The Belgian political-cultural festival ManiFiesta will hold its 13th edition this weekend in the coastal city of Ostend, where the denunciation of the U.S. blockade against Cuba will find several spaces, according to information released today.
The Cuban delegation to the Summit for Democracy and Human Rights, which is being held today in Chile, expressed its gratitude for the support to the campaign to remove its country from the list of alleged sponsors of terrorism.
"In all the working commissions in which we participate there has been support for the initiative to collect one million signatures and demand that the current U.S. government exclude Cuba from that spurious list and eliminate the blockade," said Gertrudis Simón.
Taking Cuba off the list of countries sponsoring terrorism is one of the priorities on which the Solidarity Network in the United States is focusing today, said activist Calla Walsh.
This measure exacerbates the devastating effects of the economic blockade on the island, warned Walsh, co-president of the NNOC (National Network on Cuba) in declarations to Prensa Latina in this capital.
Deputies from different benches and Brazilian solidarity organizations repudiated and demanded today in a hall of the Legislative Assembly of the state of Sao Paulo (Alesp), the end of the blockade against Cuba.
A solemn act against the economic, commercial and financial siege imposed by the United States against the island for more than six decades took place in that hall.
A central moment of the event was the screening of the documentary film The Drop of Water, on the theme of the siege, which caused Cuba total losses of 154 billion 217 million dollars in 60 years.
We feel embraced in Cuba, said U.S. filmmakers Peter and Pam Mc Neil, as they looked back on their experience during the filming of the documentary Driving towards change, presented in Columbia, Maryland.
Both journalists, united professionally and in life, did not hide during their dialogue with Prensa Latina at the end of the screening of Driving towards change, their love for the island, which they visited for the first time during the filming process.
A donation of five thousand pounds of powdered milk travels today to Cuba bound for pediatric hospitals in the provinces of Villa Clara, Cienfuegos and Sancti Spíritus, informed activist Carlos Lazo.
The coordinator of the Bridges of Love Movement said that during three days they will distribute the cargo, which also includes some 100,000 tablets of painkillers, bread-making machines for children's homes in the aforementioned provinces and materials needed for a home for the elderly in Cienfuegos, among other supplies.
The Federation of Cuban Women (FMC) celebrates today 63 years of its foundation focused on the development of policies to achieve the full exercise of equality of women in all spheres of society.
With recreational and cultural actions from all communities, the Federation celebrates this new anniversary, and among the essential activities is the XI Congress of the organization, whose balances in delegations and blocks throughout the national territory are still being developed.
The bonds of brotherhood between Cubans and Baltimoreans, as well as the impact of the economic sanctions imposed by the United States on Cuba were topics discussed at the Sunday Mass at the Hunting Bridge Presbyterian Church, during an exchange between parishioners and a representation of the Cuban Embassy in Washington D.C.
The II International Scientific Convention of the University of Cienfuegos Carlos Rafael Rodríguez will be held from October 24 to 27 in this Cuban city, with the participation of academics, researchers, students and other specialists.
The scientific meeting will focus its thematic axes within the framework of the 2030 Agenda and the fulfillment of the Sustainable Development Goals and will promote an exchange of knowledge and experiences and the projection of lines of action for the adoption of decisions to meet those goals.
Regardless of today's result, the baseball team representing Cuba is already making history with its presence for the first time in a Little League World Series, in the U.S. city of Williamsport.
It will also be the debut of the Bayamo Little League (eastern Cuba), king of the national championship, which, in a good fight, by hitting and doing well, won the ticket to travel to Pennsylvania to the competition, scheduled from August 16 to 27.
