Havana, May 5 (Prensa Latina) The Cuban Minister of Foreign Affairs, Bruno Rodríguez, said on Monday that the US blockade against Cuba continues, and so does solidarity with this Caribbean country.
Ulaanbaatar, September 26, 2019. Invited by the Faculty of International Relations and Public Administration of the National University of Mongolia, the Ambassador of Cuba Raúl Delgado Concepción offered a conference as part of the Program of Conferences of Distinguished Personalities in Mongolia for students of Senior year.
Beirut, 12 september 2019. The General Director of Political and Consular Affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Lebanon Mr. Ghadi Khoury received the Ambassador of Cuba Alexander Pellicer Moraga, in the Boutros Palace the headquarters of the Ministry.
In the cordial meeting, bilateral issues and the situation in the Middle East and Latin America were discussed, while the interest of both parties to continue working to strengthen cooperation ties in all spheres of common interest was reaffirmed.
The Revolutionary Government of the Republic of Cuba repudiates, in the strongest terms, measures announced by the United States government on June 4, 2019, reinforcing the economic blockade imposed on Cuba for more than 60 years, at a cost to the Cuban economy that in 2018 exceeded 134 billion dollars at current prices, or 933 billion dollars, when considering the depreciation of the dollar as compared to the value of gold on the international market.As is known, this new escalation, effective June 5, further strengthens the stringent restrictions U.S. citizens face in order to travel to Cuba, and adds full prohibitions on travel by sea from the United States, of all types, and prohibits cruise ship stops in our country immediately.
Namibia, May 6th, 2019- The television program "Good Morning Namibia", of the national television network NBC, hosted the Cuban diplomatic Aldo Fuentes, who talked about the US Blockade against Cuba, the Helms Burton Act and its Title III.
During a press conference today, Cuba’s Foreign Minister, Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, denounced the U.S. State Department, which, he noted, “is busy in dozens of capitals around the world mobilizing efforts to economically attack Cuba"
Today, April 17, is the anniversary of the launching of the United State’s 1961 military invasion at Playa Girón. (Bay of Pigs) The Cuban people’s resolute response in defense of the Revolution and socialism, within only 72 hours, produced the first military defeat of imperialism in America.
Strangely, the date was chosen by the current U.S. government to announce new aggressive measures against Cuba and to reinforce their implementation of the Monroe Doctrine.
The US State Department announced today the decision to allow, as from March 19 this year, the filing of lawsuits before US courts under Title III of the Helms-Burton Act only against Cuban companies included in the List of Restricted Entities issued by that government on November of 2017, which was updated one year later.
The friendship organizations with Cuba in Azerbaijan and Georgia announced through their leaders' pronouncements the support for the Cuban people and the condemnation of the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the United States on the island for more than half a century.
In friendly meetings held at the Embassy of the Republic in Baku with Arif Huseynov, of Azerbaijan and Pavel Djibouti of Georgia, the Cuban ambassador, Alfredo Nieves Portuondo, offered details about the effects caused to the Cuban people by the blockade.
