pgh/dfm, United Nations, Wednesday July 27 2011, (Prensa Latina) http://www.prensa-latina.cu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=310276&Itemid=1 The president of Bolivia, Evo Morales, today called on the United Nations assume the responsibility of implementing international policies so that water would be a real public service and not a private business. During a press conference at the UN headquarters, Morales, who participated this Wednesday in a session of the General Assembly on access to water, indicated that climate change and global warming are the principle enemies of this vital liquid. Morales attended the commemoration of the first anniversary of the recognition of water has a human right at the [UN] headquarters. The leader insisted before journalists that “Water is as important as any other right”. He also reiterated accusations concerning attempts by the United States to destabilise and discredit his government. On that tack he remembered that i...

By the EFE Agency http://www.google.com/hostednews/epa/article/ALeqM5je730Lif8wFIa2WJNjuRMcOCPOEA?docId=1577059 Havana, Wednesday July 27 2011 (EFE) – The First Vice-President of Cuba, José Ramón Machado Ventura, will attend the inauguration of Ollanta Humala as president of Peru which will take place tomorrow, July 28, official media reported today. Machado Ventura will preside over the Cuban delegation which will travel to Lima, composed of the Exterior Relations Minister Bruno Rodríguez along with other chancery staff. On Tuesday July 26, during the central celebration of the 58 th anniversary of the assault on the Moncada barracks, the event that Cuba commemorates as the start of its revolution, Machado Ventura wished success to Ollanta Humala and said that his investiture is an example that “the advance of progressive forces” continues in the region. On July 19 the Peruvian nationalist leader paid a visit to Cuba, with which he closed a tour of various countries of the re...

Madrid, Wednesday July 27 2011 (ABC) http://www.abc.es/videos-espana/20110727/indignados-acceden-congreso-1081469213001.htm l The National Police have proceeded this morning to evict the indignados [indignant ones, marchers of the 15M protest movement] camped for three days between P laza de Neptuno and Paseo del Prado [Neptune Square and Prado Avenue in Madrid], very close to the Congress of Deputies. The eviction started at 7:30am and there have been many who, through social networking sites, have complained of the violent attitude of the officers. The indignados came to Congress to deliver a ducument with the problems that they have found in many towns of Spain during their journey on foot to the capital. Finally, after several attempts, a reduced group of indignados managed to enter the chamber and present the document, but for that they had to dress in different clothes and say that they were staying at the Palace Hotel, according to an indignado on the way out. Tran...

Quito, Ecuador, July 26 2011 (Prensa Latina) http://www.prensa-latina.cu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=309781&Itemid=1 The Ecuadorian president, Rafael Correa, affirmed that the judicial sentence against the ex-boss of the newspaper Opinión and three directors of the daily El Universo is an historic milestone, which penalises the freedom of extortion, not the freedom of expression. “ It sets a precedent against a common practice which is to insult and defame in the name of the freedom of expression,” underlined Correa after stressing that it forms part of one of the hardest battles against one of the greatest powers of Ecuador and all Latin America. “ Until not long ago,” he added in reference to the power of the private press, “they thought themselves all-embracing, they had no scruples, nor do they have, but from now on they are going to have to think twice about their excesses.” The 15 th Criminal Court Judge of Guayas province, Juan Paredes, sent...