ALBA-TCP strongly rejects attempted aggression against Venezuela
Caracas, May 5 (Prensa Latina) The nations member of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America-People's Trade Treaty (ALBA-TCP) strongly rejected -in an official statement- the attempted military aggression against Venezuela, Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza said today.
On his official Twitter account, Arreaza posted the text sent by the Foreign Ministry condemning such a terrorist action, organized and financed by the United States and Colombia, in order to destabilize Venezuela and assassinate the Constitutional President, Nicolas Maduro.
European left-wing party labels the US blockade of Cuba as criminal
Brussels, May 5 (Prensa Latina) The European Left-wing Party today described the US blockade against Cuba as criminal in the current Covid-19 scenario and demanded President Donald Trump to lift it immediately.
'The blockade policy is cruel under normal conditions and in the midst of this epidemic it constitutes a crime that you have the capacity to prevent. Under the false pretext of punishing the government, the human rights of an entire people are being violated. Lifting the sanctions on Cuba is a humanitarian issue,' he warned in a letter sent to the head of the White House.
Resurrection
Karl Marx, born May 5, 1818, has been buried so many times that his resuscitation threatens to become an everyday occurrence. There are several ways to return, one is as a memory of something that has stood the test of time, and in this sense, he is seen as the master mason who laid the first stone for a project that continues. In fact, that is part of the merit of Marx's work. This is how very influential - and not at all communist - Jacques Attali once described him, "He was the first to grasp the world as a whole, which is at once political, scientific and philosophical.
Statement by Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, president of the Republic of Cuba for the Online Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement in response to COVID-19.
Your Excellencies,
Esteemed President Ilham Aliyev,
Distinguished Heads of State and Government,
I thank Azerbaijan, the Chairman of the Non-Aligned Movement, for calling to this meeting to exchange on the urgent and needed efforts which allow us to face COVID-19.
I avail myself of this occasion to congratulate Uganda, which shall assume the NAM Chairmanship in the year of 2022. While assuring it Cuba´s full support, we wish Uganda success in the performance of such duty.
Statements by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Cuba, Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla
Good afternoon:
As the Ministry of Foreign Affairs timely informed, around 2 o’clock today, that is, in the early hours in the morning of today, Thursday, April 30, 2020, a terrorist attack was perpetrated against the embassy of the Republic of Cuba to the United States in Washington. An unidentified individual shot at the building of the Cuban embassy in the US using an assault rifle.
None of the members of the staff of the mission was injured, who is safe and protected, but some material damages were caused to the building as a result of the numerous gunshots.