Analyzing the meaning of the day, Reinier Duardo pointed to the re-election of Governor Ron DeSantis, Senator Marco Rubio and Congresswoman María Elvira Salazar, as signs that a deepening of hate speech and tightening of the blockade is coming.

There, Trump’s legacy remains particularly alive, while a woman like Nancy Pelosi – who welcomed Juan Guaidó and enthusiastically applauded him in Congress – is accused of being a leftist and they try to kill her. This confirms what has been said more than once from Cuba: it is up to us to break the blockade, because the newly elected officials and their lobbyists will do everything to make it worse. The neighbor’s policy continues to steer the extreme right, at least in its area closest to Cuba.

Bárbara Betancourt agrees with this criterion, who points to the signs of the show prior to the moment of the vote, feverish by the euphoria of the haters, the threatening speech against those who dissent and the call to support DeSantis, one of the most ineffective politicians in the United States. States, governor of a failed state, as proven during the pandemic and more recently before, during and after Hurricane Ian. Worse yet: DeSantis is a presidential candidate, as Trump was before he became president, and many believed that it would be impossible. It is dramatically true and it is not good for anyone, except for his followers who already know what size of hate they wear.

In the midst of this republican euphoria, AméricaTV broadcasts a piece of news that the presenters describe as unusual: a Cuban steals a fishing boat from his work to go to Cuba, because “he is tired of living in the United States…”. Stranded in North American waters, he asks for help and they have arrested him.

Although emigration in the opposite direction is common, there are not so few who, after having emigrated, cannot bear to live in the United States and try to return as best they can. The detail of interest is that he steals the boat. Why? Suppose he didn’t have the money to pay for a ticket, or perhaps he thought that if the Miami media praises those who steal ships in Cuba, they will get equal treatment for their journey.

What is really known about the last person who stole a small plane to leave Cuba is that he must be repatriated and that the plane will be returned. Cuba has denounced many times over the years what happens when emigration is stimulated with economic suffocation measures and legal roads become more expensive or closed. Just another reason to thoroughly reassess the immigration issue and the policies that have fueled these practices for so long.
In conclusion, it is very important that the agreements are resumed and the United States does its part. Like Cuba.

(By: Arleen Rodríguez Derivet/Cubadebate)

Some allies are calling on Trump to delay his planned announcement for next week, saying the party’s focus should be on Georgia, where Trump-backed football great Herschel Walker’s effort to unseat Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock is headed. to a second round that could determine control of the Senate.

“I will advise you to hold off on him until after the Georgia runoff,” said former Trump adviser Jason Miller, who spent the night with the former president at his Mar-a-Lago club in Florida.

“Georgia should be the focus of every Republican in the country right now,” he said.

Trump tried to use the midterm elections as an opportunity to demonstrate his political influence after losing the White House in 2020. He endorsed more than 330 candidates in electoral contests, some inexperienced. He reveled in his major victories. But many of his positions, including echoing fraud in 2020 and his hardline views on abortion, were out of step with the political mainstream.

Although he scored some big victories on Tuesday, particularly in Ohio, where his election to the Senate, Hillbilly Elegy author JD Vance sailed to an easy victory after Trump’s endorsement catapulted him. In North Carolina, Rep. Ted Budd, one of Trump’s first picks, held a vacant Senate seat held by the GOP.

But Trump lost some bigger spots overnight, particularly in Pennsylvania, where Dr. Mehmet Oz, who narrowly won the Senate primary with Trump’s endorsement, lost to Democrat John Fetterman. Trump-backed candidates also lost gubernatorial races in Pennsylvania, Michigan and Maryland, and a Senate race in New Hampshire, though Trump seemed to celebrate the latter and criticized Republican Dan Bolduc for trying to moderate his positions by backing down. in his acceptance of the alleged electoral fraud invented by Trump in 2020.

The biggest Republican win of the night came in Florida, where Governor Ron DeSantis won re-election, cementing his status as a national Republican rising star while contemplating his own potential 2024 run. Ex leader.

Trump’s setbacks
While Republicans still appear well-positioned to flip the House and ultimately could take the Senate as well, those who had believed that frustrations with record inflation, combined with President Joe Biden, would produce quick victories for the Republicans, they were wrong. The “red tide” was not.

Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, a longtime Trump friend and adviser turned critic who is considering his own run for president in 2024, said Republicans “have a fundamental choice to make.”

“We lost in the 18th. We lost in the 20th. We lost in the 21st in Georgia. And now, on the 22nd, we are going to lose net governorships, we are not going to get the number of seats in the House that we thought and it is possible that we will not win the Senate despite a president who has a 40% labor approval”, he affirmed. .

According to Christie, “there is only one person to blame for that and that is Donald Trump.”

Meanwhile, Trump publicly insisted that he was happy with the results.

“While in a way yesterday’s election was somewhat disappointing, from my personal point of view it was a great victory: 219 wins and 16 losses overall. Who has done better than that?” he wrote on his Truth Social network on Wednesday afternoon.

But Republican strategist David Urban, a former Trump adviser, said the Trump brand is hurt no matter what the former president says.

Some now worry that if Trump goes ahead with his planned announcement next week, it could pave the way for a repeat of the Republican defeats in Georgia in 2021.

Trump’s former press secretary, Kayleigh McEnany, who now works for Fox News, advised on air that Trump should postpone announcing him until after the Georgia Senate runoff.

DeSantis, the future candidate
DeSantis emerged as the obvious winner of the night. In addition to his wide margin of victory, he won the Democratic stronghold of Miami-Dade, and he did so without Trump’s endorsement. (Although Trump told reporters that he had voted for the governor days after calling him “Ron DeSantis.”)

“DeSantis is coming out of the election with a lot of momentum,” said Republican strategist Alex Conant. “Trump has been weak for a long time, but it was not clear who the alternative was… For the first time, Trump really has a formidable rival within the party.”

Even some Democrats admitted DeSantis’ strength.

Miami-based Democratic strategist Jose Parra said Trump’s rival enters the 2024 conversation with “a lot of wind in his sails” after a stronger-than-expected performance across the state, especially in the Miami-Dade County, in South Florida.

Speaking at the White House on Wednesday, Biden said his “intent” is to run again. But pointing to the emerging competition between Trump and DeSantis, he said it would be “fun to see them square off.”

Trump futures
Trumpism as an expression of a right-wing “populism” is here to stay, although it was not expansive beyond its hard core. But this hard core of the extreme right is an intense political-social force, not an occasional phenomenon, arising from the deep political and social polarization that has been installed as a sign of the times, and that is expressed in a distorted way in the so-called “wars”. cultural”. Among Republican voters, a portion close to 70% considers that Trump was the winner of the 2020 presidential election, and therefore that the Biden administration is illegitimate. The most extreme sector of this electoral base was the one that starred in the attempted takeover of the Capitol on January 6, 2021 under the political leadership of the president himself, who was trying to prevent Congress from validating the electoral result.

DeSantis is something of a mild-mannered Trumpist. He won with a tough “law and order” speech. He promises to defeat the “woke”, that is, the “progresses”. He defines himself as “pro-life” but unlike other Republican states, Florida has not completely liquidated the right to abortion, but has limited it to 15 weeks. Several analysts highlight the high percentage of the Latino vote for DeSantis as a symptom. However, it does not seem at first a generalized phenomenon. In Florida, the most right-wing Latino electorate is largely concentrated, made up mainly of Cuban and Venezuelan exiles. Although it is a warning sign.

The result leaves DeSantis well placed as an alternative to Trump in the Republican presidential primary. This was received with some relief in the US imperialist establishment, which was already concerned about the possible return of Trump to the White House in 2024. Especially at a time when the White House, with its role in the war in Ukraine, had regained leadership over the European allies for its dispute with China.

(Taken from The Daily Left)

On Wednesday morning they defeated Hong Kong twice, with scores of 12-3 and 10-0 (knockout).

They also had no mercy in the two games against the locals. That night they were awarded the first super knockout of the championship (21-0) and, later, the second knockout of the date (10-0).

The Cuba team produced 53 runs on Wednesday (the third of the championship) and only received three.

The most outstanding were Orlando Amador, Briandy Molina and Roivelis Núñez, who reached base 56 of the 68 times they batted, for an OBP (on-base percentage) of 823.

The team manager, Pablo Terry, commented: “The team has gone from less to more. On this same day we started cold against Hong Kong and then all the technical-tactical instructions were followed to the letter. We try to make at least five runs in the first two innings to rotate the players with the substitutes and that they all arrive well in the decisive games”.

Briandy Molina, one of the best players in the tournament, referred to the objective of the Cuba team: “It cannot be other than to win the crown to dedicate it and share it with the teammates who could not be here due to health problems. Before the game we promised Coach Terry that we would give Mexico a super knockout and we did. We had very good preparation in Cuba and the results are already coming out in the competition”.

With the four victories on the third day, Cuba secured its place in the super round. They are followed by Japan (3-1), and Mexico and Lithuania, with 2-2. The bottom of group A are South Africa (1-3) and Hong Kong (0-4).

Group B is led by Venezuela with 4-0, followed by Taiwan (3-1), France and Tunisia (2-2), Kenya (1-3) and South Korea (0-4).

Cuba’s last match in the qualifying phase was this Thursday, at 12:30 p.m. (our country time) against Japan.

(With information from JIT)

The need to act against the decline of natural resources and stop the impact of greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere by promoting innovative practices in the country, was the main issue evaluated during the most recent meeting of the National Innovation Council, held in the Palace of the Revolution.

Led by President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez and with the presence of Deputy Prime Minister Inés María Chapman, the exchange of academics, scientists, experts and managers this time went through the analysis of how much we could do to promote the concept of circular economy in the recycling industry, and in all our sectors, to achieve greater use of natural resources, in a nation like ours where the economy develops in very particular conditions.

The presentation of three papers on the current situation and perspective to advance the concept of circular economy taking into account innovation, marked the exchange of the meeting.

As a practice of developed nations, the essence of the circular economy is to achieve a better use of raw materials and the reuse of solid waste, not only from an environmental perspective, but also from an economic and technological reconversion perspective.

On how to achieve greater sustainability in the country, Professor Dennis Oliva Merencio from the Technological University of Havana spoke. Seeking greater strength in any innovation system and in particular when talking about the circular economy in the recycling industry cannot ignore the need to achieve integration between all sectors of society, which is why the doctor of Sciences, Lídice Vaillant, He defended the need for the integration of all sectors and their interrelation.

When defining the concept of circular economy, academic Dennis Oliva Merencio described it as comprehensive and core.

A broad exchange between experts, academics, producers and managers present, raised the issue of the circular economy and the need for its application as part of the permanent approach that should prevail in each project that is started.

President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez defined the circular economy as strategic, because of its transversal nature and what it implies in the creation of a culture for its implementation and influencing the transformation of people’s actions.

An important group of issues emerged from the meeting, which is why he insisted on the need to advance in the creation of a Cuban strategy on circular economy.

“We must ensure that we all think about the circular economy, both in the business system and in the municipalities,” said the president. He stated that this will allow us to chain processes to reach new products and productive transformations.

During the new meeting of the National Innovation Council, which has become a pillar in the exercise of government in the country, it was reported that the digital site of the Presidency has a space that can be accessed, where 102 materials are currently inserted with a wide documentation on meetings of this type held.

In the topic of analysis of the most recent meeting (the circular economy), although our country is far from practices that are implemented in developed nations, important areas are identified where comprehensive work can be done in order to multiply and make more efficient use more sustainable. of our natural resources, the reuse of solid waste generated by institutions and the population, and achieve greater productive chains.

(Taken from Radio Rebelde)

However, it has weakened to a tropical storm as it moves toward east-central Florida in the morning, according to the US National Hurricane Center.

Nicole became the latest hurricane to hit Florida’s Atlantic coast in a calendar year, breaking the November 4 record set by Hurricane Yankee in 1935.

It is also the first hurricane to make landfall in the United States during November in nearly 40 years.

The US National Weather Center forecasts that the system should weaken to a depression on Friday before becoming a tropical cyclone over the southeastern US.

Experts expect Nicole to move through central and northern Florida into southern Georgia, arriving in the Carolinas on Friday.

In Florida, access to several bridges linking the mainland to the state’s barrier islands has been cut off.

Coastal roads such as Indian River Drive had previously been blocked after waves began breaking against the seawall.

(With information from Euronews and CNN in Spanish)

In the inaugural session were the Cuban president, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez; the president of the Council of Ministers of the ACS, Mario Adolfo Búcaro; the general secretary of the organization, Rodolfo Sabonge, as well as foreign ministers and ministers of the region.

The Minister of Foreign Trade and Foreign Investment of Cuba, Rodrigo Malmierca, stressed that cooperation is essential for the integrated development of countries.

“It is to be hoped that this conference will open up realistic opportunities to promote regional integration and the sustainable development of our peoples,” he said.

Malmierca assured that Cuba has an integrated legal framework for international cooperation.

Sixth International Cooperation Conference of the Association of Caribbean States. Photo: Enrique González (Enro)/ Cubadebate.

For his part, the President of the Council of Ministers of the Association of Caribbean States and Foreign Minister of Guatemala, Mario Adolfo Búcaro, thanked Cuba for hosting the conference.

He commented that we must work so that regional dialogue and multilateralism bring food to the table of our peoples.

Speaking at the opening session, the Director of Cooperation of the ACS, Adriana Bolaños, stated that the organization began an ambitious process of revitalization with a six-year action plan with specific objectives. In that sense, she said, this conference is important to carry them out.

Rodolfo Sabonge, secretary general of the association, referred to the importance of materializing projects and programs on the protection and conservation of the Caribbean Sea, disaster risk reduction, the economic integration of the Greater Caribbean and sustainable tourism.

The executive secretary of ALBA-TCP, Sacha Llorenti, pointed out that the alliance has many issues in common with the ACS, such as trade, sustainable tourism and disaster mitigation.

Likewise, he condemned the coercive and unilateral measures of the United States against ALBA countries.

For two days, the representatives of the members of the association will establish alliances for the economic integration of the Caribbean, especially in trade, transportation, sustainable tourism and dealing with natural disasters.

(Andy Jorge Blanco, Enrique González Díaz (Enro))

After enduring lawfare, jail and persecution, Lula da Silva was once again elected president in Brazil. He won this Sunday in the ballot, of the presidential elections, by obtaining 50.90% of the votes.

The Cuban president had expressed satisfaction with the electoral victory of the leader of the Workers’ Party, whom he congratulated on behalf of the Cuban government and people.

Venezuela and Brazil agree to resume binational cooperation agenda
The president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, and the newly elected Brazilian president agreed to resume the binational cooperation agenda between the two countries.

“I had a good telephone conversation with the president-elect of the Federative Republic of Brazil,” the president said on his Twitter account.

“We agreed to resume the Binational Cooperation Agenda between our countries. We appreciate your willingness!” he stated.

Maduro also revealed that the Brazilian labor leader sent his greetings and commitment to all the people of Venezuela.

“We are willing to work hard to strengthen Latin America and the Caribbean and for the economic and social development of our peoples,” the head of state wrote on the social network.

Lula after speaking with dozens of heads of state: “We are returning to the world”
The Brazilian president said on Tuesday that he has spoken with dozens of heads of state, and “all want to expand alliances and joint work with Brazil on trade, on climate issues and on major global issues.”

“We are returning to the world,” Lula da Silva highlighted on his Twitter account.

(With information from Prensa Latina)

Russian missiles have hit a power plant near Svetlovodsk, according to authorities in the Krivoy Rog region, while the hydroelectric power plant in the city of Novodnestrovsk has also been hit.

In addition, an attack was recorded on an electrical substation near the dam of the Dnieper hydroelectric station, in the part of the Russian Zaporozhye region currently controlled by Ukrainian forces. Likewise, the Kremenchug hydroelectric power plant, in the Kirovograd region, was also affected, leaving the area without electricity or water service.

According to Ukrainian Prime Minister Denis Shmygal, 18 installations in 10 regions were damaged, most of them electrical. He added that hundreds of settlements in seven provinces are without power.

Russia sends 87,000 mobilized to southeastern Ukraine

Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu. Photo: Diario As.

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu announced on Tuesday that 87,000 troops out of the 300,000 recruited in the context of partial mobilization were sent to destination areas in southeastern Ukraine.

The Minister of Defense indicated that some 3,000 instructors, who had received combat experience during the hostilities around Ukraine, trained the mobilized men, according to the Rossiya 24 channel.

During its preparation, the main efforts were focused on field training, the ability to use communication, navigation and reconnaissance equipment, the minister noted.

Likewise, the minister pointed out that combat vehicle and tank crews, artillerymen, snipers, drone specialists, electronic warfare and others are trained in the training centers.

Shoigu once again drew the attention of the commanders of the country’s military regions and the Northern Fleet to the need to use the units formed in conjunction with the troops already participating in the special military operation.

The head assured that exhaustive measures are being taken to avoid the death of Ukrainian citizens, concluded Shoigú.

Flight restriction extended at Russian airports

The Russian Federal Air Transport Agency (Rosaviatsia) reported that the flight restriction regime at 11 airports in southern and central Russia is being extended.

In a statement published this Tuesday on the website of the Russian Ministry of Transport, it is added that the limitation extends until next November 9.

Flights to Anapa, Belgorod, Briansk, Voronezh, Gelendzhik, Krasnodar, Kursk, Lipetsk, Rostov-on-Don, Simferopol and Elista airports are temporarily restricted.

Russia has closed part of its airspace in the south and center of the country to civil aircraft from February 24, 2022, in the context of the special military operation in Ukraine.

(With information from RT and Prensa Latina)

In a report published on the site Scidev.net, a city-based specialized in bringing science to development through news and analysis, the authors highlight how this strategy of vaccination with safe and effective immunogens could face situations of this type in environments with resource-poor, low-income countries, and in the developing world.

At the same time, they demand the reduction of the barriers that block global access to biotechnological innovations from that country.

Last June, the team of US researchers, together with colleagues from Africa and the Caribbean, made an official visit to Cuba, the first high-level visit in five years, to exchange with colleagues from the island on the production of vaccines against covid-19 from the country.

The delegation was led by co-chair Michael Osterholm, PhD, MPH, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota.

Along with the scientist came Cristina Rabadán-Diehl, PharmD, PhD, MPH, who for 25 years led international work at the National Institutes of Health and the US Department of Health and Human Services, before becoming Director Westat Clinical Trials Associate.

For Osterholm, what he learned about Cuba’s extraordinary work with the covid-19 vaccine made it clear that it can be an important actor in increasing global access to life-saving advances.

He considered that although the policies are complex, “they must face the barriers that prevent their impressive group of scientists and public health experts from doing it.”

The report further explains that the purpose of the fact-finding mission was threefold: first, to learn how and why a small country of some 11 million people, and facing considerable economic hardship, had developed, manufactured, and deployed its own vaccines, It was shown to be more than 95% effective in preventing disease, severity, and death.

Second, understand the launch of the vaccine in Cuba, strategy and preliminary results and third, explore Cuba’s approach to science in the context of public health.

The vaccine development effort and the immunization model could reveal opportunities to reduce global inequalities in access to vaccines and other health innovations, the scientists insist in their study.

They also highlight that the delegation was aware of predictions that the world is dangerously close to the next pandemic, with cross-zoonotic infections, which already account for 75% of emerging infectious diseases, on the rise amid climate change.

They were also alarmed by the unequal access to vaccines that has prolonged the pandemic so far, and how it highlights a broader failure in the current surge in biomedical innovation to reach billions of people in low- and low-middle-income countries.

The visit to Havana was organized by Medicc (Medical Education Cooperation with Cuba), a US-based non-profit organization that promotes health-related dialogue and collaboration.

Since 1997, Medicc has facilitated exchanges between Cuban and US health professionals, academics, policymakers, foundations, students, and leaders of medically underserved communities.

(With information from PL)

Malmierca highlighted that the event, to be held from November 14 to 18 at the Expocuba fairgrounds, will be attended by top-level delegations chaired by ministers and high-ranking government officials.

Similarly, the headline highlighted the presence of representatives of some 30 chambers of commerce of nations with which Cuba has commercial ties, as well as hundreds of companies from the five continents.

The minister explained that together with usual nations such as Spain, Italy, Russia, China, France, Mexico, Brazil and Venezuela, a high-level delegation from the United Arab Emirates will arrive at the event for the first time.

This confirms that despite the blockade of the United States, the economic difficulties that our country is facing and the situation of international economic crisis derived from the Covid-19 pandemic, the world trusts the Cuban market, Malmierca emphasized.

Likewise, as part of the official program of the event, the minister highlighted the materialization of the V Business Forum dedicated to foreign investment issues.

We are going to announce the updating of the portfolio of business opportunities with foreign capital, he stressed.

Fihav 2022 will also develop panels aimed at offering details about the Mariel Special Development Zone and the benefits of the single window for foreign investment, he said.
The minister explained that the event’s agenda will host exchanges with business production centers and agencies and will place special emphasis on foreign investment opportunities for Cubans residing abroad.

Our expectations are that FIHAV 2022 contributes to the insertion of the national economy in the international context, and promotes direct business between Cuban and foreign companies, Malmierca said.

For his part, the president of the Cuban Chamber of Commerce, Antonio Luis Carricarte, said that the island has 189 participants registered for the event with the presence, for the first time, of micro, small and medium-sized companies and cooperatives linked in some way. way to external activity.

Priority sectors of economic activity will be present, such as food, agriculture, light industry, health linked to the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry, education, transportation and renewable energy, Carricarte emphasized.

Meanwhile, the general director of the Palco Business Group, Eduardo Correa, pointed out that since last July the preparation phase for Fihav 2022 began at the Expocuba fairgrounds.

(With information from PL)