Havana, Cuba.-The combination of two great leaders, Commander-in-Chief Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez has allowed the creation of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA), an integrated mechanism with enormous value for the poor and needy, according to Jose Luis Merino, who is a member of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front […]
Havana, Cuba.-The Lizt Alfonso Ballet of Cuba, a ballet group recently awarded with the International Spotlight Award in the United States, announced that it will close its 2016 performing season with a show called ”1..2…3…Everybody to Stage” in Cuba. All the generations of the ballet company including its professional current staff will take part in […]
Brussels, Belgium.-The 28 countries of the European Union (EU) today approved at the level of their ambassadors the signing of a political agreement and cooperation between that bloc and Cuba to normalize their relations. According to the official EU website, the provision – which is still awaiting approval – was taken today by European officials […]
Mexico City, Mexico.-The demonstration made by millions of Cubans in a tribute to Fidel Castro was amourning, but also, it was a sample of hope, said an article written for Mexican newspaper La Jornada Sunday. The endless rows by people of all kinds in Cuba, reflect sorrow, concern, seriousness, before the death of a man […]
Santiago de Cuba, CUba.-President Raúl Castro deposited today the funerary urn with the ashes of the historic leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro, in his last resting place at the St. Ifigenia cemetery of this city. The sorrowful and emotional moment was accompanied by Dalia Soto del Valle, wife of Fidel, relatives and more […]
New York, United States.-Cuban ambassador, Ana Silvia Rodriguez, has thanked today the examples of sorrow, admiration and solidarity received from the five continents at the island”s Permanent Mission to the UN on the death of Fidel Castro. The interim charge d’affaires told Prensa Latina that representatives of more than 140 UN members, senior officials of […]
Rome, Italy.-The Council of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) today paid tribute with a minute of silence to the memory of the Cuban Revolution”s historic leader, Fidel Castro. The tribute, paid at the opening of the 155th regular meeting of the executive body of FAO’s top management body, was a […]
Santiago de Cuba, Cuba.-Cuban President Raul Castro highlighted today Fidel Castro”s visionary capacity enabling him to see the future. In the political ceremony of posthumous tribute to the historic leader of the Cuban Revolution, in the Square Antonio Maceo of this city, he recalled that the president of Algeria, Abdelaziz Bouteflika, referred that Fidel had […]
Havana, Cuba.-News media and personalities of the continent continue highlighting today the significance of Fidel Castro for the region, the multitudinary good-bye of his people and the funeral service of the historic leader whose decease is not only mourned in Cuba but in many other parts of the world. Argentinean media reflect today the multitudinary […]
Santiago de Cuba, Cuba.-The first secretary of the Union of Young Communists, Susely Morfa, affirmed today that the historic leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro, is passing towards immortality, while the new generations follow his legacy. We will not defraud the confidence that he always deposited in the youth and as in that moment […]
Santiago de Cuba, Cuba.-A solemn, private ceremony was held Sunday morning in Santiago de Cuba, as the ashes of Cuban Revolution leader Fidel Castro were being placed in the Santa Ifigenia Cemetery — Fidel’s final resting place — near the Mausoleum that keeps the remains of another universal Cuban — National Hero José Marti. On […]
Santiago de Cuba, Cuba.-Cuba rides today with Fidel and the song of Raul Torres is catching on deeply in thousands of persons who already look for it over the radio or television and memorize its beautiful lyrics of high poetic value. Accompanied by images of the Commander in Chief in his innermost link with Cubans, […]
Havana, Cuba.-The company directed by star dancer Carlos Acosta said today that next performances will be dedicated to Cuban Revolution”s historic leader Fidel Castro, to thank him for his constant support for Cuban arts. Acosta Danza, name of the company, will perform on December 7th at the hall Garcia Lorca of the Gran Teatro de […]
New York, United States.-Ambassadors and officials accredited to the United Nations (UN) continued signing today the condolence book, opened by the Cuban Permanent Mission”s headquarters here, to honor the recently deceased revolutionary leader Fidel Castro. Permanent and temporary representatives for countries in the five continents went to the Cuban diplomatic mission in New York, during […]
Havana, Cuba.-Argentina”s former soccer star Diego Armando Maradona is in Havana to participate in the tribute to Fidel Castro, historical leader of the Cuban Revolution. ‘I am coming here to be with my second father, with the legend going away from us, but he is leaving such a clear legacy, that we cannot betray. Those […]
Camaguey, Cuba.-On the day that marks the 60th anniversary of the landing of the Granma yacht, the funeral cortege that carries the ashes of the historic leader of the Cuban Revolution Fidel Castro departed for eastern Cuba. The Caravan of Freedom, as the cortege is known, spent the night at the Ignacio Agramonte Revolution Square […]
Havana, Cuba.-The caravan transporting Fidel Castro’s ashes continues its victorious journey through 13 Cuban provinces to finally arrive in Santiago de Cuba on Saturday, December 3rd. In the early morning hours on Thursday, the funeral procession departed from central Villa Clara province, the caravan’s first stop, where a cultural event to pay homage to the […]
Camagüey, Cuba.-A vigil in tribute to the leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro, rallied thousands at the Ignacio Agramonte Plaza Mayor in Camaguey this Thursday night. A patriotic activity with songs, anthems, poems, dances and traditional music by more than 200 local artists honored the memory of Fidel, who entered triumphantly in this city […]
Sao Paulo, Brazil.-Brazilian leaders Dilma Rousseff and Luis Inacio Lula da Silva will participate in the funeral homage to Fidel Castro on Saturday and Sunday in Santiago de Cuba. Rousseff called that the Cuban leader one of the most important figures of contemporary politics and “a visionary who believes that a fraternal and just society, […]
Santa Clara, Cuba.-The caravan that carries the ashes of the leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro, resumed its march today to Santiago de Cuba from this central city. After stopping one night in the same place where the remains of the Heroic Guerrilla, Ernesto Ché Guevara, rest, the funeral procession continued this morning its […]
