[NYTr] Cuban Radar Newsbriefs - Aug 2, 2007 Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2007 09:38:40 -0500 (CDT) Via NY Transfer News Collective * All the News that Doesn't Fit Progreso Weekly - Aug 2, 2007 http://progreso-weekly.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=82&Itemid=1 Cuban Radar Newsbriefs - August 2, 2007 A news service from the Havana bureau of Radio Progreso Alternativa * Fidel Castro: 'I will fight tirelessly' * Five Cuban-Venezuelan joint enterprises * A drop in the rate of traffic accidents * Cubans continue to conserve oil * Egg production recovers * RaC:l Castro honors the Nation's Martyrs * Fidel Castro: 'I will fight tirelessly' On Aug. 1, all newspapers in Cuba published a new reflection by the historic leader, Fidel Castro. More than a reflection, Castro described it as "another proclamation ... [exactly] one year after the first proclamation, on July 31, 2006," in which he delegated power to Army Gen. RaC:l Castro Ruz. "Today, I am bombarded with questions as to when I will take up again what some call power, as though that power were possible without independence," Fidel Castro writes, but at no time does he specify when, how, or in what capacity he would resume his official duties. There is an answer, however, when he writes that "RaC:l has already responded that, as I recover, every important decision is consulted with me. What will I do? I will fight tirelessly as I have done my entire life." In his new proclamation, the Cuban leader writes that everything has gone exactly as planned and restates that "the struggle against our own deficiencies and against the insolent enemy which seeks to take possession of Cuba must be unrelenting." At another point, he warns Cubans not to "entertain the slightest illusion that the empire, which carries the genes of its own destruction, will negotiate with Cuba." This reflection by Fidel Castro can be read in Spanish at: http://www.granma.cubaweb.cu/reflexiones/esp-038.html The English translation is here: https://blythe-systems.com/pipermail/nytr/Week-of-Mon-20070730/066151.html * Five Cuban-Venezuelan joint enterprises Radio Habana Cuba reported that the governments of Venezuela and Cuba signed agreements to create five agricultural enterprises. Under the umbrella of the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas (ALBA), the companies "will work in the areas of leguminous vegetables, poultry, dairy, lumber and rice and will be able to link up with other countries in the mechanism of union and integration, to which Bolivia and Nicaragua also belong, as full members." The companies will be based in Venezuela and their objective will be to produce so as to guarantee the alimentary security of the countries that participate in the integrationist project. * A drop in the rate of traffic accidents Whereas the figures of crimes committed in the country are not in the public domain, the figures of traffic accidents are reflected by the media. Official sources told the Prensa Latina news agency that the number of traffic accidents throughout the island declined by 4 percent during the first half of this year, compared with the number for the same time period in 2006. The report from the Traffic Department of the Revolutionary National Police adds that "the number of deaths decreased by 15.6 percent; the number of injured declined by 12.5 percent." * Cubans continue to conserve oil The alcohol distillery NauyC:, in the municipality of Chambas in the central province of Ciego de Cvila, will use bio-gas [methane] derived from its own waste as a fuel. The substitution of fuel oil by the biofuel makes for significant savings. In addition, it will keep waste from contaminating the surrounding agricultural areas, something that was already happening. According to the provincial newspaper Invasor Digital, the workers at the sugar mill Enrique Varona completed "the construction of a 700-cubic-meter digester for the first plant of its kind in the country." The report adds that this is "the main objective of a project sponsored by a German nongovernmental organization aimed at obtaining methane gas from sugar residues." "According to research, Cuba has the potential to produce more than 150,000 tons of fuel per year, derived from about 78 million cubic meters of biodegradable residues." * Egg production recovers The newspaper Adelante Digital from eastern CamagC