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In
this edition of Cuba Update:
1.Hepatitis
vaccine breakthrough is world's first for Cuba
2.Miami emigre admits terror plots
3.Cuban editorial: The alliance between the European Union
and Bush is pathetic
4.Carlos Acosta's Tocororo: A Cuban Tale returns to London
stage
1.
Hepatitis vaccine breakthrough is world's first for Cuba
HAVANA
26 June: In what scientists billed as a breakthrough, Cuba
has developed the first monoclonal antibody from transgenic
plants * dubbed a "plantibody" * used in making
a human vaccine.
The
antibody, CB-Hep.1, is from an "ancestor" of the
tobacco plant. It replaces an antibody obtained from mice
in Cuba's manufacturing of the hepatitis B vaccine and will
significantly reduce the costs of production, researchers
said.
Carlos
Borroto, deputy director at Cuba's Biotechnology and Genetic
Engineering Center (CIGB) here, said the plantibody had won
approval from Cuba's medication quality control agency, part
of the public health ministry.
CB-Hep.1
is the first plantibody authorized anywhere in the world for
manufacturing a vaccine. It is just the second approved for
human use, after one approved in the United States for treating
tooth decay.
Borroto
said since the breakthrough was achieved, "145 million
doses have been exploited and not a single problem in their
use has been reported."
Antibodies
used to date in making therapeutic vaccines for humans have
been obtained from fermentation of mammalian cells, a time-consuming,
costly method that generates very small quantities.
Using
plantibodies in contrast is hailed as a breakthrough in dramatically
reducing costs but most importantly in boosting the yield
of antibodies, which makes it easier for vaccines to be produced.
http://www.cuba-solidarity.org/news.asp?ItemID=785
On
the web:
http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?NewsID=1037717
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2.
Miami emigre admits terror plots
Miami,
23 June: JOSE Antonio Llama, former director of the Cuban-American
National Foundation (CANF), is considering bringing fraud
charges against several of his colleagues whom he is accusing
of having seized funds of close to $1.5 million earmarked
for a terrorist plot against Cuba, according to Miami sources.
The
finance-terror scandal was uncovered by Radio Miami in its
"El Duende" feature and explained by journalist
Reynaldo Taladrid in last Monday's (June 19) edition of Cuban
TV's Roundtable program.
The
Miami Herald confirmed Llama's exposé on Thursday 22
in an article that expands on the details of a conspiracy
to commit acts of terrorism which had the participation of
the deceased CANF president, Jorge Mas Canosa and various
directors of the renowned Cuban-American lobby.
Rest
of this story at:
http://www.cuba-solidarity.org/news.asp?ItemID=784
On
the web:
http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/junio/vier23/27terroristas-i.html
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3.
Cuban editorial: The alliance between the European Union and
Bush is pathetic
>From
Cuba's Granma daily newspaper Friday, 23 June:
AS
is widely known, in his speech during the High-Level Segment
of the new Human Rights Council in Geneva on June 20, our
Foreign Minister, Felipe Pérez Roque expressed a resounding
condemnation of the growing conspiracy between the United
States and the European Union.
Just
24 hours later, the European Union has once again demonstrated
its shameful double standard in the area of human rights,
and its traditional subordination to the aggressive policies
of the United States against the Third World, including Cuba,
which is to host the Non-Aligned Movement Summit this September.
On
June 21, the annual Transatlantic Summit between the United
States and Europe
took place in Vienna, and concluded by passing a Final Declaration
in which the
superpower and its junior ally present a hegemonic, neocolonial,
threatening and
manipulative vision of the international situation and some
20 mostly Third
World countries.
In
that declaration, the United States and its European partners
once again act as planetary judges and indulge their liking
for invading other nations' sovereignty and dictating policies
to a group of countries that, interestingly, are the same
as those blacklisted by the U.S. government for years.
What
is most scandalous, however, is that the Joint US-European
Declaration does not contain the slightest reference to the
dramatic situation of the prisoners held by the United States
on the illegal Guantánamo naval base, and who are victims
of atrocious torture, much less the fact that it is Cuban
territory illegally occupied by the U.S. government that should
be returned to our country. Or is it that colonialist Europe
is thinking about donating it to the
United States?
The whole of this editorial is at:
http://www.cuba-solidarity.org/news.asp?ItemID=782
and:
http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/junio/vier23/27editorial.html
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4.
Carlos Acosta's Tocororo: A Cuban Tale returns to London stage
Carlos
Acosta, the celebrated Cuban ballet dancer, presents his sizzling
hit show, Tocororo - A Cuban Tale, at the London Coliseum
for five performances only, from 2 - 5 August 2006.
More
details at:
http://www.cuba-solidarity.org/events.asp?EventID=78
Box
Office: www.eno.org or call 0870 145 0200
Tickets
£10 - £50
London
Coliseum, St Martin's Lane, London WC2N 4ES
For
more information please contact Tim McKeough on 07984 669
432 or 020 7403 0599
or email timmckeough@hotmail.com
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