Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel on Sunday described as exciting the day of international solidarity against the U.S. blockade and in support of our country.
President Miguel Diaz-Canel on Sunday described as exciting the international solidarity campaign against the United States blockade and in support of Cuba.
Cuba’s Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez welcomed the holding of caravans in several parts of the world in support of Cuba and against the blockade of the United States.
Cuba’s President Miguel Diaz-Canel highlighted and thanked the world caravans organized by emigration and friends of the country in protest against the United States blockade.
Cuban Prime Minister Manuel Marrero Cruz met Friday with executives of the Ministry of Agriculture (MINAG) and its business system to analyze the work projections for 2021.
Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel called Friday to promote a more innovative goods and services sector in the country and highlighted the essential role of scientific research in solving problems.
Although the Human Rights Council has adopted a resolution on the negative impact of unilateral sanctions, the United States currently continues with the implementation of coercive measures and legislations that make up the blockade to Cuba. In the most recent Cuba’s report on the damages caused by this economic, commercial and financial siege, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs explained the validity of the laws and regulations that support this policy.
Havana, Cuba.- Representatives of Cuba and the European Union (EU) will hold today the 3rd Dialogue on Unilateral Coercive Measures, on virtual format due to the isolation measures imposed by the Covid-19 pandemic.
According to the Cuban Foreign Ministry, the meeting will be held by virtue of the Political Dialogue and Cooperation Agreement concluded in 2016 and put into effect, provisionally, in 2017.
The 3rd Dialogue on Unilateral Coercive Measures Cuba-EU will analyze the imposition of these measures as a means of political and economic pressure against the states and the legal and practical areas of existing legislation in EU to prevent the extraterritorial application of laws imposed by third countries.
This provision reinforces the US blockade against Cuba, while threatening European interests.
According to the Foreign Ministry, the Cuban delegation will condemn the tightening of the blockade imposed by Washington in the context of the fight against Covid-19.
Cuba has approved reducing the costs and prices of agricultural products in support of a sector committed to the food security of the population, impacted today by the intensification of the U.S. economic blockade.
Cuba’s Prime Minister, Manuel Marrero, urged the authorities to take extreme measures in the provinces that are registering an increase in the number of confirmed cases of Covid-19, particularly in the eastern part of the country.
President Miguel Diaz-Canel on Monday rejected what he called a depressing show of lies and manipulation by the Organization of American States (OAS) against Cuba.
The Cuban Foreign Ministry presented on Saturday evidence that delegitimizes the actors of a new political media operation against the Caribbean country, which is being carried out through Internet platforms.
Havana, Cuba.- – Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez called for the promotion of reading and ratified that the Cuban Revolution will always defend a space for books, a promise that Fidel enunciated very early in the revolutionary stage, and that he was able to turn into reality.
A meeting with intellectuals held Monday followed up on implementing the agreements and proposals made by the writers at the 9th Congress of the Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba (UNEAC) held in June 2019.
Participants analyzed what Cuban writers have done in times of pandemic, including the active presence of the Caribbean nation’s literature in international book fairs and other virtual events.
Diaz-Canel argued that a way of life and thinking is built around literature and expressed interest in the state of bookstores and libraries and urged for the promotion of book sales and lending services.
Speaking in the debate, prestigious Cuban writer and ethnologist Miguel Barnet brought up the need for a profound literary criticism, called for literary science, and urged experts of the mother tongue to sort out good creations from those that are not.
Other intellectuals spoke of the need for a strong literary agency to represent Cuban writers and the importance of effectively disseminating the literature produced on the island. Reference was also made to the universe of possibilities that the virtual world opens up for reading.
Historian Ernesto Limia Díaz stressed the need for the country to take advantage of all the digital world’s opportunities and invited to work so that every book has its physical and electronic expression.
Díaz-Canel said that the existing levels of dissatisfaction should lead to work with greater intensity. The goal, he stressed, is to sow the passion for reading and even for the possibility of writing correctly.
The head of UNEAC, Luis Morlote, recalled that the group brings together more than nine thousand creators and has as its raison d’être the defense of culture as the nation’s essence.
Cuba will be represented at the 4th Forum of Latin America and the Caribbean countries on Sustainable Development, which will be held virtually from Monday 15 to Wednesday 18, an official source reported.
Army General Raul Castro Ruz, President of the Councils of State and Ministers, sent a floral offering to the plaque dedicated to Jose Antonio Echeverria, located next to the University of Havana.
Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel described the Helms-Burton Act, which the United States has been enforcing for the past 25 years, as “an illegal creation” and “an involution of history.”
The 8th Congress of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) will have among its priorities the adoption of a strategy for a better leadership policy, Granma newspaper reported on Friday.
Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel praised the resistance capacity of people in the island against destabilization attempts financed by the United States.
Cuba’s President Miguel Diaz-Canel recognized on Monday healthcare professionals at the main event for the 5th anniversary of the International Siboney Clinic in Havana.
Cuba’s financial system is adjusting to the currency overhaul, a process that came into force on January 1st with the elimination of the Cuban convertible peso (CUC).
