new surgical facilities, Chávez was relaunching Barrio Adentro III, which comprises the remodeling, expansion and modernization of existing hospitals in order to guarantee quality medical attention for society.

Speaking at the University Hospital of Maracaibo in the state of Zulia, about 700 km west of Caracas, Chávez affirmed that because of its scope, the humanitarian mission carried out in Venezuela with the support of Cuban doctors is unprecedented history.

In the initial phase of Barrio Adentro III, the state plans to outfit 130 of the country’s hospitals with almost 40,000 pieces of completely new and state-of-the-art machinery.

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[US imperialists through IMF and World Bank orders developing countries to close hospitals for workers and cut doctors salaries, let the workers suffer and die by the tens of thousands every year, because the "savings" can be paid to creditors who hold the foreign debt or stolen by the imperialists.]

And a lot of the "almost 40,000 pieces of completely new and state-of-the-art machinery" was designed and manufactured in Cuba which exports not only these items, but also it exports factories that manufacture these items.

China, India, and Venezuela are important markets for Cuban-constructed factories for medical supplies and machinery.

Cuban engineers is also designing and contructing and equiping hospitals all over the world.

Cuban engineers designed, constructed, and equiped about 14 hospitals that specialize in eye surgeries and othalmogoic procedures in about 8 countries and then gave the hospitals to the recipient countries without asking for a penny.

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Bourgeois scum, pro-imperialists riff-raff and capitalist garbage ... bejeweled with their behinds hanging out of their garments ... go bananas or, more correctly, ballistic, when these revolutionary and humanitarian accomplishments find their way occasionally in the US and world capitalist media.

more boiler plate rubbish from granma toilet paper company

Fidel Castro said US President George W. Bush "might think that God will give him a prize for speeding along the day of the Apocalypse and the Last Judgement, after which he will seat him at His right, in the place of honour."
http://www.plenglish.com/article.asp?ID={F0F82284-492B-4963-95BA-C709E4F64919})&language=EN

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On the right of God, isn't that spot reserved for some lesser being?

more propaganda from braindead commie

Mine prediction after all right, heard news from Cuba, :"Steroide" changes, tv, cd players, cuban can visit hotels, JA JA I was alright after all, the end is near.

Ja JA

DR be ready,

More stupid comments from the aryan moron.