Havana, 18 January, 2023. Members of the 38th Southern Cross Brigade have spent the past three weeks sharing in the experience of the Cuban people. Our stay has allowed us to more thoroughly understand the struggles and realities of everyday members of the Cuban Revolution, as well as the work of their representative organisations.

Our membership expresses the strongest possible solidarity with the Cuban people in the face of the systematic hostility of the US government and in Cuba’s ongoing fight to exert their sovereignty.

The City Council of the city of Bloomington, Indiana, adopted a resolution calling for the end of the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the United States on Cuba for more than six decades. 
The request is added to the more than 10 resolutions issued by different U.S. cities during the last year, asking the Biden administration to end the coercive measures that harm the people of the Caribbean nation. 

On January 18 and 19, the authorities of the law enforcement agencies of Cuba and the United States met in Havana to exchange views on cooperation in the fight against scourges that threaten the security of both countries, such as terrorism, smuggling of migrants and immigration fraud, among others.

Wellington, January 20. Personalities from various areas of activity, but all committed to working for a better world, travel to Cuba to participate in the V International Conference For World Balance, which begins on January 24 in Havana.

The participation of a former Minister of Disarmament and various members of the "World Beyond War" peace movement stands out. They will present their experiences and establish contact with intellectuals, academics, and activists from all over the world attending the event.

Cuba mourned the death of the Vice President of the Gambia, Badara Alieu Joof, and expressed its solidarity for the unfortunate event, reported on Wednesday by the authorities of that West African nation.

Nicosia, 19 January 2023. -In the morning of January 19, 2023 His Eminence Metropolitan Isaias of Tamasos and Orinis received in the premises of his Holy Bishopric, the Ambassador of Cuba in Cyprus, Angel Gustavo Suárez Cordero.

Kingston, 19 January 2023. Cuban Ambassador Fermín Quiñones Sánchez visited the office of the Rural Agricultural Development Authority of Jamaica (RADA), to hold a working meeting with its Director General, Mr. Winston Simpson.

At the meeting, both parties exchanged on the various possibilities for bilateral cooperation and exchange in the agricultural sector, as a way to advance in the achievement of food security and identify areas of work with potential for the two nations.

Cuban Ambassador, Beatriz Parra González, held her first meeting of 2023 with the Director of Latin America and the Caribbean in the Minister of Foreing Affairs of Finland, Lasse Keisalo. In a pleasant and relaxed dialogue, both authorities talked about the embargo and the unfair inclusion of Cuba on the list of states sponsors of terrorism. Cuban diplomat thanked Finland for their support against the embargo.  She appreciated H.E. Mr. Keissalo interest in issues of the Cuban reality. 

 On the occasion of the commemoration of the arrival of the Year of the Rabbit, according to the Chinese lunar calendar, Habanos, S.A. unveiled its new Cohiba Siglo de Oro vitola (54 x 115 mm long), a novel product from the Cohiba brand, the most prestigious in the world of Habanos. The leading Premium tobacco company not only wants to celebrate the arrival of the new year, but the selected vitola -Siglo de Oro– also honors the 30th anniversary of the Linea 1492, one of Cohiba's most successful.

The international corporation Habanos S.A. presented a new tobacco production to celebrate the Lunar New Year.

On the occasion of the commemoration of the arrival of the Year of the Rabbit, according to the Chinese lunar calendar, the company unveiled its new vitola Cohiba Siglo de Oro (ring gauge or diameter of 54 by 115 millimeters long).