Ottawa, October 8, 2019.- The Cuban Minister of Tourism, Mr. Manuel Marrero Cruz made a working visit to Montreal and Toronto to promote the high tourist season in Cuba.
The Cuban Minister met with tour operators and airlines such as WesJet, Transat, Air Canada and Sunwing. In both cities he made presentations to the directors of these entities in events that also brought together dozens of travel agents and journalists from general and specialized media, to whom he updated on the current situation, perspectives and priorities of tourism development in Cuba. As the Minister stated, Cuba will continue to be a peaceful, healthy and safe tourist destination for all visitors.
SRI LANKA, October 9, 2019. - During the 52nd Anniversary of the fall in combat of Che, the National Coordinator of the Socialist Youth Union of Sri Lanka (SYU), Eranga Gunasekara, delivered to the Ambassador of Cuba, Juana Elena Ramos Rodríguez, a statement adopted by the youth organization in rejection of the blockade imposed by the United States government against Cuba.
Statement of the Jamaica-Cuba Friendship Association against the Trump Administration escalation of the Helms Burton Act
The Jamaica-Cuba Friendship Association condemns in the strongest language, the vile attempts by current leadership of the United States of America, to asphyxiate the economy of our sister country and bringing untold hardship on its people, as part of their continued desperate attempt to impose a system of governance which was firmly rejected in the successful revolution of 1959 led by Fidel.
SRI LANKA, October 9, 2019. – Organized by the Socialist Youth Union of Sri Lanka (SYU), an emotional ceremony was held in honor of Commander Ernesto Che Guevara, on the occasion of the 52nd anniversary of his fall in combat. The event took place in the well-known "Garden of Che", where he planted a mahogany tree during his visit to Sri Lanka, in August 1959.
Che Guevara was wounded and captured in an ambush by the Bolivian army on October 8, 1967. The next day he was executed in cold blood, on instructions from Washington. When this news was confirmed, on October 18, a solemn evening in memory of Che, in "Plaza de la Revolución", Havana, was attended by a million people. There, Fidel Castro pronounced a historic speech.
Athens, 9 October. An emotional tribute was held to Che on the anniversary of his fall at the Cine Studio of the company New Star Cinema of Velisarios Kossivakis, with the screening of the Russian Today (RT) documentary in Spanish called "Che: roads, footprints, riddles”.
At the activity took the floor Velissarios Kossivakis, organizer of the event; Cuba's ambassador to Greece Zelmys Maria Dominguez Cortina; the counselor of the Embassy of the Russian Federation, Vasily Gavrilov and the director of the film Alexander Luchaninov.
New York, 9 October 2019. Our country reiterates its will to combat terrorism and its deepest rejection and condemnation of all terrorist acts, methods and practices in all their forms and manifestations by whomever, against whomever and wherever they are committed, regardless of their motivations, including those cases in which States are directly or indirectly involved, stated today Ambassador Humberto Rivero Rosario, representative of the Permanent Mission of Cuba to the United Nations, in his statement at the debate on agenda item 109 of the United