The Ambassador of Cuba to Ghana, Pedro Luis Despaigne González was interviewed for the Pan African Television Channel´s Hot News Program.

In the interview, led by the journalist Eugene Edem Buzady, the Ambassador addressed a wide range of issues that had as an articulating axis the negative effects of the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the US for more than five decades to the Cuban population. In his analysis he demonstrated that the blockade is a tool used to destroy the Cuban Revolution.

Nassau, October 25, 2017.-After the Training Workshop “Disaster Risk Management and Adaptation to Climate Change to enhance resilience in communities and ecosystems in the Caribbean region", the Bahamian specialist who participated in the event, Suzane Russell, described as positive the different actions being implemented in Cuba in this area.

Ottawa, October 25, 2017. Today evening the Cuban Embassy in Ottawa hosted a concert by renowned Cuban singer-songwriter Gerardo Alfonso to celebrate Cuba National Culture Day.

New York, 26 October 2017. In March 2016, the then President of the United States, Barack Obama, authorized the use of the US dollar in Cuba's foreign trading operations. He also allowed American banking institutions to open offices in the island as well as other facilities, such as permitting local banks to open and maintain accounts of Cuban citizens.

New York, October 26, 2017. International cooperation is one of the pillars of the Cuban socialist system, that is why since April 2016 to date, the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the United States against Cuba has shown no mercy with regard to the cooperation projects that Cuba is developing worldwide. Below are listed some of the impacts on this field.

New York, October 26, 2017.In her statement at the General Debate of the Special Political and Decolonization Committee on Item 55: "Comprehensive review of the whole question of Peacekeeping Operations (PKO) in all their aspects” of the Fourth Committee of the United Nations General Assembly, Attaché  Yailin Castro Loredo, representative of Cuba to the United Nations, pointed out that in Cuba’s opinion, the main responsibility for

Education and culture continue to be some of the sectors most affected by the coercive measures of the current U.S. administration. 

New York, 25 October 2017.During her statement at the Thematic Debate on “Disarmament Machinery” of the First Committee at the 72nd Session of the UN General Assembly, Cuban  Representative, First Secretary Yadira Ledesma, reiterated the importance accorded by the island to the promotion of multilateralism as a basic principle of disarmament negotiations and to the need for concrete progress, giving the highest priority to nuclear di