Biden must remove Cuba from terrorist list, U.S. officials say
The inclusion of Cuba on the U.S. list of countries that allegedly sponsor terrorism today generates countless difficulties for the island's families, denounced two prominent U.S. political figures.
This was endorsed in an opinion article published in The Boston Globe, a Massachusetts newspaper, by Democratic Representative Jim McGovern and Patrick Leahy, former president pro tempore of the Senate, who was a member of that legislative body from 1975 to January of this year.
Cuba's Nasalferon drug against Covid-19 rated as safe
The Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (CIGB) ratified today that the drug Nasalferon developed in Cuba against Covid-19 is safe and well tolerated.
The drug, which strengthens the immune system and is administered nasally in a prophylactic scheme with a drop in each nostril twice a day for 10 days, can reduce the risk of severe symptoms in people who contract Covid-19," said a message from the CIGB on the social network Twitter.
Havana hosts International Meeting of Solidarity with Cuba
More than 1,000 foreign delegates will participate today in the International Meeting of Solidarity with Cuba and anti-imperialism 200 years after the Monroe Doctrine at the Havana Convention Center.
The foreign visitors will be joined by around 200 national delegates who, together, will raise their voices against the U.S. economic, commercial and financial blockade and in favor of the elimination of the Caribbean country from Washington's unilateral list of nations that allegedly sponsor terrorism.
Cuba will reiterate its denunciation of the U.S. blockade on May 1.
Cuba will denounce the cruel and criminal blockade imposed by the United States on International Workers' Day, President Miguel Díaz-Canel announced today on his official Twitter account.
The head of state reiterated on the social network that the celebration will take place in several squares of the country.
Ulises Guilarte, secretary general of the Central de Trabajadores de Cuba, recently announced changes in the traditional format of the May 1st celebration on the island, due to the difficult situation the country is going through, especially with the fuel supply.
Young people from the U.S. meet with Cuban Foreign Ministry authorities.
More than 150 young leaders of social movements and organizations from the United States who are visiting Cuba held a dialogue today with authorities of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Minrex) of the Caribbean island.
The Foreign Ministry detailed on Twitter that the deputy director for the United States of the Minrex, Johana Tablada, thanked the participants for their empathy and friendship that strengthen the hope of improving relations between the largest of the Antilles and the northern nation, compensating for the pain caused by the U.S. blockade.