Fidel
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After nearly six decades, the visit to Caracas by the leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro, remains alive in the memory of the Venezuelan people.
Fidel Castro arrived on Friday, January 23, 1959, at the Maiquetia airport, where more than 30,000 Venezuelans, including senior leaders of the plot that had expelled Dictator Marcos Perez Jimenez (1952-1958) from the presidential chair one year ago, waited for him.
Cuba's First Vice President Miguel Diaz-Canel will lead the island's delegation to the next Summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC), on January 27th in Quito.
Cuba's top diplomat in Paris has described the state visit by President Raul Castro to France on February 1st and 2nd as proof of the excellent level of bilateral relations between Paris and Havana.
Ambassador Hector Igarza said that important accords will be signed, drawing up a road-map for bilateral commercial relations between Cuba and France.
Igarza also announced the planning of a business forum to brief French entrepreneurs about Cuba's business and investment opportunities.
The Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba greeted the 12th Congress of Vietnam Communist Party taking place in this capital, to which wished it many successes, in a message to which Prensa Latina had access today.
The letter stresses that this is a new opportunity to thank the leaders, communist militants and its generous and selfless people for its constant solidarity with the Cuban Revolution.
Cuban fighter against Terrorism, Gerardo Hernandez, ensured that without the global solidarity, including that of the Spanish people, to be free along with four compatriots unjustly imprisoned in the United States would be impossible today.
You not only took us out of the prison, but also helped us to resist for all those years of closure, Hernandez said during an emotional meeting with representatives of many solidarity organizations and Cuban residents in Spain.
According to a July 12, 2009 article published in the Tampa Bay Times (formerly the St. Petersburg Times) current U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, at that time president of the Senate’s Foreign Relations Committee noted that despite being able to travel to Iran, Iraq, Syria, Sudan, Vietnam, China and North Korea, the only place in the world where U.S. citizens are prohibited from visiting without an authorized license was - and still is - Cuba. The U.S.
Cuba is participating with a large delegation in the 36th International Tourism Fair in Spain, Fitur 2016, as reflected in an official report released here today.
The note from the Ministry of Tourism (Mintur) in this country, states that this fair, running from January 20 to 24 in Madrid, the Spanish capital, has the attention of everyone on the travel industry.
The Cuban delegation is led by Cuban Tourism Minister, Manuel Marrero Cruz.
Yesterday, January 19, Cuba assumed the pro tempore presidency of the Association of Caribbean States (ACS/AEC), previously held by Haiti, during the 21st ordinary meeting of the organization’s Council of Ministers.
Cuba is attending today the International Symposium on educational policies in session at Unesco, in which issues such as school leadership, monitoring, evaluation and governance under the 2030 Agenda are discussed.
The monitoring of those issues is for the Caribbean nation a main priority facing the process started as a result of the political will and serious commitment of the government in the process of the implementation of the new 2030 Educational Agenda, members of the delegation commented.
Various committees of solidarity with Cuba in El Salvador have agreed to hold demonstrations and other protest actions on the 17th of each month, for as long the the U.S. blockade and other anti-Cuba legislation remains in place.
At a national solidarity with Cuba meeting held over the weekend, the Salvadorian activists said they have chosen the 17th because on December 17th, 2014, Washington and Havana announced their intention to re-establish diplomatic ties.
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