The following day, appointment with the official newspaper "Granma Internacional", we were guided by its vice president MR Miguel Comellas Dopico and the compilation director. We took a look in its eight departments, directed by thirty-five employees, issues everyday 50 000 copies in six languages and distributed in 40 countries. It possesses a web site:

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

Next we went to visit the local press agency Prensa Latina specialized for the matters of Latin America this is an independent agency, its principal location is Cuba widely shed thanks to the good quality of its production and the expansion of its correspondents in many countries. Add to all that its successful web site:

http://www.prensa-latina.cu
http://www.plenglish.com

We were welcomed by its vice president MR. Luis Enrique González, , and guided by its webmaster MR. Julio Hernández Blanco who explained the steps of the broadcasting the events starting with its reception from the correspondent and finishing by its publication in the magazines and on the web site. All that in a totally automated manner and without governmental censure.

The building of Prensa Latina contains also the offices of the public health ministry. We took knowledge there of the effects of the American blockade on the Cuban health and the necessity of lifting it as soon as possible to safeguard children's lives in particular and population in general.

An evidence imposes, the interest offered to the artistic side in the building that contains pictures and sculptures especially the bust of the researcher Carlos J. Finlay, who discovered the way of transmission of the yellow fever (the mosquito Aedes Aegypti), and by the fact the way to avoid this decease, and who passed incognito internationally.

Next we carried out a visit to the union Arab of Cuba we were received by his director MR. Alfredo Derich and his second MR. Juan Dufflar Amel.

The union gathers 10 000 members of Arabic origins out of the 45 000 origin Arabs residing in Cuba. The committee leader is elected by secret conclave for five years and the vote right is public. This union is characterized by the fact that it includes all the Arab communities, Lebanese, Syrian, Palestinian and other in a unique framework to note that they were multiples and separated before the revolution as is the case in other emigration countries.

We acknowledged of the different activities of the union to mention, teaching of Arabic language.

Also among other activities the celebration of national occasions, as Arab countries independence days. The union welcomes also all the activities relating to the support of the fair cause of the Palestinian people.

To mention that the center contains a small mosque inaugurated by President Castro personally, insisting on the right of liberty of worship for all.The union is preparing to lunche its own web site soon. Here is a special page dedicated to the Union :

http://www.embacubalebanon.com/fearabe.html

The afternoon we carried out a visit to the museum residence of José Martí the philosopher of Cuba, its poet, its national hero and the godfather of its independence. A small humble house which generated a great man.

At night we carried out a round in the neighborhoods of the capital and its crowded markets. To mention here the favorite sites of the American well known writer Ernest Heminguay author of the "The Old Man and the Sea", especially his favorite coffee Bodiguita Del Medio .

This could denounce what propagates about Cuban people's misery. I can say without hesitation that the essential products are present and often one would find supplementary ones also.

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