Havana, Aug. 9 (Radio Habana Cuba) Cuba will continue to work for the total, transparent, irreversible and verifiable elimination of nuclear weapons, Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez said today on the social network X.
The Cuban Foreign Minister made the statement on the 79th anniversary of the atomic bombing of the Japanese city of Nagasaki, which he described as an enormous crime committed by US imperialism.
The atomic bombs dropped on the civilian populations of the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, 1945, made Japan the only nation to suffer attacks of this magnitude.
In Hiroshima, approximately 66,000 people died at the moment of explosion, while in Nagasaki, 70,000 died at the moment of explosion; but in both cases, hundreds of thousands of inhabitants (mostly women and children) died later as a result of radiation. (Source: PL)
August 10 (Radio Habana Cuba) Statement of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Cuba
It is absolutely false that specialists in computer science or other areas have traveled from Cuba to Venezuela, with the purpose of modifying the results of the presidential elections in that country.
This unfounded and fabricated accusation by former Colombian senior official Francisco Santos is not accompanied by evidence, because it does not exist.
The promoter of this lie is known for his active participation in misrepresentation campaigns and for his involvement in various political scandals. In December 2021, he invented the false story that the commander of a Colombian armed guerrilla group, Iván Márquez, was in Cuba, which was roundly denied by reality.
The politically motivated construction of a matrix of lies that attributes responsibility to Cuba for the results achieved by the contenders in the elections in Venezuela is assumed as a truth by those who traditionally participate in misrepresentation campaigns about Cuba.
Yarisleidis Cirilo, Aug. 10, 2024. Photo: X/ @lazarosuarez229
So far, Cuba has achieved two gold medals, one silver medal, and four bronze medals.
August 10 (teleSUR) On Saturday, Cuban Yarisleidis Cirilo won the bronze medal after finishing in third place in the C1-200 meter canoe final with a time of 44.36 seconds.
“I felt very good, especially because in the last Olympic Games I had a lot of problems at the start because I was going out too far behind. This time it was different,” she said.
“I am more than satisfied with the race I did. Here I achieved my personal best and that shows that I gave it my all,” said Cirilo, the Cuban canoeist from Guantanamo.
“Slender and with an unmatched brown skin color, this young woman never imagined that canoeing would be the love of her life, having been born in a small town devoid of rivers. Today, at just 22 years old, the Guantanamera native confirmed herself in the world elite,” journalist Oscar Figueredo said.
“Moments before the competition, she was seen getting out and securing the boat, looking at the distance she would cover in just a few minutes… In lane five, the bow rose and a powerful stroke led her to come in third with 44:36 seconds,” he narrated.
Cuba thus achieved its seventh Olympic medal in the Paris games with the effort made by Cirilo in the nautical stadium of Vaires-sur-Marne. So far, this Caribbean nation has achieved two gold medals, one silver, and four bronze medals.
In this C1-200 meter final, Canadian Katie Vincent won the gold medal by setting an Olympic record of 44.12 seconds. American Nevin Harrison, who won the gold medal in Tokyo 2020, arrived at the finish line in second place, thus winning the silver medal.
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, Aug. 9, 2024. Photo: teleSUR
The Court ordered all former presidential candidates to submit any documents they have regarding the July 28 election.
August 9 (teleSUR) On Friday, President Nicolas Maduro went to the Supreme Justice Court’s Electoral Chamber to present 100 percent of the minutes of the July 28 elections that his organization, the Great Patriotic Pole, has managed to compile
This happens in the context of the appearances of former presidential candidates and representatives of political organizations ordered by the Supreme Court for the purpose of an exhaustive investigation of the presidential elections held on July 28.
The Bolivarian leader arrived accompanied by the first lady Cilia Flores, the Venezuelan vice president Delcy Rodriguez, and other high-level officials.
In the vicinity of the Court’s headquarters in Caracas, hundreds of workers, students and social activists were waiting for President Maduro, who was cheered as he passed.
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A few minutes earlier, the vice president of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), Diosdado Cabello, and other representatives of the Great Patriotic Pole also entered the Electoral Chamber.
Last week, the Venezuelan president formally asked the Supreme Court to conduct thorough investigations into the 2024 elections to dispel the narratives of alleged fraud that the Venezuelan far right opposition and its international allies have been spreading.
In addition to Nicolas Maduro, the Judges subpoenaed nine former presidential candidates: Luis Martinez, Daniel Ceballos, Antonio Ecarri, Benjamin Rausseo, Enrique Marquez, Jose Brito, Javier Bertucci, Claudio Fermin, and Edmundo Gonzalez.
Despite being required to appear before the authority, far-right politician Gonzalez did not attend the Electoral Chamber on Wednesday. The representatives of the political parties supporting him also did not submit any records or evidence of the alleged electoral fraud or of his supposed victory.
August 7 (Radio Habana Cuba) As every summer, the Cuban health services remain on alert for the presence of arboviruses, a group of diseases caused by viruses transmitted to humans by insects and arachnids.
With the increase in rains and sweltering temperatures of the period, the largest of the Antilles maintains the usual vigilance for yellow fever, present in other latitudes, Zika, chinkungunya as well as dengue and the disease caused by the Oropouche virus, the most recent to appear in the country.
Since the beginning of the summer season, more cases of fever have been detected in this Caribbean country.
The situation has also been affected by material limitations due to the US blockade and its determination to place Cuba on a list of countries that the United States considers sponsors of terrorism.
Cuba has not been able to count on sufficient supplies to sustain a community fumigation campaign as usual.
In the face of Oropouche and Dengue fever, experts have increased public information on the causes and symptoms of these diseases, the treatments to be followed, and the importance of patients suffering from these diseases going to the doctor.
In that context, the Cubans welcomed the arrival in Havana of specialists from Russia’s Federal Service for Supervision of Consumer Protection and Welfare, or Rospotrebnadzor, with the aim of updating their knowledge on tropical infections.
Together with their Cuban colleagues, the experts are already carrying out studies on diseases currently recorded in the Caribbean region.
This way, another aspect of the cooperation between Cuba and Russia is manifested in the field of health, this time based on the use of high-tech testing systems by the visitors.
The Eurasian nation helped the largest of the Antilles in the most difficult moments of the Covid-19 pandemic, when the medical oxygen plant broke down, worsening the health situation.
Now, the World Health Organization has called on countries affected by the Oropouche virus to intensify surveillance to curb the spread.
Even in the midst of material shortages, with a low rate of technical availability of waste collection vehicles, prevention and control rules are being reinforced in the Caribbean archipelago, such as the elimination of insect breeding sites and the education of the population on procedures to avoid bites.
Havana, Aug 10 (Prensa Latina) Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel expressed solidarity with the Brazilian people and Government for the deaths of more than 60 people in a plane crash in Sao Paulo state.
In a post on X, Diaz-Canel expressed his condolences to the families and relatives of the victims. Some 57 passengers and four crew members who were flying on an ATR-72-500 of Voepass airline lost their lives.
“I express all my solidarity to the Brazilian people and the government of President (Luis Inacio) Lula for the fatal plane crash in Sao Paulo. Our deepest condolences to the families and relatives of the victims,” Diaz-Canel wrote on the same social media. Flight 2283, the plane that crashed, had departed from the airport of Cascavel, in southern Parana, on Friday, bound for Guarulhos, in Sao Paulo, in southwestern Brazil.
Havana, 9 August (Radio Habana Cuba) The Minister of Food Industry, Alberto Lopez Diaz, and the Ambassador of the People’s Republic of China, Hua Xin, held a dialogue in Havana on the possibilities of foreign investment in the sector where both countries operate in the lobster and eel trade.
During the dialogue, which took place at the Ministry of Food Industry, they discussed the possibility of expanding the market of high-quality Cuban light rum, as well as the expansion of the preparation of technical forces for the fattening of eels and aquaculture, where China has experience.
The head of the food industry explained to the distinguished visitor the responsibility of the agency with the standardized family basket and social consumption, such as children’s milk, stewed fruit, the search for suppliers of raw materials for food production.
López conveyed to Hua Xin his gratitude for the support maintained by China against the economic, financial and commercial blockade maintained for more than 60 years by the government of the United States against the island.
Both expressed their willingness to continue to work for the strengthening of the historic bilateral relations.
Havana, 9 August (Radio Habana Cuba) The Government of India has sent a donation of 10 million euros to the Biocubafarma Business Group for the purchase of pharmaceutical raw materials and active ingredients for the production of oral and injectable antibiotics for hospital and community use.
The donation will contribute to the production of medicines demanded by the island’s population, such as Amoxicillin, Cephalexin, Cefixime in capsules and suspension, injectable medicines such as Ceftriaxone, Cefuroxime and Ceftazidime, with a six-to-twelve-month coverage.
The donation ceremony was held at Empresa Farmacéutica 8 de Marzo in the presence of Armstrong Chang, Ambassador of India to Cuba, who considered the gesture an example of the brotherhood between the two nations for six decades, based on respect and shared views on economic and political matters.
Deborah Rivas Saavedra, Vice Minister of Foreign Trade, expressed gratitude on behalf of the Cuban government and people for this gesture of solidarity in the midst of the island’s difficult economic situation due to the international crisis and the tightening of the U.S. government’s economic, financial and commercial blockade against the Cuban nation.
Zenia Madrazo Sangre, director of Empresa Farmacéutica 8 de Marzo, said that the donation of some 80,000 tons of active ingredients will allow the company to increase its production capacity, whose capsule plant was paralyzed a year ago due to a lack of raw materials.
India is one of Cuba’s top 20 trading partners, and among the 32 million dollars in exports to the island in the period 2023-2024, pharmaceutical and chemical products predominate, according to data from the Ministry of Commerce of the Asian country.
Beyond the bilateral agreement, New Delhi has granted Cuba important credit lines for the execution of projects in the agricultural and livestock sectors and renewable energy.
Washington, Aug 9 (Prensa Latina) Thousands of people will demand in the streets and on social networks “United States out of Venezuela!” as part of the day of solidarity with the South American country.
The organization The People’s Forum, based in New York, published on X the global call of the International People’s Assembly to “defend the Bolivarian Revolution from the stalking of US imperialism, which once again tries to destabilize the struggle of the brave Venezuelan people.”
The call highlighted the attempts that try to reverse the Bolivarian process through “attacks and operations with the right-wing governments of the region and the world. With the elections in Venezuela we have witnessed the simultaneous, sustained, and deepened application of different methods of violence, isolation, dissemination of fake news, psychological, media, and technological siege, or to put it more briefly, we have seen live and direct the application of a Hybrid War against its people,” the call emphasized.
The Assembly urged “all popular movements, unions, political parties and all people who fight for democracy and popular sovereignty to categorically reject attempts at destabilization and interference by the United States in Venezuela.”
“We know that the firmness and determination of the Venezuelan people, demonstrated in the streets, together with the solidarity of the popular movements of the world, will manage to stop the current fascist escalation, and Venezuela will remain a bastion of peace and stability throughout the region,” it concluded.
New York City Residents gathered last night in front of the headquarters of The New York Times chanting “No to US intervention,” accusing the newspaper of being involved “in a disinformation campaign to encourage and justify attempts of coup d’état and economic war led by the United States against Venezuela.
“The people of the United States are against sanctions, intervention, and endless war! The world supports Venezuela, its independence, and its democratic process!” noted The People’s Forum also on X.
Teachers in Monagas demonstrate their support for Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, Aug. 8, 2024. Photo: X/ @PartidoPSUV
This call seeks to replicate the failed actions of the Lima Group, with identical destabilization and coup-driven intentions.
August 8 (teleSUR) On Wednesday, the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America-Peoples’ Trade Treaty (ALBA-TCP) rejected Panamanian President Jose Mulino’s request to hold a regional meeting to discuss the political situation in Venezuela.
“The ALBA-TCP member states categorically reject the call by the government of the Republic of Panama for an interventionist meeting to address Venezuela’s internal affairs, in blatant violation of the sovereignty and self-determination of that sister nation,” ALBA-TCP Secretary Jorge Arreaza said.
“This interventionist call seeks to replicate the failed actions of the so-called Lima Group, with identical destabilization and coup-driven intentions, publicly stating that the objective of this meeting would be to ‘test more actions that support democracy in the South American brother country,’” he explained.
ALBA-TCP emphasized that the handling of any regional issue must be conducted with full respect for international law and the United Nations Charter, including the principle of non-intervention in the internal affairs of states.
In the face of so many competing interests fighting for power, it’s crucial to remember that Venezuela’s political challenges must be resolved by its own people, on their own terms.
HANDS OFF VENEZUELA! For the sake of the Venezuelan people, the U.S. must respect Venezuela’s sovereignty and cease its war on Venezuela once and for all. Tell Biden: NO GUAIDO 2.0! https://codepink.org/not_another_guaido
On August 2, Panamanian President Mulino refused to recognize the results of the presidential elections issued by the Venezuelan National Electoral Council and sided with the far-right politician Edmundo Gonzalez in his attempt to declare himself president of Venezuela.
Currently, ALBA-TCP is composed of Venezuela, Cuba, Nicaragua, Bolivia, Antigua and Barbuda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Grenada, Dominica, and Saint Lucia.
This regional integration institution invited Latin American and Caribbean countries to respect the decisions and mechanisms of each state and their legitimate institutions.
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