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European platform calls for a meeting against the blockade of Cuba in Bilbao, Spain
Paris, Dec 10 (Prensa Latina) The Europa por Cuba channel confirmed the holding in January, in Bilbao of its second international meeting of solidarity with the island and condemnation of the US blockade, a forum that will define new actions against that policy. In dialogue with Prensa Latina, the coordinators of the platform, José Antonio Continue reading
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Cuban Medical Brigade in Gambia ratifies determination to continue healing and saving lives
Banjul, Dec. 3.- With great joy and the decision to continue curing and saving lives anywhere in the world, Cuban health professionals who provide assistance in Gambia celebrated Latin American Medicine Day, on the eve of this December 3. The members of the Medical Brigade (BMC) organized a beautiful activity in Banjul on Saturday, in Continue reading
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Peace is necessary to save the planet, Cuba stated at COP28
Dubai, (Prensa Latina) Peace is necessary to save the planet, expressed the president of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel, while rejecting Israel’s genocide against the Palestinian people when speaking on Friday at the World Climate Action Summit. “A little more than two thousand kilometers from here, a genocide occurs in Gaza. On behalf of Cuba, we categorically Continue reading
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The world greatly needs Fidel’s word today!
By Rubén G. Abelenda (*) In these sad days, as the seventh anniversary of the departure of the historic leader of the Cuban Revolution approached on November 25, a Latin American friend wrote to us from afar: The world greatly needs Fidel’s word today! Such a phrase, reiterated in various ways by millions of citizens Continue reading
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Cuba strengthens ties with its nationals residing abroad
Havana, Nov 20 (Agencies) Cuba promoted ties with its nationals residing abroad and advocated for their increasingly active participation in the socioeconomic processes of the Caribbean island. With this purpose, the IV Nation and Emigration Conference was held over the weekend, which brought together 367 Cubans from 57 countries from all latitudes in Havana; a Continue reading
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Tribunal against the Blockade of Cuba in Brussels
By Ana Hurtado Today and tomorrow, an international tribunal is being held in the Belgian capital to denounce the damages suffered by the Cuban people as a result of the U.S. blockade that the island has been experiencing for more than six decades. This tribunal was convened last July 18 at the parallel summit of Continue reading
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Court at the headquarters of the European Union ruled that the blockade of Cuba violates International Law
Brussels, Nov 19 (Agencies) An international court, which debated at this headquarters of the European Union on the US blockade of Cuba, ruled on Friday that this policy violates International Law and universal norms for peaceful coexistence. He stressed that the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by Washington violates the UN Charter, which enshrines Continue reading
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Cuba’s efforts to promote and protect Human Rights are recognized in Geneva
Geneva, Nov 15 (Agencies) Cuba’s efforts to promote and protect human rights (HR) were recognized here, when the fourth cycle of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of the Human Rights Council was held this Wednesday. After the intervention of the Cuban Minister of Foreign Affairs, Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, representatives of various countries highlighted the actions Continue reading
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Cuba prepares IV Conference The Nation and Emigration
Havana, Nov 13 (Prensa Latina) Cuba is preparing to hold the IV Conference on Nation and Emigration, to be held on November 18 and 19 in Havana with the participation of some 440 nationals residing abroad. On this occasion, a significant number of people who have not been in the previous dialogues will attend, as Continue reading
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Sociopaths In Suits
The usual gallery of strutting presidents and prime ministers has yet again closed fraternal ranks to approve and applaud mass killing, this time in the apocalyptic remains of Gaza. Andrew Mitrovica For all their genteel embroidery and grand honorifics, the mundane men who lead Western “democracies” in Washington, DC, London, Paris, Berlin, Ottawa and Canberra, and Continue reading
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Cuba and China deepen traditional friendship and expand cooperation
Beijing, Nov 6 (Prensa Latina) Cuban Prime Minister Manuel Marrero and the president of the Chinese International Development Cooperation Agency (Cidca), Luo Zhaohui, highlighted this Monday the relevance of bilateral ties. Luo highlighted the important consensus reached between Presidents Miguel Díaz-Canel and Xi Jinping to build a community with a shared future, as well as Continue reading
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Another triumph for Cuba and the world at the UN against the US blockade
United Nations, Nov 2 (Agencies) The member states of the UN approved today for the thirty-first time and once again by an overwhelming majority, -187 votes in favor, 2 against and one abstention- a new draft resolution that demands the end of the US blockade against Cuba For two days, the United Nations General Assembly Continue reading
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VOTING TODAY AT THE UN ON THE CUBAN RESOLUTION
The General Assembly of the United Nations considers, for the thirty-first time, the draft resolution entitled “Need to end the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the United States of America against Cuba.” Continue reading
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Prestigious American weekly The Nation publishes interview with president of Cuba
Washington, Oct. 29 (Agencies) “The whole world knows about Cuba’s humanist vocation and how we contribute to peace. We do not send soldiers anywhere, we send doctors,” said President Miguel Díaz-Canel in an interview published by the prestigious American weekly The Nation. Díaz-Canel pointed out, however, that Washington included Cuba on a false list of Continue reading
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GAMBIA-SENEGAL ECONOMIC FORUM BREAKS BUREAUCRACIES IN BILATERAL TRADE
By Lamin Cham in Dakar Gambian and Senegalese public and private economic operators have been accorded an opportunity to explore prospects in both countries as well as benefit from the two governments’ goodwill to remove bureaucracies in registering or match-making of businesses in the two countries. Hundreds of business heads and investors from the two Continue reading
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Cuba proposes actions to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Havana- (Agencias) The Foreign Minister of Cuba, Bruno Rodríguez, reiterated his country’s invariable solidarity with the Palestinian cause and proposed several actions for a broad, fair and lasting solution to the conflict in the Gaza Strip. In a press conference, the Minister of Foreign Affairs pointed out that this solution requires, inexorably the exercise of Continue reading
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Gambia condemns Israel’s attack on Palestine
Press release The Government of the Republic of The Gambia joins the International Community including United Nations (UN), Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), The African Union (AU) and others in vehemently condemning the Israeli Military operations in Gaza for almost two weeks including stoppage of electricity, water, food aid, medical supplies, fuel and the indiscriminate Continue reading
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UN will consider new Cuban resolution against US blockade
Havana, Oct 16 (Prensa Latina) Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez reported that on November 1 and 2 the United Nations General Assembly will consider the draft resolution on the need to end the blockade against Cuba. In his profile on the social network that fence Rodríguez denounced that since 2019 Washington has escalated these unilateral coercive Continue reading
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Famous Cuban orchestra Aragón made thousands dance in Mexico
Mexico City, Oct 16 (Prensa Latina) The famous Cuban typical orchestra, Aragón, made thousands of attendees at the 51st International Cervantino Festival dance today on the popular Explanada la Alhóndiga de Granaditas, in Guanajuato. The popular Cuban group, with more than 80 years of uninterrupted activity and new voices that fit perfectly with the sound Continue reading
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Cuba elected member of the UN Human Rights Council
United Nations, Oct 11 (Agencies) Cuba will once again join the UN Human Rights Council after obtaining 146 votes in favor in the election this Wednesday called by the 78th General Assembly. After the election of Cuba in that important United Nations body, its Minister of Foreign Affairs Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla affirmed that this constitutes Continue reading
"An Island on a Continent"
"The greatest crime that can be committed against this continent today is neocolonialism, the attempt to establish capitalism in the peoples of Africa." Fidel Castro
"An Island on a Continent" 