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Morning Transmission
Wednesday, October, 21, 2009
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CUBA-NATIONAL NEWS CUBA
Cuban Martinez Wins GM Chess Title
Caribbean Foreign Ministers Visit Cuba

INTERNATIONAL NEWS


LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN
OAS Analyzes Honduras Crisis
Honduras Crisis Worsens, Dialogue at Standstill
Millions Vote in Uruguayan Elections
Hondurans Slam Moves to Hinder Talks
Colombia Honors Cuban Culture
ILO Warns of High CentAm Unemployment

US, CANADA, EUROPE
US Daily Denounces CNN Lies
FAO to Raise Anti-Hunger Budget

AFRICA AND THE MIDDLE EAST
Israel Vs. UNHRC, Justifies War Crimes

ASIA AND AUSTRALIA
US Plane Bombs Pakistan Tribal Zones

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CUBA-NATIONAL NEWS CUBA

Cuban Martinez Wins GM Chess Title

Havana, Oct 21 (Prensa Latina) Cuban Lelys Stanley Martinez Duany, 24,
won the International Chess Federation (FIDE) Grand Master title.

The sports Jit weekly said the FIDE validated the title after winning
three partial credits between December 2008 and August this year, while
Jose Angel Guerra became International Master.

Martinez's 2,511 Elo points place him as the 22nd Cuban chess player to
earn the GM title after Silvino Garcia in 1975.

martinez, who was born in Santiago de Cuba, is expected to reach 2,530
Elo points in November, when the FIDE will readjust its rank list.

Cuba also has five Women Grand Masters: Vivian Ramon, Martza Arribas,
Sulennis Piña, Zirka Frometa and Yaniet Marrero.

Caribbean Foreign Ministers Visit Cuba

Havana, Oct 21 (Prensa Latina) Foreign ministers from Belize and Guyana
are starting Wednesday tight agendas in Cuba, to strengthen relations
among these countries.

Both officials were invited by his Cuban peer Bruno Rodriguez, who will
meet separately with Wilfred Elrington, Minister for Foreign Affairs and
Foreign Trade of Belize, and Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett, Minister of
Foreign Affairs of Guyana, Granma newspaper reported.

According to the daily, Elrington and Rodrigues-Birkett will also visit
sites of historic and scientific interest.

Elrington leads his country's delegation to the 12th Cuba-Belize
Intergovernmental Meeting.



INTERNATIONAL NEWS



LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN

OAS Analyzes Honduras Crisis

Washington, Oct 21 (Prensa Latina) The Organization of American States
(OAS) Permanent Council is analyzing on Wednesday the situation
unleashed in Honduras, after stagnation of the dialogue promoted by that
organization to solve the crisis created by the coup d'etat.

OAS General Secretary Jose Miguel Insulza will present a report in a
special meeting, about the talks started on October 7 in Tegucigalpa.

Negotiations between representatives of the constitutional government
and the de facto regime in Honduras, sponsored by the OAS, are about to
fail due to the putschists' refusal to accept President Manuel Zelaya's
return to power.

Zelaya, who returned by surprise to Honduras a month ago and is staying
at the Brazilian embassy, stated that the dialogue is in a state of
"obstruction and stagnation."

Zelaya's representatives in the roundtable discussions termed Roberto
Micheletti's proposal insulting, because the president's restriction
should be consulted to the Court of Justice and the Congress, the
entities that supported the coup.

The Honduran legitimate head of State requested that the OAS Permanent
Council to make a statement about the putschists' new maneuver to linger
on the talks and remain in power.

The OAS suspended the Central American country from that mechanism
shortly after hooded soldiers kidnapped the statesman and forcefully
took him to Costa Rica, almost four months ago.

Honduras Crisis Worsens, Dialogue at Standstill

Tegucigalpa, Oct 21 (Prensa Latina) The crisis unleashed in Honduras
continues worsening on Wednesday, while the only possible peaceful
solution, which is a dialogue, is at a standstill and without a formula
to solve it.

Tuesday's talks did not make any progress, after representatives of
President Manuel Zelaya denounced some dilatory maneuvers by the de
facto government to continue buying time.

The National Front against the Coup d'Etat convened a new rally for
today in the capital, and other actions in the countryside, in its 116th
consecutive day of actions against the military coup.

The resistance demonstrations have gained new energies after derogation
on Monday of the state of siege that has been in force in the country
since September 26.

Juan Barahona, general coordinator of that alliance of people's forces,
said the people mobilization will not stop until achieving restitution
of President Zelaya and summoning to a constituent assembly.

Meanwhile, two parties, plus independent and Liberal candidates opposed
to the coup, stated that they would abstain from attending elections if
they were organized by the de facto government.

News signs of the country's economic crisis showed up again, with the
de facto government's decision of reducing expenses in 60 percent in a
drastic cut, from which armed forces were excluded.

Millions Vote in Uruguayan Elections

Montevideo, Oct 21 (Prensa Latina) The number of Uruguayans that will
vote in the October 25 elections currently exceed 2,256,000 and 284,000
of them would vote for the first time, according to the Electoral Court.

According to the source, the three departments with the largest number
of voters are Montevideo and neighboring Canelones and Maldonado,
respectively, which group 60 percent of the register.

The government will announce on Wednesday details of the security
operations, four days before the elections and 48 hours before the close
period that forbids spreading propaganda and opinion poll results
through any kind of media.

Authorities will implement a Police and Armed Force joint mechanism to
guard 6,868 electoral colleges in the country, with 2,650 of them in
Montevideo.

In the upcoming national elections on Sunday, voting is mandatory to
all citizens, and all the people registered in the National Civic
Registry, who are 18 years old and over, are able to cast their vote.
The President of the Republic, the Vice President and the members of the
Legislature (30 senators and 99 representatives) will be elected on
Sunday.

Hondurans Slam Moves to Hinder Talks

Tegucigalpa, Oct 21 (Prensa Latina) Honduras' National Front against the
coup condemned on Wednesday maneuvers by the de facto government to
thwart the dialogue, and prevent constitutional order from being
reinstated.

The front warned in a release that the regime uses delaying tactics to
get to "the November 29 electoral farce," without having restored
democratic lawfulness.

With those manipulating moves, the putschists intend to hold elections,
without having reinstated constitutional President Manuel Zelaya
Rosales.

The talks between representatives of Zelaya and de facto President
Roberto Micheletti have been stalemated since Friday over the key issue:
Zelaya's restitution.

The front ratified that the Honduran people would not recognize the
electoral campaign and results of the elections as long as the regime
imposed by force is maintained.

It also condemned the misinformation campaign by the mass media at the
service of the oligarchy, through which they try to present the
resistance as a violent organization.

Colombia Honors Cuban Culture

Bogota, Oct 21 (Prensa Latina) As homage to Cuban Culture, a collective
interdisciplinary exhibition by authors from the Island, called El Trazo
del Fuego (The Stroke of Fire), in which photographs, videos, paintings,
sculptures and ceramics can be enjoyed, was opened in this capital.

It is an exhibition in which Cuban artists Rene Peña, Felipe
Dulazaides, Joan Capote, Adonis Florez, Fernando Rodriguez and Esterio
Segura, with Clarisa Cribes as curator, deal with diverse aesthetic
approaches.

In the opening ceremony, Cuban Embassy Cultural Advisor to Colombia
Miguel Jimenez highlighted the values and solidness of Cuban culture.

Only the Cuban Revolution and a cultural policy that places a high
value on identity, history, community and diversity make possible the
spiritual solidness of our people, he said.

He also said that people that remembers every October 20 the singular
event that the national anthem would had been sung for the first time in
the city of Bayamo, and that it emerged from patriotism itself, the
struggle and the Cuban identity.

Voices of musicians as Sonia Diaz, singer-songwriter Ojedita and los
Cuatro de Belen characterized the cultural evening, also attended by
Cuban Ambassador to Colombia Jose Perez Novoa and other officials of
that embassy.

ILO Warns of High CentAm Unemployment

San Salvador, Oct 21 (Prensa Latina) Central America and the Dominican
Republic are expected to register 470,000 jobs less this year, due to
the world economic crisis, according to a study by the International
Labor Organization (ILO).

ILO's third report on labor market in Central American and the
Dominican Republic makes no reference to Guatemala or the impact caused
by the internal political crisis in Honduras.

Regional economies have failed to generate 290,000 new jobs this year,
according to the document elaborated by ILO, the Central American
Integration System, and FOIl Regional program.

Central America and the Dominican Republic, with 49 million inhabitants
and 20 million economically active people, are facing a serious economic
contraction due to their high dependence on international trade flows,
direct foreign investment, remittances, and tourism, the report added.



US, CANADA, EUROPE

US Daily Denounces CNN Lies

Washington, Oct 21 (Prensa Latina) CNN television channel must change
its informative policy and stop publishing false stories, especially the
ones related to immigrants, who are blamed for all the problems of the
United States, said Wednesday La Opinion daily.

In an editorial, the Californian morning paper cites the case of the
journalist Lou Dobbs, who basically mixes opinions that are supported by
lies.

So, a local tradition goes on, using foreigners as scapegoats for
everything. "First there were the Irish, Italians and Chinese", it said.

In Dobbs universe there is a Mexican secret conspiracy to take
possession of the US southwestern region, it adds.

According to the publication, he considers that people with no identity
papers are responsible for the high number of murders and drunk drivers,
and blames them for the loss of millions of jobs and the mortgage
crisis.

The presenter is a shame for the news channel, points the daily.

CNN should not cover up for those lies if it wants to maintain news
credibility, it says.

In countless occasions this news channel has been accused of lying or
being partial regarding an event.

In that reference, Honduran constitutional President Manuel Zelaya and
also Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez denounced the informative
manipulation by the channel.

FAO to Raise Anti-Hunger Budget

Geneva, Oct 20 (Prensa Latina) Jacques Diouf, general director of the UN
Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), called to treble agriculture
funding to erase world hunger caused by poor investment.

Diouf called at the 121st Inter-Parliamentary Union Assembly to raise
the current five percent funding to 17 percent, and recalled that the
same budget was also used in the '07s for watering technology, roads,
warehouses, seed growing and fertilizers.

The FAO leader rated the Developing Countries annual need for
infrastructure and machinery in $44 billion, a sum he called
unnoticeable compared to the $365 billion the rich invested in 2007, the
equivalent to the annual $1.3 million spent annually in armament in the
world.

He reminded that the ranks of over one billion hungry people are mostly
concentrated in developing countries, plus 105 million produced by the
current global crisis.

Diouf finally reminded that world hunger is rather owed not to the fact
that the world does not produce enough food, but to poor food production
in the countries hosting 70 percent the world's poor.





AFRICA AND THE MIDDLE EAST

Israel Vs. UNHRC, Justifies War Crimes

Tel Aviv, Oct 21 (Prensa Latina) Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
called a lie the UN Goldstone Report exposing Israeli war crimes in Gaza
and dared urging for changes to international war Laws to justify its
anti-Palestinian hostility.

His reaction is owed to the approval on Friday by the UN Human Rights
Council of the Goldstone Report on Israel crimes during its December
2008 and January 2009 military drive in Gaza.

Netanyahu even ordered its cabinet to arrange a world drive to mend
international war Laws and match them to "global terror proliferation,"
its definition of Palestinian resistance.

The release orders the Justice Ministry to set up a committee to study
legal procedures overseas against the State of Israel and its citizens.

The Israeli Premier even played down the 22-day air, sea and land raid
against the Palestinian enclave that left more thn 14,000 dead,
including 350 children, and more than 5,000 wounded people.

South African Attorney Richard Goldstone refuted Israeli media claims
that his report would undermine Palestinian-Israeli negotiations, since
"there are no peace talks in process because Israel's Foreign Minister
does not want."





ASIA AND AUSTRALIA

US Plane Bombs Pakistan Tribal Zones

Islamabad, Oct 21 (Prensa Latina) A US unmanned plane launched a rocket
attack Wednesday on a northwestern Pakistani tribal zone in North
Waziristan, killing at least three people, a television network
reported.

According to Geo TV network the aircraft launched three missiles to
houses in Miran Shah City, killing three people and wounding several
others.

The US Army stepped up its attacks with drone planes against Pakistani
tribal regions, when the government security forces are developing an
important offensive against Islamic rebels in South Waziristan.

Over 700 people have died in this country, due to the Pentagon
incursions with those aircrafts since 2008.





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