Summit of the Americas

It’s a municipality of Mayabeque province. The name comes from the native voice Axaruco which means freshwater stream, which shows the existence in this territory of a river that from primitive times was linked to the life of the inhabitants of this land (the river San Juan de Jaruco that crosses the town, in which margins there is evidence of the presence of aboriginal settlements and where the population initially emerged).

It is located to the east of the province and limits to the North with the municipality Santa Cruz del Norte, to the South with the municipality San José de las Lajas, to the east with the municipality Madruga and to the West with the municipality of Habana del Este. It has a territorial extension of 275,7 km2.

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     San Antonio
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International event held in Cuba since 1980 with the participation of the national teams, Cuba A and Cuba B, and other countries such as Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Ecuador, Mexico, Bolivia, Venezuela, Chile, Honduras, Guatemala, Panama, Peru, Barbados And Colombia.

Manuel Suárez was a young sports coach of Cerro Pelado CEAR, entity where the main facility of weight training of Cuba is based. Graduated in Physical Culture, he had a simple and friendly personality, and used to practice exercises. He dies of an automobile accident.

The weightlifting family in honor of his short, but outstanding sports career, decided by unanimous vote to name this international tournament after his name, paying tribute to the first coach who managed to have an athlete trained by him win the gold medal in the Olympic Games. The athlete who had that honor was Daniel Núñez Aguiar.

The event competitions began in the 1980s and from then on, they are held annually from March to May, with the participation of national and international athletes. Sometimes it merges with the Cuba Olympic’s, performing two events in one, with double awards to the winners.

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He is a politician, businessman and American television personality. Since January 20, 2017, he is the 45th President of the United States.

Born and raised in Jamaica, a borough of Queens New York, Trump earned a bachelor's degree in Economics from Wharton Scool, University of Pennsylvania in 1968.

In 1971, he took over the family-owned real estate and construction company Elizabeth Trump & Son, which would later be renamed Trump Organization.

During his business career, Trump built, renovated and managed numerous office towers, hotels, casinos and golf courses. He was the owner of the Miss USA and Miss Universe parades from 1996 to 2015, and allowed the use of his name in the brand of several products.

From 2004 to 2015, he participated in The Apprentice, a reality show on NBC. In 2016, Forbes ranked him as the 324 richest person in the world and 113 in the United States, with a net worth of $ 4.5 billion.

Trump sought the presidential nomination of the Reform Party in 2000, but withdrew before the vote began. He considered running for office as a Republican for the 2012 election, but he finally decided not to.

In June of 2015, he announced his candidacy for the 2016 elections, and quickly became the favorite among the seventeen candidates in the Republican primaries. His rivals eventually stopped campaigning in May 2016, and in July he was formally nominated at the Republican Convention along with Mike Pence as his running mate.

His campaign received unprecedented media coverage and international attention. Many of his statements in the interviews, in the social networks and in the manifestations of the campaign were controversial or false.

Trump won the November 8, 2016 general election against Democrat Hillary Clinton. At age 70, he became the oldest and wealthiest person to assume the presidency, the first without military service or political office previously held, and the fifth to have lost the election by popular vote.

The Trump platform emphasizes the renegotiation of US-China relations and free trade agreements such as NAFTA and Transpacific Partnership, enforcement of immigration laws, and construction of a new wall along the border between The United States and Mexico.

His other positions include obtaining energy independence while opposing climate change regulations such as the Clean Energy Plan and the Paris Accord, reforming veterans' affairs, and replacing the Patient Protection and Care Act Affordable Health while reducing taxes in general and imposing import duties on companies offshoring jobs.

Donald Trump advocates a non-interventionist approach to foreign policy, while increasing military spending, extreme research on Muslim immigrants to avoid Islamic terrorism, and aggressive military action against ISIS. Their positions have been described by scholars and commentators as populists, protectionists and nationalists.

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It is an organization based in Vienna. It was founded in Baghdad (Iraq) on September 14, 1960 by previous agreements established at the first Arab Oil Congress held in Cairo (Egypt), at the initiative of the Government of Venezuela chaired by Romulo Betancourt, the then Venezuelan Minister of Mines and Hydrocarbons Juan Pablo Pérez Alfonzo and Saudi Arabia's Minister of Oil and Mineral Resources, Abdullah al-Tariki.

OPEC controls approximately 43 percent of the world oil production and 81 percent of oil reserves. Its dominance in crude oil exports, for the third quarter of 2016 was around 34.9 % .3 In addition, it concentrates all of the world's surplus oil production capacity, which in turn makes OPEC the central bank of the oil market.

It is an organization recognized since November 6, 1962 by the United Nations (UN), thanks to resolution number 6,363. OPEC was based in Geneva (Switzerland) between 1960 and 1965, and later it moved its headquarters to Vienna, thanks to the facilities granted by the Austrian government.

The OPEC Statutes establish as its objective is to coordinate and unify the oil policies among the member countries, in order to guarantee fair and stable prices for oil producers, the efficient, economic and regular supply of oil to consuming countries and fair return on investor capital.

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The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) was created on January 1, 1965, and belongs to the United Nations system. Its role is to contribute to the improvement of the quality of life of nations. Since 1990, UNDP has published the Human Development Report or Human Development Index (HDI).

UNDP promotes change and connects the knowledge, experience and resources needed to help people build a better life. It is present in 177 countries.

The UNDP network links and coordinates global and national efforts to achieve the Millennium Development Goals, which were committed by the world leaders at the 2000 Millennium Summit.

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It promotes human rights and the state of law in its fields of competence, with particular emphasis on the right to education, the right to information, freedom of opinion and expression, cultural rights and the right to participate in the scientific advances and progress.

UNESCO works to combat the illegal import, the export and trafficking of cultural property and the destruction of cultural heritage. In a global effort to ensure that cultural protection is a pillar of peace building, and in followin-up the recent United Nations Security Council resolution 2199 (2015), condemning the destruction of cultural heritage and adopting legally binding measures to combat illicit trafficking of cultural objects.

UNESCO advocates for the promotion of human rights and related instruments through monitoring its implementation; the promotion and strengthening of capacities and reporting mechanisms; the assistance to Member States to review and develop their national legal frameworks and through the investigation and specialized analysis related with policies.