Cuba Announces Having Developed Vaccine against Lung Cancer

<p style="text-align: justify;">2011.09.05 - 17:42:03 / radiorebelde.icrt.cu.Havana, Cuba.- Cuba announces the encouraging news of having developed the first vaccine against lung cancer one of the most frequent in the world and with most incidences among smokers. According to Cubadebate.cu, successful clinical tests have proven the efficiency of the vaccine which will be commercialized on the island by the name of Cimavax-EGF, thanks to the patient work of researchers from the Molecular Immunology Center in Havana whom are already assessing the use of the same basic medicine in the treatment of other types of cancer. Read More

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Photographic Exhibition by Brazilian Ecologist to be Inaugurated in Havana

<p style="text-align: justify;">2011.09.06 - 09:38:57 / radiorebelde.icrt.cu. Photographic Exhibition by Brazilian Ecologist to be Inaugurated in HavanaHAVANA, CUBA.-&nbsp; Renowned Brazilian documentary maker and photographer Conceicao Praun will inaugurate on Tuesday, at Havana’s Cities of the World Gallery, the exhibition “Caminata por el ambiente,” with some thirty black and white images taken in several parts of Cuba. Read More

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Cuba,Vietnam Strengthen Collaboration in Rice Production

<p style="text-align: justify;">By: Ana Julia Suarez Cruz.Pinar del Río, Cuba, Sep 6 (Prensa Latina) Vietnamese and Cuban experts strengthen scientific collaboration for increasing rice production in this western Cuban province, using technologies from both countries. Alexander Miranda, director of the Experimental Station in Los Palacios municipality, told Prensa Latina that this program includes advice to rice growers of this territory. Read More

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Mexico: Regional Meeting on Fighting Desertification, Drought

<p style="text-align: justify;">By: Ileana Ferrer Fonte. Mexico City, Sep 6 (Prensa Latina) Actions to fight desertification and drought in the region will be discussed Tuesday during the 14th UN meeting for Latin America and the Caribbean on those global problems. The meeting will promote cooperation projects and assess soil degradation in Latin America and the Caribbean. Read More

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Cuban Wrestlers Training in Italy

<p style="text-align: justify;">By: Yllen Riquelme.Havana, Sept 6 (Prensa Latina) Beijing Olympic champion Mijain Lopez, 120kg, heads the Cuban wrestling team that is training in Italy for the Sept. 12-18 FILA Wrestling World Championships in Turkey, the Cuban News Agency reported. Lopez, world champion in Budapest 2005, Baku 2007, Herning 2009 and Moscow 2010, is the favorite to win the gold medal for the Cuban team and to get his fifth crown in a row. Read More

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German Drugstore Chain Rossmann Rejects Extraterritoriality of U.S. Blockade against Cuba

<p style="text-align: justify;">2011.09.06 - 12:19:59 / radiorebelde.icrt.cu.HAVANA, CUBA.-&nbsp; Following a recent decision by PayPal Europe to suspend some accounts of several traders selling Cuban products in Germany, Rossmann, the No. 3 German drugstore chain, has announced that it decided to stop using this online payment service provider. According to Granma newspaper, Rossmann said on its official website that there is no justification whatsoever to apply in Germany regulations of the U.S. economic blockade against Cuba. Read More

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World Chess Cup: A Victory and a Draw for Cuban Players in Fourth Round

<p style="text-align: justify;">2011.09.06 - 12:40:17 / radiorebelde.icrt.cu. World Chess Cup: A Victory and a Draw for Cuban Players in Fourth Round. HAVANA, CUBA.-&nbsp; Cuban Grand Masters (GM) Leinier Dominguez and Lazaro Bruzon began the fourth round of the World Chess Cup, under way in the Russian city of Khanty-Mansiysk, with a victory and a draw, respectively, in the first of their two classical matches against Hungarian GM Judit Polgar and Ukrainian GM Ruslan Ponomariov. Playing with the black pieces, Dominguez, the best Latin American player with an ELO rating of 2,719 points, beat Polgar (2,699) after 46 moves of a Sicilian Defense. Read More

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US embargo of Cuba, half a century later

<p style="text-align: justify;">MERIDA, Mexico – Fifty years ago this week, on September 4, 1961, the U.S. Congress passed the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 which prohibited all aid to Cuba and authorized the President to declare a “total embargo upon all trade” with that Caribbean island nation. Advocates heralded this bold move as a sure measure to “create the conditions” necessary for Fidel Castro to be removed from power “within one year.” Fast forward half a century, and both Castro and the embargo remain. Read More

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Bolivia Reports Millions in Losses due to Landlocked Status

<p style="text-align: justify;">By: Osmany González Tocabens.La Paz, Sep 5 (Prensa Latina) From 1970 to date, Bolivia's landlocked status has cost it more than 30 billion USD in losses, according to a report published Monday in Cambio newspaper. The Andean Development Corporation found in studies of landlocked countries that they lose from two to three percent of their gross domestic product from exports, expert Rodrigo Burgoa told Cambio. Read More

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Root Vegetable Production to Increase in Cuba

<p style="text-align: justify;">2011.09.05 - 11:34:17 / radiorebelde.icrt.cu / Havana, Cuba.- Even with the serious drought period that has been affecting the island since a year ago, mainly in its central and western regions, the root vegetable production will increase up to a 14 % by the end of the current year 2011 in comparison with last year´s same type of production. Read More

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