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Morning Transmission
Saturday, October 24, 2009
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CUBA-NATIONAL NEWS CUBA
Cuba to Switch to Regular Winter Hours
WHO Director-General Visits Cuba
Cuba to host LAtam Congress on Marine Sciences
Peru-Cuba Friendship Meeting
Cuban President Meets with Vietnamese Minister

INTERNATIONAL NEWS


LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN
Uruguayan Initiatives against Dollar Volatility
Rejection of Honduras Vote under Coup Grows
Uruguay Ready for Elections
Election to Venezuela PSUV Congress Over
Bolivia Voter Registration Nears Completion
Venezuela Hosts World Dance Festival

US, CANADA, EUROPE


AFRICA AND THE MIDDLE EAST


ASIA AND AUSTRALIA


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CUBA-NATIONAL NEWS CUBA


Cuba to Switch to Regular Winter Hours

Havana, Oct 24 (Prensa Latina) Cubans are ready to switch to regular
winter hours on Saturday midnight, leaving officially closed summer
hours.

Cubans will have to put the clocks back one hour, leaving formally
reestablished regular winter hours all around the country.

However, they will go on with the already adopted measures to save
power, which have become a custom during all these months of summer.

A considerable decrease in electricity consumption has been taking
place in Cuba thanks to the Energy Revolution program, a social movement
implemented nationwide.

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WHO Director-General Visits Cuba

Havana, Oct 24 (Prensa Latina) Margaret Chan, Director-General of the
World Health Organization(WHO) starts on Saturday in Cuba a four-days
visit.

She will visit important sanitarian and scientific institutions in the
Island.

The program includes an acknowledgment ceremony for the years of
service to the organization. It includes also an introduction to the
health system in Cuba and the medical cooperation.

She will visit the scientific institutions in the west of Havana, among
them the Center of Engineering and Biotechnology, the Center of
Molecular Immunology and the Tropical Medicine Institute Pedro Kouri.

Doctor Chan, born in China, will visit also the "Ramon Pando Ferrer"
Cuban Ophthalmology Institute, the Latin American School of Medicine
(ELAM), Rampa General Hospital and the Handicapped Center.

Margaret Chan obtained a degree in Medicine. She was appointed to the
post of Director-General on 9 November 2006. At that time she was Deputy
Director for Communicable Diseases Surveillance and Response as well as
Representative of the Director-General for Pandemic Influenza.

She effectively managed outbreaks of avian influenza and of severe
acute respiratory syndrome (SARS)in Hong Kong. Her term will run
through June 2012.

Cuba to host LAtam Congress on Marine Sciences

Havana, Oct 24 (Prensa Latina) Experts from all over the world will meet
from next Monday until Friday in Cuba for the 8th Edition of the Latin
American Congress on Marine Science (COLACMAR).

A magisterial conference on climatic change: Human activity impact on
the system ocean-coast will open the event.

In the inaugural session will be presented also the exhibition 50 years
of Science and Marine Technologies serving the society. The exhibition
shows the Cuban activity in that period.

The Congress, to be in session at Havana's Convention Center, includes
oral presentations, short curses, poster presentations and 8 symposiums
about the role of marine sciences.

Oceans and seas as source of renewable energy, marine biodiversity,
conservation, biotechnology and aquiculture, care of marine mammals an
coasts, marine geology and mineral resources will discussed in the event
as well.

At the same time will take place the 8th Congress on Sea Science
MARCUBA and the 4th International Workshop Fishing 2009 under the motto
Marine Science: Integration to the development.

Peru-Cuba Friendship Meeting

Cusco, Peru, Oct 24 (Prensa Latina) The tenth National Meeting of
Peru-Cuba Friendship Houses enters its second day Saturday, with five
commissions focused on two key issues.

The plenary session will get acquainted with a report on the work of
the Peruvian Committee of Solidarity with the five Cuban anti-terrorists
unfairly imprisoned in the US, and will cope with human rights on the
island.

Five working groups will be later set up. Two of them will analyze
actions for the release of the Five, as they are internationally known,
and the houses' contribution favoring the end of the US blockade on
Cuba. The other groups will deal with 50 years of the Cuban
Revolution as example for Latin America, the houses' diffusion work, and
strengthening of those groups.

Solidarity with the Five and the battle against the blockade were key
matters in the opening session, when Cuban ambassador to Peru Luis
Delfin Perez congratulated the event's organizers, and wished them
success.

The rector of Cusco's San Antonio Abad University, Victor Raul Aguilar,
and the president of the organizing committee, Andres Olivares, also
welcomed the delegates, and expressed their friendship with Cuba.

Cuban President Meets with Vietnamese Minister

Havana, Oct 24 (Prensa Latina) Cuban President Raul Castro held talks on
Friday afternoon with Minister of Construction from the Socialist
Republic of Vietnam Nguyen Hong Quan, heading his country ó s delegation
to the 27th meeting of the Vietnam-Cuba Intergovernmental Commission,
Granma paper reported Saturday.

The President of the State Council and Council of Ministers of Cuba
thanked Nguyen Hong Quan, Construction Minister in Vietnam, the
assistance and aid provided by his country in the production of rice.

The exchange demonstrated once again the satisfaction of the two
parties for the positive and increasing bilateral bonds existing between
the two countries, strengthened with the recent visit to the island of
Vietnamese President Nguyen Minh Triet.

Both parts tackled the progresss of the collaboration in the economic
area and its significant possibilities of development, especially in the
production of rice.

Some other top officials like the Vice President of Cuban Council of
Ministers Ricardo Cabrisas Ruiz, Cuban Minister of Construction Fidel
Figueroa de la Paz and Vietnam ambassador to Havana Vu Chi Cong were
also present in the encounter.

INTERNATIONAL NEWS



LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN

Uruguayan Initiatives against Dollar Volatility

Montevideo, Oct 24 (Prensa Latina) The Central Bank of Uruguay (BCU) on
Saturday announced a package of measures to reduce consequences of the
dollar volatility.

BCU president Mario Vergara pointed out the decision aims at lowering
the so called "reserves," so that institutions can use either dollars,
pesos, or other regulating procedures.

He added that in coordination with the Economy and Finance Ministry, it
will be made changes in regulations for import pre-financing.

The intention is to abate uncertainty, cut transaction costs, and
stabilize types of change, Vergara stated.

Rejection of Honduras Vote under Coup Grows

Tegucigalpa, Oct 24 (Prensa Latina) Rejection of holding elections under
the de facto regime in Honduras keeps growing among large social
sectors, and anti-coup candidates have announced their withdrawal from
the process.

Opponents to the June 28 military coup in that country yesterday agreed
to ignore the elections if constitutional order and President Manuel
Zelaya are not reinstated.

It is impossible to attend elections under a military dictatorship,
noted presidential runners Carlos H. Reyes, independent, and Cesar Ham,
from the Democratic Unification Party (UD).

The dialogue between representatives of Zelaya and the head of the de
facto regime, Roberto Micheletti, was the last chance to restore
democratic lawfulness in the country, and failed yesterday after 15 days
of talks.

Micheletti's delegates essentially remained against Zelaya's
reinstatement, the same stance they adopted when the mediating plan was
presented over three months ago by Costa Rican president Oscar Arias, to
try to solve the crisis.

Their intention was to make the dialogue fail, to get to the November
elections and legitimize the coup, said lawyer Rodil Rivera Rodil, one
of Zelaya's representatives.

However, anti-coup candidates have agreed to massively withdraw from
the electoral process if constitutional order is not restored.

The unanimous decision was adopted at a mass assembly of the National
Front against the coup, with the attendance of aspirants to mayors,
deputies, president, and other posts of factions opposing the de facto
regime.

Uruguay Ready for Elections

Montevideo, Oct 24 (Prensa Latina) The Uruguayan Electoral Court
announced on Saturday everything is ready for the normal development of
elections tomorrow, when the president for the 2010-2015 term will be
elected.

The institution informed that over 47,000 people will work at the 6,868
voting places nationwide, and a contingent of 4,000 members including
policemen and troops will watch over security.

The three departments with highest number of voters are Montevideo,
Canelones, and Maldonado, accounting for almost 60 percent.

The Uruguayan electoral roll comprises more than 2.56 millions, and of
that figure, about 284,000 will cast their vote for the first time.

They will elect the president of the Republic, the vice president, and
the members of the Legislative Power (30 senators and 99 deputies).

If no candidate obtains a simple majority, a second round will take
place on November 29 among hopefuls with most votes.

Election to Venezuela PSUV Congress Over

Caracas, Oct 24 (Prensa Latina) The United Socialist Party of Venezuela
(PSUV) on Saturday concludes the designation of territorial delegates to
its extraordinary Congress, scheduled for November 21-December 13.

Once the nomination process closes today, the PSUV leadership will
begin analyzing the proposals.

The lists of candidates to the forum are expected to be ready for
Monday, when the National Electoral Council, governing entity of the
November 15 elections, will receive them.

During the elections, about 2.35 million militants will choose the
representatives for the 335 Venezuelan municipalities, who will set the
PSUV statutes and strategies at the forum.

PSUV coordinator Jorge Rodriguez asserted the Congress will consolidate
the red bloc's (the color that identifies it) structure and ideological
strength.

Those affairs, along with President Hugos Chavez' leadership and social
commitment, will be immediate pillars of the Bolivarian Revolution,
popular name of the process of change headed by the PSUV, he remarked.

Bolivia Voter Registration Nears Completion

La Paz, Oct 24 (Prensa Latina) Bolivian National Electoral Court, CNE
accomplished the goal of registering about 5, 088 924 eligible voters
for the upcoming elections in Dec. 6.

From Aug. 1 to Oct. 15, the period of time addressed for the voter
registration process, some 4, 914 264 citizens in the nine departments
of the country registered.

Some other 90, 357 immigrants were registered in Argentina; 18, 616 in
Brazil; 50, 602 in Spain and 11, 085 in US.

CNE President Antonio Costas said until Oct 30 they will be reviewing
the complete lists of new voters to ensure they don ó t have double
registrations of a same person.

In this way, the modern electoral roll will finally be ready for the
upcoming elections in December.

This biometric registration system is capable of preventing two
consecutive posts by the same person and fixing the possible errors in
poll cards, he said.

Venezuela Hosts World Dance Festival

Caracas, 24 Oct (Prensa Latina) Dancers from Cuba, Spain, South Korea,
Uruguay and Venezuela will participate from this Saturday in the 4th
World Dance Festival of Solos and Duets in Margarita Island, state of
Nueva Esparta.

According to the Culture Minister, the event will have venues in many
municipalities of the country. The festival will have also circus shows,
theater and musical plays, workshops, conferences and a photographical
sample.

The Venezuelan delegation will offer presentations of air dance played
by acrobat dancers, experimental choreographic works, the theater play
Paglia and guitar and flute recitals.

Among the foreign companies is to highlight the German company
Cocoondance, the South Korean Free Dance and Cienfuegos Dance from
Spain.

The 4th World Dance Festival of Solos and Duets is organized by the
Venezuelan Culture Ministry with the National Cance Company Foundation.



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