Who is last in line?
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Who
is last in line?
A
service by the Radio Progreso Alternativa Havana Bureau
Beyond
the usual and well received speech by Chairman of the International
Festival of New Latin American Cinema Alfredo Guevara, everything
begins at the queues with the question “Who’s last
in line?"
The
29th edition of the festival was inaugurated on the night of December
4 with a concert by famous Argentinean singer/songwriter Fito Páez
and the screening of Redacted,
by U.S. director Brian de Palma. The film, which won the Silver Lion
for best director at the Venice Festival, is based on the true story
of a 14-year-old Iraqi girl gang raped and murdered by U.S. soldiers.
A
total of 500 films will be screened throughout
the country during the festival.
Candidates
will meet
with constituents
The
614 candidates aiming
to become members of the National Assembly of Popular Power (Cuban
parliament) will meet in the next few days with voters in their
respective electoral districts. The meetings, mandated by electoral
law, should be lively for among the issues to be discussed between
candidates and voters are the concerns and proposals by the
population following acting president Raúl Castro’s speech
on July 26th.
Fidel
Castro recovering
Cuban
Foreign Minister
Felipe Pérez Roque explained that Fidel Castro’s nomination
as candidate to the National Assembly of Popular Power is an
indication of the recovery of the ailing leader.
"It
shows
that he is advancing in the process of recovery,” he said to the
media at the Mexican Embassy in Havana. Speaking on the relations
between both countries, Minister Pérez Roque confirmed the
political will of the Cuban government toward the normalization of
relations with President Felipe Calderón’s government.
Banks
capable
of assuming credits
An
article in Juventud
Rebelde
assures the reader that Cuban banks are capable of assuming all
credits for the payment of electrical appliances sold to the
population as part of the Energy Revolution.
According
to the newspaper, “The
Cuban banking system has financed, up to the present, 4,572,313
electrical appliances distributed to the population at a cost of 9
billion pesos.”
Dominican
president
will visit Cuba
Deputy
Mayor of Santo Domingo Alexandra Izquierdo, who is visiting Havana,
confirmed that Dominican President Leonel Fernández will
arrive in Cuba in mid December.
According
to the
Prensa Latina news agency, Izquierdo declared that the visit will
“consolidate the excellent relations between both countries.”
