Havana, Jun 25 (Prensa Latina) Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel today expressed his satisfaction with the release of Australian journalist Julian Assange, imprisoned for showing the world the crimes committed by the United States in Afghanistan and Iraq.
In his profile on X, the Cuban leader wrote: #AssangeFree. The long and cruel punishment imposed on him for his denunciations of imperial crimes will remain in the memory of the people as proof of how little his jailers believe in freedom of the press.
In a similar sense, Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez, in a message on this social network, described Assange’s release as a victory of the truth, after years of unjust imprisonment and political persecution.
Assange was released Monday and traveled to his native Australia following an agreement with the U.S. government to plead guilty to a felony under the Espionage Act, after spending the last five years of his life in a British prison.
According to WikiLeaks, the release of its founder is the result of a global campaign that involved grassroots organizers, press freedom advocates, lawmakers, and leaders from across the political spectrum, all the way to the United Nations.
Havana, June 25 (Radio Havana Cuba) The Secretary of Organization of the Cuban Communist Party, Roberto Morales, today recognized China’s decision to consolidate the bilateral economic agenda and accelerate mutual cooperation projects.
This Monday the party leader received a delegation chaired by the member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and deputy executive director of its Office of Economic and Financial Affairs, Han Wenxiu.
According to Wenxiu, his official visit to the island is aimed at intensifying inter-party exchanges in the economic and financial field, and promoting cooperation between both countries, in order to jointly build a community with a shared future.
At the meeting, the parties expressed the commitment to advance the implementation of the main processes agreed upon between the top leaders of both Parties, and the willingness to contribute to promoting economic, commercial, financial and cooperation ties.
Morales thanked China for its support against the US blockade of Cuba and the inclusion of the island in the list of countries supposedly sponsoring terrorism. In turn, Han highlighted Cuba’s position in favor of the One China principle, as well as the rejection of external interference in its internal affairs. (Source: PL)
Havana, Jun 22 (Prensa Latina) Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel today visited the municipality of Union de Reyes, in the southwest of the western province of Matanzas, as part of the government’s agenda for exchanges and check-ups in the territories.
According to information from Cuba Presidency in X, the Cuban leader began his visit in the neighbourhood known as Sabanilla, in the town of Juan Gualberto Gomez.
There he walked along Independencia Street and got acquainted with the transformations that include the renovation of houses, the incorporation of young people to study and work, and the attention to vulnerable families.
The local newspaper Giron reported that in his conversation with the villagers, he urged everyone to work hard together.
I know it is difficult when the situation is extremely complex, but these people have been hard-working and self-sacrificing, and what you have achieved here is an example for so many other neighbourhoods in Cuba,’ he said.
He also visited the Octavio de la Concepción y la Pedraja polyclinic, where he spoke with workers and the director of the institution, Dr. Yenia Ruiz, and was interested in the renovation of the center, which today provides services to more than 18,500 inhabitants of the territories of Bemejas, Cabezas, Puerto Rico and Plan Turquino.
This institution offers emergency consultations, as well as echocardiography, ultrasound, clinical laboratory, stomatology, rehabilitation room, optometry, among others.
Of particular importance to the centre is the X-ray service, with digital technology, which has benefited 1,262 patients to date, including 405 emergency patients.
Diaz-Canel also visited the Félix Ricardo Lopez Medina primary school and the local House of Culture, institutions that underwent structural and aesthetic improvements as part of an action plan to celebrate the 170th anniversary of Juan Gualberto Gomez’s birth, a distinguished Cuban patriot.
He assessed the use of a budget of more than two million pesos allocated to the works, which include a process of pothole patching still pending completion, the information indicated.
The president visited the region of Yumuri for the fifth time this year 2024.
Previously he visited the municipalities of Colon, Cardenas, Jovellanos and Jagüey Grande.
Havana, Jun 22 (Prensa Latina) JM-20, a molecule developed by Cuba’s Center for Research and Development of Medicines (CIDEM), was patented in New Zealand to be used to treat Parkinson’s disease.
The Biotechnological and Pharmaceutical Industries Group, BioCubaFarma, informed on its Facebook profile that JM-20 can also be used for neuropathic pain and different kinds of dementia, such as Alzheimer’s disease and vascular dementia.
This molecule was developed in conjunction the Faculty of Chemistry at the University of Havana to treat cerebral ischemia. As preclinical studies progressed, it showed potential to treat other neurodegenerative diseases.
JM-20, as a hybrid molecule, influences different therapeutic targets related to neuroprotection, a quality that confirms the validity and novelty of a product such as this one.
The molecule has been patented in more than 25 international territories, including the leading global pharmaceutical markets in the United States, Europe, Japan, China, Eurasian nations, Brazil, Korea, and Canada.
Havana, Jun 22 (Prensa Latina) Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez on Saturday thanked Timor Leste’s President Jose Ramos-Horta for his rejection of the U.S. government’s inclusion of Cuba in the states-sponsor-of-terrorism (SSOT) list.
Bruno Rodriguez also heaped praise on Ramos-Horta´ support in favor of lifting the criminal economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the United States on the Cuban people for over six decades.
Recently, Ramos-Horta urged the U.S. government and administration to definitively stop its unjust sanctions against Cuba.
In the statement, he called on the United States to “to sit and talk with Cuba and resume relations.
Brussels, June 22 (Prensa Latina) The general director of the Finlay Vaccine Institute of Cuba, Vicente Vérez, participated here today in a European Union (EU) forum to promote alliances with Latin America and the Caribbean in the biopharmaceutical industry.
Framed in the EU’s Global Gateway strategy, the meeting attracted academics, representatives of institutions and industry, both from the public and private sectors, and financial entities, with the aim of improving Latin American capacities to produce medicines and vaccines, and diversify global value chains.
According to Vérez, the event addressed the path to connecting academia and vaccine producers in Latin America and the Caribbean with project financing possibilities.
I believe that as a result of the forum, a consensus was reached to work in the coming days on the integration of the various participating actors, in order to enhance the regional production of medicines and vaccines, he told Prensa Latina.
Regarding the Cuban presence, the general director of the Finlay Vaccine Institute considered it important that at the meeting contacts were established with funding sources, some already with experiences of working together and others with perspectives.
We came out connected in our objective of completing the institution’s investment strategy to play the role of something like a regional hub, which contributes to Latin America, the Caribbean and Africa, he explained.
In addition to the Cuban representation, Fiocruz, from the Brazilian Ministry of Health, and VaxThera, from Colombia, participated among other institutions in the Global Gateway strategy event on the biopharmaceutical industry.
Rome, Jun 22 (Prensa Latina) The Network of High School Students, one of the largest Italian youth groups, on Saturday again raised its voice to support Cuba, and strongly condemned the unilateral measures imposed by the U.S. government.
In the concluding statement of the 5th Congress of the Network of High School Students of Rome, which ended on Friday in Rome, members of that group expressed their full solidarity with Cuba, “by denouncing the despicable actions taken by Western governments, and mainly by the United States” against Cuba.
The statement demands the end of the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the United States on the Cuban people, an action described as “unjust, unacceptable and terrible, and which violates the guarantee of human rights”.
As a guest at the event, representing the Cuban Embassy in Italy, Alejandro Betancourt, third secretary in charge of Press and Cultural Affairs, took part in the event, conveying greetings from the Cuban Ambassador Mirta Granda, and recalled that the Cuban Revolution was built by young people.
The assault on the Moncada Barracks in 1953, the beginning of the last stage of the liberation movement, was commanded by Fidel Castro, who was only 26 years old, an action whose intellectual author was the Cuban national hero, José Martí, who was only 42 years old when he died in combat.
He spoke about particularities of the cruel U.S. blockade and thanked those attending this congress for their condemnation of such actions, while wishing them success in their efforts in the struggle for a better world, for the construction of which, he said, “we need young people like you”.
Marco Papacci, president of the National Association of Italy-Cuba Friendship (ANAIC), also gave remarkable words in the event and praised the fact that young Cubans live under the daily difficulties caused by the blockade and, in spite of everything, are cheerful, fighters, revolutionaries, educated, and today occupy many positions in the country.
The concluding statement expressed that “Cuba, the island example of virtue, after more than 60 years of the Revolution, continues to be for us a glorious example of struggle for justice, peace and freedom”.
It demands its “elimination of Cuba from the infamous states-sponsor-of-terrorism (SSOT) list”, a measure aimed at further stifling the Cuban economy.
We must put an end to this vile policy against Cuba, and it will be our mission to continue this battle in Italy.
Panama City, Jun 22 (Prensa Latina) The Parlatino (Latin-American Parliament), based in Panama since 2006, celebrates on Saturday the Day of Latin American and Caribbean Unity, a dream of the Liberator Simón Bolívar that sought expression in the Amphictyonic Congress in 1826.
The regional legislature, chaired by Cuban deputy Rolando González Patricio, urged parliaments and societies to commemorate this date, which is highly representative of the aspirations of the peoples.
The unity of Latin America and the Caribbean is one of the essential purposes of the oldest legislative forum in the region, which in this 2024 celebrates 60 years of uninterrupted work in favor of objectives such as integration.
Parlatino had the initiative to celebrate every June 22 the Day of Latin American and Caribbean Unity in honor of the installation of the Amphictyonic Congress of Panama, a project approved at the XII Ordinary Assembly held in the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina, from August 23 to 27, 1988.
Havana, Jun 19 (Prensa Latina) The academic phase of the 17th International Seminar on Journalism and Tourism, which is being held in this capital until June 21, will conclude on Wednesday with signs of satisfaction from the participants.
Some 45 journalists, mainly from Latin America, Canada, and Cuba, along with delegations from Colombia and Mexico, attended the meeting.
Discussions on current trends in the travel industry and the influence of artificial intelligence in tourist developments monopolize the talks and meetings.
In addition to the keynote speeches, participants will move to the Varadero beach, east of Havana, on Wednesday to get in touch with one of Cuba’s leading sun and beach destinations.
The event is held every June at the Jose Marti International Institute of Journalism in Havana. It is organized by the Cycle of Tourism Journalists at the Union of Cuban Journalists (UPEC).
Paris, Jun 19 (Prensa Latina) A delegation of universities attached to Cuba’s Ministry of Higher Education (MES) began today in this capital a broad program of activities to consolidate cooperation with French institutions and identify new opportunities.
Strengthening academic and scientific ties on both sides of the Atlantic is the priority of the group made up of 28 directors of the Cuban higher education institutions, headed by the director of International Relations at the MES, María Victoria Villavicencio.
Our participation here responds to a project sponsored by the Solidarity Fund for Innovative Projects, aimed at strengthening the internationalization strategy of Cuban universities, Villavicencio told Prensa Latina.
According to the director, the objective of promoting greater international presence and visibility of Cuban universities in an increasingly globalized world, is joined by that of identifying opportunities for collaboration with the main institutions of higher education and science in France.
We have already had on this first day exchanges with the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), the Research Institute for Development (IRD) and the Ministry of Higher Education and Research, she said.
Villavicencio said that tomorrow, Campus France will host the Cuba Day, which will include presentations from both sides and bilateral meetings between universities of the two countries.
