Jacob Zuma announced his resignation as President of South Africa last Wednesday, after several days of constant pressure from his African National Congress Party, which issued an ultimatum for his departure, local media reported.
The Electoral Register of Venezuela has reported to date some 180 thousand movements since the beginning of a special day of registration and updating with a view to the presidential elections next April.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Cuba strongly condemns the pronouncement of a group of countries in the hemisphere issued on February 13 in Lima, which constitutes an unacceptable interference in the internal affairs of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, while categorically rejects the decision to reconsider the participation of the Venezuelan Government in the eighth Summit of the Americas to be held next April in Peru.
The National Ballet of Cuba (BNC) has announced that it will perform the classics Giselle and Don Quixote in a tour of the United States, in the coming months of May and June. The company led by the legendary dancer Alicia Alonso will present Don Quixote in Chicago on May 18, 19 and 20, and on the 29 and 30 at the John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington.
Cuban First Vice-President Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermúdez met with the minister of Education and Higher Education of the State of Palestine, Sabri Saidam, in this capital yesterday night, according to an official report in Granma newspaper. Saidam is visiting Cuba as a special envoy and brought a message from Palestine President Mahmoud Abbas to the president of the Councils of State and of Ministers, Raul Castro Ruz, the official press release says.
Saara Kuugongelwa-Amadhila, Prime Minister of Namibia, starts on Wednesday February 14 an official visit to Cuba, where she will review the bilateral relations.
Representatives of Cuba and the United States exchanged in Washington on human trafficking, at the fifth bilateral meeting on the subject, which weighed progress, experiences and discussed the challenges in prevention and confrontation with that crime.
Russian President Vladimir Putin, on the telephone with his similar Ukrainian, Petro Poroshenko, addressed cooperation to investigate the accident of an AN-148 aircraft and the possibility of continuing the exchange of prisoners in Donbass.
The President of Bolivia, Evo Morales, demanded a summit of the Union of South American Nations in the face of the American threats to intervene militarily in Venezuela from Colombia.
The Vice-President of the Cuban State Council, Mercedes Lopez Acea, was received by the President of Seychelles, Danny Faure, in a meeting described by the Cuban Chancellery as cordial and friendly.
The Minister for Interior Relations, Justice and Peace of Venezuela, Nestor Reverol, reported that the security system is kept active to protect the return to their homes of the people who traveled during the carnival.
Bolivia’s President Evo Morales expressed his solidarity with the Venezuelan Government in the face of the U.S. military threat, and urged South America to unite and defend that nation.
A technical malfunction could give a wrong flight speed to the crew of an An-148 plane that which with 71 people on board collapsed on the outskirts of Moscow, the intergovernmental Committee on Aviation reported.
Some Spanish political officials still look to America as the colony it was two centuries ago.
The President of Ghana, Nana Akufo-Addo, received Cuban Vice President Mercedes Lopez Acea, who visits that country as part of a work tour by Africa.
Venezuelan Attorney General Tarek William Saab, denounced the coordinated actions of the governments of the USA and Colombia, with the pretensions of attacking Venezuela militarily from the neighboring country.
Cuban ambassador in Lebanon Miguel Porto and the President of the Latin Press, Luis Enrique Gonzalez, coincided in similarities between the Lebanese Islamic Resistance and that of Cuba against the blockade of the United States.
On Mondays in February, and those corresponding to March, are defined by master Argelia Fragoso, as another act for the rescue of the Cuban song and its way of interpreting, in the Popular Singing Workshops
Venezuela rejected a statement from the U.S. Department of State attacking the legitimacy of the presidential election of April 22 and the democratic institutions of that nation.
Former presidents of Uruguay Jose Mujica and Brazil´s Luiz Inacio Lula de Silva will talk about the situation in South America on February 27, in the frontier town of Santana do Livramento, after which the fourth stage of the Lula for Brazil caravan will start.
