Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov denounced the media campaign against his country and the sanctions imposed by the United States, actions he considered detrimental to relations.
The freedom of former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, a political prisoner for 144 days now, will again be discussed in September by the Federal Supreme Court, which rejected that possibility four months ago.
President Nicolas Maduro designated 2018 as Year of the Economic Revolution, and assured that important changes will be implemented as of today in the Financial Recovery Program.
The end of the hunger strike for the freedom of Lula that was held by seven popular movement activists for 26 days opens a new stage of struggle in Brazil, the Small Farmers Movement said.
The US Department of State said today that it has reduced its travel warning to Cuba, a country internationally recognized as a safe destination, from level three (reconsidering the trip) to two (taking additional precautions).
The Cuban Foreign Ministry today published the annual report on the damage caused to Cuba by the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the United States for almost six decades.
Cuban collaborators in Venezuela continue their work in total normalcy, after the earthquake of 6, 3 degrees on the Richter scale reported the day before in that nation, a diplomatic source reported.
The United States has put together its own plans to use Facebook with the objective of disseminating propaganda and promoting clandestine dissidence in Cuba, the Miami New Times today reported.
The historic Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo are mourning as well as the Argentine human rights organizations, which are facing the physical departure of one of its founders, Chicha Mariani, who died without being able to recover her granddaughter.
The President of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro, recalled the signing of a cooperation agreement in 2005 between the governments of the South American nation and Cuba to care for people with visual impairment in Latin America.
