Cuban Baseball team to attend world event.
The Santa Clara Bombarderos team, which will represent Cuba in the Little League Baseball World Series, Williamsport, Pennsylvania was flagged off today in this city in the center of the island.
In the ceremony, held at the Ernesto Che Guevara memorial, which holds the challenges of the Argentine-Cuban commander, player Alejandro Vazquez, read the commitment of the athletes who will participate in the event in the United States from August 14 to 25.
Cuban Foreign Minister warns about the dangers of nuclear weapons.
Cuba's Foreign Minister, Bruno Rodriguez, warned today that nuclear weapons continue to be a serious threat to humanity, recalling the dropping of the atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima 79 years ago.
In the social network X, the Minister of Foreign Affairs warned that the use of these weapons would cause severe and irreversible damage.
On August 6, 1945, the Japanese city of Hiroshima was hit by a uranium bomb that killed some 140,000 people.
Mijaín López is already a legend, says Cuba's president.
Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel said today that four-time Olympic champion Mijaín López is already a legend and living history, on the occasion of his two victories in Greco-Roman wrestling at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.
"Mijaín's fifth goes and the whole of Cuba is accompanying him," said the president in his account in X, platform from which he sent the athlete the embrace of the people.
Lopez advanced this Monday to the semifinals, in the division of more than 130 kilograms, beating Iran's Amin Mirzazadeh 3-1.
Caricom reiterates call for the U.S. to lift blockade against Cuba.
The forty-seventh Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (Caricom) today reiterated its call for the lifting of the unjust economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the United States on Cuba.
At the close of the regional organization's meeting, the participants expressed their deep concern over the deterioration of the humanitarian situation in Cuba as a result of the blockade unjustly imposed on Cuba for the past 62 years by the Government of the United States of America.
Experience and Traditions event will showcase Cuba's rural culture.
The La Güira site is today one of the natural spaces chosen for the activities of the Caracol 2024 International Experience and Traditions Event, which will take place next October in Cayo Coco, in the north of this province of Cuba.
Considered an emblematic place within the Jardines del Rey tourist destination, due to the link between nature and the history and peasant customs of the region, La Güira will showcase the most genuine aspects of Cuban rural culture, such as the bohío, the guateques, Creole food and typical Cuban beverages.