Madrid, April 23 (RHC)-- The Party of the European Left -- El Partido de la Izquierda Europea (PIE) -- has called on the United States to immediately end the economic, financial and commercial blockade against Cuba, as it is an indecent policy in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic.... More
The UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) has urged the U.S. to lift its blockade against Cuba and Venezuela. ECLAC Secretary Alicia Barcena said it is a necessary action at a time when the COVID-19 is deteriorating the prospects of all Latin American economies.... More
‘A Juan Padrón, de nosotros los niños,’ (To Juan Padron, from us, the children) is the title of a new audiovisual, a home video recorded by a group ot Cuban musicians as tribute to one of the most loved filmmakers by Cubans.... More
Coincidentially, three top figures of universal literature: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, William Shakespeare and Garcilaso de la Vega died on the same day and in the same year, April 23rd, 1616.... More
President Miguel Diaz-Canel sent a congratulatory message to Cuban musician Pancho Amat, who celebrated his 70th birthday, this April 22nd.... More
Havana, April 23 (RHC) Arnaldo Rodríguez y su Talisman has composed a song to celebrate May Day, International Workers' Day... More
Ramallah, April 23 (RHC)-- Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas says the Palestinian Authority’s agreements with Israel and the United States will be “completely cancelled” if Israel annexes the occupied West Bank.... More
Phoenix, April 23 (RHC)-- In the U.S. state of Arizona, asylum seekers jailed at the La Palma Correctional Center near Phoenix are receiving waivers from CoreCivic, freeing the for-profit prison company from liability if immigrant prisoners contract COVID-19. ... More
San Salvador, April 23 (RHC)-- El Salvador's President Nayirb Bukele has vetoed two legislative decrees under unconstitutionality arguments. Decrees 620 and 621 made viable the return of stranded Salvadorans by the pandemic and for health personnel to have life insurance.... More
Bogota, April 23 (RHC)-- In Colombia, Meta Department Governor Juan Zuluaga confirmed 40 new COVID-19 cases in the Villavicencio prison, a public facility where 70 infected people have been registered so far.... More
Havana, April 22 (RHC)-- The National Director of Epidemiology of the Cuban Ministry of Public Health, Dr. Francisco Duran, reported that there were 46 new cases of COVID-19, for an total of 1,235 positive cases across the island. ... More
Brasilia, April 23 (RHC)-- Former Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff expressed her gratitude to Cuban health professionals who participated in the founding of the "Mais Medicos" ("More Doctors") program, which brought health care to the nation's most remote communities.... More
Havana, April 23 (RHC)-- Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel highlighted this Thursday the upcoming celebration of International Workers' Day, complying with the measures of social distancing established to isolate COVID-19.... More
Brussels, April 23 (RHC)-- More than 180,000 people across the world have died from the novel coronavirus, nearly two-thirds of them in Europe, since the deadly disease emerged in China last December, according to an AFP tally based on official sources.... More
Havana, April 23 (RHC)-- After 43 days since the first confirmed cases of COVID-19 on the island, the Cuban government, headed by President Miguel Díaz-Canel and Prime Minister Manuel Marrero, continued the detailed analysis of the implementation of the Plan for the Prevention and Control of the New Coronavirus.... More
