The International Movement for a Just World (JUST), a prestigious organization based in Malaysia, recently highlighted in its newsletter a call made by a U.S. senator to end the economic, commercial, and financial blockade imposed by the United States on Cuba for over 60 years.
The Cuban Embassy in Kuala Lumpur and the Friends of Cuba Association in Malaysia (FOCA) organized an evening dedicated to Cuban Culture this Friday, May 3.
The event was attended by FOCA members, and a group of ambassadors accredited to Malaysia, as well as figures from the foreign ministry and government of this Southeast Asian country, were also invited.
This May Day, International Workers' Day, was special, because at the Residence of the Cuban Ambassador in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysian doctors who graduated in Cuba gathered to remember their stay on the Caribbean Island and celebrate their ties with our country.
The Malaysian Socialist Party (Parti Sosialis Malaysia, PSM) developed this week the Solidarity Forum with the theme Resistance and Liberation in the 21st Century.
The Cuban ambassador to Malaysia, Florentino Batista González, was invited as a speaker at this event, which took place in a hybrid manner (in-person and online).
Florentino Batista spoke about Cultural Colonization, and how the phenomenon of categorizing and labeling certain nations or situations dominates the global discourse of the major media and governments.
This April 23, the International Spanish Language Day was celebrated in Kuala Lumpur, capital of Malaysia, with an event organized jointly by the embassies of Cuba, Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Spain, Mexico, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela.
The event was made up of various activities to celebrate the second most spoken language in the world, among which were story telling for children, talks with Spanish language students, reading texts, the awarding of a micro-story contest, and dances and interpretations. of songs from the organizing countries.