La formación de los médicos graduados en Cuba es ‘mediocre’, dice un directivo universitario
Paraguay
La formación de los médicos graduados en Cuba es 'mediocre', dice un directivo universitarioAgencias – DDCAsunción 28-03-2011 – 6:05 pm.
'Tienen habilidades y conocimientos de un licenciado en Enfermería', critica el decano de la Facultad de Medicina de la Universidad Nacional.
Los médicos paraguayos que se gradúan en Cuba no tienen la formación suficiente para ejercer la medicina en su país, afirmó este lunes el decano de la Facultad de Medicina de la Universidad Nacional paraguaya, Aníbal Filártiga.
"Ellos no están preparados. Los estudios demuestran que tienen habilidades y conocimientos de un licenciado en Enfermería", expresó el lunes el decano en declaraciones a periodistas, reportó la AFP.
"Tenemos un estudio muy serio, una comparación con el currículum de los (egresados) de la Universidad Nacional y de los que vienen de Cuba. Los médicos que estudian en Cuba vienen con una formación muy mediocre", enfatizó.
Filártiga lamentó la falta de capacidad de la Facultad de Medicina para acoger a la cantidad de aspirantes a la carrera, al tiempo que los egresados de Cuba buscan reducir de un año a 6 meses su pasantía por la casa de estudios para homologar su título y ser autorizados a ejercer en Paraguay.
Unos 500 universitarios estudian Medicina en Cuba, beneficiados por becas otorgadas por el gobierno de la Isla. Según la viceministra paraguaya de la Juventud, Diana García, citada por el diario La Nación, La Habana gasta de 60.000 a 70.000 dólares por cada joven paraguayo que va a estudiar a la Isla.
Desde el Ministerio de Salud Pública de Paraguay, José Marín, director de Desarrollo y Recursos Humanos, rechazó las afirmaciones de Filártiga.
Marín dijo que los médicos formados en la Isla tienen una preparación acorde a la realidad de ese país. Admitió que, en muchos aspectos, no se les puede homologar directamente, pero "no se debe satanizar a los médicos formados en Cuba", sostuvo.
http://www.diariodecuba.com/cuba/3827-la-formacion-de-los-medicos-graduados-en-cuba-es-mediocre-dice-un-directivo-universitario
Detenidos varios activistas tras protestar frente al Capitolio de La Habana
Represión
Detenidos varios activistas tras protestar frente al Capitolio de La HabanaDDCLa Habana 28-03-2011 – 8:54 pm.
Se manifestaron 'a favor de la liberación sin destierro de todos los presos políticos', a propósito de la visita de Carter.
Varios activistas fueron reprimidos y detenidos este lunes cuando protestaban frente al Capitolio de La Habana, en coincidencia con la visita del ex presidente norteamericano James Carter a la Isla, informó el Directorio Democrático.
Integrantes del Frente Nacional de Resistencia Cívica y Desobediencia Civil Orlando Zapata Tamayo se manifestaron "a favor de la liberación sin destierro de todos los presos políticos y en apoyo a la resistencia contra el sistema comunista".
Los manifestantes fueron agredidos por grupos convocados por el régimen.
"El hermano [Eriberto] Liranza fue brutalmente golpeado por turbas paramilitares", denunció Julio Columbié Batista, co-presidente de la Coalición Central Opositora e integrante del Frente.
Entre los detenidos tras la manifestación en el Capitolio se encuentran: Eriberto Liranza Romero, presidente del Movimiento Cubano de Jóvenes por la Democracia, y Boris Rodríguez Jiménez, de la misma agrupación.
El domingo, otros disidentes fueron detenidos, entre ellos Adriano Castañeda Meneses, Yris Tamara Pérez Aguilera y Jorge Luis García Pérez Antúnez, para evitar que asistieran a la protesta del Capitolio.
Tag: disidente, represión
http://www.diariodecuba.com/derechos-humanos/3828-detenidos-varios-activistas-tras-protestar-frente-al-capitolio-de-la-habana
SOBREVIVENCIA DELICTIVA
SOBREVIVENCIA DELICTIVA28-03-2011.Tico MoralesAgencia de Prensa Libre Avileña, APLA, Corresponsalía en Ciego de Ávila de Misceláneas de Cuba
(www.miscelaneasdecuba.net).- El gobierno cubano actual, en su constante invento para prevenir el delito dentro de su propia sociedad, ha echado mano a tecnologías de punta con el objetivo de arreglar un poco el desorden que en Cuba los comunistas inventaron; el robo al Estado, pero el cubano de a pie se le escapó al diablo del caldero logrando burlar la estricta vigilancia en algunos sectores de dicha sociedad.
El polo Turistico "Jardines del Rey", es por excelencia referenciainternacional, allí las flotillas de camiones y autos que mueven tododentro de las infraextructuras hoteleras fueron equipados con modernosGPS(Grupo de Posicion Satelital) para tener a los choferes localizados yno puedan cometer infracciones o delitos con los vehiculos.
Pero, Liborio es picaro y sus inventos son dignos de elogio. Miren no más: Uno de estos choferes en calidad de anonimato nos narró: "Cuando un auto o camion circula con su antena puesta tan solo el chofer coloca sobre esta un pequeno vaso desechable(plastico) y zas, desaparece el mismo de la pantalla de los controles. Ahora luego de descubrirse el invento han colocado memorias satelitales en los vehiculos para contrarestarlo, pero los choferes nos las arreglamos para sobornar a la policía con mercancias sustraidas del Polo Turistico, que muy codiciada llega a moverse luego en tierra firme, en la bolsa negra, aquí del salario nadie vive".
Asi pasan la vida los cubanos. Jugando al raton y el gato, dentro delobstracismo que estan condenados.
http://www.miscelaneasdecuba.net/web/article.asp?artID=31755
Quota for Revolucionaries, or "If you have to do it, you have to do it."
Quota for Revolucionaries, or "If you have to do it, you have to do it."Miriam Celaya, Translator: Norma Whiting
University of Havana. Photograph from the Internet
If someone had told us in the distant 70's that the day would come when attendance at a march or other event in support of the revolution would be guaranteed by assigning quotas, I'm sure we would have made a face, incredulous. However, what back then would have been unthinkable is today a palpable reality.
Just a few days ago, the official press announced the forthcoming implementation of a parade to mark the 50th anniversary of the proclamation of the socialist character of the Cuban revolution and the victory at Bay of Pigs to be held on April 16th with the massive participation of children and the young in the municipalities of Havana "on behalf of the Cuban people." What the press did not report is they had begun a process of selection in primary schools, secondary technical schools and colleges days before, pledging a fixed number of potential participants to ensure a respectable attendance at the event. A similar process has been taking place at universities and workplaces, where grassroots committees of the UJC (Communist Youth League) have had to mandatorily meet a quota to pay tribute at the parade. This is not really very difficult, given that the capital has a population of two million people and the event will begin with a military parade, which will swell the march.
It seems clear that the authorities know the lack of spontaneity of "the people" when holding the ceremonies of the revolutionary anniversaries. In previous years, many study centers were not limited to collecting lists of the disposition of their young to march in different events, but they were coerced into taking part in the ritual using resources previously unimaginable. For example, the School of Stomatology used a procedure sui generis for a more massive achievement at the March of the Torches — a fashion reminiscent of the Brownshirts youth of Nazi Germany — which in Cuba ends before the Marti's Flame. The repressor-wannabes of that university faculty have established, throughout the course of that march, three control points to which each student must report, preventing the classic dispersing into side streets after the young people leave the march starting point: the aforementioned faculty is located at Carlos III and G Streets. I heard that other schools are using the same method as the only resource for the parade to be sufficiently attended.
The procedure for the allocation of quotas has become widespread and in a way that even the repudiation rallies have had to appeal to it. At the March 18th march, the Ladies in White were the target of further harassment by pro-government mobs that prevented a march of remembrance for the crackdown of the Black Spring. The repressive forces were ordered to deploy an operation to block the exit from Laura Pollan's and Hector Maseda's house, and from Neptune, a main street. Meanwhile, they arrested several people who were preparing to participate voluntarily and spontaneously in the march.
They also mobilized their hordes of people to keep the participants at bay, hordes that were maintained throughout the day on Friday the 18th and Saturday the 19th shouting pro-government slogans and yelling insults. To achieve this, they rely on the quota system. This is why every base committee of the UJC at all campuses in the capital and the suburbs had to allocate at least one militant for such an bothersome mission. Since Friday, for example, 18 young CUJAE (Technical University) militants had to guarantee the ones who would concentrate the next morning at Parque Trillo, Centro Habana, to go to "repudiate" outside the home of Laura and Hector. The operation, of course, was a "success."
According to reliable sources, this has led to the establishment of a sort of lottery, through which militants that are called raffle off "the package." There are discussions among those who already participated "the last time" and who wield in their defense the phrase "I already did it." A total aberration of what once was a true and enthusiastic support for the revolution and its leaders.
Having learned about such unorthodox procedures to force young people into shameful practices, I feel even more contempt for the system that turns people into beasts and more compassion for the unaware youths that lend themselves to such a degrading service. Poor rookies, who condemn themselves to have to hide, tomorrow, such a mean and cowardly attitude!
Translated by Norma Whiting
March 21, 2011
http://translatingcuba.com/?p=8524
The Peruvian Embassy 1980
The Peruvian Embassy 1980Juan Juan Almeida
JJ – Zenaida Gonzalez Cuétara is a Cuban worker, proud of her origin. She was of those people who, on a not too hot day in 1980, decided to take refuge in guarded premises of the Embassy of Peru.
ZG – I lived at O'Reilly and Aguiar, Centro Habana, until April 5, 1980 when I entered the Embassy of Peru. That day changed my life.
JJ – The Cuban government has repeated over the years that people who entered the embassy of Peru, were all criminals. Is that true, or is it infamy?
ZG – During the terrible ordeal I was 24 and a member of the Union of Young Communists. I worked in the town of Regla in a state enterprise exporting shrimp and lobster. That's not a crime.
It is true that the situation became chaotic without taking into account the needs of human beings themselves, but all sorts of people in Havana came to the Embassy of Peru, most from upright and educated homes. Look, really, we were not criminals but victims of robbery, outrage, and many violations not only of Cuban officials, but also of some Peruvians who crashed the ambassador's car to extort money from the Cuban victims of blackmail in exchange for a little sugar, and victims of threats to deprive us of our gold chains. Thus we came to Peru, and the campaign here was destructive.
JJ – That's just what I want. So that the agreements between both governments were not kept; and remember that many people in Miami and elsewhere in the United States, seem to forget that the Mariel boatlift depended on the sad events of the Embassy of Peru and of those Cubans who, like you now live stranded in Lima.
ZG — That's right, Mr Almeida, this was terrible here. We've gone through everything, fortunately the years have managed to erase much of what happened. I sell Peruvian candy here on the street, I have a 17-year-old son ready for college. That's what I can do, it has dignity.
JJ — And tell me Zenaida, how Cubans like you, who in 1980 took refuge in the embassy of Peru, how do you live.
ZG — There's everything. The majority live from working, some live on drugs. I live quite far from that, I have to work. But I invite you to come to Peru, to visit everyone. Everyone, the few who remain. Some left from here, others have died of old age, illness or overdoses… It's been 32 years, there has been a lot of despair.
JJ — I accept the invitation. I think drugs are simply the result, has anyone been offered a job?
ZG — Never, sir. The UNHCR (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees) has purchased several lots on the outskirts of the city, well away. There we built little houses. But nobody has ever given us work.
JJ — Has the Cuban Embassy or its officials ever done something for you?
ZG — No, never. When a Cuban passport must be renewed, there they are to collect. That's their greatest aid, to charge you. The last place you would go to seek help is the embassy.
JJ — I know well, but I want to stress – for those who think so – if ever the government of Cuba, in one of its highly publicized humanitarian gestures, has been concerned for you.
ZG — For us? Never.
JJ — For a working person it's impossible to pay the consular fee, what it costs is highway robbery. But would you not you like to return to your country and show it to your child?
ZG — Sure, sir, of course. I have 15 brothers and sisters in Cuba, isn't that reason enough to go to my country? I would love to forget spending 32 years missing my family. Hopefully some day it will be within my power to teach my son about his family, his culture, his country. But it's hard, Sir, every day is very hard. I'm a street vendor, I sell on the streets of Lima, porridge and rice pudding.
JJ — Now I have to ask the question of sixty-four thousand dollar question. Why did you leave Cuba?
ZG – To look for a better future, another alternative for my life… Could you tell me why you, considering everything, decided to leave Cuba?
JJ — I left my country to be reunited with my family, to receive medical treatment that does not exist in my country, because a profoundly dictatorial system bored me, because I'm not one of those who can practice hypocrisy as a way of life. I was not looking for a future, I was looking for a present, because mind was crap.
Thank you Zenaida, it has been a pleasure talking with you.
March 22 2011
http://translatingcuba.com/?p=8520
Cyberwar
CyberwarRegina Coyula
Peaceful citizens were shown on the TV program "Cuba's Reasons" being accused of receiving money from the U.S. government. The program was seen by, let's say, 6 million national viewers. These citizens then call out the government for lying and manipulating, and thirty million internet users, to pick a figure, learn of that complaint. The apparent discrepancy is not important: the six million are not included in the thirty; the discrediting, without any right to respond in the national media, of a handful of people who are trying to create a space for civil society, will be new information for the common citizen, for whom the program was designed.
What do I do with my opinions in this country? I could do what I was doing before opening Bad Handwriting: talk about them in my living room. It would be more comfortable, my next-door neighbors would greet me naturally, I wouldn't have lost any friends, and my siblings and other relatives wouldn't have to be careful to avoid the uncomfortable detail that I have a rebellious blog. This is a process of adaptation and often painful.
But I already decided to offer a discordant note, if I joke with those in the pay of the Empire and with the CIA missions, I trespassed a border that the citizen to whom the message of a program like Cyberwar is directed has not trespassed, that is believing in the right to express one's opinions. This government's objective is met within the country, and justifies the criticisms of international public opinion.
Spoken of as a triumph, in the program, were the more than 200 blogs of press workers and university students. In today's world, having a blog is common and free. Many of these blogs exist as a kind of "trickle down," thus their contents lack freshness and are simply an extension of the official press. Many of them are signed with a pseudonym and maintain an anonymity that would be inexplicable in alternative blogs. But if the unofficial bloggers are branded as mercenaries for using cards paid for in hard currency to connect to the internet, how does it look that in a country with such low connectivity the official bloggers use their working hours and State connection (also in hard currency, and paid for by "Liborio" — that is the Cuban equivalent of "Uncle Sam") to maintain their personal spaces on the web?
One of those interviewed on the program quoted Fidel: Don't believe what I say, read. Encapsulating one of the motives that led me to open my blog, wanting access to the internet. I don't like anyone to decide what I should read, what I should believe.
March 23 2011
http://translatingcuba.com/?p=8506
Cuba Sentences Chilean Businessman To 20 Years Behind Bars
Cuba Sentences Chilean Businessman To 20 Years Behind BarsWritten by Amanda Reynoso-PalleySunday, 27 March 2011 23:45
Max Marambio, former bodyguard to Socialist President Salvador Allende, and former chief political advisor to Marco Enriquez Ominami during his presidential campaign in 2009, has been sentenced to 20 years in a Cuban prison for crimes of bribery and falsification of banking and commercial documents.Marambio first met Castro during a visit to Cuba in 1966 accompanying his father who was part of a delegation of Communist Party leaders sympathetic to the Cuban cause. After the military coup of September 11, 1973 Marambio went into exile in Cuba where he maintained close ties to Castro's government and began developing multiple businesses. He co-owned Río Zaza industries with the Cuban government, which specialized in juices and milks that became a monopoly on the island and converted Marambio into a very wealthy man.
The case against Marambio was originally launched in April 2010 after one of his top Chilean executives, Roberto Baudrand, was found dead in his apartment just days after being interrogated by Cuban officials.
Cuban authorities ordered that Marambio present himself before investigators by July 29, 2010. But Marambio fled the country and was not present for the trial or his sentencing. Cuba is in the process of soliciting the businessman's extradition.
Marambio's lawyer, Juan Pablo Hermosilla, traveled to Cuba to deal with the situation. "This verdict does not surprise me, this is the not the first time Cuba has sentenced someone in absence,2 said Hermosilla. "According to Chilean law and most international law it is illegal to do so. How can you sentence someone when they are not present to accept the sentencing?"
Hermosilla blames Rául Castro, believing his brother, Fidel Castro, who headed the small country for 40 years and is a close friend of Marambio, would never have brought charges against him. Still, the case against Marambio follows a similar pattern of probes into high-level corruption in Cuba.
SOURCE: EL MERCURIOBy Amanda Reynoso-Palley
http://www.santiagotimes.cl/news/other/21065-cuba-sentences-chilean-businessman-to-20-years-behind-bars
Protests continue in Cuba despite releases
Protests continue in Cuba despite releases28/03/2011 – 09:59:55
A Cuban dissident group formed to demand freedom for imprisoned relatives is continuing its weekly protests despite the liberation of the last of their family members.
Ladies in White founder Laura Pollan said the group will continue its activities to demand freedom for all prisoners of conscience and for human rights.
The group began weekly marches near Havana's cathedral after the government arrested 75 dissidents in 2003 and accused them of working with the US government to undermine Cuba's socialist system.
Most of the protesters were wives or relatives of the 75.
The last of the dissidents were released this week under a deal with the Roman Catholic Church.
The latest march was the first since then.
http://www.breakingnews.ie/world/protests-continue-in-cuba-despite-releases-498940.html
UASS wants authorisation for US to Cuba ferry services
UASS wants authorisation for US to Cuba ferry servicesMonday, 28 March 2011 06:43
United Americas Shipping Services (UASS) has called for the US Government to permit ferry service to Cuba to compete freely with air carriers in transporting US travellers to Cuba. At present no ferry service is authorised to Cuba, even though US law permits it.
"The recent announcement that eight new US airports – in addition to Miami – have been authorised to provide air service to Cuba highlights the preferential treatment given air over ocean passenger service," said UASS Chairman Daniel Berrebi. "There is a need and a desire for a ferry service to Cuba and it is fundamental to this country's values that people be allowed that choice and that the government does not favour one element of the transportation industry over another."
Nearly a year ago, UASS filed for a Treasury Department license to operate a ferry service from South Florida to Havana, but no decision has been made on the application.
Current rules authorise the use of both "vessels" and aircraft to provide carrier services to Cuba.
"All that is required for it to happen is a policy decision by the Obama administration in favour of ferry service," said Robert Muse, a Washington, DC lawyer who specialises in US laws relating to Cuba.
http://www.bairdmaritime.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=9695:uass-wants-authorisation-for-us-to-cuba-ferry-services&catid=96:cruiseferry&Itemid=116&q=cuba
Médicos que vienen de Cuba "son muy mediocres"
Médicos que vienen de Cuba "son muy mediocres"
El decano de la Facultad de Medicina de la UNA, Anibal Filártiga, expresó que un estudio comparativo arrojó como resultado que los médicos que se capacitan en Cuba tienen la formación de un Licenciado en Enfermería y no la de un doctor con todas las letras.ABC Digital
"Médicos que estudian en Cuba vienen con una formación muy mediocre", dijo a la 780 AM, el decano de la Facultad de Medicina, Aníbal Filártiga.
"Tenemos un estudio muy serio hecho, una comparación con el curriculum de los de la UNA y de los que vienen de Cuba. Ellos no están preparados y estos estudios demuestran que tienen las habilidades y conocimientos de un Licenciado en Enfermería", agregó.
Filártiga reconoció que la Facultad de Medicina de la UNA no tiene la capacidad de dar abasto a la cantidad de aspirantes a la carrera, campo que es ambicionado por facultades privadas que aprovechan la situación para lucrar.
El profesional dijo que la promoción del estudio en la isla caribeña viene de parte de populistas, citando a Nicanor Duarte Frutos como uno de los principales promotores.
Finalmente, Filártiga expresó que los jóvenes estudiantes son engañados por la propaganda populista y hacen todo lo posible para poder formarse en la carrera.
28 de Marzo de 2011 07:32
http://www.abc.com.py/nota/medicos-que-vienen-de-cuba-son-muy-mediocres/
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