Canberra, April 22, 2019.-The film Yuli, inspired by the life of the renowned Cuban dancer Carlos Acosta, was premiered on April 20 at Palace Electric cinema in the Australian capital, as part of the Spanish and Latin American Film Festival 2019.

 Prior to the screening of the film, the Cuban resident and dancer, Erick Turro Martínez, enlivened the event with a mixed choreography of son, mambo and cha cha chá.

Statement of the ACNU in rejection of the application of Title III of the Helms-Burton Act

By The Mast, 20 April 2019. CUBA says it is resolutely determined to confront the aggressive escalation of the United States and that Havana will prevail.  The government also says Cuba has no troops in Venezuela and does not participate in military or security operations anywhere unlike the US that has over 250,000 marines and bases in foreign soils around the world. Marking the 58th anniversary of the United State’s April 17, 1961 military invasion at Playa Girón (Bay of Pigs)

Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. April 21, 2019. Cubans residents in Mongolia commemorated this Sunday, at the Cuban Embassy in Mongolia, the 58th Anniversary of the defeat of the mercenary invasion of Playa Girón. Accompanied by some invited members of the Association of Mongolian Graduates in Cuba and the Cuban medical specialists who work in this capital, the Cuban residents commemorated a new anniversary of the first defeat of Yankee imperialism in America.

Step Up Opposition to Illegal U.S. Economic, Commercial and Financial Blockade of Cuba
Trump Administration Enforces Titles III and IV of Helms-Burton Act

On April 17, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced that the Trump Administration will end the suspension of Titles III and IV of the Helms-Burton Act.

The Cuban negotiator who normalized relations with the U.S. during the Obama administration said President Donald Trump’s push to dismantle the deal won’t dislodge the communist regime in Havana.

Cuba endured almost 60 years of U.S. aggression and can survive another bout of antagonism from Washington, Josefina Vidal, now Cuba’s ambassador to Canada, said in an interview. The latest White House measures to squeeze the Caribbean nation include curbs on travel, a cap on remittances and allowing lawsuits over confiscated property, a step that’s prompted criticism by U.S. allies.

Within the framework of the VIII International Festival of the University of International Relations of the Republic of Azerbaijan (ADA), the diplomatic mission of Cuba in this Caucasian nation promoted the tourist destination of the Island among those attending the event.

The Cuban ambassador, Alfredo Nieves Portuondo, thanked the rector of the high institution and deputy minister of the Azeri chancellery, Hafiz Pashaev, for the invitation to the event.

Athens, April 20. Pictures of the expo "With Cuba in the heart", by the Counselor of the Embassy of Cuba in Greece José Oriol Marrero Martínez, in its tenth presentation. This time at the headquarters of the Embassy of Cuba in Athens, during the celebration of the 60th anniversary of the Cuban revolution and the 58th of the Playa Giron victory against north American imperialism, with friends from solidarity, Cuban residents, political forces and Latin American diplomats in an afternoon of patriotism, of friendship, of celebration of victories with Cuban music and art.

Athens April 20: successful celebration at the Embassy of Cuba in Greece on 60th anniversary of the Cuban revolution and the 58th of Playa Girón victory against north American imperialism.

Havana, April 20 (Prensa Latina) Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel said on Saturday that many in the United States are advocating learning from the failure of the Cold War, alluding to Washington''s escalation of hostility against the island.

On Twitter, the president -who turns 59 this Saturday- also warned that in the northern nation itself the anti-Cuban measures of the current administration, which this week decided to activate the controversial Title III of the Helms-Burton Act, an initiative in force since 1996 to promote regime change in Cuba, are causing concern.