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. • * Cuba: 22 little things that maybe you do not know * •.

• In Cuba, the January 1, 1959 marks another year of successful revolution. Up to that day, spent more than a century of struggles and battles that shaped the formation of a free, independent and sovereign . A Revolution conceived as a process of social construction and people's national, made by men and women and for men and women.

• These 50 years of Revolution, Cuba has endured all sorts of attacks (military, terrorist, biological, media ...) by the Empire because he rebelled against it, winning their second independence, because he has remained, despite the enormous sacrifice of its people, and because it is a "bad example" for other peoples of the Empire neocolonized and dependents, which could choose to release it.

• Against Cuba is a media campaign disinformation through all major mass media which are the service of empire, and thus only comes certain events occurring in the Caribbean island, precisely those who, often presented outside the Cuban context could make us think that what the Cuban people live is a criminal and murderous dictatorship that oppresses its people and not defend human rights. That is the vision that prevails today in our societies, it is what we show those media in the service of empire.

• We going to raise a number of issues que quizá sean desconocidas por muchos de quienes nos oyen, y que muestran otra visión, más real, de lo que es Cuba y su Revolución .

1) ¿Sabían Uds. que el pueblo cubano viene soportando un bloqueo económico , comercial y financiero por parte de Estados Unidos desde el año 1961 , como medida de guerra por haberse liberado del imperialismo yanki, que castiga a toda empresa que comercia con Cuba, y que dicho embargo no está legitimado por las Naciones Unidas ? En octubre de este año, 185 países de los 192 que integran las Naciones Unidas votaron a favor de que se end to the blockade. Damage to the Cuban economy by the U.S. embargo has been estimated at over 53,000 million euros, between 1961 and 2008. Who has time genocidal policy toward the Cuban people, but the United States?

2) Did you know that the people of Cuba holds elections every 5 years , at the municipal, provincial and state levels, and at the same political parties are not present, not even the Communist Party, but there free competition of candidates for elections, which are proposed by the popular assemblies in each area, the assembly-style democracy of the French Revolution the early years? Cuba is criticized for not allowing multiparty politics, but today we know that the multiparty political under a capitalist society that buys everything, not in itself guarantee that there
democracy, ie government of the people and the people, but a serving party politics of the richest, with strong bipartisan alternating in government, according to the ideological (more liberal or more conservative) of the richest.

3) Did you know that the Cuban people adopted a socialist democratic Constitution in 1976 , with 97% favorable vote of the electorate, which recognizes and guarantees the fundamental rights guaranteed in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and is one of the most advanced in the world? Cuba is criticized for its lack of democracy, but like other countries, has adopted a constitution that governs their political and institutional system, endorsed by his people, so it can not be described as dictatorial only by simple fact of being a socialist.

4) Did you know that Cuba is ranked No. 50 in high human development (out of 177 countries ), ie those companies that improve the lives of its citizens through an increase in assets to cover their basic needs and complementary and creating an environment that respects human rights, according to the 2006 Report of the United Nations Program for Development?

5) Did you know that Cuba is the only country that meets the minimum criteria for ecological sustainability as the 2006 report presented in Beijing by the Swiss ADENA-World Wide Fund for Nature?

6) Did you know that Cuba is according to UNICEF, the only Latin American country to have eradicated child malnutrition, including especially during the hard times of the 90, and exhibits the highest life expectancy of the Third World (78 years) and infant mortality lowest in Latin America and the Caribbean (4.7 per thousand live births) even below the U.S.?

7) Did you know that Cuba, with its limited resources, is one of the countries that have commitments in cooperation with the countries of the Third World, developing programs such as Barrio Adentro in Venezuela, which has adopted each district health center, and Operation Miracle, which has served the last 4 years to restore sight to 1 million and half people more than 20 nationalities, for free, with support from Venezuela?

8) Did you know that Cuba eradicated illiteracy in 1961, only 2 years after the Revolution, and now, through the adult literacy program "Yes I can", has allowed Less than 2 years, free countries such as Venezuela, Nicaragua and Bolivia, illiteracy? Or that since 1961 in Cuba, through its scholarship program has graduated 47,000 young people from 126 countries in more than 33 university and technical specialties?

Or that since 1961 Cuba has cooperated with 154 countries worldwide a contribution of 270 000 donors, and now abroad
cooperate in more than 41 thousand Cuban professionals in 97 countries, of which 31 000 are in the health sector? Or that Cuba is the country of the world that brings more doctors to the United Nations campaign against AIDS, with more than 3,000 doctors, when US-European Union fail to 1,000, indicating the United Nations without Cuban doctors would be virtually impossible to make the campaign like that without the 2,500 Cuban doctors sent to cover the Pakistan earthquake of 2005 had not saved the lives of more than 1,500 people and cured hundreds of thousands more? What Cuba has more doctors in the world that provided by the World Health Organization?

9) Did you know that Cuba has condemned the terrorist attack of September 11, 2001, yet five Cubans held prisoner in U.S. prisons since 1997 for having infiltrated terrorist organizations in Miami and for alerted the U.S. government plans more than 170 attacks on the island and was accused of espionage, in a rigged trial, sentencing the high penalties including imprisonment, including a 2 life sentences to the same person, and torturándoseles in a dungeon known as the hole?

10) Did you know that the Cuban people have sent hundreds of thousands of volunteers to fight against colonialism in various countries worldwide, supporting all national liberation movements in those countries, mainly in Africa, including Algeria, Congo and Angola and Latin America, including Bolivia and Nicaragua?

11) Did you know that in the battle of Cuito, Angola, in 1987, thanks to the Cuban troops defeated the South African army, supported by the U.S. and Israel, and achieved full independence Angola, Namibia and Zimbabwe, and was given a death blow to the racist regime of South Africa, which allowed its collapse a few years later and the release of Nelson Mandela?

12) Did you know that in 1984 Cuba and the U.S. signed an agreement in which the U.S. pledged to grant 20 thousand visas a year to Cubans wishing to travel to that country and has never given more than 1,000 visas per year, thus forcing that there is a process to illegal immigration must risk his life at sea, emigration is awarded in the U.S. with an Adjustment Act, which granted American citizenship who travel illegally, provided they declare to be a victim of political persecution by the Cuban government?

13) Did you know that the U.S. has banned its citizens from traveling to Cuba, with penalties of up to 10 years in prison who does?

14) Did you know that while in Cuba keep its offices open several foreign media, both European and North American (including CNN), however, the United States does not permit Cuban journalists to work in your country?

15) Did you know that Cuba was the first country to request the deletion of the foreign debt of Third World countries?

16) Did you know that Cuba has one of the best healthcare systems and education in the world, public, free and universal, recognized by the United Nations, which benefits including low-income Americans, who go to Cuba to be treated medically so as to study, since they can not pay U.S. prices of health and education in private hands?

17) Did you know that Cuba is a powerhouse in biotechnology and that many of their drug patents are used to treat many diseases in the world at cheap prices, including the drug cured diabetic foot ulcer ?

18) Did you know that while Cuba is crossed by the Empire of violating human rights by prison sentences of 75 Cubans who conspired with the U.S. government to overthrow the socialist regime of the island in 2003, however, in 50 years of revolution, never there have been crimes committed itself Amnesty International notes that do occur in European Union countries (the English government, for example) and the United States, political crimes such as murder, torture, disappearances, kidnapping, human trafficking a long list of crimes, not to mention the prison-like Guantanamo limbo, or the secret flights of U.S. aircraft carrying kidnapped
approved by several governments, including that of Spain, or extrajudicial killings to the GAL in Spain under the government of Felipe Gonzalez? Did you know that for the fifth consecutive year, Cuba is part of the Human Rights Council United Nations, with the mainstay of the countries in the Third World, while the U.S. has been left out?

19) Did you know that in Cuba older adults collaborating in their workplaces or conduct of social work in the neighborhoods and neighboring communities, which are assigned an active role in society and there are no elderly live alone?

20) Did You know that in Cuba every year the entire population receives a hurricane simulation program, called Meteor, which has enabled the victims there are few on the island (not reached a dozen in 10 years), while in other countries Caribbean area, including the United States, killed thousands of people, as the case of Hurricane Katrina?

21) Did you know that in Cuba there are 65 schools of art, are published 80 million books a year and rolled from 5 to 6 films annually, and that there are 11,000 free sports facilities, being a world power sport, with 24 medals in Beijing and 27 in Athens?

22) Did You know that Cuba is, along with Venezuela, the pioneer in establishing a Latin American socio-economic integration characterized by solidarity, called ALBA, which now are joining other countries that have stopped the feet of free trade agreements promoted by EE . UU. both have ruined the American people?
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