Category: News from Cuba

Source: TeleSur | Click here for original article Regular suppliers refuse to trade with Cuba, fearing retaliation from the United States Cuba’s Foreign Affairs Minister Bruno Rodriguez denounced actions taken by the U.S. government to prevent Cuba from completing its vaccines against COVID-19. In his Twitter account, the Cuban Minister stated that the 60-year-old embargo…

Source: TeleSur | Click here for original article A new misinformation campaign accuses Cuba of sending undercover agents to fuel protests in Colombia. Cuba’s Foreign Affairs Ministry (MINREX) has rejected Colombia’s decision to declare the Cuban First Secretary in Bogota Omar Garcia a persona non grata in the Latin American nation. “We have summoned the…

Source: On Cuba News | Click here for original article Cuba won for the first time a gold medal in a World Relay Championship when this Sunday the women’s 4×400-meter relay team won the title in the world competition based in the Polish city of Silesia. The relay made up of Zurian Hechavarría, Rose Mary…

Source: Presna Latina | Click here for original article Havana, May 5 (Prensa Latina) On January 23, 2019, the Societe Generale Retail Banking in Paris, France, withheld a transfer to Cuba for the payment of professional education services in Equatorial Guinea. Despite being supported by collaboration agreements between the two countries, the financial institution considered…

Join the Cuban Workers’ Federation and Cuban Institute of Friendship between the Peoples for a celebration of May Day and international solidarity on Friday 30 April and Saturday 1 May. Events will be broadcast live on the CTC and ICAP Facebook pages. Details below. Friday 30 April – International Meeting of Solidarity with Cuba Opening…

Source: Minrex | Click here for original article Statement by the delegation of Cuba at the special commemorative meeting of the UN General Assembly in observance of the thirty-fifth anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. New York, 26 April 2021 Mr. President, Thirty-five years ago, the terrible nuclear accident at Chernobyl affected the lives of…

Source: The Morning Star | Click here for original article Cuba’s former President Raul Castro (centre) and President Miguel Diaz-Canel (second left) attend an event celebrating Revolution Day in Santiago, Cuba As the first secretary of the Cuban Communist Party steps down, BERNARD REGAN assesses whether he has achieved his task of modernising the celebrated…

The Cuban Workers’ Federation (CTC) has issued a worldwide call for trade unions and solidarity organisations to join its virtual celebration of International Workers’ Day on Saturday 1 May 2021. Joining with the Cuban Institute for Friendship between the Peoples (ICAP) and other mass membership organisations of Cuba, the CTC will host an International Forum…

Source: Prensa Latina y TeleSur | Click here for original article On 24 April the first stage of Cuba’s mass vaccination programme against COVID-19 will begin in Havana and authorities hope to have the entire population vaccinated by the end of August 2021. Family doctors offices ‘consultorios’ will become clinical sites for vaccine delivery. Each…

Fructuoso Rodriguez, Juan Pedro Carbo, Jose Machado and Joe Westbrook Fructuoso Rodriguez, Juan Pedro Carbo, Jose Machado and Joe Westbrook were four young university students who took part in the attack on dictator Fulgencio Batista’s presidential palace on 13 March 1957. (For those who have visited Havana, this is the building which now houses the…