CUBANEWS FROM RADIO HAVANA CUBA May 26th, 1997 E-mail: rhc@radiohc.org The following items are taken from RADIO HAVANA CUBA's International Shortwave Service in English for Friday, May 26, 1997. Today's stories: 1.- CUBAN COMMUNIST PARTY DOCUMENT RELEASES FOR GENERAL DISCUSSION 2.- CUBA'S INDUSTRIAL TOURISM FAIR -TECNOTUR 97- OPENED MONDAY IN HAVANA 3.- CUBAN CULTURAL WEEK IN OVIEDO, SPAIN 4.- FIRST DELEGATES TO THE 14TH WORLD FESTIVAL OF YOUTH AND STUDENTS WILL ARRIVE IN EARLY JULY 5.- NEW CUBAN MEDICINE IS REVOLUTIONIZING PHARMACEUTICAL MARKETS IN LATIN AMERICA CUBAN COMMUNIST PARTY DOCUMENT RELEASES FOR GENERAL DISCUSSION Havana, May 24(RHC)-- The Cuban Communist Party released a document Saturday that contains a basic set of ideas for popular discussion prior to the organization's 5th Congress in October. Published on Saturday's edition of Granma newspaper, the document is entitled "The Party of the Unity, the Democracy, and the Human Rights that We Defend". The report gives a detailed account of the United States' historical desire to dominate Cuba. It notes that obsession has now become the US's official Cuba policy, which it describes as the greatest challenge the Island has ever had to face. Under such circumstances, says the Cuban Communist Party document, the only alternative left is for Cubans to preserve and strengthen their national unity. It recalls that it was precisely the lack of unity among Cuban patriots that was responsible for the repeated failure of earlier revolutionary efforts. The paper notes that as the main political force behind the preservation of unity, the Cuban Communist Party is today at the center of attacks, whose true aims are disguised as criticism of a so-called single party system on the Island. Pointing to a 30 per cent growth in membership over the last 5 years, the document explains that in supporting the existence and strengthening of the Cuban Communist Party as the single most important political force in the country, Cubans demonstrate their will to preserve national unity, freedom, and socialist democracy. The document notes that the current political system in Cuba enjoys so much popular support because it was not an importation but a national product grown out of more than 150 years of relentless struggle. Socialism in Cuba is an organic part of the Island's historic process, and the fruit of a genuine revolution, it concludes. The Cuban Communist Party document, issued with a view to the upcoming 5th congress of the organization, will be discussed by Cubans from all spheres of life. CUBA'S INDUSTRIAL TOURISM FAIR -TECNOTUR 97- OPENED MONDAY IN HAVANA Havana, May 26(RHC)-- The latest Cuban breakthroughs in the industrial tour sector are on display in Havana. Cuba's industrial tourism fair -TECNOTUR 97- lifted its curtains Monday in Havana's Pabexpo exhibition center. On hand are more than three hundred firms from 17 nations. Products, equipment and hotel design and construction technologies can be seen until June 1st. The Italian Group, San Peregrino and its Cuban partners, Los Portales S.A and Cubagua S.A -with plans to become the main suppliers of mineral water and non alcoholic beverages on the local market- is one the fair's most attractive stands, say experts. With an investment of 12 million dollars, Cuba's Los Portales S.A has announced the launching of Levisima mineral water and an ample variety of soft drinks for national and international consumption. In related news, Cuban experts are confident of the recovery of the number of Mexican tourists to the island, which has been affected by Mexico's economic slump. The manager of the Cuban travel agency, Taino Tours, Daysi Diaz told Cuba's Prensa Latina news agency in Mexico that new offers by Cuban tourism enterprises will make the difference in sending Mexican tourists to the island. Diaz said specialized tourism modalities including ecological and health tourism are popular with Mexicans. Taino Tours travel agency -created in 1996- was recently awarded as the best travel agency sending Mexican tourists to the island. CUBAN CULTURAL WEEK IN OVIEDO, SPAIN Havana, May 26(RHC)-- The latest Cuban cultural, medical and social advances are on display this week for residents of the Asturian city of Oviedo in Spain this week. At the initiative of the Asturian communist party, local residents will have the chance to demonstrate their support of the 14th World Festival of Youth and Students to be held in Cuba this summer in a cultural week dedicated to the island. According to organizers, the Cuban cultural week will help disseminate information about the island's progress during the last 37 years in the areas of health, education and culture. Cuba's Prensa Latina news agency reports that the agenda includes lectures on women, culture, youth, literature, music and film-making in Cuba. The Cuban Cultural Week in Oviedo, Spain, however, is much more than a theoretical event. Concerts, art exhibitions, sales of Cuban paintings and the launching of a new magazine, Cuban Medical Breakthroughs, will add to the festivities. FIRST DELEGATES TO THE 14TH WORLD FESTIVAL OF YOUTH AND STUDENTS WILL ARRIVE IN EARLY JULY Havana, May 26(RHC)-- Canadians will be the first to send delegates to the 14th World Festival of Youth and Students slated for July 28th to August 5th. The 35-member group is expected to arrive next July 13th. The young delegates are members of the Canadian Solidarity Brigade Quebec-Cuba. Cuban Young Communist League leader, Heriberto Torres, told journalists in Havana that the Canadian group will do voluntary stints in Cuban fields for 15 days before the Festival begins. In a weekly news briefing with the local and foreign press in Havana to report on the latest preparations for the summer festival, Torres said organizers have received the lists of delegates from Belize, Canada, Kirghiz and Kazajastan. The young leader said 130 nations have expressed interest in sending delegations to the youth festival. It was also announced that starting May 31st, the Permanent Work Commission of the Festival's International Coordinating Committee will take up residence in Havana until the end of the event. Youth leaders from Portugal, Brazil, Namibia and Korea head the commission. NEW CUBAN MEDICINE IS REVOLUTIONIZING PHARMACEUTICAL MARKETS IN LATIN AMERICA Havana, May 26(RHC)-- A Cuban made anti-cholesterol medicine "Ateromixol" seems to have no competitors on the Latin American pharmaceutical markets. Known by the acronym of PPG, the Cuban medicine was first introduced in Chile by Bago S.A -Latin America's largest pharmaceutical company- in 1995. Currently the highly effective cholesterol lowering drug is being successfully marketed in Argentina, Mexico, Colombia, Peru, Brazil and Chile, according to Cuban physician, Dr Antonio Machin, member of the Cuban delegation to Santiago de Chile's health fair Exposalud 97. Dr Machin told Mexico's NOTIMEX news agency that new lines of production have been opened up on the island to increase PPG production whose most remarkable side-effect is the positive influence on men and women's sexual potential. [c] 1997. 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