Paris, France.- Cuba’s ambassador to UNESCO, Yahima Esquivel, denounced Tuesday during the debates of the organization’s 216th Executive Council the U.S. economic, commercial and financial blockade against the island and demanded its immediate end. Speaking at the plenary session, the diplomat described the siege imposed by Washington for more than 60 years as unilateral and […]
Havana, Cuba.- Mexico donated mobile devices to Cuba that will be used in the development of the Population and Housing Census in the country, informed today the National Statistics and Information Office (ONEI). According to the source, the devices delivered in Havana, will also support other research of this type, which will make it possible […]
Havana, Cuba.- The general director of Consular Affairs and Cubans Living Abroad, Ernesto Soberón, reported on his Twitter account that in order to deal with the exponential and sustained increase over time of legalization requests, a new area was inaugurated last April 17 at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Minrex, of Cuba. Thus, the number […]
Havana, Cuba.- Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel ratified Wednesday the support and solidarity of the Caribbean island with the people of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR). The president recalled the commemoration this day of the 50th anniversary of the creation of the Polisario Front, “which brought together in a single identity the aspirations for independence […]
Artemisa, Cuba.- Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Party and President of the Republic, checks today the work commitments in Artemisa, he is accompanied by Prime Minister Manuel Marrero Cruz and the Secretary of Organization of the Central Committee of the Communist Party, Roberto Moreles Ojeda. The leadership of the […]
Havana, Cuba.- Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel today lamented the death of the daughter of activist Carlos Lazo, promoter of the Bridges of Love project, which fights against the U.S. economic blockade of the island. From his Twitter account, the president sent the Cuban-American a message of support in this difficult moment and expressed his own […]
Havana, Cuba.- Ministers and senior officials of the Culture sphere of the member countries of the Group of 77 plus China will meet today at the Havana Convention Center. At the inauguration of the event, interventions by the head of Cuban Culture, Alpidio Alonso, are scheduled for the country that currently leads the organization. A […]
Havana, Cuba.- Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel held talks on Tuesday with Russian presidential economic advisor Maxim Oreshkin, who is visiting our country. According to the Presidency’a Twitter profile, Diaz-Canel ratified the interest in bringing bilateral economic-financial relations to the same state of policies. Oreshkin, for his part, commented on the three main work guidelines that […]
Havana, Cuba.- Ricardo Cabrisas, Cuba’s Deputy Prime Minister and Head of Foreign Trade and Investment, discussed in Havana today issues of mutual cooperation with Maxim Oreshkin, Economic Advisor to the Russian Presidency. Last November, Cabrisas attended the 19th session of the Intergovernmental Commission for economic-commercial and scientific-technical collaboration, held in Moscow, in his capacity as […]
Havana, Cuba.- Solidarity with the Cuban Revolution and condemnation of the U.S. economic, commercial, and financial blockade against the Caribbean Island were present, Monday, in the May Day march in Costa Rica and Ecuador. On the occasion of International Workers’ Day, members of trade union centers and militants of political parties marched along the main […]
Havana, Cuba.- The Havana Convention Palace will host next Thursday a meeting of culture ministers of the Group of 77 + China. The meeting will take place in the context of the First International Congress on Cultural Heritage, which will be held from Wednesday through Friday at the National Museum of Fine Arts in the […]
Havana, Cuba.- The First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba (CC-PCC) and President of the Republic, Miguel Díaz-Canel congratulated on Monday Santiago Peña on his election, the day before, as president of Paraguay. In his Twitter profile, the Cuban head of state ratified to his counterpart the willingness of the […]
Havana, Cuba.- Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel received representatives of the Conference of Catholic Bishops of Cuba at the Palace of the Revolution on Wednesday. As reported by the Twitter account of the Presidency, the meeting is part of the different exchanges that the Head of State carries out with different sectors of society. “The First […]
Havana, Cuba.- Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel welcomed today through his Twitter account, a delegation of 150 young leaders of social organizations from the United States, who will participate in the May Day celebrations. The head of state greeted the delegation and stressed that the Caribbean nation welcomes them with open arms, despite shortages and difficulties. […]
Havana, Cuba.- Željka Cvijanovi?, President of Bosnia and Herzegovina, will arrive in Cuba on Monday for an official visit. It will be the first visit of the president of that country to Cuba since diplomatic relations were established. During her stay here, Cvijanovi? will meet with Cuban authorities and carry out other activities of interest. […]
Santiago de Cuba, Cuba.- The president of the National Assembly of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, Voung Dinh Hue, left from the Antonio Maceo international airport, in this city, on Sunday, after a visit to Cuba that strengthened bilateral ties. Cuba’s National People’s Power Assembly President Esteban Lazo and Santiago de Cuba’s top authorities bade […]
Havana, Cuba.- The deputies to the Cuban Parliament today reelected Miguel Díaz-Canel as President of the Republic for the next five years, and Salvador Valdés to occupy the vice presidency. The president of the National Electoral Council, Alina Balseiro, pointed out that all of the 462 parliamentarians present at the constitutive session of the 10th […]
Havana, Cuba.- The president of Cuba’s National Nominations Commission, Consuelo Baeza, informed that among all 21 proposals to be members of the Council of State, 10 are new lawmakers. Among the new proposals are the deputy director of the Finlay Vaccines Institute, Yuri Valdés; the second head of the Social Workers Unit, Yurisa Lahera, and […]
Havana, Cuba.- The deputies to the National Assembly of People’s Power of Cuba (ANPP) were sworn in today on the constitutive day of the 10th Legislature. Sportswoman Yarileidis Cirilo, the youngest legislator in the unicameral Parliament, read out the oath, in which they declared their loyalty to the Homeland and to enforce the Constitution of […]
Havana, Cuba.- Cuban National Assembly of People’s Power celebrates this Wednesday the constitutive session in its 10th Legislature, in accordance with the provisions of the Constitution and the Electoral Law. The legislative body of the Caribbean nation, when constituting itself for a new Legislature, elects its president, vice president, secretary and other members of the […]
