Ambassador Lianys Torres Rivera, Cuban chargé d'affaires to the US, sent the following message to the solidarity meeting with Cuba that took place in Los Angeles on July 16, 2022, organized by Hands Off Cuba and Puentes de Amor:
Washington, Jul 12
Today´s US policy towards Cuba is "wrong, counterproductive and stupid," said Jim McGovern (D-Mass) at a Boston town council hearing.
In the meeting, focused on a US blockade resolution, McGovern asserted this economic, commercial and financial blockade disproportionately impacts the Cuban families.
McGovern, who has long visited Cuba, referred to measures that hinder to send family remittances to Cuba and hindrances to buying food and medicine, even amid the Covid-19 pandemic.
In the year 1930 a friendship was born between the National Poet of Cuba Nicolás Guillén (1902-1989) and the American writer Langston Hughes (1902-1967) that has survived to this day. This excellent relationship materialized this July 11 with the inauguration of a commemorative plaque at the headquarters of the National Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba (Uneac).
This people has fought tirelessly for its independence. It wins every time someone tries to take it away from it, it fearlessly faces those who try to deprive it of its right to decide how it wants to live. It will therefore never submit to provocations or threats
july 11, 2022
For Cubans, the month of July is clearly synonymous with revolution. For this is the month with the glorious 26th, when José Martí was reborn to lead, from his immeasurably great legacy, Fidel and the entire generation that continued the irreversible path to Cuba's full dignity.
The New Yorker magazine, July 11-18, 2022 edition, in its poems section, publishes the one entitled "The Dead", by Nancy Morejón, National Prize for Literature laureate of Cuba, which was dedicated to the Hispanicist and translator Jacques Gilard. The translation is by Pamela Carmell.
The poem is part of the Bambula Funda anthology, published in Quito, Ecuador, in 2019, by the “El Ángel” publishing house.
Source: Facebook profile of Patricia Pego Guerra