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Cuba's Deputy Foreign Minister, Elio Rodríguez, affirmed that the U.S. blockade of the island remains intact, according to La Estrella de Panamá newspaper.
Since the blockade was imposed, Cuba has suffered economic losses of around 160 billion dollars, Rodríguez said and added that it affects all aspects of the lives of Cubans, not only the government.
The Cuban Chamber of Commerce president, Antonio Carricarte, described the 17th ExpoCaribe Fair as brief but intense as he closed the event on Sunday.
He said that the attendance of 24 countries, mainly from the Caribbean area and after two years of confrontation with Covid-19, confirmed the interest in the Cuban economy and the degree of maturity achieved, especially in the preparation of entrepreneurs.
Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez on Sunday met with Anita Annet Among, speaker of the Ugandan Parliament, as part of his official visit to this African country.
At the meeting, the Cuban foreign minister highlighted the historic ties of friendship and cooperation between both nations, as well as the common interest in continuing to strengthen parliamentary ties, the Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs reported.
Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel acknowledged on Friday that beyond the policies for the empowerment of women promoted by the Revolution, there are still debts, for which there is a national program.
In a meeting in Havana with over a hundred Cuban women, the President said that if one Revolution has done for women, it is this one, but there are still challenges.
"We recognize all that has been done, but we cannot remain idle or complacent; there are still many things to be done," said the head of State.
The president of the National Assembly of People's Power of Cuba (Parliament), Esteban Lazo, highlighted the eve the contributions of young people to the country and the importance of their proposals to continue strengthening socialism.
At the National Capitol, the also president of the Council of State spoke with 110 young managers and workers from the Ministries of Internal Trade, Communications, Transportation and Tourism, whom he asked for feedback for representing sensitive sectors for the population.
A delegation from the Cuban National Assembly headed by its secretary Homero Acosta is culminating its work program in Belgium, where it strengthened ties with the House of Representatives and the European Union.
On the fourth and last day of work on Belgian soil, before traveling to Luxembourg, the group will conduct new meetings on the agenda in the Chamber and in the European Parliament, where issues such as cooperation, health, change climate, the reality of Cuba and the blockade imposed by the United States were addressed in previous days.
Belarussian Minister of Health Dimitri Pinevich received a BioCubaFarma delegation, June 21, visiting the country to discuss efforts to further develop commercial and scientific cooperation in the production of biopreparations and medications, reported Cubaminrex.
Pinevich highlighted the two countries great potential in this field, noting the need to strengthen the current Compensated Exchange Agreement between Cuba and Belarus.
With a milk powder cargo for Cuban pediatric hospitals, a group of 40 students from the United States will arrive in Havana on Wednesday along with the activist Carlos Lazo, coordinator of the Bridges of Love project.
The young people, who are also accompanied by some of their parents, are excited to lend a hand to the people of Cuba, Lazo told Prensa Latina shortly before leaving for Cuba from Miami.
The research work entitled “Design, Development and Preclinical Evaluation of Soberana 02, a Cuban vaccine against COVID-19” was granted the Jorge Gavilondo Cowley in Memóriam Annual Immunology Award, during the recent Latin American and Caribbean Congress of Immunology (Alaci-2022), reported the Finlay Vaccine Institute on its official Twitter account.
Party First Secretary and President of the Republic Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, continuing his tour of Cuban electrical generating plants, visited the Ernesto Guevara thermoelectric plant, in the municipality of Santa Cruz del Norte, in the province of Mayabeque, on Saturday, the 18th, where he commented, “We are confident that we can overcome this situation; the tour has been very encouraging, since the capacity and possibilities we have can be appreciated, and we better understand the tensions under which the work is being done, what is needed, the main aspects that mu
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