Cuban president condemns threats against teleSUR
Havana, January 13, 2020. 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.
'We strongly reject threats against the voice and image of the peoples who fight and resist the imperialist onslaught. From Our America and the world: #VivaTeleSUR' the president tweeted.
Cuban migrants criticize desecration of busts of Marti
Washington, January 13, 2020. The Alianza Martiana (Marti Alliance), which brings together Cuban migrants in Miami, USA, rejected this Monday the recent desecration of several busts of National Heroe Jose Marti in Havana.
'We energetically condemn those monsters who finance the vandals that commit such crimes,' a press release underscored.
Casa de las Americas launches call for 61st Literary Prize
Havana, January 12, 2020. Casa de las Americas today launched a call for the 61rst Casa Prize, which from January 20 to 30 will recognize the best of literary creation in Latin America.
The President of the institution, Abel Prieto, highlighted the award's relevance in the current political context and recalled the legacy of essayist and Casa founder Roberto Fernandez Retamar, who died last July, in exercising effective leadership in pursuit of literary and artistic creation.
Punishing travel, a constant goal in Trump's policy against Cuba
Washington, January 11, 2020. US president Donald Trump and his administration continue their attacks against travel to Cuba, by pushing restrictions on charter flights that will make it even more difficult to visit provinces outside of Havana.
More than 620,000 Cubans living abroad visited the country in 2019
Havana, January 10, 2020. Despite measures implemented by the United States government since the end of 2017, intended to limit bilateral relations between the two countries -including the suspension of consular services in Havana; the expulsion of 17 diplomatic officials from our embassy in Washington, using unjustifiable and politically motivated pretexts; and recently the suspension of flights to nine destinations in Cuba - ties between the émigré community and the homeland have not been eliminated.