Juventud Rebelde - Diario de la Juventud Cubana

Friday 29 December 2017 | 06:11:19 pm.

Thinking of People rather than Diseases

Cuba predicts to close 2017 with an infant mortality rate of 4.1 per thousand live births, the lowest in the history of the sector in the country, as a result of the professionals and managers’intense work of a National Health System that thinks in people more than in diseases.

Cuba

Friday 29 December 2017 | 06:10:30 pm.

Universities in Cuba: Being a Single Campus is not Enough

“At first it seemed very difficult. That can not be denied, especially for those who came from other universities and had to take onour organizational system” said, undergraduate Jorge Ignacio Castañeda Lopez, who is majoring in telecommunications engineering at Marta Abreu Central University of Las Villas (UCLV).

Cuba

Friday 29 December 2017 | 06:09:05 pm.

EE.UU Will Carry Out Cuban Migratory Operations In Mexico

On Friday the Office of Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced that it temporarily suspends operations at its Embassy in Havana and assumes those functions at its office in Mexico City, pleading reductions of US personnel at its diplomatic headquarters in Cuba.

Cuba

Friday 29 December 2017 | 06:07:07 pm.

A Dinner To Remember Fidel’s Nice Gesture

SANTA CLARA, Villa Clara.— The similarity between the dinner that Fidel had with the coalfishpeople from Ciénaga de Zapata, on December 24th, 1959 and the onehappenedthis year in the Villa Clara most devastated by Hurricane Irma, lies in that essence of the Revolution to be attached to the most in need.

Cuba

Friday 22 December 2017 | 05:10:26 pm.

Pro-Independence Bloc Retains Absolute Majority in Catalonia

BARCELONA.- Although the Ciudadanos right-wing party rose as the main political force in votes and seats, this Thursday’s elections in Catalonia validated the pro-independence bloc – made up by ERC, Junts per Catalunya and CUP- winning the absolute majority, press agencies reported.

World

Friday 22 December 2017 | 05:09:14 pm.

Trump Threatens Despite UN Rejection

The warnings against the international community by Nikki Haley, the US ambassador to the UN,— which include a letter to the diplomatic missions to the UN—, did not take effect, and the 193 member states condemned the decision made by Trump administration to recognize Jerusalem as the Israeli capital. 

World

Thursday 21 December 2017 | 05:29:04 pm.

New Cuban Parliament will take office on April 19, 2018

HAVANA, Cuba, Dec 21 (ACN) Because of the exceptional situation caused by Hurricane Irma, the Cuban Parliament unanimously approved to extend the current period of the VIII Legislature that had to cease its functions on February 24, and the new deputies will take office on April 19, 2018.
 
At the proposal of the Council of State, the National Assembly of People's Power decided that by virtue of the devastation caused in Cuba by Hurricane Irma and that is establ...

Cuba

Thursday 21 December 2017 | 05:26:50 pm.

Cuban Communist Party leaders hold plenary session

HAVANA, Cuba, Dec 21 (ACN) The Central Committee of the Cuban Communist party held on Wednesday its Fourth Plenary session, chaired by its First Secretary, Cuban president Raul Castro.
 
Granma newspaper reports that José Ramón Machado Ventura, Second Secretary of the Central Committee, reported on the work carried out by the Political Bureau, in particular regarding the control of compliance with the agreements approved in the VII Party Congress.<...

Cuba

Thursday 21 December 2017 | 05:22:14 pm.

Pope Francis thanked artists of the Circus of Cuba

Pope Francis thanked on Wednesday the presentation of a group of artists from the Circus of Cuba in his usual General Audience on Wednesday, in the Paul VI Hall of the Vatican City.
 
"I would like to thank the Cuban circus for this beautiful show! Thank you!" exclaimed the Supreme Pontiff after witnessing live and applauding the performance of the young Caribbean people before some five thousand people who cheered them, reported Prensa Latina (PL).
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World

Thursday 21 December 2017 | 05:17:21 pm.

National series to finish qualifying to the playoffs stage

HAVANA, Cuba, Dec 21 (acn) The match between Granma, defending champion, and Pinar del Rio, will be in the spotlight today, in the continuation of the second stage of the 57th Cuban National Baseball Series.
 
Granma only need a win over Pinar del Rio in this subseries, three games, to become the fourth team qualified to the playoffs, stage already reached by the leader Las Tunas, with balance of 58 wins and 28 losses, Matanzas (57-28) and Industriales (50-36).<...

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