Cuba thanked the U.S. group Hatuey for the donation of cytostatics for children with cancer, needles for bone marrow extraction, catheters and other means, at a press conference held today by organizers of that solidarity group at the headquarters of the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP).
Scientists, doctors, politicians and diplomats met at the Cuban Embassy in Washington D.C. to discuss the present and future of collaboration in biomedical and biotechnological research between Cuba and the United States.
The director of the Center for Neurosciences of Cuba, Dr. Mitchel Valdés, the professor of Biophysical Physiology and Psychiatry, Mark Rasenick and the president of Discovery Therapeutics Caribe (DTC), Lee Weingart, presented the opportunities for collaboration that exist between both countries in these sectors.
A score of U.S.-based Protestant church bodies urged President Joe Biden to make substantial changes in bilateral relations with Cuba, including its removal from the State Department's List of State Sponsors of Terrorism (LEPT).
In a letter dated May 9, 12 organizations representing different religious denominations and 8 faith-based institutions point out that the current U.S. policy of strangling Cuban society with an economic blockade to force it to overthrow its government is morally unacceptable and contrary to their faith; as well as to basic human rights principles.
Statement by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
According to U.S. official media reports, on 15 May 2024, the country’s State Secretary submitted to the Congress one more of the arbitrary reports that normally describe countries without any international mandate or recorgnition. This time, he listed four countries who allegedly “do not fully cooperate with the United States antiterrorist efforts for the 2023 calendar year.” As opposed to what has happened in recent years, the list does not slanderously include Cuba among such countries.
Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel reiterated the will to advance in its economic and social development, despite the intensification of the U.S. blockade that attempts to subvert the revolutionary process.
In an interview with Spanish journalist and writer Ignacio Ramonet, published today in the Granma newspaper (the newspaper with the largest circulation), the Cuban leader affirmed that in the face of these aggressions, the country has not remained idle and is developing its capacity to resist.