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Pope Francis affirms that Cuba is a symbol
Rome, Jul 12 (Agencies) «Cuba is a symbol, Cuba has a great history,» Pope Francis told the media. The Supreme Pontiff added that “I love the Cuban people very much. I had good human relations with Cuban people and also, I confess, I have a human relationship with Raúl Castro”. Francisco pointed out that «I Continue reading
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They ask to remove Cuba from the unilateral US list on terrorism
Washington, Jul 11 (Prensa Latina) Cuba does not sponsor terrorism but global well-being, said an article on the Peoples Dispatch website on Monday, which urges President Joe Biden to remove the island from that unilateral list of the United States. Biden can eliminate this designation with a stroke of the pen, affirmed the text signed Continue reading
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From the Gambia, the Cuban Medical Brigade in defense of its Revolution
More than two decades have passed since the first Cuban doctors arrived in the Gambia to give rise to what would be the birth of the Cuban Medical Brigade (CMB) in this sister nation of West Africa. Many years have passed, and the good work done by our collaborators has been felt throughout the geography Continue reading
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Cuba with first place in the world for anti Covid-19 booster doses
– State of Bayelsa, Nigeria, interested in vaccines from Cuba Havana, Jul 5 (Prensa Latina) Cuba is today the nation with the most anti-Covid-19 booster doses administered to its population worldwide, thanks to a staggered vaccination campaign with nationally produced immunogens. China, Italy, Canada, Japan, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Brazil, United States, India, Russia Continue reading
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Ambassador of the Gambia in Cuba highlights the relevance of Expocaribe 2022 for Africa
By Beatriz Vaillant Rodriguez Santiago de Cuba, June 28th- Kujejatou K.B. Manneh, Gambian ambassador to Cuba, highlighted the relevance of the Expocaribe 2022 International Fair for trade and cooperation relations with her country and others on the African continent. As a space for learning and negotiating business, she described the event that ended here on Continue reading
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Anti-Covid-19 vaccination in Cuba: feat of humanism and solidarity
Havana, Jun 26 (Prensa Latina) While Cuba has more than 90 percent of its population vaccinated against Covid-19, almost a billion people in low-income countries remain deprived of protection against SARS-CoV-2. According to recent statements by the director general of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom, only 57 nations in the world managed to Continue reading
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Santiago de Cuba XVII Expo Caribe Business Fair
– Invited to the event are, the Ambassador of Gambia in Cuba, Dr. Kujejatou K.B. Manneh, and her First Secretary, Momodou Nying. Santiago de Cuba, Jun 23 (Agencies) The XVII ExpoCaribe International Business Fair began in the city, where one of the first activities took place in the heritage cemetery of Santa Ifigenia, a scary Continue reading
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Heroes of health in The Gambia. A story full of altruism and consecration
By Maria Ines Alvarez Garay (*) Banjul, June 21th. – Bansang, a distant region of the Gambian geography, has a small Cuban Medical Brigade (CMB) that faces the ravages of a very hot climate every day, and attends with responsibility and dedication to a large needy and grateful population, marking with love a history full Continue reading
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Democratic lawmakers ask Biden to facilitate global distribution of Cuban anticovid vaccines
Washington. – (Agencies) A group of 26 Democrats in the House of Representatives has urged President Joe Biden to ease US sanctions against Cuba to help the international distribution of the Caribbean island’s anticovid vaccines. In a letter headed by Reps. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) and Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.), lawmakers praised Biden’s loosening of some travel Continue reading
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The American Summit was a victory for Cuba, affirmed the Foreign Minister of the Caribbean Island
Havana, Jun 13 (Prensa Latina) The so-called IX Summit of the Americans was a victory for Cuba and the peoples of the region, and a defeat for the United States, assured Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez. In a special interview granted to Cuban television, Rodríguez expressed that this meeting was born frustrated by the decision of Continue reading
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Medical donation from US solidarity groups arrives in Cuba
Havana, Jun 12 (Agencies) A new donation of essential products for liver transplants to eight Cuban children who are waiting to be operated arrived this Sunday, thanks to the efforts of solidarity groups based in the United States. The donation arrived in Havana in the hands of representatives of the Bridges of Love project, headed Continue reading
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Modest response in the Gambia to the attacks against Cuban health collaborators
In the Annual Balance of the Fajikunda Hospital, located in the Gambian Combo, the health indicators and their results in 2021 were analyzed, with the participation of the regional director, the Community and officials from the Ministry of Health. With great pride, the Cuban Medical Brigade (CMB) in this West African nation received the news Continue reading
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REMARKS TO THE CUBAN CIVIL SOCIETY EXCLUDED FROM THE SUMMIT OF THE AMERICAS
Comrades all; Allow me to begin with words that were told more than one century ago: “When a strong nation wants to fight a battle with another, it demands allegiance and service from those nations dependent upon it. The first thing a nation does to dominate another is to separate it from other nations.” This Continue reading
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Statement by the Revolutionary: GovernmentSummit of the Americas: Imperialist domination and exclusion
Havana, June 6th, 2022.- The US Government, abusing its privilege of being the host country, decided at a very early stage to exclude Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua from the 9th Summit of the Americas to be held in the city of Los Angeles this month of June. It has refused to attend to the just claims Continue reading
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President of Cuba and the US made history at the 2015 Panama Summit
By Víctor Carriba, Special Envoy of Prensa Latina to the Panama Summit in 2015 Havana, Jun 6 (Prensa Latina) After more than half a century of exclusion from the Organization of American States (OAS) and an absence of 20 years at the summits of Americans, Cuba was invited in 2015 to participate in those meetings Continue reading
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Cuba and China present the first patent for a joint vaccine against coronavirus strains
Havana (Agencies) Cuba and China presented to the National Intellectual Property Office of the Asian country the first patent for the Pan-Corona vaccine that is expected to be effective against different strains of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus. According to information from the president of the BioCubaFarma group, Eduardo Martínez, said step is the result of bilateral Continue reading
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Africa day. Cuba and Gambia (+VIDEO)
Congratulations Gambia for Africa Day Banjul, May 24th. – The Embassy of Cuba in the Gambia and the health professionals of the Medical Brigade (CMB) of the Caribbean island who work here congratulate this sister nation, on the occasion of May 25th, Africa Day. We take advantage of such an important date to highlight the Continue reading
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Congratulations from Cuba to Gambia
Banjul, May 18. – The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Cuba, H.E.Bruno Rodríguez Parrillas, sent a congratulatory message to his Gambian colleague, H.E.Mamadou Tangara, on the occasion of his recent ratification as Foreign Minister, coinciding with an important historical date for both sister countries. This May 19, the Caribbean Island and this small West African Continue reading
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“One Limited Step in the Right Direction” Declaration of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Cuba
Havana, May 16, 2022. Today, the government of the United States announced several measures, which are positive but of a very limited scope, regarding Cuba associated to the granting of visas, regular migration, flights to Cuban provinces, remittances and adjustments to the regulations governing transactions with the non-state sector. Taking into account the nature of Continue reading
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Gambia-Cuba: 43 years of diplomatic ties, friendship and solidarity
By Rubén G. Abelenda (*) Banjul. – This coming May 19th Gambia and Cuba will celebrate the 43rd anniversary of the establishment of their diplomatic relations, and uninterrupted years of friendship and solidarity between both countries and peoples, united by their roots, stories of struggle, and their dignity. Despite the great geographical distance that separates Continue reading
"An Island on a Continent" 