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British academic Helen Yaffe affirmed on Wednesday that the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the United States on Cuba is real and affects all aspects of its people's life.
Critics of Cuba blame the government for the daily problems faced by the population, and claim that the US sanctions are just a pretext, but it is like blaming someone for not knowing how to swim well while they are kept chained on land, Yaffe said in an opinion article published in The Guardian newspaper.
Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez on Wednesday called on politicians from Florida, the United States, to use the funds dedicated to the subversion against Cuba to fight Covid-19.
On his Twitter account, Rodriguez pointed out that while from Florida those politicians promote a 'humanitarian intervention' in Cuba, the US has accumulated 2.6 million Covid-19 cases and 39,000 deaths.
Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel highlighted on Tuesday the performances of Cuban athletes who won two gold medals during this Olympic Games in Tokyo 2020.
Heart-stopping competition spent by Fernando Dayán Jorge and Serguey Torres in the C-2 to 1000 meters! Another spectacular gold for Cuba in Tokyo2020. Congratulations, guys, last night you had millions of Cubans rowing with you!" wrote the President.
Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez on Sunday thanked Venezuela for its food donation in the face of US hostility and blockade against the two countries.
On Twitter, Bruno Rodríguez welcomed the Venezuelan donation, as Cuba is presently facing up its most critical moment due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
'Solidarity between our peoples is strengthened in the face of imperialist hostility and fierce blockade that intends to give in for hunger and necessity,' Bruno Rodríguez tweeted.
A Bolivian Air Force plane on Friday left for Cuba with a shipment of solidarity aid consisting of 20 tons of medical supplies and food.
The shipment was approved by Supreme Decree to help the Caribbean nation that suffers the impact of the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the United States for 60 years and the fight against a rise in Covid-19 contagions.
'Heading for our sister Republic of Cuba, bearing love and solidarity from the Bolivian people,' Minister of the Presidency Maria Nela Prada informed.
Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel congratulated Monday all citizens on National Rebellion Day and reiterated his call for peace, work, and unity.
Through his official Twitter account, the President thanked all the friends of the world for their support to the island and ratified the country's willingness to 'move forward together.
The Association Community of Cuban Residents in Angola (ACCRA) on Tuesday spread on social media a condemnation to the United States Government for maintaining a cruel economic blockade against the Caribbean nation.
'We are aware of the complex conditions of our brave people, exacerbated by the terrible Covid-19 pandemic that is hitting the world and the increase in the measures of the brutal blockade,' the text states.
The United States' blockade against Cuba prevents the health system from accessing the necessary supplies to protect and safeguard the people, Jorge Guerra, a Cuban resident in Panama, said.
For this reason, those who are living in Latin America stage several caravans and campaigns to denounce this asphyxiation strategy and facilitate the purchase of more than five million syringes, from which a significant number has already arrived in Cuba, while another is on the way.
After three sessions where this issue has been discussed, when many interesting things have been said; and knowing many of them have been discussed even though others have been left unanswered for the moment -- although it was materially impossible to addressed each and every one the matters brought to these meetings--- It is now our turn out of necessity, not as the person most qualified to speak about this matter, but considering this is been a meeting you and us, to express here certain points of view.
Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel on Wednesday paid tribute to the revolutionaries fighters Salvador Pascual, Floro Vistel and Josue Pais, who were assassinated on June 30, 1957, under the Fulgencio Batista dictatorship (1952-1959).
On his official Twitter account, the president evoked some words about the martyrs by Frank Pais, who was the chief of Action and Sabotage of the 26th of July Movement and a member of its national leadership, in a letter to the historic leader of the Revolution, Fidel Castro.
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