Havana, Cuba.- The Cuban Firefighters Corps (CBC) paid tribute today to the Martyrs of Patria Street, 55 years after counterrevolutionaries paid by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency caused a major deflagration in several of its warehouses in 1968. Iván Lugo Machado and Elías Moya Téllez lost their lives in the sabotage and an act of […]
Havana, Cuba.- The International Colloquium Jose Martí, A man of all times begins this Wednesday the first of his three days of sessions in Havana, with face-to-face and virtual attendance of scholars of his work from Argentina, Cuba, the United States, Japan, Mexico and Puerto Rico. The deliberations will take place until next Friday at […]
Havana, Cuba.- The universities of Havana and East China Normal University agreed today to open a multidisciplinary center for studies on Latin America and the Caribbean, including Cuba, which will strengthen cooperation in the educational area. That decision was made during a meeting between Lei Qili, vice president of the Chinese academy, and Marian Hernández, […]
Havana, Cuba.- The United Nations Special Rapporteur, Alena Douhan, will participate in Havana today in an academic event on the impact of unilateral coercive measures on the enjoyment of human rights in Cuba. At the inauguration of the meeting, organized by the University of Havana, Douhan will offer a keynote address and talk with the […]
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.- Capitular records of the Havana City Council and Cuban film posters aspire today to be declared a Documentary Heritage of Humanity by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). As published on Twitter by Yahima Esquivel, ambassador and permanent representative of Cuba before that body, the Executive Council of UNESCO must […]
Havana, Cuba.- The 16th May Day International Volunteer Work Brigade began its program of activities on Monday to celebrate International Workers’ Day. The brigade’s activities will last until May 7, with more than 300 members from 29 countries. The first meeting of the contingent was at the Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (CIGB), where […]
Havana, Cuba.- The first secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba, Miguel Diaz-Canel, today congratulated Cubans on Victory Day in Playa Giron, located in the south-central part of the country. This day will be also marked by the setting up of the 10th Legislature of the national parliament, which is a tribute to the heroes […]
Havana, Cuba.- The president of the Latin American and Caribbean Parliament (Parlatino), Silvia Giacoppo, highlighted in Panama City the historic ties that unite the regional legislature and Cuba. While receiving the ambassador of the island, Victor Cairo, at her headquarters in the Panamanian capital, the Argentine senator praised the active participation of deputies of the […]
Havana, Cuba.- On Tuesday, Cuban Ambassador to France Otto Vaillant met with French university students and professors to debate Cuba´s real issues, bilateral relations as well as the impact of the hostile U.S. blockade. At the School of Law, Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University, the Cuban diplomat made a presentation and exchanged standpoints with a great […]
Vientiane, Laos.- Laos and Cuba took another step to strengthen friendship and cooperation on Tuesday, during a meeting between Minister of Labor and Social Welfare Baykhan Khattiya and Cuban Ambassador Enna Viant. To join efforts to improve people-to-people contacts and move towards a new level in bilateral relations in general, particularly in the sphere that […]
Havana, Cuba.- President Miguel Diaz-Canel on Friday recalled the birthday of Juan Almeida Bosque, one of the Cuban leaders who are considered essential in the main events of the Revolution. On his Twitter account, the head of State wrote, “Today the man who shouted the rebel will in the first combat would be turning 95: […]
Havana city, Cuba.- President Miguel Diaz-Canel on Wednesday recalled the explosion of the battleship Maine, an event that 125 years ago triggered the intervention of the United States in the war for Cuba’s independence. On his Twitter account, the head of State noted that “125 (years) ago today of the Maine explosion in the Bay […]
Beijing, China.- Cuban Minister of Education Ena Elsa Velazquez explained her country’s experiences in advancing the digital transformation of instructional processes on Tuesday, when speaking at a conference on the subject in China. The minister pointed out that Cuba is working on a public policy in this regard, expanding its network of telematic services and […]
Mexico City, Mexico.- Mexico will lead a more active international movement against the inhuman blockade of the United States against Cuba, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador announced today in a ceremony with his Cuban counterpart, Miguel Díaz-Canel. At the closing of the opening ceremony of a bilateral meeting for the IMSS-Wellness Health plan in the […]
New Delhi, India.- The 64th anniversary of the Cuban Revolution and the 63rd anniversary of Cuba-India relations were celebrated in New Delhi on Wednesday in an evening gala attended by officials, diplomats, deputies, business people and friends. Minister of State for External Affairs and Culture Meenakshi Lekhi, who recently returned from an official visit to […]
Havana, Cuba.- The main challenges humanity is facing in the light of José Martí’s thought focus a broad agenda of the participants in the 5th International Conference For the World’s Balance, starting in Cuba this Wednesday. Moved by the need to find solutions, based on the benefit of all peoples without distinctions in a plural […]
Pyongyang, DPRK.- Cuba’s Ambassador to the DPRK, Jesús Aise, visited Moranbong Secondary School No. 1 on the 64th anniversary of the Triumph of the Revolution of the Caribbean nation, the national press reported on Friday. Aise and the embassy’s officials toured the educational center and received information on the preparation of students as pillars of […]
Havana, Cuba.- Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel reiterated today his call to promote innovation as one of the essential mechanisms to achieve the country’s development, in the midst of the current difficulties. Too much is imitated, and salvation lies in creating. Create is the pass word of this generation,’ wrote the Cuban president on his Twitter […]
