In response to the upsurge of the U.S. blockade against Cuba and the U.S. Administration's attack on Cuban medical collaboration, the members of the Medical Brigade of the Greater Antilles in St. Vincent and the Grenadines made a combative appearance in social networks. In individual interventions of around one minute, Cuban health personnel in St.

Pretoria, July 5, 2019. – 87 students of medicine who took their first five years of studies, graduated in the South African province of Western Cape.

The University Walter Sisulu was the venue of the graduation ceremony of these new health professionals graduated under the South African students’ medical training programme in Cuba, initiated in 1997 after the cooperation agreement signed in 1996 between Cuba and South Africa; known as the Fidel-Mandela Programme.

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Written by Paula A. Ramos Benítez - Student of Journalism, Periodico 26

The Victoria de Girón brigade, from the Finland-Cuba Friendship Association, visits Las Tunas once more. Its members expressed their rejection to the Helms-Burton Act.

On occasion of the 208th anniversary of the independence of Venezuela, the diplomatic representation in Australia of the South American country unveiled a bust remembering El Libertador, Simón Bolívar, in the facade of its Embassy.

The event was attended by Latin American diplomatic representatives, members of the Australia-Venezuela Solidarity Association,union leaders and Venezuelan residents.

The Charge d'Affaires a.i. of the Embassy of Cuba in Zimbabwe, Vladimir Guerra, held a meeting on July 4 with the Director of the Department of Scholarships of the Presidential Office, Dr. C. C. Mushohwe. The objective of this meeting was to discuss the status of the agreement between the two governments on the granting of scholarships to young Zimbabweans. During the meeting, the status of the candidates for the scholarships granted this year was investigated, as well as the main subjects of interest to the Zimbabwean government.

Wellington, July 4th, 2019. Cuban diplomats received at the Embassy headquarters, Thomas Pope-Kerr and Nicole Ambua, young New Zealanders who will represent Cuba in the Model United Nations New Zealand, an event that counts every year with the participation of more than 200 delegates from all around Aotearoa and in this edition will take place from July 4th to 7th at Victoria University of Wellington.

The "Cárdenas I" photovoltaic park, with an installed capacity of 3.75 megawatts (MW) peak, was inaugurated on Thursday in the outskirts of the municipality of Matanzas, as part of the "10 MW peak installation program" project.

With a total of 11,700 panels, "Cárdenas I" is one of the four solar plants installed and synchronized to the national electric power system with the credit from the Abu Dhabi Development Fund, in partnership with the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA). , for its acronym in English).

Pretoria, 4 July, 2019.- The Embassy of Cuba and the Director of the International Ballet Competition of South Africa, Dirk Badenhorst celebrated a Cultural Gala with the performance of young South African and Cuban Ballet dancers at the Lyric Theatre of Johannesburg.

The show was dedicated to the 10th anniversary of the Cuba and South Africa cooperation, particularly in Ballet, and the 25th anniversary of the bilateral diplomatic relations.

Georgetown, July 2, 2019.The Guyana-Cuba Solidarity Movement (GCSM) presided by Haleen Khan posted in social networks have sealed its rejection of the application of Title III of the Helms-Burton Act, and reaffirms its commitment to legally protecting companies that operate in Cuba.

Title III of the Helms-Burton Act allows for lawsuits to be filed in U.S. courts against companies operating on property that the Cuban government seized after the year 1959.