Greece and Cuba reaffirm friendship against the blockade
Athens. A meeting was held at the Cuban embassy in Greece, between Ambassador Zelmys Maria Dominguez Cortina, Nikos Theodorakis, son of the prestigious Greek musician and revolutionary Mikis Theodorakis, recently deceased, and Velisarios Kossivakis, coordinator of the Greek initiative to apply for the Nobel Prize to the Henry Reeve contingent of Cuban doctors.
Speech by Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Cuban Communist Party and President of the Republic, at the United Nations Food Systems Summit, from the Palacio de la Revolución, September 23, 2021, “Year 63 of the Re
Mr Secretary General,
Mr President,
I have come to speak on behalf of a people coerced with the threat of starvation for over 60 years.
In April 1960, in a notorious and long-time secret memorandum, a minor US State Department official named Lester Mallory drafted the bases of the policy of blockade against Cuba, aimed at causing hunger, desperation and the overthrow of the government.
61 years have gone by and the sanctions imposed with the intention of causing hunger and desperation are not only still in place, but have been opportunistically intensified in the present pandemic conditions.
Statement by H.E. Mr. Miguel Mario Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and president of the Republic, at the General Debate of the Seventy-Sixth Regular Session of the United Nations General Assembl
Mr. Secretary General;
Mr. President;
We are living uncertain times. Under the demolishing impact of a pandemic that has worsened structural inequities and the global crisis, the role of multilateralism and the United Nations becomes ever more important. And international cooperation has been insufficient.
The implementation of neo-liberal formulas for decades has been reducing States’ capabilities to meet the needs of their populations.
The most vulnerable have been left unprotected, while rich nations, the elites and the pharmaceutical transnational corporations have continued to profit.
Not only it is urgent that we unite our wills and pool our efforts for the wellbeing of humanity. It is morally imperative
An extraordinary visit, historical
Mexico City, Mexico.- "It has been an extraordinary visit, historical," the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, said in statements offered to the Cuban Press minutes after said farewell , at Benito Juarez International Airport, to the first secretary. of the Central Committee of the Communist Party and President of the Republic, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, who left back to the homeland on the afternoon of this Saturday.
16 Years of the Henry Reeve Medical Contingent: You Have Been Where You Have Been Most Needed, And You Have Not Failed
By: José Angel Portal Miranda
19 September 2021
Today marks the 16th anniversary of that decisive September. It was the year 2005 and, after the hard hit of Hurricane Katrina in the southern United States, as a relief to the pain, Fidel bequeathed us the idea and the hope that a contingent specialized in disaster situations and serious epidemics distributes.
The doctors of the Henry Reeve contingent - the name they received in memory of that exceptional young American fighter who died fighting for the independence of Cuba - have been doctors of the world ever since.