Terrorism against Cuba

China urges the USA to lift the blockade and remove Cuba from list of sponsors of terrorism the listof

China urges the United States to lift the blockade and remove Cuba from the list of state sponsors of terrorism

The Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs urged Washington to end the blockade of Cuba immediately and remove the Caribbean nation from the list

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july 3, 2025 07:07:53

Mao Ning, spokesperson for the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Photo: Courtesy of MFA

BEIJING-. China called for the immediate lifting of the blockade and sanctions imposed on Cuba by the United States (U.S.), as well as for the Island to be removed from the list of state sponsors of terrorism, which was drawn up unilaterally by U.S. government.
Mao Ning, spokesperson for the Asian giant’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, stressed that over the past 60 years, the U.S. “has imposed a brutal blockade and illegal sanctions on Cuba, seriously violating its right to survival and development, violating the basic norms of international relations, and causing serious disasters for the Cuban people.”
The statements were made in response to a question about President Donald Trump’s recent memorandum approving new measures against the Caribbean nation.
The spokesperson reiterated that China “firmly supports Cuba in its search for a path of development that suits its national conditions” and expressed its rejection of Washington’s use of unilateral sanctions “under the pretext of supposed ‘freedom’ and ‘democracy.’”
Mao emphasized that lifting the blockade and removing Cuba from the list of state sponsors of terrorism is also the demand of the international community.
On Tuesday, the Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MINREX, for its Spanish acronym) issued a statement rejecting U.S. Presidential Memorandum that tightens the economic blockade against the Island.
The Cuban Foreign Ministry’s message explained that the document, released by U.S. government on June 30, “consists of a reissue and amendment of Presidential National Security Memorandum No. 5,” issued by the US on June 16, 2017, during Trump’s first term.
“Cuba categorically denounces and rejects both versions of the infamous document,” the MINREX statement said.

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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

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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”

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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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