Washington, May 3 (Prensa Latina) Author Nancy Morejón, one of the most relevant voices in Cuban and Latin American poetry, received the respect and admiration of the Cuban Embassy in this capital on Friday.

The 2001 National Literature Awardwinner, essayist, translator and journalist toured the United States, where she attended the Afro-Cuban Legacies International Conference at the University of Missouri, as well as other meetings in San Francisco (California) and in the coming days in New York.

“It is an immense honor for us to have her here,” Lianys Torres, head of the Cuban Mission in the United States, said when welcoming the renowned intellectual, “of whom we Cubans are very proud.”

Morejón, in turn, said that she felt moved by such a welcome. “I didn’t expect it,” she commented simply, reiterating that “you can always count on me.”

A poetic follower, and also an admirer, of Cuban National Poet Nicolás Guillén, Morejón has enriched the so-called black poetry, although her work goes further.

This is proved by her verses, in which she scrutinizes the daily life of her native Havana (August 7, 1944) and the revolutionary process in Cuba, without forgetting the fusion of poetry with other arts in her literary work. “My job is words. Words must be treated as if they were velvet,” the poet confessed in statements to Prensa Latina.

During the long conversation with this reporter, she dusted off memories, talked about the cultural ties between Cuba and the United States, reflected on happiness and even gave the scoop on her memoirs.

“Resist, continue to write and be in the fight for the creation of a better world against war, and even more so against predatory wars,” is what Morejón proposes. She also confirmed that “Israel’s genocide against the Palestinians is embarrassing.”

She is lover of blue, due to the sea that surrounds her, and of that “beautiful Cuba, whoever defends it, loves it more,” she emphasized.

Nancy Morejón’s work has been translated into English, French, German, Portuguese, Italian, Russian, Polish and Dutch and is especially known in the United States, where her literary work is highly appreciated.

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Mexico, May 3 (Prensa Latina) Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador and Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez met here and talked about maintaining cooperative relations in education, health care and other matters of public interest.

“We spoke with Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, foreign minister of the sister Republic of Cuba. We talked about maintaining our cooperative relations in education, health care and other matters of public interest,” the president stated in a message on his X account.

As is known, our peoples have a fruitful common history of friendship and mutual assistance, López Obrador stressed.

Also on X, Mexican Foreign Secretary Alicia Bárcena referred to “the very cordial and fruitful meeting with concrete results with Presidente @lopezobrador_ and Foreign Minister @BrunoRguezP and his team that strengthens friendship” between the two nations.

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Havana, Apr 29 (Prensa Latina) The president of the National Association of Economists and Accountants of Cuba (ANEC), Oscar Luis Hung, on Monday called to promote strategies with long-term perspectives to promote the development of the countries of the South.

At the opening session of the 50th Anniversary Congress on the New International Economic Order (NIEO), Hung noted the urgent need to move from theory to action, in order to ensure global survival.

Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla and former Colombian President Ernesto Samper, among other academic diplomats and political leaders, are participating in the event, which was inaugurated in the South Chamber of the National Capitol, in Havana.

Convened by the Progressive International and the ANEC, the Congress will be the second of its kind held in Havana, after the one held in January 2023 under the auspices of the Cuban Foreign Ministry (MINREX).

The meeting will close on Tuesday, on the eve of the 50th anniversary of the approval by the United Nations General Assembly of the declaration and program of action on the establishment of the NIEO.

That event was a milestone in the fight by the countries of the South for international economic justice and for their development, MINREX recalled on its website.

According to the Foreign Ministry, the forum aims to promote dialogue on the problems that hinder development and world peace, as a consequence of an unbalanced international economic, political, scientific-technological and military order with hegemonic preponderances.

In its final declaration, the first Congress noted that the current vision of the NIEO can only be realized through collective action from the South and the establishment of new and alternative institutions to share critical technology, address the sovereign debt, boost development finance, and confront future pandemics together.

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Havana, Apr 29 (Prensa Latina) Worldwide Politicians, academics, and experts will share the Cuban venue to analyze global imbalances and the need for a New International Economic Order (NIEO).

Progressive International and the National Association of Economists and Accountants of Cuba convened the Congress, the second of its kind in Havana after the one held in January 2023 sponsored by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Cuba (MINREX).

The National Capitol of Cuba will make one of its chambers available for the event, which will take place from April 29th to 30th, on the eve of the 50th anniversary of the approval by the United Nations General Assembly of the declaration and program of action on the establishment of the NIEO, which in turn constituted a milestone in the struggle of the countries of the South for international economic justice and their development, MINREX recalled on its website.

According to the Foreign Ministry, the forum will promote dialogue around the problems that hinder development and world peace, due to an unbalanced international economic, political, scientific-technological, and military order with hegemonic preponderances.

In its final declaration, the first Congress noted in January 2023 that the current vision of the NIEO can only be realized through collective action from the South and the formation of new and alternative institutions to share critical technology, address sovereign debt, boost financing development and face future pandemics together.

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