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- Monday, 16 January 2012 10:54
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Panama´s Second Court confirmed the sentence ruled against Luis Posada Carriles, and his partners in crime Gaspar Jimenez, Guillermo Novo, Pedro Remon, Cesar Matamoros and Panamanian Jose Hurtado for crimes against collective safety.
The six men designed and prepared a life attempt against Cuban leader Fidel Castro in 2000 that they would execute at the theater of the University of Panama, where Fidel Castro was scheduled to address hundreds of people that would have been the fatal victims of the terrorist plan.alt
The court ruling on Saturday gave Posada and Jimenez eight prison years; Novo Sampol, Remon and Matamoros, seven years, and Hurtado four years.
Posada Carriles, Jimenez, Novo and Remon were arrested following the denunciation of the Cuban leader at the Ibero-American Summit that year, but they were pardoned in a dark procedure in 2004 by then President Mireya Moscoso before concluding her presidential term.
However, the acquittals were declared unconstitutional in 2008 by Panama´s Supreme Court. / RHC
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Rafael Santiesteban, president of the National Association of Small Agricultors (ANAP for its Spanish acronyms) in the territory of Holguin, repeated that an outstanding condition in the emulation for May 17, is a display of the productive and economic potential of the province.
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Cuba and the Republic of Indonesia set out to expand and diversify their commercial relations, taking as a starting point the identification of new business opportunities in areas like biotechnology and the pharmaceutical industry. |
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Cuba denounced at the World Trade Organization (WTO) that the U.S.-imposed blockade for over 50 years has hindered access to information and communications technologies.
The United States Treasury Department redoubled the supervision to the travels to Cuba and announced that violating those restrictions will be punished with fines of 65 000 USD and even the suspension of the licenses, among other actions.
President Raul Castro congratulated the newly-elected prime minister of the Bahamas, Perry Christie, the Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a communiqué.
Paradisus Rio de Oro Resort Spa, located in the eastern province of Holguin, third tourist destination of Cuba, won the international award Travellers Choise 2012, granted by the website TripAdvisor, specialized in the field.
Flowers are usually among the most beautiful gifts for Mothers’ Day along with the traditional gesture of writing a card, which will never be ephemeral if the written message is coming from the heart.
The Electricity Company in the eastern province of Holguin is undergoing the rehabilitation of its network worth over 10 million pesos in investments aimed at maintaining the systems of distributions of energy.
Ernesto Che Guevara International Volunteer Work Brigade exchanged with veterans of the Cuban guerrilla war, the Bay of Pigs battle and the African wars on Saturday afternoon, and they followed on Sunday morning with a visit to the fishermen’s town of Boca de Sama, the target of a US-sponsored terrorist action on October 12, 1971.
More than a million children and adolescents throughout Cuba participated this year in an art contest, in honor of Jose Marti, which is held each year in this town, very close to Two Rivers, the site where the Apostle of Independence fell in battle.
The United States and its allies in actions against Syria support opposition groups from this country with known links to terrorism like Al-Qaeda, denounced the U.S. website antiwar.com.
The Afghan President Hamid Karzai approved the plan for the third phase of security transition at the hands of the local forces.
In an interview with CNN in Spanish, the official stressed that economic sanctions and the blockade, which has caused Cuba losses estimated at 975 billion dollars, are still intact.
Cuban Activist Andres Gomez, director of the Areito Digital magazine, called on Wednesday to break the silence imposed in Miami regarding the terrorist attack that recently destroyed the offices of Airline Brokers.
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