Tuesday 17 April 2018 | 05:11:52 pm.
HAVANA, Cuba, Apr 16 (acn) Cuba achieved a silver medal and a fifth place at the opening stage of the 2018 NORCECA Beach Volleyball Tour hosted by Aguascalientes, Mexico.
According to the website of the tournament, the Cuban women´s duo made up by Leila Martinez and Maylen Delis lost 1-2 (19-21, 21-17 and 10-15) to Americans Mackenzie Ponnet-Kimberly Smith, in 54 minutes.
The bronze medal went to the also Americans Brittany Howard-Kelly Reeves, who beat 2-0 (21-9 and 21-17) the host squad of Martha Orellana- Zaira Revuelta.
In the men´s event, Cubans Quesada-Peña ranked fifth after defeating 2-0 (21-17 and 21-16) Nicaraguans Mora-Lopez.
Quesada-Peña couldn´t repeat their last year performance as they won the crown in the 2017 opening stop, which this time went to their victimizers in quarterfinals, Canadians Platinga-Nusbaum, who won in the final 2-0 (21-16, 21-15) over Americans Priddy-Field.
Mexico´s duo of Cardenas-Gaxiola were the bronze medalists in the men´s event when beating 2-0 (21-17 and 21-18) Zaun-Retledge, from United States.
Tuesday 17 April 2018 | 05:10:40 pm.
HAVANA, Cuba, April 14 (acn) Cuba strongly condemned the US-led attack April 13th on Syria. Next up we bring you the official statement published on the Cuban Foreign Ministry's website.
The Revolutionary Government of the Republic of Cuba expresses its strongest condemnation of the new attack by the United States and some of its allies against military and civilian facilities in the Syrian Arab Republic on the evening of this April 13th, under the pretext of the alleged use of chemical weapons against civilians by the Syrian Government.
Tuesday 17 April 2018 | 05:08:57 pm.
HAVANA, Cuba, Apr 16 (ACN) The Council of State of the Republic of Cuba, in use of the powers conferred upon it, agreed to open the Constitutive Session of the IX Legislature of the National Assembly of People's Power on Wednesday, April 18, 2018, at 9 a.m. in the Havana Convention Center.
Tuesday 17 April 2018 | 05:07:12 pm.
HAVAN, Cuba, Apr 15 (ACN) Cuba will not accept threats or blackmail from the U.S. government, Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla reiterated before heads of state and government during his speech at the 8th Summit of the Americas in Lima, Peru.
Speaking at the high-level segment of the hemispheric meeting, which concluded Saturday at the Lima Convention Center, the head of Cuban diplomacy stressed that his country "does not want confrontation, but will not negotiate anything of its internal affairs, nor will it give up an inch of its principles.
During his speech, the FM stated that although they have suffered setbacks today, the progress made in recent years in relations with the United States was tangible when, in addition, it was demonstrated that civilized coexistence within the profound differences between governments was possible and beneficial.
In the current context, he denounced the hardening of the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the US against Cuba, which causes limitations to the people and violates human rights, while at the same time being rejected by the international community and sectors of the northern country itself.
He argued that there is also growing global condemnation of the illegal occupation of the territory at Guantánamo by the U.S. naval base and torture and detention center there.
The pretext to reduce the number of U.S. embassy personnel in Cuba and affect the right to travel of Cubans and citizens of that country suffers total discredit, argued Rodríguez Parrilla in allusion to the alleged acoustic incidents suffered by Washington diplomats in Havana a few months ago.
At another point in his speech, the Minister of Foreign Affairs described the Organization of American States and its Secretary General, Luis Almagro, as mere U.S. instruments aimed at restoring imperialist domination in the region.
He questioned whether the theme of the Summit was precisely that of the fight against corruption, when this is aggravated within the circles of prosecutors and judges who act as political parties.
It is hidden in this meeting that corruption prevails among government leaders, parliamentarians, conservative politicians and the electoral systems, and in the northern banks where money laundering occurs, including from drug trafficking, among other crimes, he denounced.
In this scenario, he added that voters are prevented from voting for candidates with strong popular support, such as the former Brazilian president, currently imprisoned Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, "whose freedom we demand," he said.
The Cuban diplomat devoted much of his statement to Venezuela, saying that the seriousness of that country's arbitrary and unjust statement should not be underestimated as "an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security of the US superpower".
The exclusion of President Nicolas Maduro from this Summit is an affront to all the peoples of Our America, and a historic step backwards imposed by the current U.S. government, he said.
Once again, he advocated for the self-determination of the sister Bolivarian nation and reiterated Cuba's unwavering solidarity in defence of the Bolivarian and Chavista civil-military union of the people, headed by its constitutional President.
Referring to the attacks perpetrated against Syria by the US and NATO allies, the FM assured that it was a unilateral, illegal action, without evidence or conclusions from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons.
This flagrant violation of the principles of international law and the United Nations Charter will exacerbate the conflict in that country and in the region, he said, while expressing the island's rejection of the use of chemical and other mass extermination weapons by any actor or circumstance.
During his speech, the Minister of Foreign Affairs expressed his solidarity with other causes in the region, such as those of Ecuador, for the murder of three journalists, Puerto Rico and the Malvinas Islands, an Argentine territory occupied by the United Kingdom.
Saturday 14 April 2018 | 09:02:00 am.
The VIII Summit of the Americas will open this afternoon in this capital city, despite the fact that the Peruvian organizers disinvited Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, a decision criticized by some countries in the region.
Saturday 14 April 2018 | 08:56:06 am.
Army General Raúl Castro Ruz, President of the Councils of State and Ministers, received on Thursday afternoon the Minister of National Defense of Angola, Salviano de Jesús Sequeira, who is making an official visit to Cuba, following an invitation from the Ministry of the Revolutionary Armed Forces.
During the fraternal meeting, the two leaders highlighted the excellent relations between the two countries, the historical and collaborative ties that unite the two peoples, governments and armed forces, and the will to strengthen them.
The distinguished visitor was accompanied by Lieutenant-General Carlos Filomeno de Sousa Couceiro and Luis Manuel Da Fonseca Sotto-Mayor Pizarro. On the Cuban side, Army Corps Generals Leopoldo Cintra Frías and Álvaro López Miera, Minister and First Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Revolutionary Armed Forces, respectively, and Brigadier General Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez were present.
Friday 13 April 2018 | 08:50:42 am.
Cuban Alfredo blasted his second homerun in the recently started 2018 season of the Japanese Professional Baseball League (NPB).
The Cuban slugger homered for the second consecutive day, this time to support the 8-5 win of his team, the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks, over the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters, in a game in which he batted 1 for 4, with one run scored and two RBIs.
The Cuban lefty reliever Livan Moinelo also participated in the game and managed to strikeout the only opponent he faced.
Despaigne and Moinelo didn´t start well the season, but in their two last outings they both began to show their real quality.
Their team, the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks, appear fourth in the NPB Pacific League with four wins and five losses, four games behind the leader, the Saitama Seibu Lions.
Friday 13 April 2018 | 08:43:31 am.
The members of the legitimate Cuban civil society that represents more than two thousand organizations of the Island and that attend in this capital to the forums of the VIII Summit of the Americas, denounced today serious provocations in Lima, where new offensive advertising billboards were placed against Cuba.
Yuri Pérez, an academic and vice-dean of the University of Havana's Law School, demanded respect for Cuba in the civil society forum, which he is part of the coalition 15 For an Inclusive and Respectful World.
In this afternoon's sessions at the Sheraton Hotel in Lima, he called for recognition of the diversity that characterizes the region.
Pérez denounced the hostile behavior and aggressions against Cuba that have appeared in avenues of the Peruvian capital during the last few days, in the form of billboards and advertisements, with offenses against the political system chosen by the majority of Cubans.
For the Caribbean lawyer, one of his biggest concerns is that to place a large-format billboard on a downtown avenue in this city of almost 10 million people, you need an authorization and a license to obtain the permit, he said.
On behalf of coalition 15, he asked the organizers of the 8th Summit of the Americas and the country's authorities to heed this call because Cuba came with a respectful speech, and undoubtedly demands and expects equal treatment, he added.
Mercenary groups at the service of foreign powers have tried to cast a shadow over Cuba's image and show themselves in Lima as representatives of Cuban society, despite the fact that they have no prestige or legitimacy in the country.
It was known that the cost of a billboard can exceed tens of thousands of dollars and climb to hundreds of thousands, while the origin of the funds used to pay for these provocations in downtown Lima is unknown.
Solidarity Peruvians were outraged on Tuesday at the counterrevolutionary messages that appeared on banners near the Jorge Chávez international airport and broke the posters and replaced them with live ones, and the phrase that has become viral in recent days: Don't mess with Cuba.
Friday 13 April 2018 | 08:35:13 am.
Cuba will ratify fidelity to the legacy of Fidel and Raúl in Peru
Friday 13 April 2018 | 08:28:58 am.
Cuba once again called for an open and respectful dialogue amidst attempts to silence the voice of its true civil society, represented at events at the VIII Summit of the Americas, taking place in Lima, capital city of Peru.
