Deputies Discuss National Socioeconomic Issues
Alarcón Describes US Policy towards Cuba as Terrorist
Ricardo Alarcón de Quesada, President of the National Assembly of the People’s Power (Parliament), described as terrorist the policy adopted by the US administration against Cuba all these years and demanded once more the release of the five Cuban Heroes unfairly imprisoned in the United States, while addressing participants in the session of the Committee of International Relations of the Cuban legislative body on Thursday

New Diagnostic Lab Network to be Set up
The setting up of a clinical lab network covering all Cuban municipalities will allow for the early and massive diagnosis, in persons supposedly healthy, of different disorders such as uterus, prostate and colon cancer, diabetes, kidney malfunction and several infectious diseases like dengue, leprosy and HIV-Aids

Saving is an Essential Element of our Economy
Productivity is, above all, saving of human resource and saving of time; but the saving to which we refer is the saving of goods, saving of raw materials, saving of the resources for production

Recent rains do not compensate for the shortfall in water reserves More than half of the country's provinces have their storage capacity between 25% and 50% We can not be misleading. The acceptable amount of rainfall which occurred in July- the third month of the wet period, does not offset the accumulated deficit in the country's water reserves and drought continues to affect many economic and social sectors		Chinese Foreign Minister Coming to Cuba Comrade Yang Jiechi, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China, will arrive in our country later today, to complete a formal invitation
		Cuban Ministry of the Interior Streamlines Procedures The Ministry of the Interior (MININT) is continuing to improve its processing services to streamline and achieve greater efficiency in all offices of the country, reports AIN
		Cuban Deputies Analyze Management of Regional Banks Productivity in business and topics related to the banks of the South, of ALBA and the future of the SUCRE were the focus of analysis on Thursday of the Economic Commission of the People's Power National Assembly, reported Prensa Latina
		The Cuban Parliament Met in Committees Cuba’s Natural Heritage Needs Help The most damaged natural resource in the country is the soil, with 77% of its agricultural area declared as not very productive, while the water reserve is the most threatened of the island’s resources

Cuba Reaffirms Provision of Aid to Haiti
Ramon Pez Ferro, president of the International Relations Committee of the National Assembly of People's Power (ANPP), confirmed on Thursday in Havana, Cuba's willingness to continue aid to Haiti, devastated by an earthquake in January

Cuban Refinery Exceeds Asphalt Production Plan
By passing 3, 315 tons of liquid asphalt, the Sergio Soto refinery, Cabaiguán, exceeded its annual plan of the essential raw material of manufacturing asphalt used in paving roads, reports AIN

The Cuban Parliament Met in Committees
The Saving of Resources: One of Our Greatest Potentials
Our country’s potentials to recover paper and cardboard as raw material are numerous; however, in most places, we constantly fail to put them to good use, stated Brigadier General Salvador Pardo Cruz, Minister of the Iron and Steel Industry (SIME), while addressing the members of the Committee for Industry and Constructions

We Must Wage the Battle for Maximum Efficiency
We have to fight a battle in every workplace, every service, every fundamental aspect of our political, economic and social development, relying firmly on the masses. A real battle…. for maximum efficiency in the organization, optimal use of human and material resources, the great battle for labor productivity, which in the months and years ahead we will fight, without which our problems would not have a solution

Deputies Debate on Socio-economic Affairs of the Country Shapening up coffee Deputies who participated in the agriculture and food production commission said that the decrease on coffee production is unsustainable. It has caused the country to pay some 50 million dollars per year to import the coffee that population consumes		Permanent Working Groups of the National Assembly Session Enhancing Mass Sport INDER president, Julio Christian Jimenez Molina, told the lawmakers gathered in the Health and Sport Committee yesterday that the major efforts being made are aimed at promoting mass sport, as "the wisest and most successful option ", set out by our Party and Government
		Alarcon Denounces Unexplained Punishment of Gerardo Cuban Parliament President Ricardo Alarcon denounced on Wednesday the confinement in a punishment cell (the hole) that Gerardo Hernandez, one of the five Cuban antiterrorists unfairly imprisoned in the United States, has once more been subjected to
		Venezuelan Foreign Minister Calls for South America as a Peace Zone Venezuela Foreign Minister Nicolas Maduro announced that his country will propose a peace plan for Colombia and South American detente, at the meeting of foreign ministers of the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR), scheduled for Thursday in Quito, after meeting on Wednesday with Bolivian President Evo Morales in Cochabamba

Bruzón and Company Leading in San Juan
Three of the six leaders of the strong Open Chess Tournament in the Spanish town of San Juan are Cubans. They are the Grand Masters Lázaro Bruzón, from las Tunas, and the capital's Omar Almeida and Yuri Gonzalez, the other three of their counterparts at the top are: Pavel Tregubov, from Russia, Romanian Costica Nanu and the untitled Spaniard Sebastián Almagro, all with perfect results of three points in as many rounds

The Cuban Parliament: in Session in Committees
Bills on Road Safety and Political Administrative Regions under Examination
With the participation of Parliament President Ricardo Alarcón; Major General Enrique Lussón, Vice-president of the Council of Ministers, and César Arocha and María Esther Reus, ministers of Transportation and Justice, respectively, the members of the committees of Attention to Services, National Defense and Constitutional and Legal Affairs, jointly discussed the Bill on the Road Safety Code

REFLECTIONS BY COMRADE FIDEL
THE STRATEGIC VICTORY
In a few days the book, under the title "The Strategic Victory," in which I recount the battle the small Rebel Army waged against extermination, will be published