[NYTr] Cuban Radar Newsbriefs - Jul 5, 2007
 
Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2007 06:56:14 -0500 (CDT)

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Progreso Weekly - Jul 5, 2007
http://www.progresoweekly.com/index.php?progreso=Cuban_Radar&otherweek=1183611600

Cuban Radar Newsbriefs - Jul 5, 2007
A service of the Radio Progreso Alternativa Havana Bureau

* Water System Upgrade Announced in Havana
* Relative Wants Investigation into Death of Oppositionist
* Cuba Says Richest Countries Responsible for Climate Change
* Infant Mortality Falls in Las Tunas
* Cuba Reports Successful Neurological Stem Cell Transplant
* The Better to Steal from You: Burglar Gang Reported in Havana

* Water System Upgrade Announced in Havana

Cuban media reported the beginning of a plan to update the water
systems in several Havana neighborhoods.

The program will encompass over 2,000 kilometers of hydraulic networks
to eliminate the many leaks in the capitalbs system, as well as the
repair of pipelines and supply sources.

Some densely populated boroughs such as LuyanC3, San Miguel del PadrC3n,
San Francisco de Paula and others have been supplied by tanker trucks
in recent years. The plan seeks to normalize service.

* Relative Wants Investigation into Death of Oppositionist

In a letter addressed to acting president General RaC:l Castro, Pedro
Larena IbC!C1ez requested that the death of his cousin, Manuel Acosta
Larena, 47, be investigated. 

According to a press release by the Cuban Commission for Human Rights
and National Reconciliation, Acosta Larena, a member of the Democracy
Movement, was arrested on June 21 for alleged dangerous behavior and
taken to the police station in Aguada de Pasajeros, a province of
Cienfuegos. Three days later the authorities informed his family that
Acosta had killed himself in his cell.

bIf necessary we request another autopsy and the interrogation of all
witnesses, including several detainees there, and 10 to 12 policemen,
officers included, that knew of the events,b the letter says.    

Opposition sources informed that the letter was delivered at the
Ministry of the Revolutionary Armed Forces, which General Castro also
heads.

* Cuba Says Richest Countries Responsible for Climate Change

Vice Minister Fernando GonzC!lez, of the Cuban Ministry of Science,
Technology and Environment, said wealthy countries are responsible for
climate change in the world due to their production and consumption
patterns.

In his keynote address inaugurating the 6th International Convention on
Environment and Development, GonzC!lez said that, in 2004, the
industrialized countries, with barely 20 percent of the earthbs
population, generated 46 percent of pollutants.

The Convention, in session until Friday, July 6, is being attended by
750 experts from 23 countries. 

* Infant Mortality Falls in Las Tunas

A dispatch by the National Information Agency (AIN) says that the
eastern province of Las Tunas reported its record lowest infant
mortality rate.

The province had only three deaths in every one thousand births during
the first semester of the present year. According to AIN, the figure
for the same period in 2006 was seven. The decrease has been attained
in spite of an increase of 300 of new births.

* Cuba Reports Successful Neurological Stem Cell Transplant

AIN reports that for the first time a successful transplant of stem
cells to the nervous system of a 32-year-old quadriplegic patient was
made in Cuba. The patient has had a satisfactory evolution after only
thee months of the transplant.

Dr. Amado Delgado GC3mez, a neurosurgeon at the Cira GarcC-a Central
clinic, told AIN that the patient is recovering his movements in the
lower limbs and walks with the assistance of a mechanical device that
pressures parts of his body.

Dr. Delgado pointed out that this new surgical technique, used
exclusively in highly developed countries, stimulates regeneration of
damaged tissues and recovers most motor functions, after several months
of rehabilitation.

* The Better to Steal from You: Burglar Gang Reported in Havana

We have received an e-mail warning about a signal system in use by a
gang of burglars in the Cuban capital.

We were advised that a lookout draws symbols, more appropriate of
cavemen, to inform about the possibilities of breaking into a house or
apartment.

The signs warn if the house has been previously burglarized, or if it
has a single occupant, whether there are only women, if a visitor is
welcomed when he or she speaks of God or if the house owners are away
on vacation.

Other signs indicate if a crowbar is needed, if there are dogs in the
home, or if the house can safely be broken into.

The information is drawn with chalk, or scratched with a pointed
object, near door bells, outer walls or on the sidewalk in front of the
house. 
       
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