Caracas, Mar 8 (Prensa Latina) Venezuelan airline Rutaca is inaugurating a new commercial route on Friday to connect the Simón Bolívar International Airport in Maiquetía, Venezuela, with the Frank País International Airport in the eastern province of Holguín, Cuba.
This charter flight will operate on Tuesdays and Fridays and connect the South American country with the eastern region of Cuba, known for its intense cultural life, beautiful natural landscapes, and paradisiacal beaches.
The trip will allow more than 60 tourism professionals from 38 leading travel agencies in Venezuela and 20 press members to learn about the unique experience and enjoy the region’s attractions for their subsequent marketing of this growing destination.
The new route will also serve to market the tourist facilities of the historic and attractive Santiago de Cuba province.
Basse-Terre, Mar 7 (Prensa Latina) The president of the National Institute of Sports, Physical Education and Recreation (Inder) of Cuba, Osvaldo Vento, met today with senior officials of the sector on the island of Guadeloupe, French overseas department.
Vento had an important meeting with Chantal Cusset-Gaydy, director of the Resource Center for Sports Experience and Performance (Creps), as part of an intense working day in this island, where he arrived on Tuesday from Paris, according to the digital media Jit.
Inder and Creps signed a cooperation agreement in several areas, with emphasis on sports and academic exchange.
Along with Gisleydi Sosa, director of international relations of Inder, the top Cuban sports leader visited the University of Guadalupe, which included a tour of its facilities and a meeting with professors and students.
The university leadership requested Cuban literature specialized in sports and physical culture, to which the representation of Inder responded affirmatively.
Djibouti, Mar 8 (Prensa Latina) Doctors of the Cuban brigade working in Djibouti reportedly assisted those injured in the Barbados-flagged bulk tanker called True Confidence, which was attacked by Yemen’s Houthi rebels on Wednesday.
According to the Havana Embassy in this capital, the commercial ship’s crew was rescued by the Djiboutian Government through a humanitarian rescue and assistance mission involving Cuban physicians, who aided four injured and operated on two others at the Peltier Hospital in this city.
Health Minister Ahmed Robleh Abdilleh thanked the Cuban medical brigade for its cooperation.
The attack on the Greek-owned cargo ship “True Confidence”, in the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait, 70 nautical miles off Djibouti, also left three people dead, 1 Vietnamese and two Filipinos.
On November 19, the rebels, grouped in the Ansar Allah movement, announced their decision to attack Israeli ships in the Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea in response to the Zionist attacks on Gaza.
The Houthis took over northern Yemen, including the capital, after taking up arms against the government in 2014, an event that sparked a civil war that currently continues.
Havana, Mar 7 (Prensa Latina) A look at the challenges and strengths of the Federation of Cuban Women (FMC) in the last five years marked the beginning today of the eleventh congress of the women’s organization, which will be held in Havana until tomorrow.
At the opening of the event, it was highlighted that during that period several public policies were approved to stimulate the incorporation of the sector to employment, the expansion of home support and care and the empowerment of women.
The secretary general of the FMC, Teresa Amarelle, explained that the balance sheet presented at the congress represents the closing of a complex stage for the country in socioeconomic matters, in which women have been a fundamental pillar.
The report details that the FMC has boosted the exchange with Cuban families on issues related to social indiscipline, crime and corruption.
It specifies that it is a strength of the organization to be able to count on 91.47 percent of integration, a figure higher than that achieved in the previous edition of the congress and which evidences the sustained growth of the membership, especially of young women who reach 14 years old in all provinces.
It emphasizes that the houses of orientation for women and families were consolidated as a space of resistance and creativity for the FMC, by improving its work with the increase in the number of people advised and the preparation for employment through training programs.
At the same time, it warns that instability and delays in the completion of structures still persist in some grassroots organizations, as well as apathy, passivity, disinterest and insufficient knowledge of the diagnosis of the community, of the problematic motivations that affect women and their families.
More than 300 delegates throughout the country are debating this Thursday on how to revitalize and strengthen the role of the organization, in a context marked by the tightening of US blockade imposed on the island.
Santiago, Chile, Mar 7 (Prensa Latina) Aleida Guevara, ambassador of the Global Campaign for the Right of Return to Palestine, on Wednesday welcomed the Chilean Government’s decision to prevent Israel’s participation in the upcoming Aerospace, Defense, and Security Fair.
I think it is an excellent attitude that Chile has prevented the Israeli Army from coming here to show its weapons, the Cuban doctor said at a press briefing at the National Congress in Valparaiso.
The daughter of Argentinean-Cuban revolutionary fighter Ernesto Che Guevara, and South African Parliamentarian Nkosi Zwelivelile Mandela, grandson of former President Nelson Mandela, met with Ricardo Cifuentes, president of the Chilean Chamber of Deputies, on Wednesday.
They also met with the Chile-Palestine inter-parliamentary group of the legislative body, the Cuban Embassy in Chile reported on its X platform.
Also present at the meeting was Physician Pablo Sepúlveda, grandson of late Chilean President Salvador Allende.
As the United Nations has not been capable of stopping the genocide against Palestine, all nations must join forces to make Israel realize that it is becoming the highest criminal of humanity at this moment, Aleida said.
Since October 7, 2023, Tel Aviv’s bombings and attacks on Gaza have killed 30,000 and injured more than 70,000, mostly women and children.
Addis Ababa, Mar 5 (Prensa Latina) Cubans and Ethiopians joined at the Ethiopia-Cuba Friendship Park to commemorate the 46th anniversary of the Battle of Karramara, a deed that sealed with blood the bonds of friendship between the two peoples.
The persistent drizzle that presages the approaching rainy season did not prevent the heartfelt tribute to those who fell in that battle that protected the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the African country over the Ogaden desert against external expansionism.
Cuban Ambassador Jorge Lefebre recalled that the story began on November 25, 1977, when Commander-in-Chief Fidel Castro, in response to a request from the Ethiopian Government, signed the order authorizing the participation of Cuban troops in the confrontation with Somali aggressors.
Lefebre pointed out that Operation Baraguá paid tribute to an epic in Cuban history when a group of officers of the Mambi Army, led by General Antonio Maceo, rejected the peace without honor offered by the Spanish colony, and decided to continue the war until full independence was achieved.
In seven weeks and equipped with Soviet weapons, the Cuban and Ethiopian troops liberated the occupied territory of the Ogaden that consisted of more than 320,000 square kilometers and dozens of towns. The aggressors were forced to retreat, Lefebre pointed out.
“Throughout the internationalist gesture in Ethiopia, 163 Cuban combatants, whose photos are visible in this park and are a permanent reminder of the historic relations between Cuba and Ethiopia, gave their lives,” the ambassador said.
He praised the hundreds of Cuban doctors, teachers and health personnel who have served in Ethiopia, as well as more than 5,000 Ethiopians, many of them war orphans, who have been educated in Cuba since the 1970s.
Lefebre noted the fraternal meeting at the highest governmental level between the two countries, which will celebrate 50 years of diplomatic relations and friendship in 2025.
Havana, Mar 5 (Prensa Latina) Cuban Culture Minister Alpidio Alonso denounced the massacre of the Palestinian people before the eyes of the international community, while speaking at the 6th Cultural Summit that concludes today in Abu Dhabi.
The Cuban website La Jiribilla pointed out that he urged the international community to take a stand to stop the genocide in that Arab nation during the High-Level Dialogue convened by Unesco, which was also attended by ministers of culture from Spain, Morocco, Nigeria, Paraguay, Cape Verde, Croatia and Chad.
Alonso condemned the inhumane and genocidal blockade that the U.S. government exerts on Cuba, making it the main obstacle to development in all areas of Cuban society, including culture.
He also explained the importance of culture in the process of revolutionary transformation in Cuba, where it is considered an indispensable condition for full emancipation.
The high-ranking official ratified the importance of the post-2030 Sustainable Development Agenda recognizing a goal specifically dedicated to culture, which recognizes it as a universal public good available to all.
Likewise, he urged that the Cultural Summits serve as spaces for proposals, from which concrete actions are derived, contributing to the creation of awareness in society and the transformation of the reality of the peoples.
Havana, Mar 6 (Prensa Latina) Cuba received for the fourth consecutive year the award for Best MICE Organizer at the World MICE Awards 2023, a sphere of meetings, congresses and incentive travel tourism, an official report said.
The press release from Cuban tourism authorities expresses satisfaction and notes that this is an incredible testimony of efforts and hard work.
Precisely, the organizers of events and meetings in Cuba thanked the judges and the industry in general on Wednesday for the valuable recognition.
First and foremost, they are committed to providing unique inspiring experiences and the best service in Cuba, fully supported by the Cuban tourism office in Europe, they added.
The World MICE Awards recognize and celebrate excellence in the MICE industry. MICE means Meetings, Incentives, Conferences and Exhibitions.
The nominees on this occasion, in addition to Cuba as a nation, were Solways, CubaGrouPlanner, and Green Alligator Travel and Events.
The World MICE Awards recognize and reward the excellence of tourism facilities that promote tourism for events, congresses and conventions at the international level. The awards are based on the World Travel Awards, considered the Oscars of tourism.
Created in 1998, MICE Cuba is highly experienced, dynamic and creative, providing a comprehensive portfolio of services to one of the world’s most unique and fascinating destinations, according to its own documents.
Havana, March 6 (Prensa Latina) The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Cuba, Bruno Rodríguez, today repudiated the extension of the Executive Order that the United States government has used since 2015 to justify its sustained aggression against Venezuela.
The Venezuelan Foreign Ministry today repudiated the extension of the White House Executive Order and assured that the people of that country will not bow to pressure from Washington.
He stressed that the United States is today hostage to its own policies of aggression.
You cannot expect anything else from a Government that normalizes and trivializes the genocide against the Palestinian people or that is indifferent to the progressive loss of civil rights of its minorities, he said.
US President Barack Obama (2009-2017) signed Executive Order 13692 that declared the South American nation an “unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy” of the northern country.
Such decision established the legal, political and administrative bases for the imposition of unilateral coercive measures against Caracas.
Sanaa, Mar 1 (Prensa Latina) Yemeni Prime Minister Ahmed Awad bin Mubarak received a congratulatory message from his Cuban counterpart, Manuel Marrero Cruz, for his appointment to that important position, diplomatic sources reported on Friday.
In the letter, the Cuban head of Government expressed his congratulations for the confidence placed in bin Mubarak, who is also the minister of Foreign and Expatriates Affairs, by the Presidential Leadership Council.
On behalf of the Cuban people and authorities, Marrero also reaffirmed the Government’s firm will to strengthen the relations of friendship and cooperation between the two States.
