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2 March, 2023 Vice President of Cuba meets intense work schedule in Azerbaidzhan

Baku, Azerbaidzhan.- The Vice President of Cuba, Salvador Valdés Mesa, continued today in this capital an intense program of interviews with dignitaries participating tomorrow in a Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM). During his third day of work in the capital of Azerbaijan, Valdes-Mesa, who chairs the Cuban delegation to the important meeting that will […]

28 February, 2023 Over 2,000 participants attend Habano Festival in Havana

Havana, Cuba.- More than 2,000 tobacco professionals and lovers from 100 countries are attending the 23rd Habano Festival, which from today until Saturday will take place after two years of inactivity due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Another expression of the interest the prestigious event continues showing is the coverage that will be […]

28 February, 2023 Cuban Foreign Minister arrives in Geneva to attend the Human Rights Council

Havana, Cuba.- Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez arrived Monday in Geneva, Switzerland, to participate in the High-Level Segments of the Conference on Disarmament and the 52nd session of the Human Rights Council. According to the Havana Foreign Ministry, the head of Cuban diplomacy will also carry out a work program that includes meetings with foreign […]

28 February, 2023 Valdes Mesa begins work agenda in Azerbaijan

Havana, Cuba.- Cuban Vice President Salvador Valdés Mesa began a work agenda at the University of Languages in Baku, Azerbaijan, whose main activity will be the Summit of the Contact Group of the Non-Aligned Movement in response to the COVID-19. Through his official Twitter profile, the leader reported he participated in fraternal meetings with the […]

28 February, 2023 The President of Cuba inaugurates the 23rd Habano Festival

Havana, Cuba.- Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel inaugurated today the 23rd Habano Festival and the associated Trade Fair at the Havana Convention Center. After two years of the pandemic, in which the event was not held, the new edition of the Fair receives 260 exhibitors from 11 countries and occupies almost 660 square meters of exhibition […]

27 February, 2023 Preparations continue for elections in central Cuban province

Havana, Cuba.- While preparations for the elections on March 26 make progress, the meetings between parliamentary candidates to the National Assembly of People’s Power (Parliament) with students and economic institutions continue today and are social. The publication of the photos and biographies of all 20 candidates from Sancti Spiritus has already begun in more than […]

27 February, 2023 Díaz-Canel highlights the new contribution of Cuban science

Havana, Cuba.- The first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and president of the Republic, Miguel Díaz-Canel described as a new challenge and contribution to science in the country the start of a clinical trial of the drug NeuralCIM to treat mild or moderate Alzheimer’s disease. On his Twitter account, […]

27 February, 2023 Cuban health and scientific delegation arrives in Belarus

Havana, Cuba.- On Sunday, a Cuban medical and biotechnology delegation arrived in Minsk to participate in a business forum of producers and exporters, Ambassador Santiago Perez announced. In statements to Prensa Latina, he said that the Cuban delegation is headed by First Deputy Minister of Public Health Tania Cruz, and includes BioCubaFarma Vice President Eulogio […]

27 February, 2023 Strong rejection of US blockade against Cuba in the Dominican Republic

Havana, Cuba.- On Sunday, Dominican friends and Cuban residents in Santo Domingo organized a caravan through several avenues in this capital to condemn the United States blockade against Cuba. With Cuban flags and posters in which the participants demonstrated their rejection of the blockade and called for the lifting of that criminal policy that the […]

27 February, 2023 Uruguayan Committee condemns US blockade against Cuba

Montevideo, Uruguay.- On Sunday, the Uruguayan Anti-Imperialist Committee of Solidarity with Cuba and the Peoples of the World reaffirmed their rejection of what they described as a criminal economic, commercial, and financial blockade by the United States against the Cuban people. In a communiqué, the Committee recalls that it was in February 1962 when Washington […]

27 February, 2023 Cuba and Canada to hold consultations at Foreign Ministry level

Havana, Cuba.- Cuba and Canada will hold the 5th Inter-Foreign Ministry Political Consultation Session in this capital on Tuesday, February 28, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs reported on Sunday. A press release published on the website of the Cuban Foreign Ministry adds that the occasion will be propitious to do a comprehensive review of the […]

27 February, 2023 Cuba is better without the US blockade

Havana, Cuba.- On Sunday, Panamanians and Cuban residents in that country joined a global campaign against the blockade imposed by the United States on the Caribbean Island for more than 60 years. With several messages on social networks, members of the National Solidarity Coordinator and the Marti Association of Cuban Residents in Panama condemned Washington’s […]

23 February, 2023 Cuba thanks Iran for longstanding position against U.S. blockade

Havana, Cuba.- The head of Cuba’s Communist Party International Relations Department, Emilio Lozada thanked Iran for its longstanding position against the more than 60-year-old economic, commercial, and financial blockade against the Caribbean Island nation. During a meeting with the Iranian ambassador to Havana Seyed Mohammad Hadi Sobhani, the Cuban party official stressed the Persian nation’s […]

23 February, 2023 Guyanese Ambassador highlights strong ties with Cuba

Havana, Cuba.- During the celebration in this capital of the 53rd anniversary of Guyana’s National Day, which is commemorated on February 23, Guyana’s ambassador to Cuba, Halim Majeed, assured that bilateral relations are solid today and “have withstood the test of time.” He added that with half a century of existence, the ties between the […]

23 February, 2023 Cuba thanks Mozambique for its unconditional support

Maputo, Mozambique.- The vice president of the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP), Victor Gaute, thanked people and the Government of Mozambique on Wednesday for their historic and unconditional support for his country, during his visit to this southern African country. At a meeting with the Mozambican Association of Friendship and Solidarity with […]

23 February, 2023 The project between Cuba and Italy contributes to product development

Matanzas, Cuba.- Founded by the Italian Agency for Development Cooperation (AICS), the CubaFruta project in the western province of Matanzas contributes to developing production and achieving food sovereignty. According to the website of the local station Radio 26 (www.radio26.cu), Project Manager Jose Perez commented that the essential idea of the program is to improve the […]

23 February, 2023 Cuba’s foreign minister condemns racism, police brutality in U.S.

Havana, Cuba.- Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez on Wednesday strongly condemned both racism and police brutality in the United States. On his Twitter account, Bruno Rodriguez pointed out that the rate of Black people shot dead by law enforcement officers is more than double of white Americans. Bruno Rodriguez posted some figures from the American […]

23 February, 2023 Esteban Lazo receives Dominican parliamentarians

Havana, Cuba.- Esteban Lazo Hernández, president of the National Assembly of People’s Power and the Council of State, exchanged with members of the Dominican Republic-Cuba Parliamentary Friendship Group, who are visiting the island, according to the Parliament’s Twitter account. During their visit, the Dominican parliamentarians held working meetings with Yanet Hernández Pérez, deputy governor of […]

23 February, 2023 President shares cultural priorities with Cuban intellectuals

Havana, Cuba.- The main challenges facing national culture today were addressed in a meeting of the leadership of the Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba (UNEAC), with the President of the Republic Miguel Díaz-Canel. In the exchange, the highest representatives of UNEAC in all the country’s territories, as well as the Board of Directors […]

22 February, 2023 The Cuban biopharmaceutical sector exhibits its potential in Colombia

Bogota, Colombia.- The head of Biocubafarma’s Export Department, Ailén Díaz, presented on Tuesday to Colombian businessmen the Portfolio of Foreign Investment Projects with emphasis on the Biopharmaceutical sector in the Caribbean Island. The directive offered details of this Business Group, which produces medicines, equipment, and high-tech services for the improvement of human health, the generation […]