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China and Cuba began the official program of commemorations for the 175th anniversary of the arrival of the first Chinese immigrants in Cuba.
The ambassadors, Ma Hui and Carlos Miguel Pereira, held a videoconference at the launch, along with officials from other institutions of their respective governments.
During the activity, both the officials highlighted the Chinese footprint left in Cuba, its contributions to the national identity and the participation of many Chinese in the struggles for the independence of Cuba.
Cuba described the Summit of the Americas as a forum of imperialist domination and exclusion, according to a statement by the Revolutionary Government released by the Foreign Ministry this Monday.
The statement pointed out that the United States abuses the privilege granted by its status as host country of the summit to decide early to exclude Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua.
It stressed that Washington refused to heed the just demands of a number of governments to change this discriminatory and unacceptable position.
Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel on Wednesday publicly thanked the Man of the Year seal granted to him by the Confederation of Italians Around the World (CIM).
On his Twitter account, the president thanked the CIM “for the awards given, especially to our medical brigades that in the darkest days of the pandemic went to Italy to save lives.”
Later, he pointed out that “the relations between our countries are based on respect and solidarity.”
There is an inexplicable magic in children. They mysteriously capture everything that surrounds them with their emotions and feelings, coloring the world and its people.
Their smiles warm our souls; but we cannot bear to see a hint of pain or sadness cross their faces.
This is why there are few things in the world as sacred as the duty to protect those smiles.
"Solidarity cannot be blockaded," stated Party First Secretary and President of the Republic, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, yesterday May 29, expressing his gratitude to the many friends and Cubans living abroad, members of solidarity movements who participated in another day of protest in cities across the planet against the U.S. economic, commercial and financial blockade of Cuba.
The member countries of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America-People’s Trade Treaty (ALBA-TCP) ratified in the final Declaration of the 21st Summit the commitment to strengthen the group as an instrument of union of peoples, on the basis of the principles of solidarity, social justice, cooperation and economic complementarity.
Nicolás Maduro Moros, President of Venezuela, one of the nations the United States has excluded from the Los Angeles Summit of the Americas along with Cuba and Nicaragua, took the floor this morning during the XXI Summit of Heads of State and Government of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America-Treaty of Commerce of the Peoples (ALBA-TCP).
He noted that participants Havana Summit had shared an "intense, open and frank debate" on the path forward for Our America, at this stage, a dialogue among equals.
The XXI Summit of Heads of State and Government of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America-People's Trade Treaty (ALBA-TCP) is meeting today in Havana.
The First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba Central Committee and President of the Republic, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, received the presidents, prime ministers and high-ranking leaders of Venezuela, Nicaragua, Bolivia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Grenada, Dominica, Antigua and Barbuda, Saint Kitts and Nevis and Saint Lucia, who will participate in the official meeting.
The exclusion of Cuban civil society organizations, from both virtual and face-to-face activities of the Summit of the Americas’ Civil Society Forum, was condemned by participants in the III Forum of Cuban Civil Society and Social Actors, under the banner of "Thinking Americas," which took place yesterday at the José Martí National Library, convened by the Cuban United Nations Association.
The Office of the Historian of Havana city is currently preparing the 6th Meeting of Young Pianists, a cultural space for Cuban and foreign pianists.
Published by: Aleynes Palacios Hurtado
This meeting, devised a decade ago by professor Salomon Mikowsky and historian Eusebio Leal, will feature seven students of the US Manhattan School of Music in this edition at the best halls for classical music in this capital.
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