Left Review Online July 12, 2021
Havana. Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel on Saturday said his country is always open to true friends' honest solidarity and strongly rejected untruthful humanism campaign plotting on the media. Visiting the province of Camaguey to analyze compliance with measures and protocols taken to halt the spread of Covid-19, the...more
Beijing. The film 'Los Nombres de las Flores' (The Names of Flowers), inspired in the last minutes in the life of guerrilla fighter Ernesto Che Guevara, will be screened at the 11th Beijing International Film Festival. The event will run from August 14 to 21 and will show...more
Moscow. The Russian Foreign Ministry has denounced the US blockade against Cuba as an example of human rights violations committed by Washington, the website of this ministry posted on Saturday. According to its report, the US keeps on seriously violating human rights both in the country and abroad,...more
Havana. Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel lamented today the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moise and condemned the violent act that caused his death. Through a message on his Twitter account, the Cuban leader called for peace and offered his condolences to the leader's family and the people of...more
Havana. The world support against the blockade policy imposed against Cuba by the United States Government on Thursday confirms Washington's isolation in its insistent siege against Caribbean nation. With 184 votes for, two against (the United States and Israel) and three abstentions (Brazil, Colombia and Ukraine), the resolution...more
Kathmandu. Fernando Gonzalez, the president of the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP), appealed to the people of goodwill around the world to condemn the US blockade against Cuba on Friday. Speaking at a virtual forum on International Workers' Day, Gonzalez recalled that the US blockade...more
Kathmandu. The World Meeting of Solidarity with Cuba, hosted by the Cuban Workers Federation (CTC by its Spanish acronym) and the Cuban Friendship Institute (ICAP by its Spanish acronym), began today with the virtual participation of friends and trade unionists from all over the world. In his opening...more
Cuba is a country with a long history of struggle against colonialism and imperialism. Cuba is a land of Carlos Manual de Cespedes, who fought to liberate the Cuban Soil. Cuba is also the land of great hero Jose Marti, who envisioned the Cuban independence and sacrificed his...more
Compañeras and compañeros: The opening of the Eighth Party Congress takes place on a transcendental date in the nation’s history: The 60th anniversary of the proclamation by Comandante en jefe Fidel Castro Ruz of the socialist character of the Revolution, on April 16, 1961, at the funeral farewell...more
Havana. The 8th Congress of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) concludes today after four days of work in which the socialist course of Cuba was reaffirmed and the model and guidelines for this endeavor were updated. The Central Committee, elected yesterday, will hold its first meeting on...more
Havana. The Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) elected the President of the Republic Miguel Diaz-Canel as its First Secretary. The new Central Committee elected on Sunday by the delegates attending the 8th PCC Congress also elected the members of the Political Bureau and the...more
Havana. Shortly before four in the afternoon this Sunday, the voting to elect the members of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba began at the Havana Convention Center, in its 8th Congress. The First Secretary, Raúl Castro, was the first to vote. The Central Committee...more
Havana. Presided by Army General Raúl Castro Ruz and José Ramón Machado Ventura, first and second secretaries of the Central Committee of the Party, respectively, in addition to Political Bureau members Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, President of the Republic, and Esteban Lazo Hernández, President of the National Assembly of...more
Havana. The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) on Friday recognized the leadership of its counterpart in Cuba (PCC), through a message regarding the 8th Congress of that organization. In recent years, the PCC has led the Cuban people to achieve important results in economic...more
Evoking the thinking of Commander in Chief Fidel Castro Ruz, who defined the Party as “the soul of the Revolution,” the 8th Congress of the Communist Party of Cuba, began today in the capital's Convention Center, presided by Army General Raúl Castro Ruz, first secretary of the Party...more