The Havana Film Festival opens in New York.
The Havana Film Festival was inaugurated and dedicated to Latin American cinema with a tribute to Cuban director Nicolás Guillén Landrián (1938-2003) at Hoftra University. With the participation of the director of the Cuban Cinematheque, Luciano Castillo, and film director Enrique Kiki Álvarez, the documentary Landrián, by Ernesto Daranas, was also screened for the first time in New York.
Cuba elected to subsidiary bodies of the United Nations Economic and Social Council.
Cuba was elected to the Social Development Commission for the period 2025-2029 and to the Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Commission for the period 2025-2027, both subsidiary bodies of the United Nations Economic and Social Council. This new election in Cuba is evidence of the international community's recognition of our country's performance in these areas.
Cuba reiterates at the UN call to stop genocide in Gaza.
Israel continues to massacre the Palestinian population with total impunity, violating the Charter of the United Nations, the International Law, the International Humanitarian Law and numerous United Nations resolutions, as it has the complicity and the support of the United States. This was denounced by Ernesto Soberón Guzmán, Permanent Representative of Cuba to United Nations, at the plenary meeting of the General Assembly on the use of the veto in the Security Council.
New Permanent Representative of Cuba presents credential letters to United Nations Secretary General.
Today, Ernesto Soberón Guzmán presented to the Secretary General of the UN, António Guterres, the credentials that accredit him as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Permanent Representative to the United Nations United, in New York.
Young Cubans have found their Moncada and attack it every day.
Those who saved the homeland with their vaccines, those who entered the red zone during COVID-19, the heroes of the Saratoga rescue or the Matanzas fire, the young health professionals who went to other countries to save lives during the pandemic, have earned a place in the history of the country in these years of creative resistance, which has allowed us to survive under the most brutal version of the blockade.