Granma, November 14, 2019. President Miguel Díaz-Canel congratulated José Miyar Barruecos for his Honoris Causa. Cuba’s President, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, presided the 20th anniversary celebration of the Latin American School of Medicine (ELAM), which he described as “a visionary project founded to improve the quality of life of those who were born and died without having the opportunity to see a doctor.”
Granma, November 1, 2019. The gathering opened with the presence of more than 1200 delegates from around the world.
With the presence of José Ramón Machado Ventura, Second Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba Central Committee; Esteban Lazo, president of the National Assembly of People’s Power and Council of State; Cuban Foreign Minister, Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla; Ulises Guilarte, general secretary of the Federation of Cuban Workers; among
United Nations, 7 November 2019. With the support of 187 of its member states, 3 against (US, Israel and Brazil), two abstentions (Ukraine and Colombia), the UN General Assembly adopted on Thursday a new resolution calling for an end to the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the United States against Cuba.