Archivo de 2018

25 April, 2018 Youth Will Close May 1st Parade

A block of fifty thousand students, young workers and military will close in the Jose Marti Revolution Square in Havana, the parade for May 1st, Diosvany Acosta Abrahantes said to the press.

25 April, 2018 Comprehensive Health Care, a WHO’s Priority

Director General of WHO Tedros Adhanom explained here today the main work projects of this organization, focused on comprehensive health care from a joint work with primary care.

25 April, 2018 Cuba Joins International Project on Citrus

Cuba participates today with 22 institutions from 13 countries in the Tropic Phase project, seeking to increase skills to handle the Huang Long Bing disease that damage citrus, said an official from this field today.

25 April, 2018 Cuba Promotes Portfolio of Opportunities in Industry

Cuba has a broad portfolio of opportunities focused on iron and steel, light, chemical, and electronic and automatic industries, in line with the strategic interests of the country, according to a source from the sector.

25 April, 2018 Cuba and Canadian Firm Sign Association Contract

The Cuban company GeoMinera S.A. and the Canadian firm Millbrook Minerals Inc. signed an agreement to carry out joint reconnaissance and research projects, local media reported today.

24 April, 2018 US Activist Claims End of Blockade against Cuba

The coordinator of the National Network of Solidarity with Cuba in the United States, Cheryl Labash, demanded the government of her country to lift the blockade maintained against the island for more than half a century.

24 April, 2018 Maduro Urges to Vote in Elections

CARACAS, Venezuela. – President Nicolas Maduro called his compatriots to demonstrate to the world that they are the only protagonists of the country’s destinies, exercising their right to vote on May 20 to continue economic consolidation. In ceremony of beginning of campaign in Barinas State, the President warned that in those elections independence and sovereignty […]

24 April, 2018 Brazilian Justice Denies Visits to Lula da Silva

A Brazilian judge rejected this Monday the applications submitted to visit former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who remains in detention at the headquarters of the Federal Police of Curitiba.

24 April, 2018 Cuba Has a Lot to Show in Public Health

Cuba is the best model and example to show what it has done in universal coverage or what is the same, health for all, the Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said at a press conference in the Convention Palace of Havana.

24 April, 2018 Scientific Workshop on May 1st Started

The Secretary General of the Workers’ Central Union of Cuba (CTC), Ulises Guilarte de Nacimiento, inaugurated in Havana the twelfth May 1st International Scientific Workshop, at the Torcedores Palace in Havana.

24 April, 2018 Alba-TCP Welcoms the New President of Cuba

The Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of our America – Trade Treaty of the Peoples welcomed the election of Miguel Diaz-Canel as President of the Councils of State and Ministers of Cuba.

23 April, 2018 French President Visits Washington

The President of France, Emmanuel Macron, starts a three-day official visit to Washington, the first of a foreign leader under the administration of Donald Trump, who was in Paris last July on the occasion of the French national day.

23 April, 2018 Nicaraguan President Repeals Social Security Reform

Daniel Ortega, President of Nicaragua, announced this Sunday the reversal of the social security reform that, he said, served as a trigger for the violent events in the country promoted by the right since last Wednesday.

23 April, 2018 Cuban President Receives Head of State of Bolivia

The President of the Councils of State and of Ministers of Cuba, Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez, received in the Palace of the Revolution of Havana Bolivian President Evo Morales, who pays an official visit on the island.

23 April, 2018 UN Debate on Youth, Peace and Security

The United Nations Security Council is conducting an open debate on youth, peace and security, just at a time when the multilateral organization focuses on enhancing the participation of the new generations.

23 April, 2018 Health for All Trade Fair Opens its Doors

The director of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, and Issa Etienne, at the head of the Pan-American Health Organization, cut the inaugural ribbon at the fourteenth Health for All Trade Fair, dedicated to Fidel´s legacy, to Raul and to the Cuban people.

23 April, 2018 Presidents of Cuba and Bolivia Visit Scientific Center

In the company of the President of the Councils of State and Ministers, Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez, Bolivian President Evo Morales toured the Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (CIGB), in Havana.

19 April, 2018 Another Forceful Victory of Our People

At the closing of the constitutive session of the ninth legislature of the Parliament, the first Secretary of the Party, Army General Raul Castro highlighted that this coincided with the date on which, 57 years ago, Cuba won the victory in Playa Giron and gave to imperialism its first major defeat in Latin America.