Mar
15
2024
Dedicated to the Cuban capital as Creative City of Music, the International Festival A Bridge to Havana will be held from April 26 to 28, according to the official note of the event released today.
In this new edition, Havana's Club 500 José Antonio Echeverría will host on its stage outstanding Cuban artists such as Los Van Van, Waldo Mendoza, Karamba, Buena Fe and Havana D'Primera, who will merge talent with musicians from Holland, Spain and Colombia.
Offering an overview of the current world scenario, Rodríguez Parrilla commented that “it is a difficult time, situations that characterized the world in previous decades are being overcome. It is a time of change and naturally provokes threats to international peace and security.
Cuba's agenda towards gender equality confirms the will of not losing spaces despite the complexities, according to the secretary general of the Federation of Cuban Women (FMC), Teresa Amarrelle.
On the occasion of her participation in the sessions of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women, the also member of the Council of State said that the progress made by the Caribbean nation in this area is not equivalent to standing idly by.
Kenia Borges Brotón, bartender at the Breeza bar of the Meliá Internacional Hotel in Varadero, won the top prize in the first international cocktail competition for women, which has just been held in Athens.
With her Perla del Norte cocktail, the young woman from Cardenas beat representatives from 15 other countries in the national category of the contest organized in the Greek capital under the name of Barlady, and was accompanied by the president of the Cuban Bartenders Association, Eddis Naranjo Carrillo.
A representation of the Federation of Cuban Women, headed by its general secretary Teresa Amarelle Boué, participates from today in the sessions of the Commission on the Status of Women based here.
The event, considered the largest annual UN meeting for the empowerment of women and girls, will run until the 22nd with debates focused on accelerating the achievement of equality, tackling poverty and strengthening institutions and financing with a gender perspective.
This weekend the Inter Regional Business Forum 2024 took place in Kuala Lumpur, capital of Malaysia, with the theme "Empowering Raletions between Latin American-The Caribbean and Southeast Asian Countries".
Among the participants from nine Latin American countries, the Cuban panelist, Manuel Cumbrado Muñiz, Vice Director of the Center for the Promotion of Foreign Trade and Foreign Investment in Cuba, ProCuba, stood out.
The reality of Cuba, the willingness to promote exchange and improve bilateral relations with the United States in all areas and the damage caused to Cuban families by U.S. unilateral coercive measures, were some of the topics that marked the exchange between the Deputy Director General for the United States of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Cuba and a group of students and professors from the University of Maryland.
