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Cuba’s tourism values within the reach of the world

42ND INTERNATIONAL TOURISM FAIR

Cuba’s tourism values within the reach of the world

FitCuba 2024, the most important professional event in the Cuban tourism sector, will be held until May 5

Author:  | informacion@granmai.cu

may 2, 2024 09:05:02

Photo: Cubadebate

The 42nd International Tourism Fair, FitCuba 2024, started on May 1st in Jardines del Rey, dedicated to Latin America and the Caribbean; an area that, in the words of Gustavo Santos, regional director of UN Tourism, could be a major multi-destination zone.
In statements to the press, the official stressed that this is a market of 500,000,000 people in which connectivity must continue to be stimulated, an aspect on which Cuba is working, and which will be reflected both in the number of visitors arriving on the island and in the country’s development.
He stressed that, with its participation in FitCuba 2024, UN Tourism shows its support to this event, considered the most important professional event of the Cuban tourism industry.
Santos stressed also that tourism is a fundamental tool for the economic growth of countries, in compliance with the 2030 Agenda; first, because it represents an activity whose resources are natural and/or cultural, as a factor of sustainability and preservation. Second, because it is one of the productive activities that is most supported by the strategic objectives of the United Nations.
He added that the organization he represents promotes accessible tourism and works to prepare the infrastructure and services “not only as a moral fact, but also as an economic fact”.
FitCuba 2024 will present a wide range of business opportunities in Cuba and the potential of the sector to tour operators, travel agencies, hoteliers, suppliers and related professionals.

Human Rights

The United States on human rights, with what morals?

The attribution that the U.S. government has given itself is so absurd that it does not even seem that they themselves believe the lies and manipulations that, using the subject, they want to apply against other countries

Author:  | internet@granma.cu

april 24, 2024 11:04:29

Photo: Satire of Moro 

Perhaps one day, when there is no longer a U.S. veto in the UN Security Council, and when the organization itself demands morality and example from those who have set out to judge the inhabitants of planet Earth, the issue of human rights will cease to be an instrument used by the Empire to justify its own violations.
The U.S. government has given itself such an absurd attribution that it does not even seem that they themselves believe the lies and manipulations that, using the subject, they want to apply against other countries.
On Monday, when Secretary of State Antony Blinken presented the U.S. State Department’s annual report on human rights, he displayed his imperial ego and went to the extreme of calling on the discredited OAS to “demand that Venezuela, Nicaragua and Cuba respect human rights”. This is a recycled argument, devoid of any real content, and a pretext for macabre inventions such as placing Cuba on the list of countries that sponsor terrorism.
This gentleman has forgotten that none of these three Latin American nations has financed or armed the Zionist regime of Israel to commit genocide against the Palestinian population.
In fact, Blinken was the first “special envoy” to arrive in Tel Aviv when Benjamin Netanyahu’s government began massacring the Palestinians 200 days ago, and he declared that “the United States supports Israel in its fight against Gaza”, where, by the way, more than 34,000 Palestinians have already died, including almost 15,000 children.
Nor are Cuba, Nicaragua or Venezuela funding the war in Ukraine, where more than half a million Kiev soldiers have been killed or wounded. There, human rights are daily flouted by the West, and Washington has turned this war into a big business for its military complex. Neither Venezuela, nor Nicaragua, nor Cuba sanction another country, much less bet on the “suffocation” of a people, as the United States has been doing against Cuba for more than 60 years.
In his report in X, Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla wrote: “The US Secretary of State is not concerned about the human rights of the Cuban people, which he is violating with measures of suffocation and extreme blockade, or those of the massacred Palestinian people. He is concerned about the rights of arms producers and their objectives of domination and plunder”.

Alba-TCP

(ALBA-TCP), This is the Alliance of solidarity and cooperation

This is the Alliance of unity

“C, victorious over the selfish pragmatism that only bets on profits and the market”

Author:  | informacion@granmai.cu

april 25, 2024 08:04:45

Photo: Clacso 

“This is the Alliance of solidarity and cooperation, victorious over the selfish pragmatism that only bets on profits and the market”.
This was stated by Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Party and President of the Republic of Cuba, while speaking yesterday at the 23rd Summit of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America-People’s Trade Agreement (ALBA-TCP), held at the Miraflores Palace, in Caracas, Venezuela.
He expressed his desire for the region to continue to be internationally recognized for its commitment to regional peace and stability.
“We reaffirm our most absolute commitment to unity, the defense of our sovereignties and peace.”
The President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro Moros, urged the ALBA-TCP heads of state and government to strengthen the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) to advance integration, establishing short-, medium- and long-term goals.
Gaston Browne, Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda, demanded that Cuba be removed from the arbitrary list of State Sponsors of Terrorism. “They know it’s not true, we all know it’s not true,” he said.
Likewise, Daniel Ortega, President of Nicaragua, considered the interference in the negotiations between Venezuela and Guyana over the Essequibo territory as interference and a crime on the part of the US.
At the end of the day, the Declaration of the 23rd  Summit of Heads of State and Government of ALBA-TCP and the Strategic Agenda 2030 were adopted.

Cuban Revolution

Girón preserved the Revolution

Girón preserved the Revolution

Fidel’s presence in Girón, with his example and integrity, aggravated the grief of the mercenaries, who barely 72 hours later recognized their failure and massively surrendered to the Revolution

Author:  | informacion@granma.cu

april 19, 2024 11:04:19

Photo: Tirso Martínez 

“Get up, the invasion is here…!”
This voice, with the sum of desperation and epic that it implies, went from house to house in the towns closest to the landing site.
It must also have been heard in other places far from Girón, in the Zapata Swamp, because for days the country had been living under the threat of disembarkation and aggression.
Many Cubans declared themselves militiamen and demanded weapons and ammunition to resist and confront the mercenaries.
Many Cubans went to their first battle to face the danger of a well-organized enemy, armed, with good support, fully equipped and with an elaborate plan.
But in addition to patriotic fervor and justice, they had ideals to defend and a cause for which they were willing to give their lives.
The invaders, on the other hand, had nothing to die for, because they had no purpose, as José Ramón Fernández, the protagonist of the epic, said.
They did not fight with the courage and spirit of victory of the revolutionary forces. In short, they had no morality to appeal to, only perversity.
On the other hand, in the most critical moments of the struggle, in the most violent and hardest moments, the unity of the people, the true mass of the people defending the homeland, was decisive.
The delirious dream of conquering a piece of Cuban land to justify the real purpose, the direct military intervention of the U.S. armed forces, did not last long.
The presence of Fidel in Girón, with his example and integrity, aggravated the grief of the mercenaries, who, barely 72 hours later, recognized their failure and surrendered en masse.
Despite the bloodshed and the pain of death, Girón proclaimed the victory as a feat, a triumph that astonished the world and that, because of its symbolism and importance, preserved the Revolution and “made the peoples of the Americas a little freer.”