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Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez on Tuesday strongly condemned the surging world economic inequality that keeps poverty, hunger, and social exclusion going.
On Twitter, the Cuban foreign minister alluded to a report by the non-governmental organization Oxfam, which revealed that “out of every $100 of world wealth generated in the last ten years, $54 ended up in hands of the world´s 1% richest people and only $0.70 were received by the world´s 50% poorest population”.
The 31st Havana International Book Fair ended with the awards to the best exhibitors and recognition to Colombia, guest of honor country.
At the San Carlos de la Cabaña Fortress, the main venue of the event, Cuban Vice Minister of Culture, Fernando Rojas, presented a recognition to Angela Beltrán, director of Arts of the Colombian Ministry of Culture for the active participation and the large delegation this nation brought to the most important literary event in Cuba.
Cuba's Minister of Foreign Trade, Rodrigo Malmierca, will hold an official meeting today with Colombia's Minister of Trade, Industry, and Tourism, Germán Umaña, to strengthen bilateral ties.
Other authorities of that portfolio and the National Institute for the Surveillance of Medicines and Food (Invima) will participate in the meeting.
Cubans pay tribute to Perucho Figueredo, creator of the National Anthem, who was born on a day like today in 1818.
Despite his family ties with the Spanish colonial power, he was linked to the independence movement and composed La Bayamesa, a song whose lyrics he would write on October 20, 1869, when the Cuban Liberation Army took his hometown, Bayamo, which later became the National Anthem.
Directors of civil organizations in Angola and the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP) shared Friday in Luanda, experiences on human solidarity in the national and international spheres.
The president of the Angolan League of Friendship and Solidarity with the Peoples (Laasp), Elisa Pedro told the press that she preferred to qualify the meeting as a classroom open to knowledge, instead of using the term meeting.
Through his Twitter account, the Cuban president recalled the 100 years since the signing of the agreement that allowed the illegal establishment in Cuba of the U.S. naval base in Guantanamo.
Díaz-Canel wrote, "Our sovereignty was severed, this day in 1903, when Tomás Estrada Palma signed the cession of the territory that remains illegally occupied by the United States against the will of the Cuban people. #CubaLivesInHistory."
The renowned Spanish writer, professor, and journalist based in France, Ignacio Ramonet, warned Wednesday that the extreme right in the world wants to snatch from the left the epic of insurrection.
During a meeting with students and professors of the Higher Institute of International Relations (ISRI), in Havana, Ramonet explained that proof of this was the assault on the U.S. Capitol, an unprecedented event in the history of the North American country and that he analyzes in depth in his book "The Age of Conspiracy Building".
Cuba today recalls the visit of the Patriarch of Moscow and All of Russia, His Holiness Kirill, who held a historic meeting with Pope Francis in this capital.
Army General and at that time president of the Councils of State and Ministers, Raúl Castro, bid farewell on a day like today in 2016 to the religious leader, to whom days before he presented the José Martí Order, the highest decoration awarded by the Cuban State.
Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez received at the Palace of the Revolution His Excellency Abdelhak Saihi, Minister of Health of Algeria, and the delegation accompanying him to the 23rd Session of the Joint Intergovernmental Commission between the two countries and the bilateral business forum.
The Head of State referred to his recent visit to Algeria in November last year and highlighted the important conversations held with the President and Prime Minister of the sister nation.
Venezuelan Attorney General Tarek William Saab announced Thursday that during his visit to Cuba, the existing collaboration agreement between the Public Prosecutor's Offices of both countries will be renewed.
In a press conference at Casa de las Americas in Havana, the lawyer and writer commented that he will hold meetings related to the cultural and judicial spheres, including a meeting tomorrow, February 10, with representatives of the Attorney General's Office to strengthen cooperation.
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