Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel with intense agenda in Italy.
Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel, today fulfills an intense agenda in Italy, which will include an audience with Pope Francis and another with Italian President Sergio Mattarella.
The Cuban leader, who is traveling accompanied by his country's Foreign Minister, Bruno Rodríguez, landed on Monday at the Fiumicino Airport of this capital and was received by the plenipotentiary minister of the Italian Foreign Ministry, Umerto Vanni, and by Mirta Granda and René Mujica, the island's ambassadors to Italy and the Holy See, respectively.
U.S. hinders cataract surgery for 13,000 patients in Cuba
A waiting list of 13,000 patients in need of cataract surgery, and who could lose their sight, are today prevented from accessing this procedure due to the sanctions imposed on Cuba by the U.S. government.
Eneida Pérez, head of the Cataract Service and director of the Ocular Microsurgery Center of the Ramón Pando Ferrer Cuban Institute of Ophthalmology (ICO), located in this capital city, explained that the post-pandemic crisis affecting the world has also dented the work of that unit of the National Health System.
U.S. event in Cuba through film.
The American Film Showcase (AFS) organizes today a program of documentaries in the central hall of this capital 23 and 12, to be exhibited from June 22 to 25.
Conceived in collaboration with the U.S. Embassy, the Cuban Institute of Cinematographic Art and Industry (Icaic) and the Ministry of Culture, the AFS event will open with the screening of the audiovisual Black Art: In the Absence of Light.
Cuban diplomats pay tribute to Maceo and Ché in Washington D.C.
On June 14, the 178th and 95th anniversary of the birth of Antonio Maceo and Ernesto Guevara, respectively, Cuba remembers them.
With the strength of the "Bronze Titan" and the internationalism of the "Heroic Guerrilla", members of Cuba's diplomatic mission in Washington, D.C., reiterated that they will keep alive the historical legacy of these two great figures.
With the lyrics of "Son los Sueños Todavía", by the outstanding composer Gerardo Alfonso and "Quién Fuera como Maceo" by Francis del Río, the Cuban diplomats paid a heartfelt tribute to these two heroes.
Díaz-Canel convenes the G-77 + China Summit in Havana.
The President of the Republic of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, in his capacity as President Pro Tempore of the G-77 + China Group, convened a Summit of Heads of State and Government under the theme "Current Challenges of Development: Role of Science, Technology and Innovation", on September 15 and 16, 2023, in Havana.
According to a message posted this morning on his Twitter account, the Head of State said that "the occasion should serve to strengthen our unity and decide on collective and practical actions in the effective confrontation of contemporary challenges".