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The anti-Cuban maneuver in European Parliament

A farcical debate on Cuba in European Parliament
The anti-Cuban maneuver is intended to hinder relations between Cuba and the European Union and to undermine the Political Dialogue and Cooperation Agreement which is being implemented in a positive manner, building bridges between our peoples and governments

Internacional news staffjune 8, 2021 09:06:43

Cuba’s international medical brigades are an example of the solidarity and cooperation the world urgently needs. Photo: Juvenal Balán

Today, June 8, the European Parliament has scheduled an artificial debate on what they call the political situation and human rights in Cuba. “If the European Parliament decides to discuss Cuba, the debate would necessarily need to refer to the massive, flagrant and systematic violation of the human rights of the entire Cuban population, by the genocidal, immoral and illegal economic, commercial and financial blockade that the United States government has maintained against our country for more than 60 years,” reads a statement from the Cuban diplomatic mission in Brussels.

The text asks if the promoters of this farce would be willing to demand that the U.S. government end this aggressive policy which, through the end of March 2020, caused accumulated damages to the Cuban economy amounting to 144,413,400,000 dollars. “Are they also willing to defend European natural and legal persons affected by the increasing extraterritoriality of the blockade? Will they ask their U.S. counterparts to repeal the Helms-Burton Act? Will they demand the elimination of the 243 measures adopted by former President Donald Trump, which the current U.S. administration maintains in effect?

It is shameful that a group of representatives has promoted the inclusion of this issue as part of the agenda of the European Parliament. European voters and the international community in general would expect objectivity and impartiality from the European legislature, instead of selectivity and double standards when examining issues related to human rights, when every day events occur that touch the universal conscience, about which the European Parliament has maintained and continues to maintain a complicit, immoral silence, reads the embassy’s communiqué, published on the Cuban Foreign Ministry’s website.

This obsession with Cuba has an explanation. It reflects the agenda of the United States government which has been attempting to overthrow the Cuban Revolution for more than 60 years, unable to tolerate the existence of a people that does surrender to their designs and resists the ironclad blockade, criminally tightened in the midst of a global pandemic, the Cuban mission emphasized.

The statement pointed out that this anti-Cuban maneuver is also intended to hinder relations between Cuba, the European Union and member states, to undermine the implementation of the Political Dialogue and Cooperation Agreement, which is being implemented in a positive manner, making clearly evident the political will of the signatories to continue building bridges between our peoples and governments.

Pastors for Peace in Cuba

Recibe Díaz-Canel a Directora Ejecutiva de Pastores por la Paz

Recibe Díaz-Canel a Directora Ejecutiva de Pastores por la Paz (+Video)
En un ambiente amistoso, Gail expresó el compromiso de continuar organizando las caravanas de solidaridad con Cuba e intensificar las acciones por el levantamiento del bloqueo
Autor: Granma | internet@granma.cu
3 de junio de 2021 16:06:29


Foto: Estudios Revolución
El Primer Secretario del Comité Central del Partido Comunista de Cuba y Presidente de la República, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, recibió en la tarde de este miércoles a Gail Walker, Directora Ejecutiva de la Organización IFCO/Pastores por la Paz.
En un ambiente amistoso, Gail expresó el compromiso de continuar organizando las caravanas de solidaridad con Cuba e intensificar las acciones por el levantamiento del bloqueo.
Reiteró su admiración por la continuidad de la obra de Fidel, y elogió la labor de las brigadas médicas cubanas en la lucha contra la COVID-19 en diferentes partes del mundo.

http://www.granma.cu/cuba/2021-06-03/recibe-diaz-canel-a-directora-ejecutiva-de-pastores-por-la-paz


Durante el intercambio fue evocada la entrañable relación entre el Comandante en Jefe Fidel Castro Ruz y el líder de Pastores por la Paz Lucius Walker.
Participaron también en el encuentro Samira Addrey, integrante del ejecutivo de la organización norteamericana y graduada de la Escuela Latinoamericana de Medicina, así como Rogelio Polanco Fuentes, miembro del Secretariado del Comité Central del Partido, y Fernando González Llort, presidente del Instituto Cubano de Amistad con los Pueblos.



Foto: Estudios Revolu
Foto: Estudios Revolución
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Raul Castro

On the occasion of Raul Castro’s 90th birthday

A Mambí with his foot always “in the stirrup”
On the occasion of Raul’s 90th birthday, Cubans recall his loyalty to the Revolution and service to the homeland, as Fidel said, an extraordinary cadre who happened to be a brother

Author: Juan Antonio Borrego | internet@granma.cu
june 3, 2021 09:06:00



Photo: Estudios Revolución
When on July 26, 1953 Raul Castro snatched the pistol wielded by a Batista police chief attempting to take him prisoner in the Santiago de Cuba Court and pointed the gun at his would-be captors, in less than a second he radically changed the course of the history he was living, saving not only his life and those of his comrades, but also a piece of the Revolution that had begun to take shape that very day.

Fidel spoke of his loyalty and service to the homeland at the First Party Congress, when he recalled that in the Revolution “nepotism cannot and will never exist,” but that sometimes “two cadres get together,” and that Raul, beyond being an extraordinary cadre, happened to be his brother.

Something very similar was recalled by Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel, upon assuming the position of Party First Secretary, when he evoked Raúl’s immeasurable contribution to the Revolution, from the Moncada and the Sierra to the process of continuity that he prepared, conducted and led, always on the basis of loyalty and modesty.

This is the same altruism described by Nikolai Leonov in his biography Raul Castro, a Man in Revolution, when he came across a seemingly insurmountable obstacle to his literary project: His hero, also his friend, does not seek publicity, “he rather avoids it,” Leonov stated.

When the collapse of the Soviet Union and the disintegration of the socialist camp fell like a curse on Cuba, and the usual enemies began to rub their hands in glee, he made no apologies for the Revolution, assuring his people, as he had already proven in the luminous days of the Second Front, that resistance was possible; and in the long run he was right: it was possible and is possible.

This was not the last difficult test. He faced the death of Vilma, his companion in all battles, and Fidel’s illness, that obliged him to assume positions to which he never aspired.

At the head of the country, he did his job, not allowing the blockade to prevent him from looking to the future and undertaking the updating of our socio-economic model; renegotiating foreign debt and promoting non-state forms of management; achieving the release of the Cuban Five and leading talks with the United States; while supporting transcendental laws for the country and leading the democratic process of drafting the new Constitution of the Republic.

He has done more than enough to earn some rest, but always the guerillero, he told Cubans last April 16 that, as long as he lived, he will be ready “with his foot in the stirrup,” a phrase that, for a people who know him well, needs no translation.

Raul Castro

Felicita Díaz-Canel a Raúl con motivo de su 90 cumpleaños

Felicita Díaz-Canel a Raúl con motivo de su 90 cumpleaños
El General de Ejército ‒quien es un referente para cualquier comunista y revolucionario cubano‒, o Raúl, como cariñosamente le llama nuestro pueblo, arriba este 3 de junio a su 90 cumpleaños

Autor: Maylenis Oliva Perrales | internet@granma.cu
3 de junio de 2021 12:06:10


Diaz Canel y Raul
Foto: Estudios Revolución
Con la admiración y el respeto a un líder intachable y la honrosa responsabilidad de darle continuidad a su obra en Revolución, el Primer Secretario del Comité Central del Partido Comunista de Cuba y Presidente de la República, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, felicitó hoy al General de Ejército, Raúl Castro Ruz, por su 90 cumpleaños.
«Felicidades Raúl así como cariñosamente lo llama el pueblo. Y también General de Ejército, referente para cualquier comunista y revolucionario cubano», escribió en su cuenta en Twitter Díaz-Canel, quien también resaltó en otros tuit los valores éticos y morales del mejor discípulo de Fidel, cuyos aportes a la defensa de la nación y al proceso de perfeccionamiento y actualización del modelo económico y social cubano constituyen baluartes imperecederos para la Patria.