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Improving the Cuban Constitution

The Council of State analyzed draft laws

The Council of State analyzed draft laws, prior to their submission to the National Assembly

Updated versions of these texts are published on the Cuban Parliament’s website to promote citizen participation and contribute to the legal culture of the population

Author:  | informacion@granmai.cu

july 11, 2025 10:07:41

The Code of Children, Adolescents and Young People will be a law of great transcendence for Cuban society. Photo: Estudios Revolución

Prior to their analysis and discussion by the deputies, in the Fifth Ordinary Period of Sessions of the National Assembly of People’s Power, in its 10th Legislature, the Council of State yesterday examined the four draft laws that will be submitted for consideration of the parliamentarians, in compliance with its attributions and as part of the legislative process developed in the country.
In the extraordinary session, which was headed by the member of the Political Bureau and president of this body, Esteban Lazo Hernández; authorities of the National Institute of Sports, Physical Education and Recreation (Inder, for its Spanish acronym) delved into the main characteristics of the draft law on the Cuban Sports System, and the modifications made to this proposal, based on the opinions of experts, specialists and the population in the different consultations carried out.
Esteban Lazo acknowledged the broad and fruitful debate developed during all these months throughout the country, as an example of the popular participation in the Cuban legislative process, with consultations to experts, specialists, sports glories, high performance athletes, representatives of organizations related to this issue and the population, which has contributed to its enrichment with the collective contribution; as well as the social communication plan deployed.
Subsequently, the Minister of Education, Naima Ariatne Trujillo Barreto, and other members of the Drafting Commission, presented to the members of the Council of State the proposal of the Code of Children, Adolescents and Young People, as well as the changes made after the specialized consultations and with the opinions issued by the deputies.
During the day, Minister of Justice, Oscar Manuel Silvera Martínez, shared the peculiarities of the bills on the General Regime of Contraventions and Administrative Sanctions, and on the Civil Registry.
The updated versions of these texts are published on the website of the National Assembly of People’s Power, with the aim of promoting citizen participation and contributing to the legal culture of the population.

Brazil’s ‘More Doctors‘ program,”

“Today, if Brazil has a different primary health care system, we owe it to Cuba”

“Today, if Brazil has a different primary health care system, we owe it to Cuba”

In the morning of June, 7th, Dilma Rousseff, president of the New Development Bank of the BRICS Group, conveyed her message of gratitude to the Caribbean island

Author:  | internet@granma.cu

july 8, 2025 08:07:25

Photo: Estudios Revolución

RIO DE JANEIRO. –”My message to the Cuban people is one of immense gratitude,” said Dilma Rousseff, current president of the New Development Bank (NDB) of the BRICS Group, to the press team of the Presidency of the Republic of Cuba.

An economist by profession and former president of Brazil, Dilma held a meeting with Cuban Head of State Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez in the context of the 17th BRICS Summit. At the end of the meeting, the special friend—who was elected in March 2023 to her current position and ratified in 2025—shared a message with journalists for the people of the largest of the Antilles.

“I have a great debt to Cuba. A debt to a country that has always been supportive of Brazil, that has been supportive of the Brazilian people in a very sensitive area, which is public health,” Dilma said.

She said she felt indebted to Commander-in-Chief Fidel Castro, to comrade Raúl, to President Díaz-Canel, and to the Cuban people. The reason? During her administration, the South American giant had “primary health care, which is fundamental basic health care.”

“We didn’t have enough doctors,” she said. “The Cuban doctors arrived in Brazil and were very well received, totally, because the Cuban doctor model is a direct and personal relationship, in which illness is seen not as a problem, but as a way to understand how to treat the person.”

Dilma stated that “today, if Brazil has a different primary healthcare system, we owe it to Cuba, because for a time Cuban doctors were essential. They left behind a model of medical conduct, in which the patient is treated by recognizing the human being whose medical history must be understood.”

Rousseff argued that, in addition to having physical contact with patients, professionals on the island lavish humanistic care on the sick: “And only a people like Cuba, with all of Cuba’s political history, is capable of creating a form of medicine, a form of health care that is centered on the human being and not on the disease.

“They treat everyone,” the dignitary acknowledged with admiration.

She shared with reporters the beautiful anecdote that “on many occasions, in my country, in the municipalities in the interior of Brazil, they wanted to elect Cuban doctors as mayors and deputies, because (the people felt that) they represented them.”

U.S. sanctions on Cuba

Speech by Miguel Mario Díaz-Canel Bermúdez at BRICS Summit

The commitment of BRICS countries to building a fairer and more inclusive international order is inspiring

Speech by Miguel Mario Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and President of the Republic, at the XVII BRICS Summit, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on July 6, 2025, “Year 67 of the Revolution”

Author:  | internet@granma.cu

july 7, 2025 09:07:14

We are honored to join with the noble aspiration of contributing and learning Photo: Estudios Revolución

(Shorthand Versions – Presidency of the Republic)
Dear President Lula;
Dear Heads of State and Heads of Delegations:
I believe I must begin by thanking you, on behalf of my country and my people, for our integration into BRICS as a partner.  BRICS today is synonymous with hope.  The hope that multilateralism will be saved from the chaos and ineffectiveness into which the arrogance of a few has plunged the UN, which 80 years ago was born to prevent war from being an alternative for the solution of conflicts, urgently in need of the profound reforms that the Global South has been demanding for more than half a century.
The octogenarian organization is dangerously fragmented and seriously threatened by a progressive erosion of multilateralism that translates into high risks for international peace and security.
The horror of the last weeks and months clearly shows where the diplomacy of force leads.  The Government of the United States, using and abusing its undoubted military, economic, financial and every other kind of power, except moral, constantly acts with absolute disregard for the principles and norms of International Law and the Charter of the United Nations.  It withdraws from various international organizations and forums; declares plans for land usurpation and annexation of territories; justifies and promotes supremacist ideas; carries out massive, violent and racist deportations of migrants, and no longer even hides its ambitious and spurious geostrategic interests.
It is the same power that supported the recent aggressions of the Government of Israel against Iran and carried out a direct attack on the Persian nation with the bombings perpetrated against three nuclear facilities.

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Blockade of Cuba

United States fines company for sending food to Cuba

United States fines company for sending food to Cuba

Once again, OFAC punishes, which shows that the real objective is to asphyxiate Cuba and generate suffering among its people

Author:  | internet@granma.cu

july 4, 2025 08:07:09

Photo: AP

The Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), of the U.S. Treasury Department, imposed a fine of 608,825 dollars to the company Key Holding, LLC, owner of Key Logistics Colombia S.A.S., for making 36 shipments to Cuba between 2022 and 2023, valued at more than three million dollars. Most of these shipments consisted of foodstuffs, along with oil well machinery, towels and electric forage choppers.

The case – disseminated by media financed by U.S. government agencies such as USAID and NED – is presented as a “violation of the embargo”, deliberately omitting that the U.S. economic blockade against Cuba is a criminal policy that directly affects the Cuban people, preventing the entry of medicines, food and essential resources.

Once again, OFAC punishes even the shipment of food, which shows that the real objective is to suffocate Cuba and generate suffering among its people.

The blockade is not a simple “bilateral measure”, it is a system of extraterritorial coercion that persecutes any company or country that tries to trade with Cuba.