The 1st National Conference of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) will begin on Saturday to assess the work of that political organization objectively and critically, Granma newspaper reported on Friday.

According to the source, the conference will respond to the agreements reached at the 6th PCC Congress. Its opening date was chose to celebrate the 159th birthday of National Hero Jose Marti.

Cuban Children's Theater Company

In October 2011, the Cuban Children's Theater Company La Colmenita toured for 19 days several U.S. cities. The quest of love and goodwill began in Washington, went to New York and culminated in San Francisco.

Then, and through the lens of Roberto Chile, the documentary "Escencias, la Colmenita en Estados Unidos" (Essence, the little beehive in the United States) was born, which will be premiered this Wednesday on Cuban television.

Maine monument in Havana

On January 19, 1961 the eagle that crowned the Maine monument near Havana seafront was torn down. It was a patriotic act, in which the crowd gathered in the evening in front of the statue proclaimed: "Fatherland or Death". Cecilio Curbelo, who is now a journalist for Radio Rebelde Cuban station, witnessed that revolutionary event.

In response to the breaking-off of relations between Cuba and the U.S. by the Eisenhower administration, the torture on a Cuban worker at the Guantanamo Naval Base, at the eastern Cuban region, and the imminent armed aggression, the Council of Ministers approved the removal of the imperial eagle. In addition, similar measures were taken in relation with other monuments erected to US politicians, which were built in the neo-colonial times in the first half of the 20th century.

Twitter social network manipulates media campaigne against Cuba

Western Media turn again to ready-made lies, overlooking every journalistic ethics, to respond submissively to the imperialistic interests against Cuba.

While in the Island is broadcasted the news that only in 2011 were carried out 183 kidney, liver, and hematopoietics stem cells free of charge transplants, the vultures of the empire make an effort to mount a campaign in favor of a common prisoner, whom they attempt to disguise before the world’s public opinion as a "dissident striker" using misleading headlines and the diffusion of that epithet throughout the social networks.

The manipulation is so huge that El Pais newspaper went through the trouble of publishing an editorial (once the article had been removed) where they qualified the Cuban Wilmar Villar Mendoza as a “conscience prisoner” who died of a hunger strike and pneumonia.

Julio Alberto Batista Delgado journalist and documentary producer

Journalist and documentary producer for the Cuban radio Julio Alberto Batista Delgado was awarded on January 21st the "José Martí" 2012 Prize by the Cultural Society, in recognition of his lifetime work, as well as his determined effort to promote the thoughts and work of Jose Marti, our National Hero and Apostle.

The National Board of the Cultural Society, whose eminent chair is Dr. Armando Hart Dávalos -National Education Award Winner 2011, presented the recognition to the journalist for his work carried out as a communicator, and for revealing in his work outstanding aspects related to Jose Martí, as well as promoting Martí's thoughts and his dialectical relationship between man, ethics, and nature.

When I write about Martí, I'm working with the purest feeling, he is one of the most worthy men that has been, not only for our country but for America," said the renowned journalist from Villa Clara, Luis Orlando Pantoja, who will receive the "Patria" Award 2012 presented by the José Martí Cultural Society.

This is the first time a Villa Clara journalist has received this award, which takes into account the work done by journalists, media professionals and filmmakers from around the country, which reflect relevant aspects of the life and work of the Apostle, and the social projection of the ethical values ​​of his thinking.

Specialists from Cuba and other nations will attend the Sixth Cuban Congress on Education, Orientation and Sexual Therapy, which will take place in Havana on January 23 to 26.

The Convention Center of Havana will be the venue of the event. In parallel, other events will take place in the venue. Some include: the Second Symposium Trans-identities, Gender and Culture, a methodological workshop by the Chair of Sexology and Sexuality Education, the Second Symposium of Clinical Sexology and the first Consensus of Chronic Sexual Diseases and Dysfunctions.

This January we celebrate the 85th anniversary of the birth of Maruja Sanchez, one of the most remembered and revered producers of CMBF, Radio Musical Nacional, in all its recent history. She was named one of their sacred figures when I began my work as a journalist at the end of the 1980’s.

“There are a lot of miseries all over the world; music turns into a consolation for those people. It is something that nurtures their soul", a colleague and a friend of mine once told me. The point is in the sensitivity to imagine what has never existed or nobody has ever seen.

Radio propaganda in these times deserves further testing and control of effectiveness through specific studies of public goals

The radio as a media of communication focuses mainly on the nature of what it represents as a media and that others do not possess. One of the strengths of radio is that its production cost is lower than other media, allowing us to use it creatively using voices, music and communicators.

The development of a propaganda slot should be designed as part of a set of elements on the subject embodied in the programming which can be secured as an extension of the campaign created to be placed on the radio.

The Cuban Radio Portal has again taken up the term “Educational Radio” due to its importance for the new Cuban generations. The Cuban portal interviewed the prominent professor and radio worker Roberto Rodriguez Menendez for him to provide his point of view on this term and its development on the island.

“Emision Dimension Cubana” program, which is broadcast in Canada,  provides the real possibility to spread the truth about the case of the Cuban Five prisoners in the United States and so keep the audience updated on how their process is going .

The current wars in the world are encouraged by lies. About our country have been woven and are still being woven all kinds of inventions to justify another war. In the last two decades Cuba has been judged repeatedly in Geneva as violating human rights when in fact they should measure up to countries by their degree of compliance with the requirements universally accepted as a whole.

"Everything I am and I have, I owe to the Cuban radio. I’ve dedicated it the best years of my life, and I have been rewarded," says radio announcer and presenter  Eduardo Rosillo in the documentary Rosillo, gracias a la radio, which participates in the 33rd International Festival of New Latin American Cinema.

The Cuba-Venezuela Comprehensive Health Agreement celebrated its 11th anniversary this week.  Another example of solidarity of the Cuban Revolution in which both countries have worked together to restore health to the Venezuelan people.