Chancellor of Cuba Calls for Action against Climate Change
HAVANA, Cuba.- The Cuban Chancellor, Bruno Rodriguez called this Wednesday to act against climate change, considered a threat to survival and whose effects are already irreversible.
The last decade is the hottest to date and 2019 is confirmed as the second warmest year since records, the Foreign Affairs Minister noted on Twitter.
The World Meteorological Organization warned that heat waves in recent years have been the deadliest, affected all continents, and set record national temperature records, joined by fires, tropical cyclones, floods and drought.
Cuba Reaffirms Its Support for Venezuela
HAVANA, Cuba.- The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Cuba, Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla, reaffirmed on Monday his country’s solidarity with Venezuela in the face of the United States’ claims to strengthen the economic blockade against that nation.
Such statements take place after a press conference held in Colombia by U.S. Secretary of State Michael Pompeo, in which he called for more action against Caracas.
January 15 - Cuban Science Day
A day like today in 1960, during the celebration of the twentieth anniversary of the Speleological Society of Cuba, in the auditorium of the Academy of Medical, Physical and Natural Sciences of Havana, the Commander in Chief Fidel Castro gave a historic speech in which he emphasized: "The future of our Homeland has to be, necessarily, a future of men of science, of men of thought". This date has been chosen to commemorate the Cuban Science Day.
Cuban President Condemns Guaido's Threats Against teleSUR
#VivaTeleSUR and #YotambiensoyTelesur have begun trending on Twitter and other social networks in response to Guaido's statements.
Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez strongly rejected on Monday the threats by Venezuelan opposition lawmaker Juan Guaido to take over teleSUR's television signal.
Speech by Commander-In-Chief Fidel Castro on his arrival in Havana on 8 January 1959
Speech by Commander-In-Chief Fidel Castro on his arrival in Havana on 8 January 1959
08/01/1959
Fellow countrymen,
Speaking here tonight, I’m presented with perhaps one of the most difficult tasks in this long struggle, which began on November 30, 1956, in Santiago de Cuba.
The people are listening, the revolutionary fighters are listening, and the regular troops – whose fate is in our hands – are listening also.