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Cuba's Infant Mortality Rate at Its Lowest in Nation's History

News from Cuba | Friday, 29 December 2017

Update: On 2 January Granma reported that the infant mortality rate by the end of 2017 reached four per 1,000 live births. Maintaining infant mortality rate below five per 1,000 live for the 10th consecutive year is reason enough for Cuba to celebrate. But even more extraordinary is that the country ... read more

Cuba willing to continue working to improve relations with U.S.

News from Cuba | Saturday, 23 December 2017

Director General for the United States at the Cuban Foreign Ministry, Josefina Vidal, offered the closing remarks at the Workshop on Cuba-U.S. Relations of the Centre for International Policy Research (CIPI), held at the Higher Institute of International Relations (ISRI), on December 15. Among the characteristic elements of relations over ... read more

Cuba: Capital of Latin American and Caribbean integration

News from Cuba | Tuesday, 19 December 2017

CUBA once again became the capital of Latin American and Caribbean integration, yesterday December 14, during a day marked by celebrations for the 13th anniversary of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America, and the 16th meeting of the bloc's Political Council, as well as a meeting of ... read more

Dominica Thanks ALBA Countries for Hurricane Maria Aid

News from Cuba | Tuesday, 19 December 2017

“What has been done by Cuba and Venezuela is a tangible demonstration of the support that the members of the Alliance provide to their people,” said Dominican official Jan Douglas. At the XVI Political Council of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America - Peoples’ Trade Treaty, referred to ... read more

Three Reasons to Remain Hopeful for More Clean Energy Investment in Cuba

News from Cuba | Tuesday, 19 December 2017

Yao Zhao, a renewable energy specialist at the World Bank, reports on reasons to be hopeful for more clean energy investment in Cuba. I wrote the article Power Shift in Cuba: Seven Reasons to Watch the Renewable Energy Sector in the Post-Fidel and Trump Era about a year ago. 2017 ... read more

Unity and solidarity among our peoples and governments is the path to victory: ALBA-TCP Political Council Declaration

News from Cuba | Monday, 18 December 2017

The Ministers of Foreign Affairs and Heads of Delegations of the members countries of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America – Peoples’ Trade Agreement (ALBA-TCP), meeting in Havana, on the occasion of the 16th ALBA-TCP Political Council: Congratulate ourselves on the 13th anniversary of ALBA-TCP, a historic creation ... read more

Op-Ed: U.S. policy is hurting Cuba’s entrepreneurs

News from Cuba | Thursday, 14 December 2017

It’s a tough moment in Cuba for hundreds of thousands of entrepreneurs and millions of families with relatives in the United States. President Trump’s new Cuba policy, announced in June and recently written into law, and the partial draw-down of the U.S. Embassy, are hurting the private sector and taking ... read more

Unilateral measures by Washington hamper relations with Cuba

News from Cuba | Wednesday, 13 December 2017

The Cuban delegation to migration talks with the United States, expressed its deep concern over the impact of measures on relations between the two countries A new round of migration talks between Cuban and U.S. delegations was held December 11, 2017, in Washington, presided by Director General for the United States ... read more

Full dignity for all

News from Cuba | Tuesday, 12 December 2017

The course taken by Cuba since the 1959 triumph of the Revolution is fundamentally humanist In the 19th century José Martí stated, “I want the first law of our Republic to be the Cuban people’s commitment to the full dignity of humankind,” a phrase that appears in the Constitution of the ... read more

‘We were just a normal family’: Che Guevara’s daughter remembers her father

News from Cuba | Monday, 11 December 2017

During Dr Aleida Guevara’s Cuba Solidarity Campaign tour to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the death of Che Guevara, Aleida was interviewed by Sophie Haydock for the Guardian's 'That's me in the picture' feature. Aleida Guevara with her father Che Guevara and Fidel Castro, Havana, 1964 On the right is my ... read more

Maestra - Cuban literacy campaign film short

News from Cuba | Sunday, 10 December 2017

Cuba rejects Trump's move to recognise Jerusalem as capital of Israel

News from Cuba | Thursday, 7 December 2017

Statement by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Cuba on the recognition by the United States of the city of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Cuba expresses its deepest concern and rejection for the unilateral declaration by the President of the ... read more

The first ten years of U.S. economic attacks on Cuba

News from Cuba | Wednesday, 6 December 2017

The United States has a long history of economic warfare and began its efforts to destroy the Cuban economy immediately after the triumph of the Revolution The rulers of the United States have a long history of experience in this arena. During WWI, in 1917, the first legal document on economic ... read more

Trump's measures hamper scientific collaboration between Cuba and the U.S.

News from Cuba | Wednesday, 6 December 2017

The U.S. government is actively limiting collaboration. Four grants awarded to Cuba's Pedro Kourí Institute of Tropical Medicine by the U.S. National Institutes of Health to study Zika, chikungunya and dengue, have been "put on hold" Recent steps taken by the Trump administration to reinforce the blockade, limit travel, and control ... read more