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Top Salvadoran Diplomat Stresses the Value of Cuban Solidarity
CUBA, March 13, 2010. - Hugo Martínez Bonilla, Minister of Foreign Affairs of El Salvador, highlighted Cuba's solidarity with the Latin American and Caribbean peoples. More...
El Salvador-Cuba Framework Agreement
CUBA, March 13, 2010. - Salvadorian Foreign Minister Hugo Martínez announced he will sign a framework cooperation agreement with his Cuban counterpart, Bruno Rodríguez, as part of the first official visit to Cuba by a Salvadorian top ranking official. More...
Salvadoran Foreign Minister Stresses the value of Cuban solidarity
CUBA, March 13, 2010. - Cuba's solidarity with the Latin American and Caribbean peoples in the preparation of physicians, was highlighted this Friday in Havana, by Hugo Martinez Bonilla, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of El Salvador. More...
Salvadoran FM Describes Visit to Cuba as Historic
CUBA, March 12, 2010. - Salvadoran Foreign Minister Hugo Martinez Bonilla, who is in Havana on an official visit at the invitation of his counterpart Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla, described this visit as a historic moment in the bilateral relationship between Cuba and El Salvador. More...
Venezuela Readies Cuba-Advised Vaccine Factory
CUBA, Mar 12, 2010. - A Venezuelan vaccine factory, a project currently developed with Cuban advisory, will be ready in three months to support national immunization programs, Deputy Health Minister Eugenia Sader confirmed. More...
Haiti Seeks Normality but Quake Effects Remain
HAITI, Mar 12, 2010. - Haiti tries to go back to normality gradually two moths after the earthquake that destroyed its capital and other neighbouring cities but several years will pass before everything goes back to the way it was before January 12. More...
Suriname’s Health Ministry Extols Work of Cuban Doctors
CUBA, March 11, 2010.- Celsius Waterberg, Suriname’s Health Minister, highlighted the work carried out by Cuban doctors in that South American country.
In an address to participants in a farewell ceremony for the Operation Miracle brigade, held at the Public Health Ministry in Paramaribo, the nation’s capital, Waterberg thanked the Cuban government, on behalf of his government and people, for this project, which has successfully contributed to restore or improve the vision of thousands of patients in that territory. More...
Foreign Minister from El Salvador to Arrive in Cuba on Thursday
CUBA, Mars 11, 2010.- Hugo Martinez, Foreign Minister from the Republic of El Salvador, will arrive in Havana on Thursday for an official visit, at the invitation of his Cuban counterpart, Bruno Rodriguez. More...
Farewell ceremony for Operation Miracle team in Suriname
SURINAME. March 10 2010. - A ceremony took place at the Ministry of Public Health in Suriname to bid farewell to the team of Operation Miracle that has been working for almost two years in the country. More...
Bolivian Solidarity Movement Thanks Cuba
BOLIVIA, Mar 9, 2010. - The Bolivian Solidarity Movement with Cuba was grateful for the professional training Bolivian students receive in Cuba and then they returned to their native country to work and contribute to their society. More...
District Scientific Workshops Conclude in Belize
BELIZE, March 9, 2010. - With the celebration of the scientific workshop in Belize City, the district workshops concluded after the presentation in all Belizean districts. In total the workshops had more than 40 presentations and over 60 posters. The work reflected the actions and challenges faced by the Cuban Medical Team in Belize. More...
UN Chief in Haiti Praises Cuban Doctors Work
CUBA, Mar 9, 2010. - Edmond Mulet, head of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) described as extraordinary the work of Cuban doctors in that Caribbean country hit by an earthquake last January 12. More...
US Blockade against Cuba Condemned in Uruguay and Ireland
CUBA, Mar 9, 2010. - Uruguay’s La Republica newspaper denounced and condemned Washington’s blockade against Cuba, and the same condemnation was expressed by the Irish Sinn Fein Party. More...
Friendly meeting with the President of the Parliamentary Committee of Solidarity with Cuba
KENYA, March 9th, 2010. Honorable David Were, President of the Parliamentary Committee of Solidarity with the Island, was received by Cuban Ambassador Julio Cesar Gonzalez Marchante at the diplomatic Mission in Nairobi where they widely talked on the actions to be developed by said Committee during 2010 with the view to reinforce relations between both peoples. More...
Cubans in Namibia celebrate International Women’s Day
NAMIBIA, March 9th, 2010. - The members of the Cuban State Mission in Namibia – Embassy staff and cooperators –celebrated International Women's Day with a heartfelt function which served to pay tribute and deserved recognition to Cuban women and those from all over the world. More...
Kenya-Cuba Friendship Society launches its National Executive Committee
KENYA, March 9th, 2010. - Members of the Kenya-Cuba Friendship Society met at the diplomatic Mission of the Island in Nairobi where, before the Cuban Ambassador Julio Cesar Gonzalez Marchante and his team presented their National Committee in charge to organize a large plan of activities to strengthen solidarity during 2010. More...
International Women’s Day is Celebrated in Belize
Belize, March 8, 2010.- Organized by the Friendship Club with Cuba of Corozal District jointly with members of the Association of Cuban Residents in Belize, International Women’s Day was celebrated on the Corozal coastline which is the closest to our country. Present in the activity were members of the Cuban Medical Team in Belize including its National Coordinator, collaborators of the sugar industry that are working in Belize and the Head of Cuba’s Consular Office Dr. Yanetsy Hernandez. More...
Cuba Will Increase Medical Assistance to Chile
CUBA, March 6, 2010. - Cuba will send more medical resources to Chile within the next hours at the request of authorities from the South American nation to assist victims of the devastating earthquake that hit Chile last week. More..
Minister from St. Vincent and the Grenadines Praises Work of Cuban Medical Brigade
CUBA, Mar 5, 2010. - Douglas Slater, Minister of Public Health from Saint Vincent and the Grenadines praised on Friday the scientific level of the Cuban medical team now working in his country in the Vida a la Vida project for the disabled. More...
Nigerian expert recognized quality of the Cuban Health System
Nigeria, March 4, 2010.- Nigerian newspaper ‘’The Guardian’’ published an interview with Dr. Dale Ogunbayo, Consultant on Health to the Nigerian Governors’ Forum (NGF), who recognized the quality of the Cuban Health System. More...
Grenada’s PM Describes Visit to Cuba As Successful
CUBA, March 4, 2010. - Grenada’s Prime Minister Tillman Thomas said on Thursday his recent five-day visit to Cuba, at the invitation of the island’s President Raul Castro, was a success. More...
Cuban Doctors, Field Hospital in Chile
CHILE, Mar 3, 2010. - Chile's Public Health Minister Alvaro Erazo thanked today the arrival of a team of Cuban doctors together with a fully equipped field hospital to help in emergency care of victims of last Saturday powerful earthquake. More...
Comprehensive Program for Haiti Presented in Geneva
SUIZA, Mar 3, 2010. - The member states of the Bolivarian Alliance for the People of Our America (ALBA) and the Haitian Government have submitted to the OMS in Geneva a comprehensive program for reconstructing the health system of that Caribbean nation. More...
Solidarity Meeting with Cuba in Mexico
MEXICO, March 2, 2010. - Mexican and Michoacano Movements of Solidarity with Cuba are making preparations for the 15th national meeting of solidarity with he Caribbean country, to take place in Morelia, capital of Michoacan state, during the upcoming weekend. "It will be a very well-attended event, and buses will depart for the event's venue from Mexico City and Nayarit, Zacatecas, Jalisco, Guerrero and Oaxaca states," Peter Gellert, one of the coordinators of the meeting, told Prensa Latina. More...
Chile Normalizing Most Affected Zones
CHILE, Mar 2, 2010. - Around 7,000 soldiers will guarantee, starting from Tuesday, public order and the handing over of aid to the victims of Saturday's earthquake, according to what Chilean President Michelle Bachelet stipulated. More...
CUBA, March 2, 2010.- Members of the Henry Reeve Cuban medical brigade for emergency situations left for Chile this Tuesday to help in areas struck by the earthquake and tsunami that have affected large territories of this South American nation. More...
With admiration, profound love and respect for the Cuban doctors and all those others who still carry and maintain the code of honor of serving others. It is the true gain that can never be devalued. More...
World’s Largest Earthquake took Place in Chile in 1960
CUBA, March 2, 2010. - Chile is located in the “Pacific Ring of Fire”, which produces 80 percent of Earth’s earthquakes.
In the central and southern parts of the country last Saturday there was an earthquake of 8.8 degrees on the Richter scale, one of the seven strongest of all time, and similar in magnitude to the one that rocked Ecuador on January 31st 1906 and Alaska on March 28th 1964, according to statistics geological prestigious scientific institutions. More...
Saint Lucia, March 1st, 2010. - Cuba was successfully represented at the International Food Fair that took place at Pigeon Island, Saint Lucia's National Park and Landmark, which took place on 28th February, in observance of Saint Lucia's 31st Anniversary of Independence. More...
Saint Lucian press media publicize return of the Operacion Milagro brigade To Saint Lucia
Saint Lucia, 1st March, 2010. - Since last Thursday, 25th February, Saint Lucian Press Media have been giving coverage on the return to Saint Lucia of the Brigade of Collaborators that work at the Ophthalmological Centre and who, for two months, were on vacation in Cuba. More...
Vatican Bishop Praises Cuba's International Cooperation
CUBA, Mar 1, 2010. - Monsignor Marcelo Sanchez Sorondo, Chancellor of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences and Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, praised this Monday Cuba's medical and educational aid to Latin America and the Caribbean nations. More...
First VP Jose Ramon Machado Ventura Meets with Cuban Brigade in Uruguay
CUBA, Mar 1, 2010. - Cuba’s First Vice-president, José Ramón Machado Ventura, met on Monday with the group of Cuban voluntary workers offering their services in Uruguay. More...
First VP Machado Ventura in Uruguay for President-Elect Jose Mujica’s Inauguration
CUBA, Mar 1, 2010. - Cuban First VP Jose Ramon Machado Ventura was received on Sunday by Uruguayan outgoing President Tabare Vazquez and by President-elect Jose Mujica. More...
Cuban President Receives Prime Minister of Grenada
CUBA, Mar 1, 2010. - Cuban President Raúl Castro Ruz received Tillman Thomas, Prime Minister of Grenada this Monday in this capital.
After the notes of the corresponding national anthems of both countries were played, the Grenadian leader, along with Raul, reviewed the ground, sea and air troops from the Special Unit of Ceremonies of the Revolutionary Armed Forces, formed in the Revolution Palace. More...
Prime Minister from Grenada Pays Tribute to Cuba’s National Hero Jose Marti
CUBA, Mar 1, 2010. - The Primer Minister of Grenada, Tillman Thomas, paid tribute on Monday in this capital to Jose Marti.
The head of state placed a wreath by the monument named after the Cuban National Hero located at Havana’s Revolution Square, accompanied by Cuba’s Deputy Foreign Minister Jose Ramon Cabañas.
Tanzanian Government urged to cut down on illiteracy
Tanzania, March 2, 2010. - The government has been urged to go back to the principles set by the Father of the Nation, Mwalimu Julius Nyerere to fight against increasing illiteracy in the country.
Zambia, Cuba deals’ll better lives
ZAMBIA, March 1st, 2010. - CUBAN Ambassador to Zambia Carmelina Ramirez has said President Rupiah Banda’s last visit to Cuba was fruitful and a number of agreements were signed which her country was trying to implement. More...
Cuban Ambassador’s official visit to Johor state
Malaysia, March 1st, 2010. - On February 23rd and 24th, Cuban Ambassador to Malaysia, Carlos Amores, made an official visit to the State of Johor, where he paid courtesy visits to the highest authorities in the State. More...
Students from the Cuban Ballet School share experiences with young South African dancers
SUDÁFRICA, March 1st-, 2010. - A professor and two students from the National Ballet School of Cuba, are currently participating in ballet workshops and auditions in South Africa. The two young dancers will perform alongside South Africans in “Somebody to love” and “Celebration” that will be presenting during the month of March by the Mzansi Productions Company. More...
Cuban Collaborators in Namibia hold Scientific Events in salutation of February 24
NAMIBIA, March 1, 2010. - Cuban collaborators working in Namibia held their regional Scientific-Technical Events. The whole process concluded yesterday in the Katutura Hospital, in Windhoek, with a political-cultural function in commemoration of the liberation deed of February 24. More...
Prime Minister of Granada Visiting Cuba
CUBA, Feb 27th, 2010. - The Honorable Tillman Thomas, Prime Minister of Granada, will arrive in Cuba tomorrow, on an official visit, at the invitation of Army General Raúl Castro Ruz, President of the Councils of State and of Ministers of the Republic of Cuba. More...
Cuba and Brazil Signed Collaboration Agreements
CUBA, Feb 25, 2010. - Cuban President Raul Castro and his Brazilian counterpart Luis Inacio Lula da Silva presided over the signing ceremony of 10 juridical instruments for collaboration between both nations, in Havana last Wednesday. More...
Creation of Community of Latin American and Caribbean States: a historically significant event
Lazaro Barredo Medina
MEXICO, 25 Feb, 2010. - The creation of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States is a historically significant event, and we believe it appropriate to strive to promptly define its statutes and mode of functioning, so that they cover the collective interest in the greater integration and unity of our region, Cuban President Raúl Castro Ruz said on Tuesday, Feb. 24, in addressing the Unity Summit’s final session. More...
Cuba and Venezuela Strengthen Energy Cooperation
CUBA, Feb 24, 2010. - Cuba and Venezuela strengthened today in this capital, the bonds of cooperation on rational use of energy as part of the bilateral agreements signed in 2006. More...
Health Prevention Work Needed in Haiti
HAITI, February 24, 2010. - “We have to carry out a comprehensive work of health prevention and manage to have the population cooperate with us”, affirmed Jacouni Nema Poudiougou, a member of the Henry Reeve Internationalist Brigade now offering its medical services in Haiti. More...
Brazilian President Is in Cuba on Working Visit
CUBA, Feb 24, 2010. - Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva started a working visit to Cuba today at the invitation of Cuban President Raul Castro Ruz with whom he will hold official talks. More...
Community of Latin American and Caribbean States is Born
CUBA, February 23, 2010. Felipe Calderon, President of Mexico, announced the creation of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States at the Summit of the Latin America and Caribbean Unity, underway in Cancun. More...
Active Participation of Cuban President Raul Castro in Mexican Summit for Unity
CUBA, Feb 23, 2010. - Cuban President Raul Castro participated actively in the sessions that took place on Monday at the Summit for Latin American and Caribbean Unity, underway at the Mayan Riviera in Mexico. More...
Cuban Program Initiated in Haiti to Address Psychosocial Trauma
More than 4,000 Haitian children and their families so far have joined in a Cuban program aimed at helping Haitians recover from post-earthquake psychosocial trauma
HAITI, February 20, 2010 .— More than 4,000 Haitian children and their families so far have joined in a Cuban program aimed at helping Haitians recover from post-earthquake psychosocial trauma. More...