After 10 days, the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival concluded on May 7, one of the most important music festivals in the United States, which featured Cuba as the invited country in its 48th edition.
On May 8, at the Memorial to the Norwegian Sailors Fallen during World Wars I and II located, since 1926, in the coastal town of Stavern, four new memorial plaques were unveiled to honor foreign sailors killed on Norwegian ships during the second world conflagration. One of them was the Cuban JOSÉ LINO ORAMAS, born in 1909 in the city of Matanzas, who joined the Norwegian Merchant Navy on a date undetermined. He worked as a galley boy aboard the Norwegian freighter "Bonneville".
New York, 8 May 2017. Cuba outlined its considerations regarding regional representation, widening of its membership and member category, in consultations on intergovernmental negotiations on Security Council reform.
Last May 8, it was held an emotional and intense tribute to the Commander and chief of the Cuban revolution Fidel Castro Ruz in Athens, Greece, in an activity that gathered more than 330 people from all areas of Greek society, toghether with Cuban resident . The legacy of Fidel and his example of tireless fighter for Cuba and Mankind , will last forever in our hearts.
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The Wellington Branch of the New Zealand Institute of International Affairs invites you to a talk by the Ambassador of Cuba to New Zealand, His Excellency Mario Alzugaray Rodriguez. Mr Alzugaray will provide his reflections on contemporary Cuban foreign policy and the Cuba - New Zealand relationship.
Date: 16 May 2017, 5:40 – 6.40 pm
Venue: RHLT2, Rutherford House Victoria University ofWellington –
Pipitea Campus, 23 Lambton Quay, Wellington