[NYTr] Region's Media Headline Fidel's 81st Birthday Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2007 14:09:14 -0500 (CDT) Via NY Transfer News Collective * All the News that Doesn't Fit Prensa Latina, Havana http://www.plenglish.com Media Headlines Fidel Castro Birthday Caracas, Aug 13 (Prensa Latina) Cuban President Fidel Castro's 81st birthday was news Monday in Venezuelan, Mexican, Argentinean and Bolivian media. In Venezuela, a release by the Francisco de Miranda Front was published in several dailies and described the Cuban president as "a bastion of liberty, an example of justice, a factor of unity in the peoples' integration, a man in the vanguard of the struggle to save humankind." Other Venezuelan media, including TV and radio stations, recalled that Fidel Castro has survived over 600 attempts against his life and a US blockade imposed on his country for over 40 years. In Mexico, the major news programs and dailies, including La Jornada, El Financiero, La Cronica and Milenio referred to activities organized in Cuba to celebrate his birthday. Argentine media stressed his journalistic work during his recovery, with nearly 40 articles on national and international issues published by Cuban media since March, under the generic title "The Commander-in-Chief's Reflections". Fidel Castro had intestinal surgery in July 2006 which obliged him to pass his responsibilities on to Vice President Raul Castro. Hr/emw * ================================================================= .NY Transfer News Collective * A Service of Blythe Systems . Since 1985 - Information for the Rest of Us . .339 Lafayette St., New York, NY 10012 http://www.blythe.org . List Archives: https://blythe-systems.com/pipermail/nytr/ . Subscribe: https://blythe-systems.com/mailman/listinfo/nytr =================================================================