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Raúl receives Vice President of Korean Labor Party

Raúl receives Vice President of Korean Labor Party
During the amicable meeting, the traditional ties of friendship and excellent diplomatic relations shared by the peoples of the Democratic Republic of Korea and Cuba were reaffirmed
Author: Granma | internet@granma.cu
july 6, 2018 08:07:01

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Photo: Estudio Revolución
The first secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba Central Committee, Army General Raúl Castro Ruz, yesterday afternoon, July 5, received the Vice President of the Democratic Republic of Korea’s Labor Party, Ri Su Yong, who conveyed greetings from the party’s president, Kim Yong Un. During the amicable meeting, the traditional ties of friendship and excellent diplomatic relations shared by the two peoples, parties, and governments were reaffirmed.

Palestinian

Cuba reafirma apoyo a causa palestina

Cuba reafirma apoyo a causa palestina
La nación caribeña reafirmó en Ginebra el apoyo irrestricto a una solución amplia, justa y duradera para el conflicto israelo-palestino
Autor: Cubaminrex | internet@granma.cu
4 de julio de 2018 10:07:45

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Fotos: Tomada del Internet, Por JAIMEM

El caso de Palestina, con sus frecuentes víctimas y agresiones a su soberanía, constituye un punto permanente en la agenda del Consejo de Derechos Humanos de la onu, aunque no sea noticia de los principales medios de comunicación a nivel mundial todos los días.
Por ello Cuba, que ha estado vinculada a la Organización de Naciones Unidas (onu) desde su fundación en 1945, no deja de aportar para que el organismo avance hacia una verdadera asociación capaz de articular políticas y armonizar esfuerzos en la búsqueda de objetivos comunes de los países que la integran.
Así quedó evidenciado durante las sesiones del 38 periodo ordinario de sesiones del Consejo de Derechos Humanos, cuando el embajador del país caribeño, Pedro Luis Pedroso, se refirió a una de las causas más dramáticas del globo: la lucha de Palestina por su integridad territorial.
Para que esta llegue a su esperado cauce, dijo Pedroso, «debe basarse en la creación de dos estados, y permitir a los palestinos el derecho a la libre determinación y a disponer de un Estado independiente y soberano en las fronteras anteriores a 1967, con Jerusalén Oriental como su capital».

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Centenary of the birth of Mandela

Centenary of the birth of Mandela and graduation of South African students celebrated in Cuba
This Wednesday, July 4, saw activities to mark the centenary of the birth of Nelson Mandela and celebrate the historic ties that unite Cuba and South Africa

Author: Darcy Borrero Batista | informacion@granma.cu
july 5, 2018 09:07:49

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Nelson Mandela and Fidel Castro featured in the documentary that initiated the cultural and political act to mark the centenary of Mandela’s birth. Photo: AP
With the screening of a documentary that traces the shared history of South Africa and Cuba, featuring footage of meetings between Nelson Mandela and Fidel Castro, a political-cultural act began this Wednesday afternoon, to mark the centenary of the birth of the renowned leader of the struggle against apartheid.

The act to commemorate Mandela’s legacy was held in the town of Cojímar, with the presence of South African students who recently graduated as doctors on the island, and leaders such as Salvador Valdés Mesa, first vice president of the Councils of State and Ministers; Roberto Morales Ojeda, member of the Party Political Bureau and minister of Public Health; José Ramón Balaguer, member of the Party Central Committee Secretariat; Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Ana Teresita González Fraga; and Alfredo González Lorenzo, deputy minister of Public Health.

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Nicaragua

Nicaragua, unraveling a plot

Nicaragua, unraveling a plot

Nicaragua, unraveling a plot
The United States’ National Endowment for Democracy distributed some 4.2 million dollars in Nicaragua, between 2014 and 2017, to train “new leaders” to overthrow the Sandinista government
Author: Francisco Arias Fernández | internet@granma.cu
june 29, 2018 15:06:41

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AS early as 2016, talk of war against Nicaragua could again be heard in Miami, at a time when the streets of this nation were a regional example of security, peace, and prosperity, where a hardworking, tranquil people proudly enjoyed the social and economic advances achieved by the Sandinista government, that had established a national consensus, in the wake of one of the worst interventions carried out by the United States in Central America.
With no justification whatsoever – when the news from Nicaragua around the world was about a proposed inter-oceanic canal that would boost the economy and impact global navigation – Congress members who make a living off the U.S. war against Cuba and Venezuela were mounting efforts to reverse the prosperity and calm that reigned in the land of Augusto César Sandino.
Congress members, first in the House of Representatives and later the Senate, introduced a bill to create obstacles to the awarding of international loans to Nicaragua, hamper foreign investment, and put a brake on socio-economic development in the country. This imperialist punishment, cooked up by the worst of the anti-Cuban mafia in 2015, set in motion the fabrication of a pretext regarding the alleged lack of democracy, justified as a way to “guarantee electoral transparency and fight corruption.” The result of this initial maneuver was the Nicaraguan Investment Conditionality Act of 2017 (NICA Act).
Ileana Ros, Albio Sires, Marco Rubio, and Ted Cruz, and others, among the most reactionary legislators in Congress from South Florida, Texas, and New Jersey, are again attempting to reinvent the Contras and get rid of the Sandinista government, which has repeatedly shown at the polls that it enjoys the people’s majority support.

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