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Who’s behind the anti-Cuban show in San Isidro?

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Since the end of the 19th century, the San Isidro neighborhood in Old Havana was considered a “tolerance zone,” until 1959, when life changed with the triumph of the Revolution. It was a neighborhood of humble people, harassed by the presence of Yankee Marines who came ashore in search of fun and cheap sex. Once the butt of jokes, San Isidro now has 14 family doctors’ offices, a traditional medicine clinic, a veterinary clinic, three child care centers, a kindergarten and four schools.

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The U.S. government is solely responsible for ending remittances to Cuba via Western Union

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Lies, manipulation, coercion and the use of force have been among the principal tools of U.S. policy toward Cuba for more than 60 years. Ending what the world and Cubans, inside and beyond the Island, understand as “the Revolution,” is essential to achieving their objectives. In the most recent escalation of this hostility – which began more than six decades ago and has been reinforced by the current administration.

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New horizons for science and innovation

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Armando Rodríguez Batista, Deputy Minister of Science, Technology and Environment (Citma), explained to Granma that these norms were the first of a much more comprehensive legal package which continues to be presented (Decree 2/2020 on Advanced Technology Enterprises, Decree Law 7/2020 and its complementary provisions), to guide implementation of policies to perfect Cuba’s science, technology and innovation system, approved by the Council of Ministers in October of 2018.

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Clinical trials of Mambisa and Abdala candidate vaccines approved

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After a careful review of the information presented, including evidence from pharmaceutical development and studies in animals, the Center for the State Control of Drugs, Equipment and Medical Devices (Cecmed), authorized the clinical trials of two new Cuban candidate vaccines to prevent COVID-19, given the names of Mambisa (CIGB-669) and Abdala (CIGB-66). Trials of the first, created by researchers at the Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology Center (CIGB), affiliated with the BioCubaFarma Enterprise Group

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Party Political Bureau analyzes key issues in the economic and social life of the country

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Yesterday morning, November 24, the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of Cuba Central Committee met, chaired by its first secretary, Army General Raúl Castro Ruz. The meeting began with a minute of silence in honor of Vice Admiral Julio César Gandarilla Bermejo.

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Intensive care in Cuba

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Intensive care medicine in the world has been characterized, since its inception, by the ability to identify and dynamically address clinical situations involving patients in serious and critical condition, in which physiological instability predominates, and small changes can lead to rapid.

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Humanism, anti-imperialism and anti-neoliberalism: Youth taking Fidel’s path

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The legacy of the humanist, anti-imperialist and anti-neoliberal ideas of Comandante en Jefe Fidel Castro Ruz, will be present today, and tomorrow November 26, during the International Online Youth Forum “Banner Ideas.”

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Fidel: A necessary presence

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On the fourth anniversary of the Comandante en jefe’s physical disappearance, November 25, his work, example, and words as alive as ever, “We have shown that human beings can and must be better. We demonstrate the value of conscience and ethics. We offer lives.”

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Cuba’s food security in the field

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Over the course of an extensive day of work, combing practically all the principal agricultural poles of the province, Machado Ventura verified, in situ, that the current priority of the population is just that: working without rest to alleviate the situation caused by the intense rains and the delays in planting these generated.

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Cuban Minister of Public Health: Only cooperation and international solidarity can save humanity

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With the moral authority that allows Cuba to practice international collaboration in health care, in the face of the universal dangers that the COVID-19 epidemic has presented, the country’s Minister of Public Health reiterated that only complementary efforts by nations can contribute to overcoming the pandemic.