Since last Monday are meeting in Havana Cuba entrepreneurs and the Dominican Republic to discuss new trade agreements that strengthen business and trade between the two countries.
Havana, Feb 6 (AIN) New business opportunities to promote a greater flow of trade between Cuba and the Dominican Republic are analyzed today in this capital, by a group of businessmen from both nations.
Organized by the Chamber of Commerce of the island, the exchange attended by representatives of various Dominican companies, led by Eddy Martinez Manzueta, Secretary General and Executive Director of the Center for Export and Foreign Investment.
This meeting to be held during this week is an initiative of both governments to increase trade relations.
Martinez told reporters Manzueta interest significantly consolidificar ties in trade, cooperation and investment, "because in addition to the brotherhood, there is still untapped economic potential between the two nations," he said.
He explained that this type of space means new opportunities for business development Dominican Republic and Cuba, based on generating more wealth and jobs in our territories.
He added that at present the trade flow between both sides is around $ 60 million per year, enough for us even when compared with what they get from their trade with the rest of the world.
We therefore hope, he said, that during the meetings between delegations to establish projects and joint working arrangements, particularly in sectors such as energy, food, health, mining, manufacturing and services, priority for our economies.
Oscar Perez Oliva, Cuban Vice Minister of Foreign Trade and Investment, said the forum, though brief, is substantial for the importance to make the most of the proposals involved.
Amid the process of updating the economic model that engulfs Cuba, this type of exchange is part of measures to diversify and expand export markets, as well as to stimulate foreign investment in the country.

Havana, Feb 6 (AIN) With the use of techniques of genetic crosses, specialists of the Institute of Horticultural Research Liliana Dimitrova, in Mayabeque, managed tomato hybrids, which replace imports.
This success helps to maintain the sovereignty and food security as it prepared for a national seed of proven quality and not rely on other countries to obtain, the Master said Gisela Rodriguez, a researcher at the center.
Rodriguez told ACN that they will continue their studies by applying this method to more than 150-200 grams of weight required by the market.
He stated that, among its advantages is the increase of soluble solids, fruit quality and adaptation to heat systems prevailing in greenhouses.
At present, imposes find varieties with high tolerance to stress conditions of high temperatures caused by climate change, he said.
These hybrids are resistant to begomovirus - transmitted by whiteflies and tomato-affecting and harmful organisms that may be in quarantine in Cuba.
The 171 workers of the scientific institution recently celebrated 40 years of its founding, with important contributions to Cuban agriculture and other nations.
The center excels in the production of hybrid seeds, primarily on tomato, pepper and melon, with high yields and greater resistance to pests and diseases.

Havana, Feb 6 (Prensa Latina) Nine of the top Cuban boxers will take part next weekend in the traditional international tournament Bocskai Hungarian Memorial, said sources with the National Commission of the discipline.

   According to the commissioner, Alberto Puig, technical criteria determined the absence of the subtitle of the world in 60 kilograms, Yasniel Toledo, but the rest of the delegation are the leading figures in their respective categories.

Reasons based on the analysis of the coaches advised not to fill that place now, but no more weight constraints, the manager said Jit digital newspaper.

The group is led by the world champions of Baku-2011 Lazaro Alvarez (56 kilos) and Julio Cesar Cruz (81), along with the other Olympic ticket: Yosvany Veitia (49), Robeisis Ramirez (52), Jose Angel Larduet (91) and Erislandy Savón (over 91).

Rounding out the top holder of the world of Milan-2009 Roniel Iglesias (64) and the Beijing Olympic runners-2008 Carlos Banteur (69) and Emilio Correa (75).

The Hungarian fight, scheduled for 8 to 11 this month in the city of Debrecen, expected to attend some 140 boxers from 22 countries, including Russia, UK and China.

In this competition he premiered his Cuban boxing in the 2012 international calendar, which main objective is to recover summer in London lost supremacy in China's capital.

Havana, Feb 6 (Prensa Latina) Cuba will begin this year to promote new crops in the environment of urban agriculture program, the researcher said Adolfo Rodriguez, head of national group that directs the production management in the ministry of industry.

   The funcionairo said that among the innovations planned for 2012 include the introduction of the variety of pepper known as Tropical CW-3, suitable for export and tourism industry.

Turn in the provinces of Cienfuegos and Villa Clara (center), Holguín (east), and Matanzas (west) will begin to plant the water jicama, a tuber that is a source of food for pigs, especially prepared as yogurt, and while improving the soil.

During the analysis the work of the agricultural industry in 2011 is also the director of the Institute of Fundamental Research in Tropical Agriculture said that on the island organized the cultivation of strawberries in terms of organic farms (beds) semi-protected (shaded regulated).

He also announced the training of over 110 000 farmers in areas such as agro-ecological pest management, organic fertilizers, animal food and seed.

With its origins in late 1987 as an initiative of Cuban President Raul Castro, the urban agriculture program, which was added that of the suburban in 2008, came last year over one million tons of vegetables, fruits and condiments.

These crops took place in an area of ??about nine thousand acres, which aim to extend to 10 000 in the coming months.

This was known to be held in the central-southern province of Cienfuegos meeting productive analysis of the results of the program in 2011, one of seven developed by the Ministry of Agriculture in the Greater Antilles.

After entering into force the new measure that allows individuals in Cuba to obtain bank loans, the Central Bank of the island make changes that lead to the application of new rates.

Interest rates on deposits and credits are a mechanism that contributes to financial stability and profitability of banks and other sectors of the economy that benefit from financial activities.

Differentiated between active and passive object of his application, they are related by their impact on bank profitability and its impact on the macroeconomic framework.

The level of deposit rates for individuals currently applied by the BCC supports up to 72 months time, ranging from 0.50 to seven pesos a month.

While lending rates for individuals and companies affected by the type of loans: working capital, investment or construction materials and / or workmanship.

The repayment period ranges from three to more than 60 months, and the rate to apply can reach a maximum of 8.5 plus or minus 1 percent.

As explained by the director of BCC's Monetary Policy, Eduardo Hernandez, although interest rates are fixed by the entity's commercial banks have some leeway for their determination.

This takes into account the purpose of the credit requested, the client's ability to pay and risk analysis.

Early in the process of lending Cuban banking authorities announced that this analysis will be thorough and personal, and address the particularities of each subject and his project.

This allows that the benefits of fulfilling responsibilities agreed in the loan agreement for the debtor's case, may be the decrease in the rate of interest applicable to requested credit later.

Roque Hernández stressed that the ranges of the two rates may change depending on the country's economic circumstances.

However, he said, those changes will not affect contracts already concluded, but on the new (both savings and credit), as well as renewals of terms of deposits.

The Cuban boxing star Teofilo Stevenson has performed well in their recovery from vascular disease that made him spend several days in intensive care. The three-time Olympic champion and is now back at home.

"I'm fine without any major problems," he told the Cuban news agency Prensa Latina Stevenson, also a former world champion said, noting that "excellently to treatment with serum and blood thinners" that was submitted for "several days" in hospital .

Considered the best amateur boxer in history, Stevenson explained that during a routine medical checkup were detected him "some clots" in an artery near the heart, and received a medical discharge last Friday after receiving treatment.

Famous for demolishing paid, Stevenson reigned for nearly two decades in the heavyweights. He won Olympic titles-1972 Munich, Montreal and Moscow-1976-1980, and had been able to reach those in Los Angeles and Seoul-1984-1988, the tournament that Cuba did not attend for political reasons.

Hung up his gloves after winning his third title at the World Boxing Reno-1986, by knocking in the fight for the gold by Alex Garcia. He had previously won in Havana and Belgrade-1974-1978.

Born in the town of Puerto Padre, in the eastern province of Las Tunas, gained during his 20 year career (1966-1986) 301 of the 321 contested fights, but his nemesis was the Russian Igor Visotski, the only foreign fighter that managed to beat him twice without that he could beat him.

According to Prensa Latina, Stevenson, who now works in the Cuban Boxing Federation and the National Commission on Care for Athletes of the Cuban Institute of Sports, reiterated his confidence in "the quality of Cuban boxing" and predicted that the island "will have new champions Olympics "in London-2012.

"We can outperform Beijing with a gold-2008," added the legendary boxer. In China, the Cuban boxing medals won four silver and four bronze.

Insects and microorganisms that exist in the environment contribute to the deterioration of various elements in society. Thus, experts from the National Archives of Cuba (ANC) in Havana have been conducted to analyze the indoor air quality and take action.

Research on these issues are hardly discussed in the Latin American region, despite the damage caused by these factors to the documentary and human health, told AIN Flor Ines Casola, specialist institution, one of the oldest the region.

He added that the particular trials are conducted over 10 years, and include the use of domestic natural-cheap, environmentally friendly and renewable, to control pests.

In that sense, he specified, the Cuban experience in its use has allowed import substitution and has been of interest to Latin American nations.

With these practices, began scientific collaboration with other research centers in countries of the region, especially Argentina, Casola said.

He also cited the case of other innovative procedures such as the use of molecular biology and various types of microscopy to the study of microbial biodeterioration special supports, among these, of motion pictures.

Cuban experts have offered advice in Colombia, Equatorial Guinea, Peru, Dominican Republic, Venezuela and Mexico, and participated in joint projects in countries like Brazil, Chile, Puerto Rico and Vietnam.

Founded on January 28, 1840, under the name of the General Archive of the Exchequer, was the fifth of these institutions created in Latin America, after those for Argentina (1821), Mexico (1823), Bolivia (1825) and Brazil (1838).

The International Book Fair will be held throughout the country from 9 February to March 4 starting from Havana and ending in Santiago de Cuba. This year the New Millennium Cuban publishing houses, the Cuban Institute of Cinematographic Art and Industry (ICAIC) and Captain San Luis keep surprises readers with books that present themselves.

The chief editor of editions ICAIC, Mercy Ruiz, said this year will carry the highest number of publications in its history: 16 news and the latest issue of the magazine Cine Cubano, presented at the last International Festival of New Latin American Cinema.

Two copies will be cinema, tenth muse of Alejo Carpentier and traps Office. Notes on Cinema and Society National Literature Award 2009 and National Publishing Award 2000, Ambrosio Fornet, who is dedicated to the issue 21 of the Fair, with Zoila Lapique Becali, National Social Sciences Prize 2002.

The first one of the most important titles published in 2011 by Ediciones ICAIC and the Foundation that bears the name of the Cuban novelist, meets for the first time the texts written by Carpentier on film. Review, reviews and comments published on media in Cuba, France and Venezuela, at an early stage of intellectual development.

The second traps ... is a reflection that the author of cinema, as personal and collective experience. In reviewing the volume, the journal of ICAIC, reported that "the spirit that animates outspoken critic makes him a controversial text may at some point (...) The beginnings of Cuban cinema and the emergence of new Cuban cinema (post 1958) , the complex and profound work of a filmmaker revolutionary concerns, contradictions and searches that define the New Latin American Cinema, his experiences as a man of culture and image creators and researchers of the new Cuban cinema are some of the issues addressed by Fornet in traps of the trade, work apprehend reality makes its reason for being. "

Meanwhile, the New Millennium Publishing offers variety of historical texts, self-help, scientific-technical and, above all, books to date on the legal sciences. Some of the volumes that will undoubtedly attract the attention of the visitors are Father Las Casas and Cuban researchers and Amaury Gutiérrez Ana Cairo and The Assassination of Julius Caesar. People's History of Ancient Rome, American intellectual historian, Michael Parenti.

Noted for its history of the popular classes and their constant criticism of mass media, Parenti offers an alternative vision to the history written by the ruling class, as he himself said in an interview. His book, an account of the Roman classes and their political struggles, is a critique of the conservative view transmitted by most ancient historians on the subject.

The Editorial Capitan San Luis will be represented at the exhibition Room 8 Morro-Cabaña with Guajiro Brigadier General Enrique Acevedo, Conspiracy Leonela larger triangle Bello and Dallas: 24 hours of a plot of journalist Therese Candia. The latter, which will be presented in Room Portuondo on Friday February 10 at 5:00 pm, is an account of the events of 1963, when from the United States was planning an attack against Fidel Castro Ruz.

With the theme Reading is growing, the International Book Fair Cuba 2012 will celebrate the bicentennial of the Cuban insurrection starring José Antonio Aponte against Spanish colonial rule prevailing in the island and the centenary of the armed uprising of the Independent Party members Color. Also, on this occasion, will be honored the cultures of the peoples of the Greater Caribbean, conceived as a cultural mosaic of diverse and united by its rich history.

For the upcoming Eighth International Congress on Higher Education 2012 Matanzas University sent 15 scientific papers of which three have been awarded the Prix

Such recognition, which granted the Provincial Delegation of the Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment (CITMA) in the territory, it is for specialists of the Pedagogical University and the Hospital Juan Marinello Mario Muñoz Monroy Military.

An educational multimedia system for training in surgery video-laparoscopic cholecystectomy, Dr. Gilberto Galloso Cueto, a physician at a military hospital in Matanzas, also won the award the distinction of greatest scientific impact in 2011.

The literary education of students at the universities of pedagogical sciences, by Dr. Barbara Fierro, a professor at the Universidad Juan Marinello, will be addressed also in the international event to be held in Havana from 13 to 17 February.

Maria Artola, Science and Technology Advisor at the University Camilo Cienfuegos, told AIN that among the most important of the papers include medical education, food security and use of technology in higher education.

Artola stressed the importance of the biennial conference for the development of quality and accreditation processes in Cuban schools.

Vizcon Roberto Toledo, Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Studies at the house of higher learning in this country, praised the role of the event to promote teacher preparation from the municipal and provincial offices, to collecting best practices in education.

The appointment is important to discuss about what is expected of each university in Cuba, and its management to foster the excellence, and allows the exchange with foreign educators said Vizcon.

The International Congress on Higher Education 2012 University, held since 1998, this time to meet delegates from some 60 nations, among which Adolfo Perez Esquivel, Nobel Peace Prize, Prensa Latina said.

From 1 to 3 February in Havana develop the first National Guitar. Identities with the event name from experts to welcome new talent to bring to life the day.

The event aims to promote, from the guitar, artistic values??, the update regarding the latest trends in shapes and styles, and exchange between performers, composers and audiences, said the event's Organizing Committee.

The opening concert is scheduled for tomorrow at four o'clock in the afternoon at the Casa del ALBA Cultural, Villena beside Room of the Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba UNEAC) and Casa de las Americas, are permanent headquarters ecuentran.

Concerts and lectures comprise the program of Identities, an occasion which have confirmed their attendance figures and dedicated novice teachers, including those found Jesus Ortega and Sonantas Habaneras Guitar Orchestra, Eduardo Martín, Rosa Matos, Freddy Perez, and Jorge Luis Chicoy.

Also be presented Luis Manuel Molina, Savarez Duo, Trio Alter Ego, Bayado Quartet, Duo Bona Fide, Duo Contrasts and outstanding students of music schools in Havana and the Instituto Superior de Arte.

Organized by the Association of Musicians of the UNEAC, the event is chaired by Guido Lopez Gavilan teacher, and has the artistic direction of master guitarists and composers Eduardo Perez and Freddy Martin.