Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez and Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla sent messages of condolences to the people and governments of Syria and Turkey following the 7.8 magnitude earthquakes that caused at least 2,000 deaths and material damage in both nations early Monday morning
Author: Radio Habana Cuba | internet@granma.cu
february 7, 2023 10:02:13
Havana, Feb 6 (RHC) Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez and Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla sent messages of condolences to the people and governments of Syria and Turkey following the 7.8 magnitude earthquakes that caused at least 2,000 deaths and material damage in both nations early Monday morning. “Cuba’s solidarity and our heartfelt condolences to the Turkish people and government for the loss of human lives, injuries, and material damage caused by the intense earthquake, as well as our willingness to collaborate in caring for the victims,” Diaz-Canel wrote on Twitter. On his Twitter account, Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla expressed heartfelt condolences “to the people and Government of Syria, as well as our willingness to cooperate after the strong earthquake that hit that country and caused the loss of human lives and material damage.” In addition, he wished for the speedy recovery of the injured. A 7.8 magnitude earthquake shook southern Türkiye on Monday and also affected Syria. Strong aftershocks continue to hit the region, one of which reached a magnitude of 7.5. The earthquake occurred at 4:17 am local time and had a depth of 24.1 kilometers. It was one of the strongest recorded in the region in more than 100 years and occurred 23 kilometers east of Nurdagi in Turkey’s Gaziantep province. According to figures reported up to mid-morning, more than 2,000 people have died in Türkiye and Syria and thousands more have been injured during the strong earthquake (Source: Cubadebate).
A better world is possible, in reality and in the virtual Rest assured that the Cuban Revolution will never surrender, stated Party First Secretary and President of the Republic Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, addressing progressive journalists, political activists and expert social media influencers participating in the international colloquium for the 130th anniversary of the newspaper Patria, founded by José Martí
Author: René Tamayo León | internet@granma.cu march 16, 2022 11:03:57
Photo: Presidencia.cu Rest assured that the Cuban Revolution will never surrender, stated Party First Secretary and President of the Republic Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, addressing progressive journalists, political activists and expert social media influencers participating in the international colloquium for the 130th anniversary of the newspaper Patria, founded by José Martí. Díaz-Canel received the communicators at the Palace of the Revolution, for an informal, sincere meeting, to, as he said, “Thank you for your work in defense of the truth and of Cuba.” Over the past few days, some twenty activists on social media and other multimedia and traditional platforms, from several countries, gathered at the Casa de las Americas, on the occasion of Cuban Press Day, to discuss the challenges of the left in a world where imperial hegemony in the virtual and symbolic field is overwhelming, but must be confronted. For more than an hour, the President described Cuba’s context and current situation for the guests, to then open an exchange during which expressions of solidarity with the island were accompanied by extensive analysis of the struggle in communications, for our people’s culture and for Cuba. Today’s convulsive world, which hegemonic powers seek to dominate, is a world we must change, Díaz-Canel stated, both in the real and the virtual world.
Call meeting to order, welcome, the introduction of co-chairs:
Nesbit Crutchfield — Involved in Progressive Solidarity activities and movements for over 52+ years. Starting with his involvement and imprisonment with the BSU/TWLF Strike @ San Francisco State University in 1968, to his activism with the Anri-Apartheid Movement in support of the ANC in the establishment of a Democratic South Africa. A long term veteran and activist in Puerto Rican, Haitian, and Cuban Solidarity work, and is now active in the Bay Area and National Venceremos Brigade.
Co-Chairs
Jamilah Bourdon—Organizer, All-African Revolutionary Party; Jamilah has been studying and organizing around anticapitalism for over half her life; She has participated in community defense organizing, anti-foreclosure security, free breakfast programs, and liberation schools. Forward ever!
Kennedee Geffinger — Universal Zulu Nation Hip Hop for Humanity Committee; Children’s Programs Director, JCC Harlem; Founder, Keys to Ubuntu
Panelists
August Nimtz – Author: “Why There Are No George Floyds in Cuba.” Co-coordinator of the Minnesota Cuba Committee; Professor of Political Science and African American and African Studies, University of Minnesota; Co-Author (with Esteban Morales), The Dynamics of Racial Discrimination in Cuba, Past and Present; Author, Marxism vs Liberalism: Comparative Real-Time Political Analysis.
Yanet Pumariega Pérez – Third Secretary, Cuban Embassy in Washington D.C.
Rodney A. Gonzalez Maestrey – Counselor to the Cuban Embassy in Washington DC (October 2018). Master Degree, International Relations (2011). Major in Economics, University of Havana, (2005).
Soffiyah Elijah, Esq – Long Time Activist, Organizer, and Friend of Cuba
Michael Washington — Longtime Oklahoma-based Black Liberation freedom fighter and supporter of Second Amendment rights for African Americans in the tradition of Robert F. Williams and Malcolm X; Organizing project documenting African Americans killed by US police authorities to present a petition to International World Court; Certified Paralegal; Founder, Empower People Inc.; Leading organizer and participant of peaceful, legal mass actions, self-policed by Black and white-armed veterans, Oklahoma City on Juneteenth and in counter-protest to Trump’s Tulsa appearance.
Ahjamu Umi — Organizer, All-African People’s Revolutionary Party for 36 years; Ahjamu does a weekly webinar series on subjects from formulating revolutionary parties and alternatives to the policing system; He has engaged in community defense for many years, standing in the face of armed white supremacists; Ahjamu has contributed to formulating liberation schools for youth in Oregon and California and around the clock anti-foreclosure house security and shutdowns. His writings can be seen at www.abetterworld.me
Gabriel Prawl — President, International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 152. Leading organizer of an unprecedented strike of ILWU members up and down the West Coast in solidarity with Black Lives Matter against police murder and brutality.
César Omar Sánchez — Organizer, New York/New Jersey Cuba Sí Coalition, Advisory Board Member of ProLibertad: Free All Political Prisoners Campaign.
Cuba Solidarity in Solidarity with Black Lives Matter Movement
Chelliah Phillips — An activist and organizer for POC Bergenfield Alumni and 4Change Bergen County. Also a leader and creator of a nonprofit organization 4Change Scholarship. Passionate about fighting social injustices and Human rights issues.
Vanessa Amoah — Ghanaian-American 24-year-old Graduate Student fighting against racial injustice and part of POC Bergenfield Alumni and 4Change Bergen County organizations.
Pacey Hackett — LA activist and organizer at massive Black Lives Matter protests. Member, Bay Area Amazonians working to organize and unionize California warehouse workers. Active in LA US Hands Off Cuba Committee.
Mark Ginsburg — Professor, University of Maryland. Mark has taught recently at the University of Havana in Cuba. Longtime activist with DC Metro Coalition in Solidarity With the Cuban Revolution. Participated in mass Black Lives Matter protests in Washington, DC.
Two peoples united by fraternity and solidarity
On March 8, 1966, a Puerto Rican mission was inaugurated in Havana by the historic leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro Ruz, and Puerto Rican independence activist, Juan Mari Bras. The mission works to demand the decolonization of the Caribbean nation, as well as an end to the U.S. blockade of Cuba
Author: Nuria Barbosa León | internet@granma.cu
july 7, 2016 09:07:0
During the ceremony at ICAP, the Puerto Rican independence movement repeated their demand for the release of political prisoner, Oscar López Rivera, unjustly incarcerated for over 35 years for his support of Puerto Rican independence. Photo: ICAP
A strong history of fraternity and solidarity unites Cuba and Puerto Rico, demonstrated by the presence in Havana for over 50 years, of a mission from the sister nation, sole representative of Puerto Rico’s independence movement on the island.
Inaugurated March 8, 1966 by the historic leader of the Cuban Revolution Fidel Castro Ruz and Puerto Rican independence activist Juan Mari Bras, the mission works to demand the decolonization of the Caribbean nation, subjected to five centuries of foreign domination, the last 118 by the United States.
The organization also directs its efforts to condemning the criminal economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the U.S. government on Cuba, and facilitating cultural exchanges between both peoples.
As such, it has contributed to enabling Puerto Rican students to study in Cuba, like Alberto Rodríguez Rivera, who has just completed his fifth year of Medicine at the University of Medical Sciences in the central province of Las Villas. The young Puerto Rican is grateful for the knowledge he has gained, not only in regards to his profession but also life.
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