Havana, January 23, 2019.- The Revolutionary Government of the Republic of Cuba strongly condemns and rejects the attempt to impose through a coup a puppet government in the service of the United States in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and expresses its unwavering solidarity with the Government of the constitutional president Nicolás Maduro Moros.
Pretoria, January 22 2019.- The Ambassador of Cuba in South Africa, Rodolfo Benítez Verson, held a meeting at the Embassy of the Island in Pretoria with Comrade Bonginkosi Emmanuel "Blade" Nzimande, Minister of Transport and Secretary General of the Communist Party of South Africa.
During the meeting the parties exchanged on various issues of the bilateral and international agenda, and preparations were completed for the work visit to Cuba of Comrade Nzimande at the head of a South African delegation, from January 20-23.
Pretoria, January 18,2019.- On January 16, 2019, the US State Department announced the decision to suspend, only for 45 days, the implementation of Title III of the Helms-Burton Act, “in order to conduct a careful review …in light of the national interests of the United States and the efforts to expedite a transition to democracy in Cuba, and include factors such as the Cuba’s regime’s brutal oppression of human rights and fundamental freedoms and its indefensible support for increasingly authoritarian and corrupt regimes in Venezuela and Nicaragua.”