Cuba in Namibia

Prime Minister of Namibia expresses her solidarity with the Cuban people for the Hurricane Irma.

Prime Minister of Namibia expresses her solidarity with the Cuban people for the Hurricane Irma.

The Prime Minister of Namibia, Saara Kuugongelwa, expressed on behalf of her government and on her own behalf her solidarity and condolences with the Cuban people and government for the human and material losses, caused by Hurricane Irma. In a meeting with the Cuban ambassador, Giraldo Mazola, the Prime Minister also expressed her admiration for Cuba's capacity to deal with these natural phenomena, despite the unjust US Blockade against the Island.

In this regard, the Namibian leader condemned this genocidal policy and affirmed the need to respect the self-determination of peoples. She also ratified the solidarity position of her government with Cuba in the struggle for the cessation of the Blockade.

The meeting was favorable to adjust details of the Prime Minister's upcoming visit to Cuba. The also member of the Political Bureau of SWAPO said that his trip will serve to reinforce the strong ties between both nations. Likewise, she expressed her satisfactionfor visit, the first that she will do to Cuba. Likewise, the meeting reviewed the excellent state of bilateral relations.

The Prime Minister is the first woman to hold this position since the Independence of Namibia in 1990. She has been a member of parliament since 1995 and was Minister of Finance from 2003 to 1995.

The Namibia - Cuba Friendship Association sends a message of solidarity to the Cuban people.

The Namibia–Cuba Friendship Association wishes to express our solidarity with the people of Cuba, a sister country that has been hit by the Hurricane Irma.

We saw with deepest sadness how this meteorological phenomenon destroying the infrastructure, the homes, the plantations, factories and the environment of the Island. The images of the destruction in the provinces of the Country in which many of us studied have impacted in our hearts. During those days, in which Irma passed almost all the country, our thoughts and prayers were with our Cuban brothers and sisters.

In October this year, members of the Namibia- Cuba Friendship Association will visit Cuba to participate in the celebrations of the 40th Anniversary of the foundation of the International Schools in the Island of Youth by our late Commander in Chief Fidel Castro Ruz.

We will ensure our participation in voluntary work together with other African Friendship Association with Cuba in the areas affected by the Hurricane Irma.

We are confident that with the strength and capacity of the Cuban people, the example of Fidel and the leadership of Comrade President Raul Castro Ruz the country will recover from the devastation of Hurricane Irma.  

We would like assure the Cuban brothers and sisters that the Namibian people are with them in this difficult time. The solidarity between Cuba and Africa and Namibia in particular will always remain strong.

Long live the solidarity between Africa and Cuba!

Long live the solidarity between Namibia and Cuba!

Long live Cuba!

Long live Namibia!

Long live friendship!

Cuban professor holds meeting with President Geingob.

Cuban professor holds meeting with President Geingob.

The professor of the University of Medical Sciences in the Cuban province of Ciego de Ávila, Yaniska Martinez Días, held an interview with the President of Namibia, Hage Geingob. The meeting was held as part of a visit by the Cuban teacher to this country, invited by SWAPO, to interview the surviving Namibians of the Cassinga Massacre.

These testimonies, along with those of Cuban combatants who helped the Namibian civilians who were in that place, will be included in a book by the Cuban educator, which should be published in May next year.

In the friendly meeting, the teacher obtained the impressions of the Namibian leader on the attack by South African apartheid regime forces at the civilian camp in Cassinga. Likewise, the President, as usual, expressed his solidarity with Cuba and thanked for Cuban cooperation in his country.

Professor Yaniska also met with other prominent Namibian figures, including the Founding Father of the Nation, Sam Nujoma, retired generals Martin Shalli and Charles Namoloh and the Inspector General of the Police - who graduated in Cuba - Sebastián Ndeitunga.

Cubans and Namibians celebrate 64 Anniversary of the Assaults to the Barracks Moncada and Carlos Manuel de Céspedes.

Cuban collaborators who serve in Windhoek, members of the Cuba-Namibia Friendship Association, resident Cubans and Namibian authorities gathered at the Embassy of Cuba to celebrate the 64th anniversary of the assaults on the Moncada Barracks and Carlos Manuel de Céspedes.

The commemoration was favorable to remember our Commander in Chief Fidel Castro, on the first anniversary of this significant action without his physical presence. In this sense, those present coincided with the need to keep alive the example of Fidel, specifically, through the solidarity work that is done in this country.

It was also recalled that the Moncada began our last stage of struggle for permanent independence and stressed the importance of taking into account all those who gave their lives for the freedom of our country.

The event was highlighted by the national television network NBC in a report with wide diffusion and excellent reception.

On the other hand, in the north of the country, Cuban collaborators, members of solidarity and local authorities also celebrated this important event in Cuban history.

 

Declaration of the Patria Association of Cubans in Namibia

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

 

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