Today, the government of the United States announced several measures, which are positive but of a very limited scope, regarding Cuba associated to the granting of visas, regular migration, flights to Cuban provinces, remittances and adjustments to the regulations governing transactions with the non-state sector.
During the last few weeks some of our fellow nationals have been facing difficulties when attempting to travel to countries of our region under the new requirement of obtaining a visa to visit to or travel in transit through some of them. This is a complex situation that is being closely followed by the Cuban government and has multiple causes.
Declaration of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Cuba condemns, in the strongest and most absolute terms, the fraudulent designation of Cuba as a State that sponsors terrorism which, in a cynical and hypocritical move, has been announced by the government of the United States.
Havana, December 1, 2020.- The General Director in charge of the United States at the Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Carlos Fernandez de Cossio, affirmed that Cuba will defend its sovereignty against the aggressions the United States currently intensifies.
Cuba will not tolerate intervention in its internal affairs and will always defend its right to self-determination, the Cuban diplomat said on a television appearance on Monday to denounce that the US Embassy in Havana was involved in those acts of destabilization.
The Azerbaijani digital media "Nafta.az" highlights Cuba's denunciation of the resurgence of the blockade imposed by the United States. and underlines its genocidal policy.
In an extensive article, local commentator Vusal Tguibayli comments on the decision of the US Government. to activate Title III of the Helms-Burton Act, which aggravates the commercial, economic and financial blockade imposed on Cuba for 60 years.
Cuba is the healthiest country in Latin America and beats the United States by five points, according to the latest report from the Bloomberg site.
Cuba ranks 30th in the ranking of healthiest countries in 2019, which indexes 169 nations according to its public health indicators.
The last edition was published in the year 2017 and Cuba occupied the 31st.
The largest of the Antilles is the first country in Latin America that appears on the list and one of the few in the third world that is among the top positions.
The Revolutionary Government of the Republic of Cuba condemns the escalation of pressures and actions of the US government in preparation for a military adventure under the guise of a “humanitarian intervention” in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and calls on the international community to mobilize in order to prevent its consummation.
January 17th, 2019. Cuba rejects the recent intentions of the United States to toughen the Blockade, through the State Department announcement of suspending the application of Article III of the Helms-Burton Act, for only 45 days.
The United States permanent mission at the UN began circulating eight amendments to the Cuban resolution calling for an end to the blockade, reported Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parilla during a press conference at the ministry in Havana.
He reported that the amendments basically address aspects related to the UN’s 2030 Sustainable Development Goals, and the human rights issue, a subject that the U.S. government attempts to use to discredit Cuba – unsuccessfully.
What is most interesting, Rodríguez said, is not the content of the proposed amendments, but rather the fact that the document was circulated surreptitiously by the U.S. State Department, signed by deputy assistant secretary Gonzalo Gallegos, in an effort to dissuade UN member countries from voting in favor of the Cuban resolution calling for an end to the blockade, which will be considered in the General Assembly this coming October 31.
Port of Spain, October 17. - Invited by the faculty of International Relations of the University of the West Indies (UWI) and the professor of that center Jaquelin La Guardia, Cuban diplomats Ana Martínez Noris and Alex González García, commercial counselor and first secretary respectively, gave a lecture on the Cuban foreign trade and the obstacle represented by the policies of the US blockade against Cuba in the development of the economy of the largest of the Antilles.
