Fidel
Soldado de las Ideas
Giving a speech at the inaugural session of the Millennium Summit at UN Headquarters.
During an interview with Mario Silva, journalist and host of the program "La Hojilla" on Venezolana de Televisión (VTV), Silva states that he visited Cuba to dismantle the lies being spread by the Venezuelan opposition and the extreme right-wing of Miami that the Cuban leader had died.
The Cassinga massacre was the worst air attack perpetuated against the adherents of SWAPO, the political organization opposing South Africa's domination and occupation of Namibian territory.
Some 600 refugees, the majority women, children, and elders lost their lives at the hands of the apartheid forces.
The efforts of Cuban military forces that continued their advance toward
On November 18, 1959, Fidel stated "… Given its power, given its triumph since January 1, May Day has become a powerful factor, decisive in the political life of the country, because, with the general strike called with the Rebel Army, it was the working class that delivered the final blow to plans to snatch the people's victory at the last moment, as they had done on other occasions ..."
Cuba denounced at the United Nations in Geneva that the US economic, commercial and financial blockade against the island is the main obstacle to the right to development of the people.
During a speech at the 19th Period of Sessions of the Intergovernmental Working Group on the right to development, Cuban representative, Pablo Berti said that the blockade continues to be applied against the island, inflicting damages and scarcity to the population and is an obstacle to the development of our economy.
The President of Cuba's Councils of State and Ministers, today April 23, received Bolivian President Evo Morales Ayma, who is on an official visit to the country.
In statements to the press, Morales congratulated Cuba's new head of state and said he was happy to accompany Diaz-Canel during the important era the nation is living.
He stressed that he came to plan with Díaz-Canel and develop an agenda to continue the legacy of Comadante en Jefe Fidel Castro Ruz, adding that commercial and integration agreements are being discussed.
The First of May Solidarity with Cuba Brigade arrived Monday in Havana to participate in activities for International Workers' Day.
The members of the Caravan, from 32 countries, will also take part in agricultural work, meet with union leaders and workers, and visit educational, historical and cultural centers in the provinces of Havana, Villa Clara, Camagüey and Artemisa.
Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez was elected President of the Council of State of the Republic of Cuba, during Wednesday's second and final constitutive session of the IX Legislature of the National Assembly of People's Power or Cuban Parliament.
Belonging to the generation born after the triumph of the Revolution, Miguel Díaz-Canel – an Electronic Engineer with a master's degree in management- has been a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party since 2003.
I have not come to speak about Cuba. I do not come into the heart of this Assembly to air a denunciation about the aggressions our small but dignified country has suffered for 20 years. Nor do I come with unnecessary adjectives to wound our powerful neighbors here in their own house.We bring the mandate of the Sixth Conference of the Heads of State or Government of the Non-Aligned Movement, to present to the United Nations the outcome of their deliberations and the positions derived from them.
The Cuban Workers Federation (CTC) and national trade unions convoke our people to a massive mobilization to celebrate May Day, under the maxim of "Unity, Commitment, and Victory," at a very special time, as we undertake a fundamental process at the grassroots level leading to the 21st CTC Congress.
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