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Conference of Mayors calls for normalization of US-Cuba ties

Washington, February 24

The World Conference of Mayors and the Historical Alliance of Black Peoples and Settlements issued a resolution in favor of the normalization of relations between the United States and Cuba.

In addition, they advocated the establishment of links in trade, tourism, technology transfer and training between the towns and cities of both nations and other mayors of the world, which would mean building bridges of goodwill.

Cubans Living Abroad To Participate In Family Code Consultation

On Wednesday, Cuba's Foreign Affairs Ministry Consular Services Director Ernesto Soberon announced that his office enabled an online form for about 1,3 million Cubans living abroad to participate in the citizen consultation of the new Family Code.

“These citizens will be able to comment on the bill articles by entering the website www.nacionesyemigración.cu in such period,” Soberon explained, recalling that a similar exercise was successfully carried out in 2018 when the Constitution draft was discussed.

Cuba to present WHO dossier on anti-Covid-19 vaccines in March

Havana, February 16

The Cuban biopharmaceutical industry will present the stipulated dossier to the World Health Organization (WHO) in early March with all the information necessary for the prequalification of its anti-Covid-19 vaccines, Eduardo Martínez, director of BioCubaFarma, reported here.

US newspaper highlights training of doctors in Cuba

Washington, February 14

A United States newspaper today highlighted the training program at the Latin American School of Medical Sciences (ELAM) in Cuba, especially for students residing in less favored communities in this country.

The North Carolina newspaper The Herald Sun published a report entitled "To become the doctor she wants to be, the Raleigh native will study medicine in Cuba," in which it delved into the subject through the story of the young African American Joyce Malanda.

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