Urgente: Abren fuego contra embajada cubana en Washington con rifle de asalto, capturan a sospechoso y no se reportan víctimas
Una persona abrió fuego con un rifle de asalto en el exterior de la embajada de Cuba en Washington en la madrugada del jueves y fue detenida, dijeron las autoridades. Continue reading Abren fuego contra embajada cubana en Washington con rifle
Another life-saving brigade travels to South Africa
More than 1,450 men and women in white lab coats from Cuba’s Henry Reeve Contingent have traveled to 22 nations in Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, Africa and the Middle East to battle the pandemic
Author: Ronald Suárez Rivas | internet@granma.cu
april 27, 2020 09:04:48
Twenty-two medical brigades from the Henry Reeve Contingent are now confronting the pandemic around the world.
A brigade of 217 Cuban health professionals has arrived in South Africa to support the battle against COVID-19 in that country, bringing to 22 the total number of “medical embassies” that have traveled abroad to help save lives. Continue reading Cuban life-saving brigade travels to South Africa
Cuban workers honor Lenin and convoke May Day mobilization
On Havana’s Lenin Hill, a small group of trade union leaders dedicated a floral tribute to the legendary Bolshevik and convoked May Day celebrations at home and in workplaces where essential operations continue
Yenia Silva Correaapril 23, 2020 10:04:08
Fidel and Raul attend inauguration of the Lenin Monument in the Havana park bearing the Russian revolutionary’s name.
Photo: Jorge Oller
Reverence and mobilization – as tributes to great leaders of the historical struggles for social justice should always be – was Cuban workers’ commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the birth of universal proletarian leader Vladimir Ilich Lenin, in whose honor this year’s May Day mobilization was called.
On Havana’s Lenin Hill, a small group of trade union leaders, headed by Ulises Guilarte de Nacimiento, Party Political Bureau member and general secretary of the Cuban Workers Federation (CTC), dedicated a floral tribute to the legendary Bolshevik, who played a key role in the Russian Revolution, the greatest lesson in the annals of history of what the emancipated working class can achieve in unity of thought and action, guided by socialist principles. Continue reading Cuban workers honor Lenin and convoke May Day mobilization
The COVID-19 pandemic makes clear the need to cooperate despite political differences
Ministry of Foreign Affairs Statement
Author: MINREX | internet@granma.cu
april 16, 2020 12:04:37
Photo: Cubaminrex
The impact of COVID-19 can already be measured and will be assessed in the future by the striking numbers of people infected, the unacceptable numbers of deaths, the unquestionable damages to the world economy, production, trade, employment and personal income of millions of people. It is a crisis that goes well beyond the scope of health.
The pandemic has emerged and spread amidst a scenario previously marked by overwhelming economic and social inequalities within and among nations. With the unprecedented wave of migrants and refugees, xenophobia and racial discrimination have reemerged. The remarkable advances of science and technology, particularly in the area of health, focus in the pharmaceutical business and commercialization of medicine, rather than in securing the wellbeing and healthy living of majorities.
COVID-19 has come into a world overburdened by production and consumption patterns, especially in highly industrialized countries and among the elites of developing countries, that are unsustainable and incompatible with the finite character of natural resources upon which life on the planet depends. Continue reading The COVID-19 pandemic: The need to cooperate despite political differences
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