Cuba in Grenada

Statement by Miguel Mario Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and President of the Republic at the Summit for a New Global Financing Pact held in France on January 22, 2023.

Stenographic versions – Office of the President of the Republic)

Your Excellency Mr. Emmanuel Macron, President of the French Republic;

Your Excellencies Presidents Gustavo Petro and Cyril Ramaphosa;

First of all I would like to express my gratitude for the invitation to attend this Summit for a New Global Financing Pact that could also be a new starting point towards a more comprehensive intergovernmental discussion and decision-making process within the framework of the United Nations.

WE STAND WITH NANCY MOREJON

NANCY  MOREJON -- the outstanding Afro-Cuban poet and intellectual-- is one of the greatest daughters of our Caribbean Civilization.

And so, when the organizers of France's internationally acclaimed poetry festival -- "Le Marche de la Poesie (The Poetry Market) -- inexcusably and unconscionably withdrew the invitation that they had extended to Nancy to be this year's honorary President of the Festival, they were directing their insult not merely to Nancy alone, but to all of us Caribbean people !

MAURICE BISHOP ... A gigantic leader

MAURICE BISHOP ... A gigantic leader

One more time we remember our great revolutionary, Maurice Bishop, whose life was snuffed out at the tender age of 39 years while still in the prime of his life and poised to make the biggest contribution of his political life.

More US activists face harassment from authorities upon return from Cuba

More US activists face harassment from authorities upon return from Cuba I magine, in the so-called greatest democracy in the world, it has become commonplace or even routine to harass, terrorize and even threaten its own citizens for visiting a country the government is intent on crushing.

According to the May 8th edition of the Peoples Dispatch online publication, days after members of a youth delegation were detained when returning to the US from Cuba, another batch of activists who were also on the island as part of the May Day Brigade, faced similar harassment.

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