The 40th International Festival of New Latin American Cinema of Havana will receive a Platinum Ibero-American Film Award as an acknowledgement of its contribution to enrich the cultural identity of the region, organizers said on Thursday.
Cuban health professional Juan Francisco Rojas said in Havana on Friday that during his mission in Brazil”s More Doctors program, he treated human beings who had never seen a doctor before.
The 19th Scientific Convention on Engineering and Architecture is wrapping up in Havana on Friday, after intense debates focused on the research and implementation of technological advances to achieve sustainable development.
Cuba on Thursday condemned the sanctions announced this week by the United States against Nicaraguan Vice President Rosario Murillo and National Security Adviser Nestor Moncada, measures that Havana described as interventionist.
Cuba sent experienced doctors to Brazil and it was an emergency response to the shortage of professionals in the interior of the country, the representative of the Pan-American Health Organization (PAHO), Joaquin Molina, said on Thursday.
A group of 204 Cuban health collaborators who worked on Brazil”s More Doctors program returned to the island on Friday as a result of the hostile attitude of the South American country”s president-elect, Jair Bolsonaro.
Cuba”s President, Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez, insisted on assessing economic management as the main task of the Revolution due to the repercussions of its results on the people” satisfaction, Granma newspaper reports Friday.
Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel recalled Fiday the November 30, 1956 uprising in the east of the country against the dictatorship, an action organized in support of the Granma yacht landing.
