Declaration by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES IS EARMARKING MILLIONS OF DOLLARS TO OBSTRUCT CUBAN MEDICAL COOPERATION
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs energetically denounces and condemns the recent aggression of the government of the United States against Cuba via a USAID program designed to fund actions and information searches to discredit and sabotage the international cooperation being provided by Cuba in the health area in dozens of countries for the benefit of millions of persons. This is an endeavor added to the crude pressures exercised against a number of governments in order to obstruct Cuban cooperation and to the earlier efforts for the same purpose such as the special “parole” program designed to steal human resources trained in Cuba.
“Latin America says NO to imperialism"
June 29, Thessaloniki, At the premises of the Antiracist Festival in Thessaloniki, Panhellenic Antiwar Movement Coordination (PAKS /ΠΑΚΣ - http://antipolemikos.gr ) organized a debate titled “Latin America says no to imperialism”.
Solidarity with Cuba and condemnation of the blockade in Athens
Athens, June 27. It was held a massive political-cultural activity of solidarity with Cuba entitled "The Cuba of our heart and our dreams: 60 years of the Cuban revolution", organized by the cultural association Ano Ampelokipi in an outdoor Amphitheatre.
The United States has no authority to judge Cuba’s performance against trafficking in persons Statement by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
On June 20, 2019, the US State Department added Cuba to the lowest tier in its 2019 Trafficking in Persons Report. The Report claims that “Cuba does not fully meet the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking and is not making significant efforts to do so.”
First Vice-President of Cuba meets with the leader of the World Federation of trade unions
CUBA, June 21, 2019-First Vice President of Cuba, Salvador Valdes Mesa, met in Geneva with the Secretary general of the World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU), George Mavrikos, within the scope of the annual Conference of the International Organization of Labour (ILO).
During the sustained exchange, Valdes Mesa and Mavrikos tried on the situation of the trade union movement in the world and the traditional solidarity stance of the WFTU with Latin America, in particular towards Cuba and Venezuela.