Havana, August 3 (Radio Habana Cuba) — “I saw your appearance before the press on teleSUR, and I congratulate you again, Brother Nicolás Maduro,” declared Miguel Díaz-Canel, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba.
The Cuban head of state assured that the U.S. recognition of the losing candidate of the elections of last July 28th is another proof of who is pulling the strings of the conspiracy against the Bolivarian Revolution.
Maduro denounced in a press conference this Friday that the United States is at the forefront of the attempted coup against him.
According to the Venezuelan president, he activated the mechanism before the Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ) to clarify all the lies on which they intend to mount a cyber coup against the people and against democracy.
“The United States of America has put itself at the forefront of this coup d’état with its usual allies,” he reiterated from the Miraflores Palace.
He added that Venezuela has suffered a brutal attack, a cyber attack on its entire communication system; today they attacked the Patria System.
The National Electoral Council ratified Nicolás Maduro as president of Venezuela this Friday after reaching 51.95 percent of the votes, after counting 96.87 percent of the transmission of the minutes.
The number of voters counted was 12,386,669, representing a participation rate of 59.97 percentage points, while the number of valid votes was 12,335,884 (99.59) and the number of invalid votes was 50,785 (0.41). (Source: ACN)
August 1 (Belly of the Beast) “It was established many, many years ago that Cuba does not represent a direct threat to the United States….Millions of dollars are being devoted to finding dirt, creating dirt and assembling reports like this.” – Fulton Armstrong, former CIA analyst and American University professor
Welcome to the third installment of Belly of the Beast’s newsletter: Cuba in Context.
This is your one-stop shop for breaking news, incisive reporting and the untold stories about Cuba and U.S.-Cuba relations.
Recently, major media outlets and a prominent D.C. think tank have claimed there is a “China spy base” in Cuba.
Belly of the Beast journalist Liz Oliva Fernández sat down with former CIA analyst Fulton Armstrong to take a hard look at the evidence (or lack thereof) that China is allegedly using Cuba to spy on the U.S.
Caracas, Aug 3 (Prensa Latina) The Speaker of Venezuela’s National Assembly, Jorge Rodríguez, presented evidence of the falsity of the minutes published by opposition Edmundo González and María Corina Machado they utilized to denounce an alleged electoral fraud and generate destabilization.
Speaking at the press conference offered by President Nicolás Maduro to the national and foreign media, the legislator showed the documents proving what he called “great farce” installed by the extreme right-wing losers in last Sunday’s elections.
Rodriguez pointed out that this was nothing more than the substitution of reality for another one supported by a media strategy and a “string of lies that were created”.
He recalled that none of the spokespersons of the opposition candidate Edmundo González never accepted nor signed the agreement of the candidates proposed by the National Electoral Council (NEC), and did not recognize the only body empowered to decide who was the winner of the suffrages.
The Venezuelan congressman showed the video in which opposition spokesman Biaggio Pilieri in a “shameless manner and in violation of the law” said that the United Democratic Platform “will chant fraud, will not recognize the result of the National Electoral Council, but its own minutes”.
The leader of the national leadership of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela revealed that on the night of July 29, after the elections, Gonzalez made available to Venezuelans a web page where “supposedly some minutes with the election results” were to be posted.
He drew the attention to the fact that the day before the elections, the domain www.resultadospresidencialesvenezuela2024.com was rented for one year, which evidences that they had decided “not to abide by the results of the NEC, but rather they set up a pantomime with a sort of parallel electoral council”.
“They were never willing to accept the legal decision of the majority at the polls”, he insisted, and added that this website was bought in the United Kingdom and with an Amazon server, for which, he said, “Jeff Bezos is also in the coup d’état” against Venezuela, he denounced.
On Friday, NEC’s president Elvis Amoroso explained that the elections of July 28 had an electoral roll of 21 million 321 thousand 805 eligible voters.
There were 12 million 386 thousand 669 ballots counted, for a 59.97 percentage point turnout, while valid votes amounted to 12 million 335 thousand 884 (99.59) and invalid votes 50 thousand 785 (0.41).
Havana, Aug 3 (Prensa Latina) Cuba will reportedly increase sevenfold the generation of energy with the use of solar radiation through a macro investment program that is part today of the program to change its energy matrix and sovereignty on this field.
According to the director of renewable energy of the Ministry of Energy and Mines (Minem), Rosell Guerra, the generation of electric energy through this modality will grow by more than two thousand megawatts with after two photovoltaic solar parks projects are completed.
This figure means a seven-fold increase in a short period of time of the power we have installed in the last few years, which at the end of last July was only 286 megawatts, the Minem official added.
The projection includes technologies that will allow taking advantage of photovoltaic energy beyond daytime hours, Guerra explained, which will be achieved with the increase of 200 MW in the accumulation of energy through battery banks, a concept for which Cuba currently has only 10 megawatts.
According to the Minem expert, the macro investment program for photovoltaic energy will not only provide electricity, but will also reduce the consumption of some 900,000 tons of fuel annually.
These clean energy projects and at the same time the generation with the use of national gas and crude oil will allow the country to meet the target of reaching 24 percent participation of renewable energy sources by 2030, said the executive.
He also highlighted the integration achieved between the Electrical Union and other ministries and agencies of the central administration of the State, together with the government of each province to make the photovoltaic development projection a reality.
Havana, Aug 3 (Prensa Latina) Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel reiterated today his congratulations to his Venezuelan counterpart, Nicolás Maduro, after the results of last Sunday’s elections were ratified by the National Electoral Council (NEC).
In his profile on X social media the Cuban leader highlighted the press conference given by Maduro after his confirmation, and affirmed that the imperial recognition to the losing candidate is another proof of who pulls the strings of the conspiracy against the Bolivarian Revolution.
Your devastating denunciation stripped them naked, the Cuban head of State underlined in his message.
Yesterday, President Nicolás Maduro was ratified as president of Venezuela after obtaining 51.95 percent of the votes, after 96.87 percent of the votes were counted.
His closest contender, the opponent of the Democratic Unitary Platform, Edmundo González, obtained 5,326,102 votes for 43.18 percent of the ballots.
The rest of the candidates achieved, according to this second official report of the NEC, the following: Luis Eduardo Martínez (one million 502 thousand 360- 1.24 percent), Antonio Ecarri (116 thousand 421- 0.94), Benjamín Rausseo (92 thousand 903- 0.75), José Brito (84 thousand 231- 0.68) and Javier Bertucci (64 thousand 452- 0.52).
In addition to Claudio Fermín (40 thousand 902- 0.33), Enrique Márquez (29 thousand 611- 0.24) and Daniel Ceballos (20 thousand 56- 0.16).
Venezuelans take to the streets to welcome motorcyclists, Aug. 3, 2024. Photo: X/ @polianalitica
“You all must prevent your children from being used by fascism,” said a citizen who came out to support President Maduro.
August 3 (teleSUR) On Saturday, a caravan with hundreds of motorcyclists departed from the Petare Wall heading towards Libertador Avenue in Caracas, where it will join the peace march heading towards Llaguno Bridge.
From noon, they began to travel the streets in support of the Bolivarian revolution and its leader Nicolas Maduro, who was re-elected as President of Venezuela in the July 28 elections.
In statements to the press before the march, spokespeople for the biker caravan demanded respect for the democratic process and asked Venezuelans to unite and work for the development of their country.
“You all must prevent your children from being used by fascism,” said one motorcyclist in front of the cameras of Venezolana de Television.
¡ATENCIÓN! ????????️
En Plaza Venezuela #Caracas, motorizados se movilizan en apoyo al presidente Nicolás Maduro, quien también convocó a sus simpatizantes a la calle este sábado #3Ago.
The text reads, “Attention! In Caracas’ Venezuela Square, motorcyclists are mobilizing in support of President Nicolas Maduro, who called on his supporters to take to the streets this Saturday, August 3.”
They also rejected the economic war that the United States has unleashed against the Venezuelan nation through over 930 arbitrary sanctions that have been in effect for years.
The motorcyclists will also depart from the state telecommunications company CANTV on Avenida Libertador and head towards the vicinity of the Miraflores Palace, where the executive power is located.
On Saturday, the president of the National Assembly, Jorge Rodriguez, will present his compatriots with more evidence of the fraud that the Venezuelan far-right intends to carry out.
This Socialist legislator will publicly expose the mutilated and forged records through which the U.S.-backed opposition seeks to artificially create the electoral victory of Edmundo Gonzalez, a politician supported by Maria Corina Machado, the leader of the far-right organization Vente Venezuela.
Luanda, August 2 (Radio Habana Cuba) — The Prime Minister of Cuba, Manuel Marrero, assured today that the Caribbean nation and Angola have potential for a much broader and mutually beneficial cooperation, one of the objectives of his visit to this country.
As part of his working visit to Angola, the Prime Minister was received on Friday morning by the Angolan President, João Lourenço, at the Presidential Palace of Ciudad Alta, in Luanda.
In statements to the press after talking with the Angolan president, the head of government conveyed “a warm embrace from the brotherly people of Cuba to the Angolan people,” and a special greeting on behalf of the leader of the Revolution, Army General Raúl Castro, and the president, Miguel Díaz-Canel.
Manuel Marrero made statements to the press
Marrero highlighted the cordiality in which the audience with Lourenço took place, who exchanged feelings of friendship with the delegation, in particular with the Army Corps General and Hero of the Republic of Cuba, Ramón Espinosa.
Espinosa was one of the main military leaders of the Cuban troops that fought in defense of Angola’s sovereignty and was a comrade-in-arms of the Angolan president.
The Cuban prime minister specified that in the meeting they made an assessment of the relations between both countries, both politically and economically and commercially.
He shared the announcement made by the head of State regarding the inauguration, on October 11, of a hospital that will bear the name of the first head of the Cuban military mission in Angola, Commander Raúl Díaz Argüelles.
Marrero assured that there will be a Cuban delegation at that inauguration, and thanked the gesture that constitutes a reason for honor.
“We came with a broad work program aimed at strengthening the ties of friendship and cooperation between our countries, which are historic. History united us for eternity,” explained the Cuban head of government.
He added that the agenda includes meetings with Angolan businessmen, with the objective of identifying possible areas to increase current cooperation, as well as exchanges with solidarity groups with the island, Cuban residents and cooperators who work in the country. He said that Cuba is going through difficult times due to the economic blockade tightened by the United States, but that it continues in the struggle and resistance with the certainty of achieving victory.
He stressed that even in the midst of these difficulties, the Caribbean nation continues to collaborate with other nations, especially in the fields of health and education; and stressed that Cuba does not give what it has left over, but shares what it has.
“We will always be on the side of the Angolan people, many lives and much blood were shed in these lands not only for Angola, but for Africa, the elimination of apartheid and to achieve freedom and equality for all people on this continent,” Marrero recalled.
The prime minister is also accompanied by the general director of the Cuban Foreign Ministry, Carlos Pereira; the president of the Antex corporation, Carlos Martínez, and the island’s ambassador to the country, Oscar León. (Source:Prensa Latina)
Havana, August 3 (Radio Habana Cuba) — The Cuban government rejects the interference of the United States in the Venezuelan elections by ignoring the official results of the presidential elections, announced this Friday by the National Electoral Council (CNE) of the South American country.
Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez, on the social network X, denounced the manipulation and interference of the White House that, he said, are part of the policy of the U.S. empire to destabilize the region.
Washington, through its Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, recognized the opposition candidate Edmundo González as the winner of the elections in Venezuela on Sunday, July 28th, despite the fact that the CNE declared President Nicolás Maduro the winner with more than 51 percent of the votes.
Faced with this interventionist stance, the Bolivarian Government reacted by calling the United States the promoter of what it considered an ongoing coup d’état against the country through “a perverse maneuver” that generates a “false narrative causing street violence,” the Venezuelan Foreign Ministry denounced in a statement.
On this day, the CNE officially declared the victory of Maduro’s candidate by reaching 51.95 percent of the ballots, with 96.87 percent of the transmitted votes already counted.
Six million 408 thousand 844 voters voted for the current head of state, re-elected for his third consecutive term (2025-2025), and the opposition candidate Edmundo Gonzáles of the Democratic Unitary Platform obtained five million 326 thousand 102 votes, equivalent to 43.18 percent.
Havana, Aug 2 (Prensa Latina) So far this year, authorities consider that there has been an increase in Canadian tourist’s entry to Cuba. The electronic bulletin “Correo Canadiense”, in its Friday edition, distributed in Havana, reports that more than 600 thousand Canadian tourists have already visited this country in 2024.
The Cuban Tourism Office in Toronto held an information day, with several media to publicize new projects, to substantially boost tourism exchange between Cuba and Canada.
This exchange is materialized through business models of shared administration, investment, and leasing that the Gaviota Tourism Group is carrying out with private investors.
The meeting was attended by the director of the Cuban tourism agency, Lessner Gómez, the president and vice-president of the Gaviota Tourism Group, Carlos M. Latuff Carmenate, and Frank Oltuski, respectively, as well as representatives of the related tour operators.
Gómez expressed that this initiative aims to publicize all the communication, promotion, and commercialization actions of the tourist exchange between the two countries.
He stressed that Cuba needs to increase the number of arrivals and the Canadian market is so attracted by this recreational offer, that during the first days of July, close to 600,000 Canadian clients visited the island.
August 1 (Caribbean Life) Caribbean Community leaders say they are extremely angry with the US over its continued economic and political bullying of Cuba, contending that Cubans are experiencing grave hardship at the hands of the decades-old economic embargo imposed by Washington.
Cuba is not a member of the 15-nation grouping but shares extremely close ties with Caricom. The two sides have enjoyed 52 years of diplomatic relations when Guyana, Barbados, Trinidad and Jamaica decided to ignore US warnings and established diplomatic relations with Havana.
The leaders issued a statement after their three-day summit ended in Grenada late Tuesday, noting that the economic embargo was “wrongfully imposed on the people and government of Cuba over the last 62 years by the government of the United States of America. The conference reiterates its call for the lifting of the unjust unilateral financial, economic, and trade embargo.”
In a surprise announcement, the bloc said that the depth of suffering in Cuba at the hands of the US has forced it to agree to provide unspecified material aid to help Cuba. It is unclear what type of material aid would be sent to Cuba and from when.
The leaders also railed against Cuba still being placed on a list of state sponsors of terrorism, dubbing it “as wrong and offensive. The conference reiterates its call for Cuba to be immediately removed from this list.” Cuba has sent thousands of medical, engineering and other professionals to fill shortages in Caricom nations since the mid-1970s, while various Caricom nations have formalized trade and other relations with the Spanish-speaking behemoth in the north Caribbean over the decades.
Caricom nations have persistently voted at the United Nations and other forums for the lifting of the embargo, imposed after late revolutionary President Fidel Castro and his men had overthrown a US-backed puppet regime in place at the time as punishment for driving out entrenched American economic and other interests in Cuba at the time.
