Archivo de June, 2017

26 June, 2017 Cuba Stabilizes HIV-AIDS Incidence

Cuba has done a great job in the prevention and control of HIV/AIDS epidemic in the last five years, Although it grows, a stabilization of the incidence of this disease is observed in both male and female.

26 June, 2017 Seminar on Climate Change in Congress on Sugarcane

A seminar of the China-Latin America Laboratory on climate change will attract attention in the tenth International Congress on Sugarcane and Derivatives, on its third day of sessions in Pabexpo.

26 June, 2017 Young Cuban Intellectuals Condemn Trump’s Announcement

Havana, Cuba.-Young Cuban artists and writers, brought together in the Hermanos Saiz Association (AHS), have joined several organizations that have condemned the policy change towards the Caribbean island announced by U.S. President Donald Trump recently. During the AHS National Council, the artists declared their support for the message from the National Association of Cuban Writers […]

26 June, 2017 Brazilians Express Unrestricted Solidarity with Cuba

Brasilia, Brazil.-While Donald Trump was delivering a speech in Miami with a hostile rhetoric, the 23rd Brazilian Convention of Solidarity with Cuba endorsed the message sent by liberation theologian Frei Betto invoking unlimited support for the island. Cuba deserves the most unrestricted solidarity, because it has consolidated a revolution and a socialist project characterized by […]

26 June, 2017 World Peace Council Denounces US Interference on Cuba

Havana, Cuba.-The World Peace Council has denounced today the aggressive policy of the new U.S. administration against Cuba, which resorts to threats and blackmail to try to reverse the revolutionary process on the island. Through a letter, posted on the website of the Cuban Institute of Friendship with Peoples (ICAP), that organization reiterates the demand […]

26 June, 2017 Cuba Hosts Seminar on Journalism and Tourism

Havana, Cuba.-The 12th International Seminar on Journalism and Tourism has began sessions today in this capital, in times that the leisure industry in the island is showing a strengthening and the media devotes more attention to its benefits. Hilda Prieto, organizer of the event, said that about 60 journalists from 10 countries, including those from […]

23 June, 2017 Cuba Decorates a Good Friend

The outstanding intellectual of Spanish origin Federico Alvarez Arregui, received the Haydee Santamaria Medal, granted by the Council of State of Cuba, in a simple and emotive ceremony at the Embassy of the island in Mexico.

23 June, 2017 Work is the Path to Peace, Maduro Says

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro urged this Friday the Venezuelan people to follow the example of work and dignity of recent years to achieve national peace, at a time when violent groups sponsored by right-wing extremist sectors intend to impose violence in the country.

23 June, 2017 A Serious Warning from Hezbollah

Hezbollah’s leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said this Friday that a potential Israeli war against Syria or Lebanon would attract thousands of combatants from Iran and Iraq, among other countries in the Arab world.

23 June, 2017 Sao Paulo Forum Rejects Blockade

The Sao Paulo Forum, made up of representatives of Parties and Non-Governmental Organizations of the left in Latin America and the Caribbean, issued a declaration of rejection of the new policy towards Cuba, outlined by the US President.

23 June, 2017 Italian President Receives Cuban Chancellor

Sergio Mattarella, President of Italia, received this Friday Cuban Minister of Foreign Affairs Bruno Rodriguez, who thus concluded his official visit of three days to the European country.

23 June, 2017 Swiss Ambassador in Havana Rejects American Blockade

His Excellency Mr. Marcel Stutz, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Swiss Confederation in Cuba, rejected this Friday in Sancti Spiritus the blockade held by the United States Government for more than half a century.

23 June, 2017 More Voices Support Cuba

American actor Danny Glover supported the message by the National Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba (UNEAC) against US´s change of policy toward the island, proclaimed by President Donald Trump.

23 June, 2017 Cuban Parliament President Ends Official Visit in China

Beijing, China.-Following an extreme work schedule in the Chinese capital and the Shanghai Municipality, Cuban Parliament President, Esteban Lazo, ended his official visit on Thursday at the central-eastern coastal province of Jiangsu. Esteban Lazo was welcomed by Shi Heping, deputy director of the Standing Committee of the People’s Assembly of Jiangsu Province and also deputy […]

23 June, 2017 Cuba Keeps Zika, Dengue and Chikungunya under Control

Havana, Cuba.-Cuba keeps diseases as dengue, zika and chikungunya under control, despite the existence of their transmitting agent: the mosquito Aedes Aegypti, said today the director for Vigilance and Anti-Vectorial Battle at the Public Health Ministry (MINSAP), Pena. The expert recognized that in the warmest months, the country experiences an increase in the number of […]

23 June, 2017 Cuban Ministry of Sciences Analyzes 2016 Budget Impact

Havana, Cuba.-The expenditure in Cuba in Scientific and Technological Activities (ACT), in the year 2016, reached 781.8 million pesos, reported today the official from the Cuban Ministry of Sciences, Technology and Environment (CITMA), Armando Rodriguez. In a press conference, the director for science and technology from that ministry explained that 84 percent of that total […]

23 June, 2017 Cuban Foreign Minister Stresses Relevance of Ties with Italy

Rome, Italy.-Cuban Foreign Minister, Bruno Rodriguez, continues today his three-day official visit to Italy, during which he will meet with Laura Boldrini, President of the Chamber of Deputies, and Pietro Grasso, President of the Senate. The foreign minister arrived in this capital yesterday and held talks with his Italian peer, Angelino Alfano, at the headquarters […]

22 June, 2017 Another Direct Delegate to World Youth Festival

Claudia Garcia Ferrer, eleventh grade-student at Delfin Moreno High School, from Camilo Cienfuegos educational complex, was elected this Thursday as direct delegate to the Worldwide Festival of Youth and Students.