Cuba and CARICOM strengthen ties amid Covid-19

Representatives of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and Cuba will virtually review their relations and opportunities to strengthen ties on Tuesday.
 
The 7th Summit of Heads of State and Government of the CARICOM-Cuba mechanism will analyze the region's main problems and the confrontation with the Covid-19 in a year marked by the pandemic effects.  
 
The context gives particular relevance to the usual meeting, said Rogelio Sierra, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, in a recent press conference held in Havana.  
 

Cuban President congratulates the Revolutionary Armed Forces on its day

Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel, congratulated on Wednesday the Revolutionary Armed Forces (FAR), founded in  honor of the Granma  yacht Granma  yacht landing.  
 
The president thanked on Twitter the work of the FAR, which he described as the "army of the people and for the people.  
 
On that day of 1956,  82 combatants led by Fidel Castro landed in eastern Cuba after setting sail on November 25 from the Mexican port of Tuxpan.  
 

British Parliamentarian nominates Cuban doctors for Nobel Prize

Labor lawmaker Kate Osborne on Saturday became the fifth member of the UK Parliament to formally nominate Cuban medical brigade Henry Reeve for the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize.
 
According to Rob Miller, director of the Campaign of Solidarity with Cuba (CSC), in her letter to the Norwegian committee in charge of granting the recognition, Osborne emphasized that the members of the internationalist contingent of the Caribbean island have assisted more than 300 thousand patients from nearly 40 countries during the Covid-19 pandemic.  
 

Cuba's National Ballet to pay tribute to Fidel Castro

Cuba's National Ballet (BNC) will pay tribute this Thursday to the historic leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro, with a gala that will also be dedicated to health workers.
 
Fidel provided an unconditional support to the company since the Revolution triumphed in 1959, and maintained a close friendly relationship with Cuban prima ballerina assoluta Alicia Alonso.
 

Cubans in Angola pay tribute to Fidel Castro

Due to the health restrictions imposed by Covid-19, the memorial ceremony gathered few people, but the youngest diplomats took advantage of the technology to compile in a video the expressions of affection and respect towards the statesman, whose legacy of universal scope receives this November 25 the deserved tribute in different parts of the world.
 

New book published in Vietnam pays tribute to Fidel Castro

A new book published in Vietnam pays tribute to the universal legacy of Commander in Chief Fidel Castro Ruz, through a compilation of testimonies, anecdotes, and facts that illustrate the close bond of the leader of the Cuban Revolution with the authorities and the people of the Asian country.
 
The Cuban Foreign Ministry's website, CubaMinrex,  highlighted the book's virtues, entitled Fidel and Vietnam, Unforgettable Memories.
 

French citizens ask to intensify global pressure on Cuba's blockade

The Cuba Cooperation France Association (CubaCoop) on Thursday urged to increase international pressure to end the US blockade on the island, a measure this group described as injustice.
 
On its weekly publication of La lettre électronique Hebdo, the association founded in 1995 to promote solidarity and collaboration with Cuba stressed that nothing can justify the economic, commercial and financial siege imposed on the Caribbean nation and advocated for defending each country's right to freely choose its social system and its leaders.
 

One party, Fidel’s

…I have the profound conviction that the existence of a party is, and must be, the form of political organization of our society, over a lengthy historical period, that no one can predict how long -

Colombians back Cuba in solidarity meeting

The 29th National Meeting of the Colombian Movement of Solidarity with Cuba will continue on Thursday with greetings from the representatives of organizations backing the Caribbean nation and a keynote speech about the relations with the United States.
 
During this second day of the virtual meeting held in Bogota, Yisel Ramirez, director of United States department at the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP), will speak on the current state of relations between Washington and Havana.
 

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