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This Tuesday Cuba is observing the Day of the Martyrs of the Revolution. The date remembers the brutal assassination by the Batista Dictatorship henchmen of the underground leader Frank Pais and his comrade Raul Pujol on July 30, 1957 in the eastern city of Santiago de Cuba.
Early this Tuesday local residents and leaders of the city placed l a floral wreath on the site where the assassination occurred. Frank Pais, who was 22 years old when he was killed, was the National Action and Sabotage Chief of the 26 of July Movement.
The 28th contingent of the Juan Rius Rivera solidarity Brigade hailing from Puerto Rico is starting Monday its official activities in Cuba
The group is made up of 58 people who are dedicating their presence in Cuba this year to Puerto Rico's independence heroine Lolita Lebron, whose centennial is being marked this year.
A visit with a young Cuban doctor, working in a remote community in Venezuela’s easternmost state, Delta Amacuro.
Cuba''s Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez stressed that the hardening of the criminal US economic, financial and commercial blockade on the island ''will neither break us, stop us nor choke us.''
Rodríguez made the statement at a ceremony to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the International Press Center, an institution attached to the Foreign Ministry, where he asserted that Cuba will face up to the full activation of the Helms-Burton Act and other sanctions 'with all our capacity of resistance and victory,' he underscored.
The hostility of the United States Government against Cuba with the activation of Title III of the Helms-Burton Act, which tightens the blockade, is still being condemned by world organizations.
In Rome, political and solidarity organizations with Cuba held a protest against the intensification of U.S. policy towards the Caribbean nation.
The Cuban Parliament held a meeting on Wednesday for the introduction of the draft of the new Electoral Law, which will be discussed by lawmakers and legal experts island wide before its approval.
The change of the electoral law was mandated by the recently approved Constitution, which established that the legislation should be approved six months after the enactment of the New Magna Carta.
As recentes restrições impostas pela administração de Donald Trump para limitar as viagens dos norte-americanos a Cuba são rechaçadas em um dos principais cenários dos Estados Unidos: o Congresso federal.
Quando no início deste mês o executivo do presidente republicano divulgou que aplicaria novas medidas para fazer ainda mais difícil as visitas ao país vizinho, diversas vozes do Capitólio se pronunciaram na contramão desse passo.
The degradation of relations between the U.S. and Cuba under President Donald Trump has begun to cut into scientific and medical cooperation on issues such as treatment of infectious diseases and coral reef preservation, reports Associated Press.
A biomedical fellowship exchange program has been put on hold. Cuban cardiac nurses have stopped providing training to universities in Georgia and Maryland. A Cuban marine researcher has stopped accepting invitations to events in the U.S. because it's nearly impossible to get visas.
CUBA not only prides itself on having a rate of 8.5 doctors per thousand inhabitants, one of the best in the world, but also because “due to the values of solidarity and humanism that characterize us, from 1963 to the present, 407,000 health professionals have been present in 164 countries on all continents. Currently, there are more than 29,000 in 66 nations,” Cuban Public Health Minister, Dr. José Ángel Portal Miranda, recently noted on speaking at the 72nd session of the World Health Assembly, held in Geneva, Switzerland, May 20 through 28.
Cubans are truly committed to the principle of sovereignty, we are protective of our independence, and we would never do to others what we would not allow to be done to ourselves.
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