Havana, May 10 (Prensa Latina) President Miguel Diaz-Canel met in Algeria with Brahim Bougali, President of the National People’s Assembly, during a technical stopover on his return trip from Moscow, where he was on a working visit.
The national television informed that the IL-96 Cubana de Aviación plane carrying the Cuban president and his accompanying delegation landed at the Houari Boumediene International Airport in Algier, the capital of Algeria, approximately at 23:00 hours.
Present at the meeting were Cuban Ambassador to Algeria, Héctor Igarza, and Algerian Health Minister and co-chairman of the Joint Intergovernmental Commission, Abdelhak Saihi.
The press release noted that both parties discussed the state of their bilateral relations and other issues of mutual interest.
The director of the Mexican Institute of Social Security (IMSS), Zoé Robledo, (left) and the President of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel (right) meet in Havana on Friday, May 10th to discuss medical cooperation between Cuba and Mexico.
The Cuban president ratified the willingness to support as much as possible “the sister nation.”
May 12 (teleSUR) The Mexican government will hire 1,200 additional Cuban doctors to the hundreds already in the country after a meeting between the director of the Mexican Institute of Social Security (IMSS), Zoé Robledo, and the president of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel.
The meeting happened last Friday in Havana, the Zoé Robledo specified days later the number of Cuban specialists, who will join the 768 who already work in the public health sector of Mexico and 123 who will arrive the next days with a specialty in family medicine.
“Serving the Mexican people through a government project between our two nations is also a growth for our doctors because there is much that undoubtedly contributes to their training as professionals, as humans and as revolutionaries, experience with the people,” said Díaz-Canel
Abordamos las posibilidades para aumentar la cooperación entre #México y #Cuba, y coincidimos en que los avances logrados son ejemplos de cuánto podemos seguir haciendo juntos.
The Cuban president ratified the willingness to support as much as possible “the sister nation” he said that the island will continue to do everything within the reach of the people and the government to expand the cooperation agreement between the two nations.
On the other hand, the IMSS president reiterated the commitment of the current Mexican government to continue strengthening its health system, a path in which an effort is being made to end one of the most terrible legacies that the neoliberal model bequeathed to Mexico, which was the lack of specialist doctors.
Mexico has 2.4 doctors per 1,000 inhabitants, higher than the average of 2 per 1,000 in Latin America, but lower than the average of 3.5 in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), according to the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI).
“The participation of Cuban doctors in IMSS-Welfare has added to the work of Mexican doctors to strengthen the First Level of Care by increasing productivity in consultations and operating rooms,” the medical entity’s statement said.
Havana, May 10 (Prensa Latina) Everything is ready today for the traditional Cuba-Russia Friendship Race to be held on Saturday in this capital dedicated to the 79th anniversary of the victory against fascism.
The National Institute of Sports, Physical Education and Recreation (Inder) and the Embassy of the Russian Federation, with the technical support of the National Commission of Marabana Maracuba Races and Walks (CNCCMM), called on the entire population to join the also-called Marathon of Victory.
With the start and finish line at the diplomatic headquarters of that Eurasian country, located in Miramar’s neighborhood in Playa municipality, the race will have a distance of less than four kilometers along the surrounding avenues and the starting time will be 10:00 a.m. local time.
At 7:30 a.m., at the same place, registration will begin for all participants, who should exceed one thousand, as has been the case in previous versions.
The organizers will award prizes to the first three places in each category and to the winners of the different associations of people with physical disabilities, in addition to encouraging the 600 runners or walkers who cross the finish line first.
Havana, May 10 (Prensa Latina) Cuban Deputy Prime Minister Ricardo Cabrisas thanked the director of Local Content of the Saudi Fund for Development (SFD), Abdulmohsen Al Khayal, for the projects being done by that institution in the country’s hydraulic sector.
Upon receiving the Saudi delegation, Cabrisas, who is also the minister of Foreign Trade and Foreign Investment, underlined the significance of the new SFD visit to strengthen bilateral ties and follow up on the agreements reached in previous contacts between delegations from both countries.
Cabrisas underscored the importance of the ongoing negotiations for the constitution of a high-level mechanism to monitor the economic, commercial, financial and cooperation actions agreed upon between the two nations, as well as the promotion and reciprocal protection of investments, and to prevent double taxation and tax evasion.
The SFD representatives reiterated their willingness to support Cuba’s economic development with the financing of projects that are reflected in the quality of life of the population and contribute to improving infrastructure.
At the same time, they reiterated their willingness to assess investments in several prioritized economic sectors such as tourism and hydraulic resources.
Prior to the meeting, members of the Saudi delegation visited social works financed by the SFD and met with the president of the National Institute of Hydraulic Resources, Antonio Rodríguez.
Havana, May 10 (Prensa Latina) Numan Kurtulmuş, speaker of the Grand National Assembly (Parliament) of Türkiye, toured the Fidel Castro Ruz Center in the capital, as part of his visit to Cuba.
The national television informed that during his tour of the institution dedicated to studying the life and work of the historic leader of the Cuban Revolution, the Turkish guest received a detailed explanation of the different stages of Fidel Castro’s life and revolutionary leadership.
Kurtulmuş approached the original podium the Commander-in-Chief repeatedly used. In statements to reporters, he described his visit to Cuba as fruitful.
The Turkish parliamentary speaker expressed, “We did not leave any point open, and we signed an agreement to create a joint working group between the two parliaments.
Before concluding the visit to the Fidel Castro Ruz Center, which he described as excellently designed, Kurtulmuş and his delegation enjoyed the performance of one of the National Ballet of Cuba’s vocational workshops.
Kurtulmuş and his companions made a two-day official visit to this country at the invitation of Cuban Parliament President Esteban Lazo.
They also met with Prime Minister Manuel Marrero and other high-ranking officials and conducted different activities.
Xamneau, Laos, May 11 (Prensa Latina) Cuban Ambassador Enna Viant denounced here the multidimensional strategy of maximum pressure applied today by the U.S. government against Cuba, which includes the reinforcement of the prolonged economic, financial, and commercial blockade.
This policy includes the harassment and persecution of finances and any means used by Cuba to solve its energy projects, and seeks to prevent the successful development of our commercial relations and collaboration in all possible branches, including public health, she stressed.
Speaking the day before at the ceremony to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic ties between Cuba and Laos, Viant emphasized that more than 80 percent of the Cuban population was born and raised under this scourge, which constitutes genocide and violates the human rights of the people.
The elimination of the U.S. blockade, which has lasted for more than six decades, is a priority of Cuba’s foreign policy in the face of attempts to isolate it and include it, for no reason whatsoever, in the so-called list of countries sponsoring terrorism, which further reinforces the criminal encirclement, she remarked.
However, Cuban ambassador noted, “Cuba has enjoyed international solidarity, particularly from the People’s Revolutionary Party, the State and Government and the people of Laos, and the universal rejection of the blockade policy, which every year generates more initiatives and support throughout the world”.
Havana, May 11 (Prensa Latina) Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel held a meeting with the director general of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (ONUDI), Gerd Müller, on a visit to the island, it was reported today.
The president said in his profile on X, that the day before he thanked the UN official for the support provided to Cuba in various cooperation projects to promote inclusive and sustainable industrial development in the country.
At the meeting, Diaz-Canel valued the high significance of the presence of Onudi’s top representative in the Antillean nation from the historical ties with this entity, amplified a report from Radio Rebelde.
The head of state highlighted the results of cooperation during the five-year period, which he described as successful, and also predicted favorable results for the coming five-year period.
He also acknowledged Onudi’s support to the Country’s Program being developed within the borders, aligned with industrial development, one of the strategic axes of the National Program for Economic and Social Development until 2030.
The Cuban president listed several areas that constitute priorities in the national industrial development: the one linked to food production, the energy sector and the transition to a new energy matrix based on renewable energy sources, the pharmaceutical industry, quoted the journalistic source. Onudi’s Country Programs promote industrial development.
Pretoria, May 10 (Prensa Latina) South Africa and Cuba will celebrate 30 years of diplomatic relations on May 11, although the nations’ contacts date back to the early 1960s.
As a distinctive feature, those relations were established during a visit of the historic leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro, to participate in the inauguration of newly-elected President Nelson Mandela in 1994.
Cuban Ambassador in Pretoria Enrique Orta Gonzalez stated that during these three decades, Cuba-South Africa relations have proven to be a successful example of South-South cooperation, with a direct effect on both peoples, deepening their mutual appreciation and respect.
In particular, the formalization of bilateral relations with Cuba was considered one of the first foreign policy acts by the democratic government of South Africa.
Orta Gonzalez told Prensa Latina that Cuba was the first country to receive diplomatic recognition from the Government of the African National Congress (ANC), the ruling party since then in South Africa.
However, contacts between the two nations began in 1961, when young South Africans from the anti-apartheid forces arrived in Cuba to receive medical care or professional training in medicine and science.
They were the first group of many to receive military and medical training in the decades that followed in Cuba.
The ambassador noted that hundreds of South African liberation movement cadres have been trained in Cuba and by the Cubans abroad.
Washington, May 10 (Prensa Latina) The “Puentes de Amor” ( “Bridges of Love”) movement condemned the decision of a United States judge to acquit the author of the terrorist attack against the Cuban embassy in Washington on April 30th, 2020.
Carlos Lazo, the coordinator of Puentes de Amor solidarity project, who also works in favor of lifting the United States blockade against Cuba, told Prensa Latina “This decision surprises us, scandalizes us, and worries us”.
He also asked: “How is it that a person who committed a terrorist attack against an embassy in the United States, who opened fire with a rifle and endangered the lives of families and embassy staff and who was accused of four charges was acquitted by the US justice.
Lazo said that it is a tremendous irony that the United States has Cuba on a list of terrorist countries with lying justifications, meanwhile, someone who has committed violent acts against the Cuban embassy and the Cuban people is declared free of charges.
“Any Cuban with dignity, with love for his country, must be scandalized by this fact; furthermore, it establishes a precedent of impunity that those who commit acts like these will not receive the weight of justice,” he stressed.
Similar criteria were raised by Cheryl LaBash, co-president of the National Network of Solidarity with Cuba (NNOC), who added that she considers the perpetrator of the attack “a danger to himself and society.” The judge’s ruling “gives the green light to politically motivated violent crimes against Cuban embassies,” the activist emphasized. “Concerning Cuba and in other cases, the United States Government shows its willingness to violate international law and conventions,” concluded the co-president of NNOC, which brings together more than 70 organizations.
Alleging the perpetrator’s insanity, on May 1st, a judge from the District of Columbia acquitted Alexander Alazo, of Cuban origin and resident in the United States since 2010, of the four charges against him for the terrorist attack he perpetrated against the Cuban embassy in Washington four years ago.
A statement from the Cuban Foreign Ministry expressed its deep concern about the decision, even though Alazo himself confessed that he had gone there with the intention of firing on whatever was in front of him, including human beings, in case they were in his line of fire. The Foreign Ministry warned that the ruling of the judge sends a dangerous message of impunity for those who propose to take violent actions against embassies in Washington.
Havana, May 10 (Prensa Latina) Numan Kurtulmuş, speaker of the Grand National Assembly (Parliament) of Türkiye, toured the Fidel Castro Ruz Center in the capital, as part of his visit to Cuba.
The national television informed that during his tour of the institution dedicated to studying the life and work of the historic leader of the Cuban Revolution, the Turkish guest received a detailed explanation of the different stages of Fidel Castro’s life and revolutionary leadership.
Kurtulmuş approached the original podium the Commander-in-Chief repeatedly used. In statements to reporters, he described his visit to Cuba as fruitful.
The Turkish parliamentary speaker expressed, “We did not leave any point open, and we signed an agreement to create a joint working group between the two parliaments.
Before concluding the visit to the Fidel Castro Ruz Center, which he described as excellently designed, Kurtulmuş and his delegation enjoyed the performance of one of the National Ballet of Cuba’s vocational workshops.
Kurtulmuş and his companions made a two-day official visit to this country at the invitation of Cuban Parliament President Esteban Lazo.
They also met with Prime Minister Manuel Marrero and other high-ranking officials and conducted different activities.
