Summit of the Americas

It is the name of one of the two new provinces (Artemisa and Mayabeque) approved by the National Assembly of Cuba in August of 2010 and whose operation took on January 1, 2011.

It is made up of eight municipalities of the Province of Havana and three former municipalities of the province of Pinar del Río.

The new province of Artemisa becomes the thirteenth in the country by its extension (it surpasses only Mayabeque and Havana) and the eleven by its population (surpasses Cienfuegos, Sancti Spiritus, Ciego de Ávila and Mayabeque), as well as the province with greater population density excepting to Havana and Santiago de Cuba provinces.

It is bordered to the west by Pinar del Río, to the north by the Strait of Florida and the Gulf of Mexico, to the south by the Gulf of Batabanó and to the east by the province of Havana and Mayabeque Province.

It has a population of 502 392 inhabitants and has a surface of 4 thousand 004,27 km2. Artemisa has an agricultural area of 272 849 hectares, 68.1% of the territory, which allows it to produce food to meet its demand and support the capital. In addition, it has a site of perspective of high industrial port development such as Mariel.

Longest river:

Los Colorados (Hondo de San Cristóbal) 113,2 km. Long 604 km2 of area 6 tributaries Vertiente Sur. It runs from North to-South direction beginning in Sierra del Rosario, Cordillera de Guaniguanico, at 22 ° 34 'north latitude and 83 ° 53' west longitude, at 340 meters altitude, to the Gulf of Batabanó. Run:.

Highest elevation: Pan de Guajaibón, with 692 meters of height.

Details: Category: Added value in English; Published: 10 April 2017; Hits: 1534

It is the second most populous city in Russia, with 5,026,000 inhabitants and a metropolitan area of 5.85 million. It is located in the Region of Leningrad, name that shared with the city during the Soviet time (1924-1991). The other names of the city were Petrograd and Leningrad, after the death of Lenin, January 24, 1924 until September 6, 1991.

It was founded by Zar Peter the Great on May 27, 1703 with the intention of turning it into Russia's window into the Western world. From then on it became capital of the Russian Empire for more than two hundred years.

When the Russian Revolution broke out, the city was the center of the rebellion. In March 1918 the capital was transferred to Moscow. In January 1924, after the Bolshevik victory, the creation of the Soviet Union (1922) and the death of Lenin (1924), St. Petersburg changed its name to Leningrad in his honor.

During World War II, the 29-month site of Leningrad took place, in which the Germans constantly bombed the city and blocked it so that it could not be supplied. After the defeat of Germany in 1945, the city was named Heroic City by the Soviet authorities. When the USSR disappears the city was renamed St. Petersburg and became an important economic and political center of present-day Russia.

St. Petersburg is now the second largest city in the Russian Federation and one of the largest in Europe. The center of the city and other monuments of its surroundings have been considered a World Heritage Site by UNESCO since 1990.3 St. Petersburg is also the seat of the Constitutional Court of Russia.

Details: Category: Added value in English; Published: 04 April 2017; Hits: 1377

Created on May 17, 1961, within the framework of its First Congress, under the protection of revolutionary laws and in its General Regulation it is defined that by will and decision of the Cuban peasantry, it is the mass organization of cooperatives, peasants and their family members.

The economic and social interests correspond to the harmonious development of the construction of Socialism; its projections are oriented toward the fulfillment of the agrarian policy of the Revolution.

Details: Category: Added value in English; Published: 04 April 2017; Hits: 1502

It is an agency responsible for directing, executing and controlling the application of State and Government policy regarding the security of the State and the internal order of the country.

It was created by Law No. 940 of June 6, 1961, replaced and extended to the then Ministry of Government, inherited by the Cuban Revolution, from governments of the former Republic. The bodies and structures that form part of MININT fulfill functions of citizen security, and the establishment of internal order.

According to the provisions of Law 940 of the Council of Ministers, the Department of Information (G-2) was assigned to the Ministry of the Interior as General Directorates, which would be renamed the State Security Department, the National Revolutionary Police and the Maritime Police , which until that time were part of the Revolutionary Armed Forces.

The Direction of Judicial Investigations of the Ministry of Justice also was extinguished by this law, and its functions were transferred to the MININT.

The future pillars of the defense of the Revolution: the Revolutionary Armed Forces, derived from the Rebel Army itself; the National Revolutionary Police and State Security, with a background in the Rebel Intelligence Service (SIR); The Department of Intelligence of the Rebel Army (DIER), and the Rebel Police
began to be organized since the times of the Sierra Maestra.

Already from the stage of the insurrectionary struggle, several attempts at penetration by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the intelligence bodies of the Batista regime, and concerted plans by one and others to assassinate Fidel in the first place, were Prevented by that protective shield, firmly sustained from the beginning with the support and collaboration of the people.

Details: Category: Added value in English; Published: 04 April 2017; Hits: 1323

It is one of the 11 municipalities that make up the province Mayabeque. On November 8, 1961, it was declared "First Territory Free of Illiteracy in Cuba and Latin America", a municipality that also contributed 400 Brigadistas Conrado Benítez to other provinces and among them was the martyr of the Literacy Campaign, Alberto Herrera Prado, who died with only 12 years, when crossing the Jiguaní river. Currently the literacy room of the Municipal Museum bears his name.

The municipality Melena del Sur is located in the South of the province Mayabeque. It limits with San José de las Lajas by the North; with the Güines by the East; The Broa Creek in the South and the municipality of Batabanó in the West. It covers an area of 226.5 Km2.

Municipal head and main population settlements

Neighborhoods of Melena del Sur from 1920

Village of Guara, Costa de Guara, Lechuga, San Julián, Navío, Ruiz, Melena, Coast of Melena, Bayazo, Charcas, Ponce.

Habitants

20 853 inhabitants

Details: Category: Added value in English; Published: 04 April 2017; Hits: 1636

The history of Kyrgyzstan dates from over two thousand years ago and includes a wide variety of cultures and empires. Although geographically isolated by its highly mountainous terrain, Kyrgyzstan was historically at the crossroads of several great civilizations as part of the Silk Road and other trade and cultural routes.

The national language, Kyrgyz, is closely related to the other Turkish languages, with which it shares strong cultural and historical ties. Kyrgyzstan is one of the active members of the Turkic Council and the TÜRKSOY community.

Kyrgyzstan is also a member of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, the Commonwealth of Independent States, the Eurasian Economic Community, the Non-Aligned Movement and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation. On 8 May 2015, it became a full member of the Eurasian Economic Union along with Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Russia.