Cuban Foreign Minister exchanges with the US legal community on the new Family Code.
New York, September 27, 2022. Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla met today with representatives of different US legal and civic organizations, with whom he discussed the recently approved Cuban Families Code.
The Minister offered details about the result of the popular referendum that ratified the Code and the benefits that this represents for current Cuban society. For his part, Ambassador Yusnier Romero Puentes, Alternate Permanent Representative of Cuba to the UN, made a presentation on the main milestones of the new Code.
Deputy Chief of Mission meets with Mayor of Saint Paul, Minnesota
At the mayor's office in Saint Paul, Minnesota, Deputy Chief of Mission Alejandro García del Toro met with Melvin Carter, mayor of the city, with whom he exchanged on the social and economic realities of Saint Paul and Cuba, on relations between Cuba and the United States and on potential cooperation actions between the Saint Paul authorities and Cuban institutions.
RadioMiamiTODAY interviews Ernesto Soberón from the UN in New York
From RadioMiamiTODAY Voice of the Alianza Martiana in Miami we spoke exclusively with Ernesto Soberón from the UN in New York, Director of the General Division for Consular Affairs and Cubans Resident Abroad, of the MINREX of Cuba, interviewed by RadioMiamiTODAY, Pazamor, Cuba Información and Tesoro Internacional.
New Family Code approved in Cuba by 66.87% of valid votes
Havana, Sep 26 (Prensa Latina) The president of the National Electoral Council (CEN) of Cuba, Alina Balseiro, reported today that the Family Code was ratified with 3,936,700 votes in favor in the Sunday referendum, representing 66.87 percent of the valid votes.
The official said that 6,251,786 turned out to vote, which represents 74.01 percent of the electorate of 8,447,467 people. The number of valid ballots rose to 5,891,705.
New iniciatives in the US to demand an end to the blockade
On September 25, a new day of initiatives took place in the United States and several countries around the world, in which citizens, groups and organizations in solidarity with Cuba demanded the end of the blockade and the removal of the country from the list of states sponsors of terrorism.
In Miami, the traditional caravan promoted by "Puentes de Amor" took place in support of the lifting of all the restrictions imposed by the US government on Cuban families. In New York, Chicago, Seattle and Boston, the voice of friends of Cuba in defense of justice was also heard.