Namibia, August 2nd, 2019- The Charge d'Affaires a.i. from the Embassy of Cuba in Namibia, Aldo Fuentes, received at that diplomatic headquarters Eunice Iipinge, Secretary General of the SWAPO Party Women´s Council.
Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of International Relations and Cooperation of Namibia, received the Ambassador of Cuba, Giraldo Mazola, at the Foreign Ministry's headquarters.
Last Friday, June 16, 2017, the President of the United States of America, Donald Trump, in a speech full of rhetorical hostility, returned to the times of open confrontation against our country, announcing the new policy of his government towards Cuba, which reverses all the progress made during the past 2 years after the US. and Cuba announced in December 2014 the restoration of diplomatic relations and began a process for the gradual normalization of bilateral relations.
The measures announced by Trump, for example, impose additional obstacles to the already restricted business opportunities of US citizens to trade and invest in Cuba and go against the majority of the American people who want a normalization of relations between both Countries and the elimination of the so unjustified economic, financial and commercial blockade maintained by that government against Cuba.
We, Cubans living in Namibia, denounce the new measures announced by Trump and his new government, which are aimed at destroying the revolution but fail to do so, because the resistance of Cubans is more than proven against any type of aggression, being this demonstrated from the same triumph of the Cuban revolution.
We will not renounce all the achievements of our people and reiterate our commitment to our Cuban brothers to continue denouncing and repudiating any act that threatens our sovereignty and our principles.
Rafael Ramírez
President
Giraldo Mazola Collazo, Cuban Ambassador to Namibia, delivered to Genhart Gurirab, General Curator of the Independence Museum, a photo of the Hosea Kutaku School, which completes a special collection about Namibian education before Independence.
The Hosea Kutaku and Hendrik Witbooi Schools, both located on the Isle of Youth, were the ones that received during the 70s and 80s thousands of young Namibians, several hundred of them survivors of the Cassinga massacre.
The Museum has photos of the study centers abroad where the young Namibians were formed, but a sample of Cuban institutions was missing.
The Ambassador explained that during those years, around 25 thousand young Africans of different nationalities were simultaneously studying in the Isle of Youth. In addition, "Cuba placed as a condition that the countries of origin of students had to send with them a professor of history and another of geography from these nations." The flag that was in Cuban schools was the country of the student", he explained.
"Many of the graduates from these schools are prominent men and women from Namibia," said the Ambassador.
For his part, the curator thanked the gesture of the Cuban Embassy and expressed his satisfaction for the possibility to complete the collection. Gurirab was excited to "appreciate the place where many Namibian brothers and sisters studied and graduated." He also highlighted the historical relations between Cuba and Namibia.
The Minister of Eradication of Poverty and Social Welfare of Namibia, Bishop Zephania Kameeta and his delegation, began an official visit to Cuba today. The Minister complies with an invitation made by his homologue, Margarita González, Minister of Labor and Social Security.
A political and cultural act was held at the Central Hospital of Windhoek to farewell seven Cuban health workers, who concluded their mission in Namibia.
The event was chaired by Giraldo Mazola, Cuban Ambassador in this country, Dr. Aniuska Palacio, Chief of the Cuban Medical Brigade, and other members of the mission's diplomatic staff.
In the words of farewell, Dr. Aniuska expressed gratitude for the effort and willingness to help other peoples of the world who are most in need in the health sector. He also recalled the example of the Commander in Chief and the internationalist vocation he instilled in Cubans.
The doctor concluded with a well-known and valid phrase from our Commander in Chief: "To be internationalists is to pay off our own debt to humanity. Whoever is not able to fight for others will never be able to fight for himself. "
For his part, Cuban Ambassador Giraldo Mazola congratulated to the doctors for the work they had done and urged them to continue with the same dedication and commitment once they return to work in Cuba.
Windhoek, March 1, 2017.The General Secretary of the SWAPO Women's Council, Eunice Ipinge, presented at the headquarters of that political organization to the Cuban Ambassador in Namibia, Giraldo Mazola, a recognition to the Cuban Women's Federation (FMC) for its solidarity with the Namibian people in the struggle for national liberation and after their independence.
The women's leader remembered all the support provided by the Cuban people in general and the FMC in particular. In addition, she evoked the historic ties of friendship between the two nations
For his part, the Cuban Ambassador thanked the beautiful gesture on behalf of the FMC and updated about the achievements of the Revolution in the women sector.
