A cooperation agreement for the protection of children and adolescents from sale, prostitution, pornography, trafficking and other forms of sexual abuse was signed today in Havana by representatives of the Ministry of the Interior (MININT) and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP).
The joint venture Suchel TBV S.A. will establish a plant for the production of detergents and other related products in the Mariel Special Development Zone (ZEDM), located in western Cuba.
Swiss MP Mathias Reynard described as democratic the popular consultation started in Cuba so the people can analyze and express their opinion on a draft Constitution, parliamentary sources of the island reported today.
The celebrations of Fidel Castro’s 92nd birthday (1926-2016), acquire greater significance today with the beginning of popular consultation on the Constitution project, in which his political legacy is in force .
The Cuban capital recalls the historic leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro, in a special edition of the magazine Habanahoy 499, on the 92nd anniversary of his birth and the 500th anniversary of the foundation of this city.
During a press conference yesterday, at the historic Belen Jesuit College, where Fidel studied, now the Technical-Military Academy, representatives of the Revolutionary Armed Forces (FAR) and the Ministry of the Interior (Minint) announced that discussion of the proposed new Constitution will begin August 13 in these institutions, as it will around the country.
This Sunday and Monday, the National Seminar on the consultation process of the Draft Constitution took place in the Cuban capital, Havana.
Bolivian President Evo Morales today greeted former Cuban President Raul Castro and the people of the Caribbean island for their solidarity with the world´s peoples.
Concluded yesterday, July 30, in Havana was a two-day national seminar on the Constitutional reform consultation process, which included more than 280 provincial representatives of the Party, the Young Communists League, mass organizations, the Union of Jurists, political leaders of the Ministries of the Revolutionary Armed Forces and the Interior, as well as the commission charged with Implementation and Development of Policy Guidelines, the National Electoral Commission, the Center for Socio-political Studies, and the Ministry of Foreign Relations.
An updated Constitution that lays the foundation for the prosperous, sustainable future Cubans deserve – and will construct – and that upholds the values and principles that have brought us thus far, motivated deputies to unanimously approve a constitutional reform proposal, after an intense debate, during the first period of ordinary sessions of the Ninth Legislature of the National Assembly of People’s Power, July 21-22, following earlier discussion and study in smaller groups.
Hundreds of Spaniards marched in this capital to demand U.S. blockade against Cuba to cease, on occasion of the island”s National Rebelliousness Day.
Fidel considered Abel’s life to be of exceptional value, and therefore assigned him the mission of taking the Saturnino Lora Hospital, which was less dangerous than the garrison. This decision was not to Abel’s liking and he protested his leader’s plan, saying, “I’m not going to the hospital. Let the women and the doctor go to the hospital. I have to fight, if there is a fight. Let others pass out the recordings and proclamations.”
Cubans celebrate today the National Rebellion Day, established in honor of the assault on the Moncada and Carlos Manuel de Céspedes barracks in the east of the island, on this date in 1953.
More than 60 people, members of the 48th edition of the Jose Marti European Brigade, will visit this central city, said Raul Cardoso, delegate of the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP) in the territory.
The National Assembly of People’s Power approved on Sunday the holding – from August 13 to November 15 of this year – of a popular consultation on the draft Constitution of the Republic, a transcendental step before the final referendum.
The People’s Power National Assembly (Parliament) called on Cubans to express their criteria on the Draft Constitution that would replace the carta magna in force since 1976 with a document according to the transformations under way in the country.
