The blockade that the United States has imposed on Cuba for the last 60 years prevents, among other things, products manufactured in the United States from being exported to Cuba. This has prompted the small island nation to develop its own vaccines for COVID-19 and to work with open source designs for life-saving medical equipment such as ventilators.
The First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba Central Committee and President of the Republic, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, posted a message on Twitter lamentingthe death of the tireless Argentine social activist Alicia Jrapko, who devoted her life to the struggle to win justice for her disappeared comrades in her native country, the return of Elián to Cuba, the release of the Cuban Five and an end to the blockade.
Díaz-Canel concluded his note with an “Hasta siempre, hermana,” indicating that the country’s “sister” would never be forgotten.
Havana, January 12
Updating of preventive medication management, therapeutic treatment and admission protocols, was announced today in Cuba in view of the advance of the Omicron variant of the Sars-Cov-2, the cause of Covid-19.
According to a local television report, in a regular meeting of the government´s working group for the treatment and control of the disease, the increase in the number of positive cases was analyzed, amounting to 10, 934 only in the first week of January.
The Cuban musician living in the United States Ignacio (Nachito) Herrera gave the Amadeo Roldán Conservatory, in Havana, a donation of musical instruments to contribute to the development of artistic education in the country where he was trained as a musician.
Buenos Aires, Argentina, January 7, 2022.
His Excellency Mr. Marcelo Ebrard Casaubón, Secretary of Foreign Relations of the United Mexican States;
His Excellency Mr. Santiago Andrés Cafiero, Minister of Foreign Relations, International Trade and Worship of the Argentine Republic;
Dear Foreign Ministers, Heads of Delegations, National Coordinators and guests, friends, all: