Havana, Jul 29 (Prensa Latina) Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel, on his X profile on Monday, congratulated Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro for his victory in Sunday’s presidential elections.
“I spoke with brother Nicolas Maduro to offer him warm congratulations on behalf of the Cuban Party, Government, and people for the historic electoral victory after an impressive demonstration by the Venezuelan people,” Diaz-Canel wrote and added that he reaffirmed Cuba’s solidarity.
“Today, the dignity and courage of the Venezuelan people triumphed over pressure and manipulation. I convey to brother President Maduro our warm congratulations on this historic victory and Cuba’s commitment to stand by the Bolivarian and Chavista Revolution,” he stated.
The Cuban president reiterated on the same platform that Maduro’s victory “is that of the Bolivarian and Chavista people, they defeated the pro-imperialist opposition unequivocally. They also defeated the regional, interventionist, and Monroist right. The people spoke and the Revolution won.
Maduro won the presidential elections with 51.20 percent of the vote after receiving 5,150,092 votes.
His closest rival was the opponent of the Democratic Unity Platform, Edmundo Gonzalez, who obtained 44.2 percent with the vote of 4,445,978 voters.
Montevideo, Jul 27 (Prensa Latina) Uruguay and Cuba exchanged experiences, this Saturday, addressing racism and racial discrimination during a meeting chaired by Ana Olivera, president of the Chamber of Deputies.
The gathering was held at the Uruguayan Parliament, with the participation of Rolando Julio Rensoli, secretary of the Executive Coordination Group of the Cuban National Program against Racism and Racial Discrimination.
Other attendees were Maritza Barrios and Idelsi Alfonso, coordinators of the Neighborhood Network of Afro-descendants in Cuba.
The Cuban representatives are invited to the Lagrima Rios Festival, which pays tribute to an iconic figure of Uruguayan society and includes lectures, exhibitions, and musical concerts by emblematic artists, such as Ruben Rada.
Rensoli explained the measures implemented by Cuba against racial discrimination, on the understanding that public policies require updates about an issue of principle of the Cuban Revolution.
Havana, Jul 27 (Prensa Latina) Three Russian Baltic Fleet vessels are arriving at Havana port on Saturday on a visit that will last until July 30.
During their stay, the Russian sailors will conduct activities, including courtesy visits to the head of the Revolutionary Navy, the capital’s governor, and places of historical and cultural interest.
The naval group will consist of the Smolniy training vessel, the patrol vessel Neustrahimiy, and the offshore oil tanker Yelnya.
According to a press release from the Ministry of the Revolutionary Armed Forces (FAR), these visits by naval units from other countries are a historical practice of the Cuban revolutionary Government with nations with which it maintains friendship and cooperation.
Residents in this capital city can visit the Smolny training ship on Sunday from 12:00 to 16:00 hours, local time, and Monday from 12:00 to 18:00 hours.
Heads of the CNE welcome the international observers, July 26, 2024 Photo: @cneesvzla
Elvis Amoroso stressed that the actions contained in the electoral schedule have been fulfilled, with the required transparency.
July 26 (teleSUR) The National Electoral Council (CNE) This Friday, he officially welcomed the international and national observers who will witness the presidential election process on Sunday, July 28.
From Plaza Caracas, in the nation’s capital, CNE president Elvis Amoroso highlighted the importance of national and international observers in the presidential elections.
Amoroso explained that the Electoral Power of Venezuela is the best and most organized in the world, and specified that the electoral authorities of the South American country have played an intense role, The European Commission has published a report on the European Union’s activities in this field.
The top representative of the entity also denounced the international communication campaign that intensifies the extreme right against the presidential elections next Sunday.
Election authorities welcome national and international observers for the 2024 presidential election.
It also stressed that the actions contained in the electoral timetable have been carried out with the required transparency, The European Commission has been working closely with the European Parliament, the Council of Ministers and the European Parliament.
Amoroso also reported that in the last month of June, the CNE invited the ten presidential candidates and the principals of the entity to sign a document confirming their willingness to recognize the results of the elections, which was signed by only eight aspirants to the presidency of Venezuela.
In this regard, Amoroso asked that the presence of international observers be respected in the country. Meanwhile, the vice-president of the CNE, Carlos Quintero, assured the need for observers to know how the Venezuelan electoral system works.
Days before the presidential elections, over 1,000 international observers have arrived in #Venezuela to monitor the electoral process. Hear their insights and impressions of the voting system, renowned for its safety and reliability.@Marwa__Osman@SeanBlackmon9… pic.twitter.com/xf7bJOXUXt
— Al Mayadeen English (@MayadeenEnglish) July 26, 2024
Referential image. Person voting in one of the machines of the automated electoral system of Venezuela. Photo: X/ @ConElMazoDando
July 27 (teleSUR) National Electoral Council (NEC) authorities Venezuela reported that after noon this Friday, more than 96 percent of the polling stations throughout the country were already installed for this Sunday’s presidential elections.
The correspondent of teleSUR in Spanish in Caracas, Leonel Retamal, reported that for the election exercise of the following Sunday 30,026 polling stations will be enabled, corresponding to 15,797 polling stations in the country.
“According to official information, by one o’clock, 96.04 percent of the national polling stations had already been installed (…) when there are less than 48 hours left before the start of the electoral process in the country”, said Retamal.
The President of the National Electoral Council (CNE)The Committee of the Regions, which is responsible for the coordination of the electoral processes in the Member States, has been elections.
This Friday, the materials needed for the presidential elections were reviewed and all the members of the bureau were present.
At the time of installation, based on article 108 of the Organic Law of Electoral Processes, the identification of the members of the Electoral Bureau including the main ones is made The Integrated System (OSI) operator.
In addition, the Minister of Labour of Venezuela, Alexis Corredor, reported this Friday that the unit installed situational rooms to receive any complaint from the working class about their exercise of the right to vote next Sunday.
Havana, July 27 (Radio Havana Cuba) — On the occasion of the 71st anniversary of the assault on the Moncada and Carlos Manuel de Cespedes barracks, the World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU) is undertaking the International Hands Off Cuba Campaign.
The WFTU, which brings together 105 million members in 133 countries, has called on all affiliated organizations in the world to express their solidarity with the Cuban people, with protests in front of American embassies on all continents, against the economic, financial and commercial blockade that the U.S. government has maintained against the island for more than 60 years.
Ernesto Freyre Cabañas, regional general secretary of the WFTU, said that in these demonstrations they will also demand the removal of Cuba from the list unilaterally invented by the United States of supposed countries promoting terrorism, as well as the cessation of media propaganda against the island.
The WFTU will also pay tribute to the heroes and martyrs of July 26th and will highlight the example for the world of the Cuban Revolution.
On the occasion of the Day of National Rebellion, Pambis Kyritsis, General Secretary of the WFTU, sent a message to the Cuban people.
“We salute the heroic anniversary of the attack on the Moncada barracks, in Santiago de Cuba. July 26th marks the beginning of the attempt to defeat the dictatorship, which gave hope to workers around the world and demonstrated that the people can create a society free of exploitation.”
And the message concludes: “The voice of the International Class-Based Trade Union Movement is heard throughout the world demanding Hands Off Cuba, End the Blockade Now!
Hanoi, Jul 27 (Prensa Latina) Cuban National People’s Power Assembly (ANPP) President Esteban Lazo reiterated, in this capital on Saturday, that the essence of the economic, financial, and commercial blockade of the United States against his country is eminently political.
If this is not understood, it is impossible to understand the cruelty of this tightened siege, Lazo, who is also a Politburo member of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC), said during a meeting with solidarity organizations, members of the state mission, and young Cuban students.
The ANPP president recalled that as early as April 1960, a US Undersecretary of State advised then-President Dwight Eisenhower to deprive the emerging Cuban Revolution of popular support by the only feasible means: inflicting as much economic damage as possible to create hardship on the population.
The aim of the tightened US blockade, which has lasted for more than six decades, has always been to eliminate socialism in Cuba, he noted.
During the meeting, Jorge Luis Broche, member of the Secretariat of the PCC Central Committee and head of its Economic-Productive Department, told participants about aspects of the current situation in Cuba and the main challenges of the Socio-Economic Development Plan by 2030.
He pointed out that external forces are hovering over the Cuban reality, creating complex situations that curb the economy’s progress. Broche reiterated that the severe and reinforced blockade of the United States is precisely the main obstacle.
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The agency explains that the interference in the internal affairs of the South American country began “with a wide media campaign».
July 26 (teleSUR) The American Association of Jurists (AAJ) denounced this Friday that the United States (USA) and other allied nations, undertake actions and statements interfering and destabilizing, through hegemonic media and social networks, to destabilize the July 28 elections in Venezuela, building the matrix of opinion of a possible electoral fraud.
In a statement, the organization explains that the interference in the internal affairs of the South American country began “with a wide-ranging media campaign in which various personalities from the United States and allied governments called openly for voting against the current Venezuelan government”.
“In recent days, probably because they verified that the campaign described did not produce the expected results, they began to install the possibility of electoral fraud. In several press releases, the population is called to vote for the opposition and falsely claim to have evidence of the alleged alteration of the election result by the government headed by Nicolas Maduro”, The AAJ needs to be informed.
He also warned that the maneuvers are very similar to those that led to the coup against former Bolivian president Evo Morales in 2019, with the proven involvement of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the Organization of American States (OAS) and the European Union, which left some dead, wounded and political prisoners, while depriving that country of strategic resources
La Asociación Americana de Juristas denunció acciones y declaraciones perjudiciales sobre las elecciones del 28Jul. Exhortamos a los gobiernos y sus representantes a no realizar declaraciones que alienten un cruento enfrentamiento en la sociedad venezolana, e insistimos en…
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The text reads, The American Association of Jurists denounced harmful actions and statements regarding the July 28 elections. We urge governments and their representatives not to make statements that encourage bloody confrontation in Venezuelan society, and we insist that peaceful cooperation between peoples must be resumed.
The document also states that the AAJ “has accredited international observers and escorts for the process of next July 28 in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. We have verified that, as in previous elections, this is one of the most complete and secure electoral systems, administered only by the Electoral Power”.
In this regard, he indicated that in terms of technology, the Venezuelan electoral system presents 16 types of audit in different components, including its closed transmission system, The European Commission has also been working on this.
“In addition, polling stations are subject to citizen verification, with provisions such as the drawing of 30 members per table, even though they will only exercise function 3 of them, together with the witnesses designated by each political party. All of this, under meticulous regulations and regulations, with constitutional status”, he said.
The text further recalls that “the principle of non-intervention implies the right of any sovereign state to conduct its affairs without foreign interference”, while referring to documents such as the Charter of the United Nations, resolutions of the UN General Assembly, where they declare that states must refrain from interfering in the internal affairs of other nations.
“Historically, the weaker states clung to the principle of non-intervention as the only legal protection against the expansionist ambitions of the more powerful countries. Thus, the O.E.A.’s Charter, in Article 19, states that “No State or group of States has the right to intervene, directly or indirectly, and for whatever reason, in the internal or external affairs of any other. The above principle excludes not only armed force, but also any other form of interference or tendency to undermine the personality of the State, political elements, The Committee also notes that the Commission has made a number of recommendations to the Council, including those relating to the economic and cultural aspects”.
The AAJ explained that in view of this, it adds to the pronouncements of intellectuals, movements and social, cultural, professional, progressive forces that repudiate the US threats of destabilization. and the allied nations.
“We urge the Governments and their representatives not to make statements that encourage a bloody confrontation in Venezuelan society, and we insist that the path of solidarity and peaceful cooperation between peoples must be taken again”, he stressed.
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