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.
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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.
Congressmen recognize U.S. arbitrariness against Cuba
Havana, Aug. 1 (Radio Habana Cuba) Cuba’s Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla announced through his X account that 46 U.S. congressmen have recognized that the inclusion of the island in the list of state sponsors of terrorism is arbitrary.
According to the message, the legislators sent a letter to US President Joe Biden in which they state that it is unfair to include Cuba in this classification for the simple fact of fulfilling its commitments as a guarantor of the peace process in Colombia.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs attached the letter of the congressmen, also addressed to the US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken. (Source: PL)
On Sunday, July 28, 2024, the Venezuelan people expressed their will for comrade Nicolás Maduro Moros to continue to be their President and decided in favor of defending the peace, independence and self-determination of their homeland.
In the face of imperialist harassment, external interference, media and political manipulation and the opportunistic onslaught of the oligarchies and their representatives, the Venezuelan people decided to maintain their majority support for the option founded by Commander Hugo Chávez Frías and which has been sustained in the face of threats and external aggression, under the leadership of President Nicolás Maduro Moros, the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) and its allied parties.
In recent times, the Bolivarian and Chavista people defeated the violence of paramilitary groups supported from abroad that brought mourning to many Venezuelan families, assassination attempts, armed incursions by mercenaries and the imposition of a supposed president without any authority or legitimacy. They resisted unilateral coercive measures, economic sabotage, among other actions aimed at subverting the established internal order.
We denounce that, under the pretext of not recognizing the official results of the electoral process, in concert with international actors and sectors of the internal opposition and in ignorance of the powers of the Venezuelan State, the return to the stage of the use of violence and destabilization to promote a coup against the powers of the State that would overthrow the legitimate government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela is being irresponsibly encouraged.
For this purpose, the Permanent Council of the Organization of American States (OAS) met to analyze the presidential elections in Venezuela, when that organization lacks the moral or legal authority to settle matters that only concern Venezuelans.
Considering the long history of the OAS at the service of U.S. imperialism, of interference in the internal affairs of sovereign states in our region, the support and promotion of coups d’état, military dictatorships, repression and torture exercised by governments fully supported by the United States, there is no basis for an internal process such as the elections held in Venezuela to be analyzed there.
The double standard with a clear ideological bias of the discredited Secretary General, actively involved in the acts of violence in Venezuela in 2019, in the support of a self-proclaimed president without being elected by the people and in the promotion of the coup d’état in Bolivia in that same year, to cite only the most recent events, would be enough to disqualify the maneuver held today in Washington.
In an unusual manner and without regard to the internal order of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela or any other nation, the United States and some members of the OAS tried to impose on its Permanent Council a resolution that urged the Venezuelan electoral authority to recount the votes cast on Sunday, July 28, with the observation of international organizations, a demand that is not made of any country.
However, the dignified attitude of a group of countries prevented the interventionist document from being approved.
A major conflict in Venezuela, as some seem to encourage in opposition to the Proclamation of Latin America and the Caribbean as a Zone of Peace, would have unpredictable and very negative consequences for the entire region. On July 14, 2017, Army General Raúl Castro Ruz warned: “those who seek to overthrow the Bolivarian and Chavista Revolution through unconstitutional, violent and coup-like means will assume a serious responsibility before history.”
We reiterate Cuba’s firm support and solidarity with the Bolivarian Government led by comrade Nicolás Maduro Moros and the civic-military union of the heroic Venezuelan people.
Havana, Jul 31 (Prensa Latina) President Miguel Diaz-Canel today thanked the support of 123 countries in the UN Human Rights Council that demanded the exclusion of Cuba from the arbitrary US list of State Sponsors of Terrorism.
Regarding the convincing statement made by these countries in response to Washington’s designation against the island, the Cuban leader remarked in his profile on the social network X that “we appreciate this expression of support”.
The signatory nations of the document consider that the list “goes against the fundamental principles and imperative norms of International Law, including international solidarity”.
“The process by which the designation for such a list was made is neither clear nor transparent,” the proclamation adds.
It further notes that it undermines the “realization and enjoyment of fundamental human rights, including the rights to food, health, education, economic and social rights, the right to life, and the right to development.”
“Our countries demand the exclusion of Cuba from the List of States that allegedly sponsor terrorism, the effects of which reinforce the economic, commercial, and financial blockade imposed by the United States government,” it stresses.
It also specifies that including Cuba in that list “brings about extraordinary negative consequences for the Cuban economy, due to its intimidating effect and the obstacle to economic-financial operations of third parties with Cuba, for fear of being fined”.
“It hinders the country’s possibilities of getting access to food, medicines, fuel, medical equipment, and other basic goods, which impacts the realization of economic, social and cultural rights,” it adds.
It also suggests, that, “instead of imposing unilateral coercive measures contrary to international law,” international solidarity and cooperation should be fostered to address common challenges, protect human rights for all, and achieve sustainable development goals.
Camagüey, Cuba, Jul 31 (Prensa Latina) The contribution of science in Cuba’s largest region is crucial in the government’s agenda to achieve food sovereignty, especially in aquaculture.
According to the Cadena Agramonte website, in the innovation workshop related to Food Sovereignty, and Food and Nutritional Security, led by the Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment (CITMA), the Fishing Company presented experiences with results in some territories for the optimal development of the sector.
Camagüey, which has the largest hydraulic infrastructure in the country and a significant reservoir capacity for that purpose, seeks strategies ‘that allow taking steps with the purpose of reaching the long-awaited food sovereignty that the country needs so much,’ the source noted.
In view of the effects of climate change that directly affect the productive result, a number of strategies are implemented.
In the workshop, some of the actions were disclosed, such as the use of ‘crop residues, by-products generated from industrial processes, for their reuse to feed aquatic animals,’ the website added.
In addition to the CITMA in Camagüey, institutions like the Ignacio Agramonte and Loynaz University are developing research lines, including their own projects for food sovereignty.
Within the program for Cuba’s growth agenda, eight prioritized innovation programs are underway, where the Food Sovereignty and Nutritional Education program stands out.
For the province with the highest cattle development in Cuba, the International Project on Cattle Reproduction with Artificial Intelligence is applied on farms in Jimaguayu, Najasa, Vertientes, with 50 cows with collars, each one with digital technology to monitor their development.
