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June 16 marked 55 years since the start of the first experiment - in Latin America and the Caribbean - of an international news agency not manipulated by the United States.
With words spoken by Ernesto Che Guevara for Cuba, some 50 years ago, during the First United Nations Conference on Trade and Development in Geneva, the first plenary session of the Group of 77 + China Summit was opened on Sunday, June 15.
A top executive of France’s BNP Paribas Bank has been forced into retirement amid a dispute involving a 10 billion dollar fine that Washington intends to impose on the financial institution in an extraterritorial action for having violated U.S. sanctions against Cuba, Sudan and Iran.
June 12, Mission Barrio Adentro II, launched by Bolivarian leader Hugo Chávez in 2005, celebrated its ninth anniversary with positive results in the medical care it provides to the population.
The recent 44th General Assembly of the Organization of American States (OAS) held in Paraguay’s capital Asunción, clearly showed that the United States is increasingly alone in its efforts to isolate Cuba, a strategy unsuccessfully followed since January of 1959.
A videoconference was held June 10, between Washington and Havana as part of the closing events of the 3rd Five Days for the Cuban Five. Participating in the videoconference were decorated Heroes of the Republic of Cuba, René González and Fernando González and from the U.S. a panel including lawyer José Pertierra, Gayle McLaughten, Mayor of Richmond, California, prestigious intellectual Ignacio Ramonet and Alicia Jrapko, coordinator of the International Committee for the Freedom of the Cuban Five.
The protest and solidarity event to which representatives from almost 30 countries - who are demanding the U.S. government release the three Cuban anti-terrorists currently incarcerated in federal prisons - is entering its final phase.
While secretary of state, Hillary Clinton urged President Barack Obama to ease the U.S. economic blockade against Cuba, according to excerpts from her memoir due out next week.
The movement of solidarity with Cuba in Catalonia, Spain, submitted a request to the U.S. consulate in Barcelona for a change in policy towards the island, and the release of three Cubans being held prisoner in the United States.
The western province of Artemisa, cradle of revolutionary traditions, has been selected as the main venue for the national July 26th celebrations this year, in acknowledgment of local efforts and results in different economic fields.
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