Cuba on Wednesday reported 727 new Covid-19 cases and four deaths due to complications related to this disease over the last 24 hours.
Cuba on Wednesday reported 727 new Covid-19 cases and four deaths due to complications related to this disease over the last 24 hours.
Cuban representatives and people in solidarity around the world will support today, in a virtual meeting, the international condemnation of the US blockade that lasts over 60 years.
The only limitation of the Russian market for its expansion in Cuba is the number of flights, Tourism adviser at the Cuban Embassy in this country, Juan Carlos Escalona, warned on Wednesday in Moscow.
Fabien Roussel, Nati), on Wednesday asked his country and the European Union to increase actions to end the US blockade against Cuba, a policy he considered unacceptable.
The City of Cambridge, in the US state of Massachusetts, has joined other localities in the northern country, requesting the Biden administration to restore the engagement with Cuba initiated by President Barack Obama.
The Cuban representation at the IV meeting of the Forum of Latin American and Caribbean Countries on Sustainable Development reiterated the nation’s commitment to the objectives that pursue integral human progress in harmony with the environment.
Havana, Cuba.- – Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez called for the promotion of reading and ratified that the Cuban Revolution will always defend a space for books, a promise that Fidel enunciated very early in the revolutionary stage, and that he was able to turn into reality.
A meeting with intellectuals held Monday followed up on implementing the agreements and proposals made by the writers at the 9th Congress of the Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba (UNEAC) held in June 2019.
Participants analyzed what Cuban writers have done in times of pandemic, including the active presence of the Caribbean nation’s literature in international book fairs and other virtual events.
Diaz-Canel argued that a way of life and thinking is built around literature and expressed interest in the state of bookstores and libraries and urged for the promotion of book sales and lending services.
Speaking in the debate, prestigious Cuban writer and ethnologist Miguel Barnet brought up the need for a profound literary criticism, called for literary science, and urged experts of the mother tongue to sort out good creations from those that are not.
Other intellectuals spoke of the need for a strong literary agency to represent Cuban writers and the importance of effectively disseminating the literature produced on the island. Reference was also made to the universe of possibilities that the virtual world opens up for reading.
Historian Ernesto Limia Díaz stressed the need for the country to take advantage of all the digital world’s opportunities and invited to work so that every book has its physical and electronic expression.
Díaz-Canel said that the existing levels of dissatisfaction should lead to work with greater intensity. The goal, he stressed, is to sow the passion for reading and even for the possibility of writing correctly.
The head of UNEAC, Luis Morlote, recalled that the group brings together more than nine thousand creators and has as its raison d’être the defense of culture as the nation’s essence.
Vietnamese Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh reiterated his country’s support to Cuba against the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the US on the island, CUBAMINREX reported on Tuesday.
Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez denounced on Tuesday the inequalities existing in the United States in the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic, reflected in unemployment and access to health services.