Notable engineering work built in Havana in the second half of the nineteenth century, estimated as one of the most outstanding of its time on a world scale, which today supplies about 15 percent of the water required by the city. Considered one of the seven wonders of Cuban civil engineering, it also has the status of National Monument.
This monumental construction of great technical precision is integrated by the works of capture in the springs of Vento, the tunnel in the river Almendares, the Vento Channel, the deposits of Palatino and the distribution system. The process begins when the water of about 400 springs of Vento, is collected in a large bowl of stonework, known as Vento Cup. One side of this collecting cup serves as a retaining wall against the waters of the Almendares River during its floods.
Below the river bed it is a tunnel with two conductors that connect the cup to the channel, to the Palatino distribution tanks. More than 20 cylindrical towers serve for the registration and inspection of the work and the air circulation in the duct, by means of ventilating grills. After their trip, the water arrives at the Palatino tanks built with the purpose of depositing the amount of water necessary for the consumption of a day, without interruption of the service. Each side has its spillway to the drainage ditch and all these operations are carried out by gates.
In this work everything is unique: the technical precision, the beauty of its civil constructions, the guarantee of healthy water and the safety of its operation, that it does not need fuel and only requires disinfection by means of chlorination.
This project includes among its elements:
* The conduit.
* The distribution network.
* A dam.
* The passage of the river.
* Works in Vento’s glen.
* The intake and bypass channel.
* The storage tank.
* The pond of catchment and meeting of the springs.
* House and pond of gates and maneuvers of the siphons of the passage of the river.
More than 100 years after its construction, the Albear Aqueduct still provides an invaluable service to the population of the Cuban capital by providing almost 20 percent of Havana's water consumption.
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It is a special Cuban area located in the province of Artemisa where foreign direct investment is encouraged, opening its Regulatory Office on November 1, 2013.
It is considered as one of the most complex works executed in Cuba; the future container terminal is the beginning of the country's first Special Development Zone and is destined to become the main gateway to and from Cuban foreign trade.
The Area has an approximate extension of 465 square kilometers and includes several municipalities of that province of Artemisa. For their concreteness, during the last years, they studied similar experiences in different nations of the world, which later were adapted to the Cuban context.
The legal norms that govern the Special Zone of Development Mariel were published in the Official Gazette of the Republic of Cuba. On September 23, 2013, in its Extraordinary edition No. 26, it published Decree-Law No. 313 of the Special Mariel Development Zone of the State Council; Its Regulations, Decree No. 316 of the Executive Committee of the Council of Ministers; And the complementary legal provisions issued by the Ministers of Finance and Prices; Labor and Social Security; Science Technology and Environment; And the Interior; As well as the Minister-President of the Central Bank of Cuba and the Head of the General Customs of the Republic.
These rules establish for the Mariel Special Development Zone, among other aspects, the application to the Superintendence of Insurance of Cuba by the concessionaires and users, the authorization required for the insurance with foreign entities and the determination of the percentage amount in which These contribute to the Development Fund for the maintenance of the Office of the Area; The procedure to agree on the payment of labor supply and wages to workers.
It likewise establishes the regulations for carrying out the environmental impact assessment process, migratory and of internal order, for the provision of financial intermediation services and special customs treatment.
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It is one of the five Nobel Prizes that were instituted by the Swedish inventor and industrialist Alfred Nobel. This award is given "to the person who has worked more or better in favor of fraternity among nations, abolition or reduction of existing armies and the celebration and promotion of peace processes," according to the Nobel Prize.
The Nobel Peace Prize is one of five awards, instituted by Alfred Nobel, released through his will:
"The remainder of the achievable fortune which I shall leave at death shall be disposed of as follows: capital, made in securities secured by my testamentaries, it shall constitute a fund whose interest shall be distributed annually as a reward to those who pay, during the previous year, the greatest services to humanity. The total will be divided into five equal parts, which will be granted: one to whom, in the field of Physical Sciences, has made the most important discovery or invention; Another to whom has done the same in Chemistry or introduced in it the best refinement; The third to the author of the most important discovery in Physiology or Medicine; The fourth to whom has produced the most remarkable literary work in the sense of idealism; and finally the fifth, to whom has worked more and better in the work of the fraternity aong the peoples, in favor of the suppression or reduction of permanent armies, and in favor of the formation and propagation of Peace Congresses. "
Applications for prizes must be submitted in writing, with the sheet of their services by personalities qualified for it in the opinion of the Foundation, "without taking into account personal recommendations."
Persons authorized to grant proposals
In the work of La Paz the ones authorized to grant the proposals are: "The current and previous members of the Nobel Committee of the Norwegian Parliament, the advisers appointed by the Norwegian Nobel Institute, the members of the national legislative bodies and the governments of the different Countries, the members of the Inter-Parliamentary Association, the International Tribunal of The Hague, the Committee of the Permanent International Peace Bureau, the members and partners of the Institute of International Law of Paris, university professors who hold chairs of law , History and philosophy and the people who have won the Nobel Peace Prize
Institutions that award the prize
The Physics and Chemistry
* The Swedish Academy of Sciences
The Physiology or Medicine
* The Carolino Institute of Stockholm
The Literature
 * The Stockholm Academy
The one of the work of the Peace
 *The commission of five individuals who will choose the Norwegian Storthing. This is divided into two chambers: the Lagting (fourth part of the representatives) and the Odelsting (three quarters remaining). It currently has 165 members. (G.D.G.).
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It was a constitutional federation of socialist states, which existed in Eurasia from 1922 until its dissolution in 1991.
The USSR was born as a union of four Soviet socialist republics, formed after the October Revolution of 1917, and grew to 15 by 1956.
The geographical boundaries of the Soviet Union varied over time, but after World War II, from 1945 to its dissolution, the boundaries corresponded approximately to those of the extinct Imperial Russia, with notable exclusions from Poland, most of Finland and Alaska.
It was often improperly referred to as Russia, being its largest and most dominant constituent state. From 1945 to 1991, in the period known as the Cold War, the Soviet Union and the United States were the two world superpowers that dominated the global agenda of economic policy, foreign affairs, military operations, cultural exchange, scientific developments including the initiation of Space exploration, and sports (including the Olympic Games).
Over and above the mistakes that led to its disappearance this country played an essential role in the defeat of fascism and in the advance of humanity towards new forms of social organization more just and united.
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It was a prize similar to the Nobel Peace Prize, given annually by the Soviet Union to individuals who had contributed to the cause of peace among peoples.
Its official name in its beginnings was the Stalin Peace Prize among the peoples and, after the de-Stalinization, the Lenin Peace Prize among the peoples.
The prize was created in 1949 by decree of the Presidium in honor of Stalin, who supposedly fulfilled that year, seventy years-in fact, he was seventy-one. Unlike its equivalent, the Nobel Peace Prize, the Stalin Prize - and subsequently the Lenin Prize - was awarded annually to several people instead of a single individual.
Following the denunciation of Nikita Khrushchev against Stalinism at the Party's twentieth congress in 1956, the prize was renamed, changing the reference to Stalin by Lenin. As a result, the prizewinners were asked to reimburse the prizes awarded in order to replace them with the Lenin Awards.
In 1989 the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet changed the name of the prize to Prize Lenin of the Peace and two years later it stopped granting itself.
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He was born in Camagüey on July 10, 1902 and died in Havana on July 17, 1989.
Cuban journalist, poet and politician, considered for his work as the National Poet of Cuba. His revolutionary ideas kept him in exile during the last years of the Batista dictatorship returning to the island after the rebellious triumph of 1959.
In the socialist Cuba that came to power in 1959 he joined the Communist Party and was among the founders of the Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba, being the first president of this organization. He deserved the Order Jose Martà in 1981.
His poetry is considered as the highest expression of the most legitimate and revolutionary popular aspirations in the historical period in which it occurs. He introduced the black theme in poetry in Spanish.
His work has been translated into many languages and has received praise and studies from prominent personalities of contemporary literature because it has been able to fully interpret the fighting spirit of human beings and their hope to conquer a better society.
Among his most outstanding literary titles are: Motivos de son, ElegÃa a Jesús Menéndez, Sóngoro cosongo, El son entero. For his work he won the Viareggio Award and the 1983 National Literature Prize.
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