“The coup d’état has begun”, said the ruler after the message of the Plenary Chamber of the National Electoral Council (CNE). Photo: EFE
Havana, October 10 (RHC)– Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel has expressed his solidarity with his Colombian counterpart, Gustavo Petro, who denounced that he is facing an ongoing coup d’état.
“All our solidarity with the President of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, who denounced an attempt to subvert the popular will as part of the actions of the oligarchies in the region against progressive governments,” the Cuban head of state said in a message on his account on the X social network.
The Colombian president affirmed on Tuesday that he initiated a coup d’état against him and against the pro-government political coalition Pacto Histórico.
“The coup d’état has begun,” said the Colombian president after the message of the Full Chamber of the National Electoral Council (CNE), which decided to open an investigation and bring charges against the first and second round presidential campaign of the coalition Historical Pact, represented ”by citizens Gustavo Petro Urrego, candidate; Ricardo Roa Barragán, campaign manager; Lucy Aydee Mogollón Alfonso treasurer, María Lucy Soto Caro and Juan Carlos Lemus Gómez, auditors; the political movement Colombia Humana and the political party Unión Patriótica (UP); for the alleged violation of the electoral campaign financing regime”.
The drug was created by researchers from the Center for Molecular Immunology and is included in the Basic List of Medicines since 2010
Havana, Oct 9 (RHC) Created by researchers from the Center for Molecular Immunology (CIM), the drug Nimotuzumab has become one of the leading products of Cuban biotechnology for the treatment of cancer.
It obtained the sanitary registration granted by the Center for State Control of Medicines, Equipment and Medical Devices on February 19, 2002, for its use in the therapy of advanced head and neck tumors in adults.
Doctor of Medical Sciences Tania Crombet Ramos, director of Clinical Research at the CIM, explained to the press that the drug prevents the uncontrolled proliferation of malignant cells leading to the spread of cancer, and activates the immune system. It is usually used in combination with irradiation and chemotherapy.
According to Dr. Crombet, a result recently presented at the Annual Congress of the American Society of Clinical Oncology showed that survival in patients with locally advanced head and neck cancer, treated with chemo-radiotherapy together with Nimotuzumab, was 44.28 months compared to 33.36 months for the group of those who were treated only by chemo-radiotherapy.
Included in the Basic List of Medicines since 2010, Nimotuzumab is part of the portfolio of anti-cancer products. It also received new medical records in China last February, for its use in pancreatic, head and neck carcinomas.
Furthermore, nations such as Japan, South Korea, Indonesia, Canada, India, Brazil and Germany have recently conducted clinical research with the Cuban drug in different cancer locations. (Fuente: Granma)
Forum on prestigious Mexican diplomat concludes in Cuba
Havana, Oct 9 (RHC) The 2nd “Gilberto Bosques, Ambassador to Cuba Forum” concludes today in Havana.
The event, inaugurated on Tuesday, brings together historians and members of the foreign services of Cuba and Mexico to commemorate the work of Gilberto Bosques, a Mexican ambassador who served as Cuba’s ambassador from 1953 to 1964.
Gathered at the Benito Juárez Mexico House Museum, the participants emphasized the human values and courage of Gilberto, who, during a turbulent period in Cuba’s history, helped save people persecuted by Fulgencio Batista’s dictatorship (1953-1959).
They recalled that, because of his support for Cuba’s cause, he was requested by the revolutionary government after January 1st, 1959, to remain in his position.
At the opening of the forum, Mexican ambassador to Cuba Miguel Díaz emphasized the importance of documenting history and remembering the legacy of Gilberto as a leader in historical diplomacy based on his country’s principles.
He also thanked historians, researchers, and institutions from both countries for their efforts in documenting Gilberto’s legacy for diplomacy and friendship between Mexico and Cuba.
This Wednesday, the ties between Cuba and Mexico will be discussed with emphasis on close cultural and historical links. (Fuente: PL)
Those who participated in the pilgrimage denounced that the U.S. continues to encourage terrorist acts committed by counterrevolutionary groups established in its territory. Photo: ACN
Havana, October 7 (RHC)– Thousands of Cubans participated this Sunday in a pilgrimage in Havana to commemorate the 48th anniversary of the event known as the Barbados crime, when counterrevolutionaries encouraged by the United States (U.S.) government blew up a commercial plane of the largest of the Antilles in mid-flight, near the coasts of the Caribbean island, and caused the death of its 73 travelers.
The pilgrimage took place at the Colon Cemetery in Havana. It was attended by representatives of Cuban political and social organizations, relatives of the victims of the attack and diplomats from Caribbean nations.
Cuban sportswoman Yarisleidis Cirilo, a multiple Olympic and world champion in canoeing, recalled details of the episode, considered one of the most brutal expressions of State terrorism promoted by the White House against revolutionary Cuba.
Cirilo stressed that the entire world recognizes the role played by Cuba in confronting terrorism and emphasized that the Caribbean nation does not give in to U.S. aggressions against its territorial integrity.
Also in the Barbadian capital, Bridgetown, the official ceremony to commemorate the events of October 6, 1976 took place Sunday morning. Government personalities, members of the diplomatic corps, members of the Cuba-Barbados Friendship Association and others gathered in front of the monument erected to remember the victims of the crime. The second anniversary of the Caricom-Cuba Day against Terrorism was also commemorated.
The Cuban ambassador in Bridgetown, Yanet Stable Cárdenas, said that the hatred, intolerance and fanaticism that fueled that act are still rampant and are embodied in the genocide perpetrated by Isral against nations in the Middle East.
Stable Cárdenas also denounced the threats to the Cuban Revolution, the acts of aggression under the economic, commercial and financial blockade against the largest of the Antilles and the inclusion of Cuba, without arguments or evidence, in the list of countries that allegedly sponsor terrorism.
The Consul General of Guyana in Barbados, Geneva Ross-Tyndall, the Deputy Secretary General of Caricom, Wayne McCookel and the Ambassador of Barbados to this organization, David Comissiong, also took part in the event.
They called for an end to the blockade against Cuba and the exclusion of the Caribbean nation from the list of countries that allegedly sponsor terrorism.
Freddy Lugo and Hernán Ricardo Lozano carried out the attack – in which 57 Cubans, 11 Guyanese and five North Koreans died – after placing two explosive devices in the cockpit of the Cuban plane, which was flying between Barbados and Havana.
The terrorist attack was planned by Cuban counterrevolutionaries Luis Posada Carriles and Orlando Bosch Avila. Both died in the U.S. without being prosecuted for the crime by the U.S. justice system, despite abundant evidence.
Havana, October 9 (RHC)– Students, workers and people in general, gathered on Tuesday in the central Marti Park in the city of Ciego de Avila to express their support for the self-determination and peace of the nation of Palestine, attacked by the Zionist state of Israel.
After a year of continuous conflict in the Gaza Strip, where about 2.3 million Palestinians live, a genocide has been committed with more than 60 thousand deaths to date, mostly women, children and the elderly.
Alexis Valdés Hamadi, president of the Arab Association of Cuba in the province of Ciego de Avila, recalled the background of the conflict dating back to the late 19th century with the emergence of the Zionist movement, and rejected, in addition to the genocide committed in the Gaza Strip, the bombing of civilians in Lebanon and Syria, which reaffirms the inhuman and barbaric nature of the Israeli regime.
Also in Santiago de Cuba, at the Monument to the Martyrs of the University of Oriente, the people staged a great mobilization of solidarity with the Palestinian cause.
According to Carl-Adrien Jean Baptiste, a medical student from Haiti, genocide is a crime everywhere in the world, that is why we must fight for just causes so that peace can be felt in every space. The Palestinian brothers are not alone, the world is at their side, defending the cessation of the attack on the Gaza Strip, he said.
Likewise, in the young province of Artemisa, the locals ratified the support of the province to the Palestinian cause, in a day where more than four thousand children received their blue scarf and the welcome to the Organization of José Martí Pioneers (OPJM).
The Mausoleum of the Martyrs of Artemisa hosted the act of revolutionary reaffirmation in which, Lázara Yudelky Quiala Leal, first secretary of the Union of Young Communists (UJC) in the territory, said that the “Palestinian people have shown admirable courage in the face of oppression”.
Their resistance, she added, “is not only an act of defense of their land, but a cry for justice that resounds in every corner of the world.
Havana, Oct 7 (Prensa Latina) Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez stated on Monday that a year after the beginning of the Israeli devastating war on the Palestinian people, the Israeli government continues its massacres in Gaza and is now doing the same against Lebanon.
On X, Rodriguez noted that Israel acts with total impunity and with the United States’ support.
“We will not stand still. This genocide must stop without conditions or delays,” he said.
Since October 2023, Israeli troops have killed nearly 42,000 Gazan citizens and injured more than 96,000.
The Cuban Foreign Ministry (MINREX) recently expressed its concern over the events in the Middle East, which it said they have been motivated by Israel’s aggressive policy, with the military, logistical, and political support of the US government.
MINREX reiterated that peace in the Middle East will only be possible through a comprehensive, lasting, and just solution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, which provides for establishing a sovereign and independent State within the pre-1967 borders, with East Jerusalem as its capital.
Rome, Oct 6 (Prensa Latina) The Italian theater company POST-IT-33 presented today at the Nino Manfredi theater in the capital, the play “Cuba: History of the blockade,” about the Revolution in that country and the actions of the United States against it.
This staging, co-sponsored by the Embassy in Rome of the Caribbean nation and the National Association of Friendship Italy-Cuba (Anaic), was carried out as part of the activities framed in the Day of Cuban Culture, which is celebrated every year from October 10 to 20.
Marco Papacci, president of Anaic, said in statements to Prensa Latina, that this play was an initiative of the Rome circle of that group, which provided archival materials and advice to its writers, Damiano Viggiano and Salvatore Ricci, members of that company, for its realization and staging.
Viggiano and Ricci, together with actresses Dalila Aprile and Giorgia Lunghi, all graduates of the International School of Theatre and with a long career on stage, managed to stage in a poetic way, full of symbolism, the Cuban revolutionary process and the North American aggressions to destroy it.
This play reflects through the story of a Cuban family, the guerrilla struggle in the Sierra Maestra against the Batista dictatorship, and the achievements of the Revolution after the triumph of January 1, 1959.
The plot narrates the experiences of a young Cuban doctor who goes to Italy in 2020, joining a brigade of specialists who helped face the Covid-19 pandemic in this country, where he met a local doctor, who managed to understand through him the history of the island and the deep humanism of its Revolution.
They later meet again in Cuba, where the young doctor traveled to also lend her collaboration to the revolutionary process, and the work ends with images of the approval, as every year for three decades, of the condemnation of the blockade in the United Nations General Assembly.
The presentation of the piece before a large Italian public meant an act in favor of strengthening the close ties between both peoples, within the framework of the celebration of the Day of Cuban Culture.
Association in Italy pays tribute to Commander Che Guevara
Havana, October 7 (RHC) The Italy-Cuba National Friendship Association (ANAIC) paid tribute to Commander Ernesto Che Guevara on the 57th anniversary of his death with an event held in the northern city of Collegno.
The ceremony took place the day before on Che Guevara Square, which is dedicated to his memory in that town in the Province of Turin, and was attended by members of the association, officials, and residents of the community.
The event was attended by Matteo Cavallone, Mayor of Collegno; Silvana Accosato, President of the National Association of Italian Partisans in that city; Tiziana Manzi, Secretary of the local circle of the ANAIC; and Fidel Ajuria, representing the Consulate General of Cuba in Milan.
Cavalloni emphasized that these difficult times need figures like Che Guevara, who was assassinated in Bolivia on October 9, 1967.
For his part, Papacci recounted passages from the life of Che Guevara’s struggle for a better world.
He also referred to the difficult situation Cuba is going through as the result of the intensification of the US economic, commercial, and financial blockade. He demanded the end to it as well as the exclusion of the Caribbean nation from Washington’s terrorism list. (Source: PL)
Statement by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Cuba on the need to stop Israeli aggression in the Middle East
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Cuba observes with great concern the events in the Middle East, motivated by the aggressive policy of the State of Israel, with the military, logistical and political support of the U.S. government, all of which has led to a dangerous escalation, has further compromised regional stability and security and has provoked Iran’s response.
Almost a year after the Zionist government’s savage genocide against the Palestinian people, and as a demonstration of its absolute disregard for the principles enshrined in the UN Charter, the Israeli government, instead of seeking a negotiated solution that guarantees a ceasefire, has lashed out and intensified its irresponsible aggression against Lebanon, Syria and Yemen.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Cuba has been warning of the danger of further escalation in the Middle East as a result of these actions and the aggressiveness and impunity with which Israel acts.
Cuba, while expressing its solidarity with the nations attacked by Israel, calls for peace and negotiations for an immediate ceasefire to avoid further escalation of a conflict that has already cost the lives of tens of thousands of people and has aggravated the humanitarian crisis to alarming levels in populations in the region.
We emphasize our attachment to justice and International Law. We reiterate that peace will only be possible in the Middle East through a comprehensive, lasting and fair solution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, which includes the creation of a sovereign and independent Palestinian State on the pre-1967 borders, with East Jerusalem as its capital. Likewise, we must guarantee, without further delay, the entry of Palestine as a full member of the UN.
Those who participated in the pilgrimage denounced that the U.S. continues to encourage terrorist acts committed by counterrevolutionary groups established in its territory. Photo: ACN
Havana, October 7 (RHC)– Thousands of Cubans participated this Sunday in a pilgrimage in Havana to commemorate the 48th anniversary of the event known as the Barbados crime, when counterrevolutionaries encouraged by the United States (U.S.) government blew up a commercial plane of the largest of the Antilles in mid-flight, near the coasts of the Caribbean island, and caused the death of its 73 travelers.
The pilgrimage took place at the Colon Cemetery in Havana. It was attended by representatives of Cuban political and social organizations, relatives of the victims of the attack and diplomats from Caribbean nations.
Cuban sportswoman Yarisleidis Cirilo, a multiple Olympic and world champion in canoeing, recalled details of the episode, considered one of the most brutal expressions of State terrorism promoted by the White House against revolutionary Cuba.
Cirilo stressed that the entire world recognizes the role played by Cuba in confronting terrorism and emphasized that the Caribbean nation does not give in to U.S. aggressions against its territorial integrity.
Also in the Barbadian capital, Bridgetown, the official ceremony to commemorate the events of October 6, 1976 took place Sunday morning. Government personalities, members of the diplomatic corps, members of the Cuba-Barbados Friendship Association and others gathered in front of the monument erected to remember the victims of the crime. The second anniversary of the Caricom-Cuba Day against Terrorism was also commemorated.
The Cuban ambassador in Bridgetown, Yanet Stable Cárdenas, said that the hatred, intolerance and fanaticism that fueled that act are still rampant and are embodied in the genocide perpetrated by Isral against nations in the Middle East.
Stable Cárdenas also denounced the threats to the Cuban Revolution, the acts of aggression under the economic, commercial and financial blockade against the largest of the Antilles and the inclusion of Cuba, without arguments or evidence, in the list of countries that allegedly sponsor terrorism.
The Consul General of Guyana in Barbados, Geneva Ross-Tyndall, the Deputy Secretary General of Caricom, Wayne McCookel and the Ambassador of Barbados to this organization, David Comissiong, also took part in the event.
They called for an end to the blockade against Cuba and the exclusion of the Caribbean nation from the list of countries that allegedly sponsor terrorism.
Freddy Lugo and Hernán Ricardo Lozano carried out the attack – in which 57 Cubans, 11 Guyanese and five North Koreans died – after placing two explosive devices in the cockpit of the Cuban plane, which was flying between Barbados and Havana.
The terrorist attack was planned by Cuban counterrevolutionaries Luis Posada Carriles and Orlando Bosch Avila. Both died in the U.S. without being prosecuted for the crime by the U.S. justice system, despite abundant evidence.
