Geneva, March 22 (RHC)-- The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) has said that the reduction of COVID-19 cases in the Chinese city of Wuhan “provides hope for the rest of the world.” The comments come as the virus takes a terrible toll in Europe.... More
Ciego de Avila, March 22 (RHC)-- Tourists vacationing in the Jardines del Rey hotels were returning to their respective countries Sunday morning from the international airport of Cayo Coco, on the northern coast of central Cuba.... More
Rome, March 22 (RHC)-- The National Coordinator of Cubans Living in Italy (CONACI) welcomed on Sunday the arrival of a brigade of Cuban health workers to help fight the COVID-19 in that European nation.... More
Havana, March 22 (RHC)-- The Cuban Ministry of Public Health (MINSAP) confirmed four new cases of COVID-19 on Saturday, for a total of 25 in the country.... More
Havana, March 21 (RHC)-- Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez announced that his country has sent a medical brigade to combat the COVID-19 pandemic in Jamaica, a Caribbean country that has been going through a severe economic and political crisis for the past years.... More
Havana, March 21 (RHC)-- Bruno Rodríguez, Minister of Foreign Affairs, reported on Twitter that the Cuban embassies in Guyana and Haiti are taking steps to ensure the safe return to the island of the Cuban citizens who remain in those countries.... More
Tehran, March 21 (RHC)-- Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif accused the U.S. of taking its policy of “maximum pressure” on Tehran to a “new level of inhumanity” by imposing new sanctions on Iran as it struggles to cope with a huge surge of COVID-19 cases.... More
Washington, March 21 (RHC)-- Thousands of U.S. troops and military staff based in Europe have been ordered into self-isolation after at least 35 of them tested positive for COVID-19, further complicating Washington’s power projection across the Atlantic.... More
Geneva, March 21 (RHC)-- Reuters reports that U.S. labs have run only 60,000 coronavirus tests since late January when the first case was detected in the U.S. — compared to South Korea, which has tested nearly 300,000 people in the same time period. ... More
Sanaa, March 21 (RHC)-- In Yemen, where a U.S.-supported, Saudi-led war has killed over 100,000 people and shattered the healthcare infrastructure, medical workers are bracing for the rapid spread of coronavirus. To date, 80% of Yemenis rely on humanitarian assistance, with high rates of malnutrition, malaria and cholera. ... More
Havana, March 21 (RHC) -- For this Saturday at 3pm, Cuba time, an online mini-concert by Omara Portuondo and the Failde Orchestra has been announced. ... More
La Paz, March 21 (RHC)-- Bolivia's coup president Jeanine Añez and her health minister, Erwin Viruez, rejected Cuban health cooperation amid the COVID-19 pandemic. In an interview with local news media, Viruez affirmed that Bolivian doctors have "the capacity to respond to this or any other contingency."... More
Washington, March 21 (RHC)-- In a favorable outcome for U.S. President Donald Trump's foreign policy towards Latin America, twenty-three countries of the Organization of American States (OAS) Friday re-elected Luis Almagro as the Secretary-General of this institution, a position that he will hold until 2025.... More
Washington, March 21 (RHC)-- Ecuador's former President Rafael Correa, Bolivia's former Vice-President Alvaro Garcia Linera, Colombia's former presidential candidate Gustavo Petro, and other progressive intellectuals Friday called on the international community to make multilateral financial institutions and other private creditors sensitive to the ongoing economic situation and forgive the Latin American countries' sovereign external debt.... More
Cristina Fernández de Kirchner thanks Cuba for its support in the recovery of her daughter Florencia
Havana, March 21 (RHC) Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, announced that she is returning to Argentina from Havana, Cuba, with her daughter Florencia Kirchner.... More
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