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The President of the United States, Barack Obama, announced yesterday that he had sent a plan to close the prison at the illegally occupied territory of Guantánamo Bay, in eastern Cuba.
Speaking to the nation, the President recognized “For many years, it’s been clear that the detention center at Guantánamo Bay does not advance our national security - it undermines it.”
The government of Equatorial Guinea confirmed it will continue strengthening today its collaboration with Cuba, a country that delivers benefits to its people.
Such statement emerged during the reception First Deputy Prime Minister of Equatorial Guinea, in charge of the Political Sector, Democracy, Interior and Local Corporations, Clemente Engonga Nguema, gave to Cuban ambassador, Pedro Doña, and a delegation from the Committees for the Defense of the Revolution (CDR), led by Alfredo Perez, director of International Relations department at the organization.
Cuba''s President, Raul Castro Ruz, called the people and institutions today to strictly enforce measures aimed at preventing the introduction and spreading of Zika virus in the country, for which a plan of action has been adopted.
Prensa Latina is posting below the full text of the call made by the Cuban president:
An appeal to our people,
Cuban President Raul Castro visited the National Seismological Research Center, where he learned firsthand about the anomalous situation in the eastern territory since early January, when about 1,463 seismic events have been reported.
Of that total, nearly 42 earth tremors were perceptible by people, Granma newspaper reported.
Sadly almost all religions have had to lament the destructive occurrence of wars and their terrible consequences. They have had to devote their greatest energies to those tasks. The singular importance of the meeting between Pope Francis and His Holiness Cyril in Havana is that it has aroused the hope of the peoples of the world.
The Director General for the U.S. at the Cuban Foreign Ministry, Josefina Vidal, says that U.S. President Barack Obama will be welcomed to Cuba with the island's traditional hospitality.
The upcoming official visit of the U.S. president to Havana -- slated for March 21st and 22nd -- was announced Thursday morning in both Cuba and the United States.
On the afternoon of February 16, Cuban Minister of Foreign Relations, Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, received U.S. Secretary of Transportation, Anthony Foxx, at the ministry headquarters, who was visiting Cuba to participate in the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding on the establishment of regular direct flights between Cuba and the U.S.
The challenges of inclusive economic and social development in Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as the innovative role higher education should play on it, are on the table today at the 10th International Congress, Universidad 2016.
Todayâ�Ös activities of the event will include a keynote speech on that issue, by Argentine political scientist and sociologist, Atilio Boron, and the beginning of a Forum of Rectors from higher education institutions.
Cuban Minister for Foreign Trade and Foreign Investment, Rodrigo Malmierca, visits today the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, where he will hold talks with managers and entrepreneurs from several sectors.
At the headquarters of the organization, representing the interests of more than three million businesses in the northern country, the minister will be received by the president of the Chamber, Thomas Donahue, and Executive Vice President and Head of International Affairs, Myron Brilliant.
New bridges on the Cuban and U.S. cultural life are erected today at the main headquarters of the International Book Fair, Cuba 2016, resulting from the meeting of publishers from both sides.
For two days, about 40 Cuban and American publishers, as well as specialists, business men and women will be interested for the peculiarities of the book market in these two nations that allow to plan several exchange actions.
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