The Cuban revolution reiterates its firm determination to face the escalation in aggression by the United States
Declaration of the Revolutionary Govenment
Today, the 17th of April, we celebrate another anniversary of the start of the military aggression at the Bay of Pigs (Playa Girón) in 1961. The decisive response of the Cuban people in defense of the Revolution and socialism resulted in the first military defeat of imperialism in the Americas, in just 72 hours.
Where is Canada’s backbone in standing up to the U.S. on Cuba?
In June, 1996, mere months after the U.S. Congress passed the Helms-Burton Act to tighten the screws on Cuba’s economy, Canada became the first country to publicly say “no” to Washington’s plan.
Back then, Ottawa announced it would introduce new legislation to blunt the bully-boy impact of Title III – an extra-territorial section of that law that prohibits non-U.S. companies from “trafficking” in what the United States claims is American property confiscated after the 1959 Cuban revolution – and threatened to take the United States to international arbitration.
Cuba attends Latin American Film Festival Opening Ceremony in Ottawa
Ottawa, April 12, 2019.–The 23rd edition of the Ottawa Latin American Film Festival, organized by the Canadian Film Institute, was officially opened this Friday in the Alma Duncan room of the Art Gallery of the Canadian capital and will run until next May 1st.
In this edition, Cuba will present on Thursday, April 18, the film Nido de Mantis (Mantis´ Nest) with the presence of outstanding Cuban actor Luis Alberto García, one of the central characters of the film.
Cuban Ambassador to Canada Presents New Cuban Constitution at Canada´s Senate
Ottawa, April 9, 2019.- In a meeting organized at the Senate of Canada by the Honourable Senator Pierrette Ringuette, Co-Chair of the Canada-Cuba Parliamentary Friendship Group, Cuban Ambassador to Canada H.E. Josefina Vidal Ferreiro made a presentation on the newly approved Cuban Constitution.