MESSAGE TO SIMON GILL FROM THE CUBAN INSTITUTE OF FRIENDSHIP WITH THE PEOPLES
CUBAN INSTITUTE OF FRIENDSHIP WITH THE PEOPLES
Havana, March 5, 2019
"Year 61 of the Revolution"
Comrade Simon Gill
President of the Association
"Friends of Cuba", ADEC
Dear Friend:
With pleasure we have received the news of your designation as President of the Association of Friends of Cuba, ADEC. It is satisfying to know that the Association is made up of several friends and also graduates from Cuban study centers.
Cuba categorically rejects the threat of activation of Title III of the Helms-Burton Act
Cuba categorically rejects the threat of activation of Title III of the Helms-Burton Act Photo: Granma
On January 16, 2019, the United States State Department announced the decision to suspend for only 45 days the application of Title III of the Helms-Burton Act, “to conduct a careful review… in light of the national interests of the United States and efforts to expedite a transition to democracy in Cuba and include factors such as the Cuban regime’s brutal oppression of human rights and fundamental freedoms and its indefensible support for increasingly authoritarian and corrupt regimes in Venezuela and Nicaragua.”
Cuba and Seychelles have special relations
The Cuban Minister for Foreign Affairs, H.E. Mr. Bruno Eduardo Rodríguez Parrilla,declared that,"Seychelles and Cuba have special relations despite being so distant geographically”. Minister Bruno made this statement during a bilateral meeting with Ambassador Barry Faure, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, who was on an official visit to Cuba from 16th – 18th September 2018
President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez offers exclusive interview with teleSUR
For the first time since he assumed the presidency of Cuba in April, Miguel Mario Díaz-Canel Bermúdez granted an in-depth interview to a foreign media outlet.
Journalist Patricia Villegas of the multinational channel teleSUR, founded precisely as a voice for progressive movements of Our America and the rest of the world, and as an alternative to mass hegemonic media, conversed with the Cuban President in the Palace of the Revolution.
Cuba’s Report against the Blockade 2018
Cuba’s Report on Resolution 72/4 of the United Nations General Assembly entitled “Necessity of ending the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the United States of America against Cuba”. June 2018. CubavsBloqueo Report 2018