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Almost 60 years after its implementation, the United States blockade policy against the Cuban people is intensifying, in a context of heightened tensions impacting on the progress achieved by the two countries in the diplomatic sphere.
This is reflected in the Report to the United Nations General Assembly on Resolution 71/5 entitled “Necessity of Ending the Economic, Commercial, and Financial Blockade Imposed by the United States of America on Cuba,” which outlines the extensive damages suffered by the island.
Cuba will be represented at an international ministerial meeting on youth being held in Moscow from October 12th through the 14th. The delegation is headed by Cuban youth leader Susely Morfa Gonzalez.
The meeting in the Russian capital precedes the 19th World Festival of Youth and Students, slated to begin next Sunday in Sochi.
The US economic blockade against Cuba has caused damages estimated in more than 87 million dollars on the Island’s Public Health sector from April 2016 to March 2017, denounced Cuban medical doctors and students of medicine on Wednesday.
Several testimonies were presented at a hearing held by the Health and Sports Committee of the Cuban Parliament in the Havana-based Institute of Oncology and Radiology.
The political act and military interment ceremony of the remains of Carlos Manuel de Céspedes and Mariana Grajales began this Tuesday, October 10, in the presence of Army General Raúl Castro Ruz, President of the Councils of State and Ministers.
Minutes before the ceremony began, Raúl and members of the Party Political Bureau paid tribute in a guard of honor to the two independence heroes, known as the Father of the Homeland and the Mother of all Cubans.
On October 4, students and teachers from the Marta Abreu de Las Villas Central University, raised their voices in opposition to the cruel and genocidal economic , commercial, and financial blockade imposed by the U.S. on the island for over 50 years.
During the public debate, which saw the participation of several provincial deputies to the National Assembly of People’s Power, teachers and students from various faculties spoke about the impact of the policy on both peoples.
Cuban residents in Venezuela have called for the immediate end of U.S. blockade against Cuba and also the normalization of bilateral relations between both nations.
During the First Meeting of the Eastern Region of the Association of Cuban and Cuban Residents in Venezuela (ACCREVEN) in the city of Cumana, capital of the State of Sucre, on September 29, participants raised their voices against such a harsh policy, a really step backwards, according to a statement from the group.
A very important motivation for us as a Cuban delegation is the fact that among the personages to which the festival is dedicated is Commander-in-Chief Fidel Castro, so we will be there with activities to remember his memory, he pointed out.
“Cuba has excellent training in nursing which is reflected in the early advancement of specialization,” said Chilean Erika Caballero.
Caballero, a member of the Board of the International Council of Nurses (ICN), told Cuban press that for several years the Caribbean nation has given degrees of MSc. and PhD. in that branch, while these processes are just beginning in other regional nations.
U.S. blockade overwhelmingly rejected at United Nations
• THE UNITED NATIONS.- Although the world is currently facing many challenges - climate change, earthquakes, hurricanes, pandemics, and the threat of nuclear war - rejection of the United States economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed on Cuba was heard loud and clear in the high level segment of the UN General Assembly, which concluded September 25.
It is difficult to find the words to describe Gail Walker, an example of the pursuit of justice and fraternity, who has followed the tireless example of her father Lucius, a great friend of Cuba.
Recently, during a brief visit to Havana, the executive director of the Interreligious Foundation for Community Organization (IFCO), which organizes the annual Pastors for Peace Caravans, agreed to be interviewed by Granma International on the seventh anniversary of the death of Lucius Walker, and the 50th anniversary of this organization.
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