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Havana Film Festival opens with a tribute to Nicolás G. Landrián.

The emblematic Havana Film Festival of this city will begin its program of activities today with a tribute to Cuban film director Nicolás Guillén Landrián (1938-2003), which will open the doors of its 24th edition.

The opening day, held at Hofstra University, will feature the screening of En un barrio viejo, Los del baile and Ociel del Toa, creations by the director, who is considered one of the members of the Cuban film avant-garde of the 1960s and early 1970s, particularly for his documentary work.

Every contribution of solidarity, no matter how small, defies the blockade, hatred and evil

More than 600 donations were collected in the United States, just 24 hours after the start of the last solidarity campaign in that nation to send food to Cuba.
The executive director of the organization The People's Forum, Manolo de los Santos, assured Granma that this shows the solidarity feeling of the American people with the Caribbean Island, in spite of the hatred and malice shown by successive US governments in their attempts to overthrow the Revolution, by tightening sanctions.

PAHO/WHO highlights the humanism of the Cuban health system.

World Health Day in Cuba today is a celebration for the Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO), said the representative of these organizations, Dr. Mario Cruz Peñate.    

The specialist defined the date as a space for growth and an opportunity to reflect together on what more can be done together for the benefit of all, according to the Cuban Ministry of Public Health (Minsap) website.

Cuba prioritizes feeding the people in the face of the U.S. blockade.

Cuba today makes colossal efforts to guarantee food for the population, in the midst of the great obstacles imposed by the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the United States.

According to President Miguel Díaz-Canel, that hostile policy of suffocation, strengthened in recent years to unprecedented levels, forced the country to carry out a titanic task since its imposition in the early years of the Revolution.

Panama denounces the extraterritorial nature of the U.S. blockade of Cuba.

The Cuban ambassador to Panama, Victor Cairo, today denounced the extraterritorial nature of the blockade imposed by the United States on the island for more than six decades.

In an opinion article published in the newspaper La Estrella de Panamá, the diplomat stated that the economic, commercial and financial siege transcends the bilateral framework and quotes the special rapporteur of the United Nations Human Rights Council, Alena Dohan, on the negative impact of the unilateral coercive measures.

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