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An annual review of work carried out in 2019 by Cuba’s 13 social missions in Venezuela

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A bilateral decision has been made to seek alternatives to overcome the empire’s attacks in sensitive areas, including efforts to revitalize the Barrio Adentro community health and sports missions; strengthen the Diabetes Patient Care Program, which currently has a presence in all 24 states; prepare 48 new Bolivarian apiary cores; reduce the illiteracy rate to 2% through Mission Robinson; and contribute to food self-sufficiency and the promotion of a new agro-productive culture with an impact in the country’s 24 states.

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Trump puts Cuban doctors in firing line as heat turned up on island economy

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A Cuban medical programme that has helped some of the world’s poorest communities has become the latest target of the Trump administration’s escalating attempts to pressure Havana’s faltering economy. Dubbed “Cuban doctors”, the celebrated – if controversial – humanitarian medical mission was founded more than half a century ago in the aftermath of Fidel Castro’s revolution, in part to enhance the country’s international influence.

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Our diplomacy will continue to be one of Homeland or Death!

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Cuban Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez presided an annual review at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Minrex), yesterday, and recognized the hard work done during a year which saw the brutal intensification of the U.S. blockade and the strengthening of Cuba’s relations with the world. Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla stated on his twitter account that, during the meeting, “The complex panorama faced by Cuban foreign policy in 2019 was analyzed. A year marked by U.S. hostility.”

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Russia and Cuba sign largest contract in recent history and Putin accepts Diaz-Canel’s invitation to visit Cuba

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Russian President Vladimir Putin accepted the invitation of his Cuban counterpart Miguel Diaz-Canel to visit our country, Russian Ambassador to Havana Andrei Guskov told Sputnik. The date for the trip “will be studied in terms of the head of state’s agenda, along with other high-level bilateral contacts,” Guskov added. During his trip to Russia last October, Díaz-Canel invited the Russian President to visit Cuba. Putin stated that he would surely take advantage of the invitation.

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USAID thieves in Latin America

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The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has supplied, since 2017, over 467 million dollars to the Venezuelan opposition for what they falsely call “humanitarian aid,” as acknowledged on the agency’s website. The organization, founded by John F. Kennedy, in 1961, with the stated purpose of providing non-military aid outside U.S. territory, has a long record of intervening in the sovereignty of the nations that do adhere to the foreign policy of domination practiced by the United States.

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Caricom denounces tightening of U.S. blockade of Cuba

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Government leaders of Caribbean Community (Caricom) member countries concluded the 31st Inter-session meeting yesterday, and reiterated their concern given the U.S. government’s intensification of sanctions and activation of the Helms-Burton Act’s Title III, to tighten the economic, commercial and financial blockade of Cuba, and denounced as “unjustifiable the application of laws and measures of an extraterritorial nature contrary to international law”.

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The United States government’s genocide targets the people of Cuba

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During the closure of the National Assembly’s fourth period of ordinary sessions, December 21, President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez said: “In the 61st year of the Revolution they threw us to our deaths and here we are, alive. Without a doubt, 2019 was a year of great challenges, with an escalated imperialist offensive meant to provoke the economic collapse of the nation. Every Cuban must understand these realities, and be able to identify our historical enemy.

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Caribbean community condemns US blockade against Cuba

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The Heads of Government of member states of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) described in Barbados the tightening of the US blockade against Cuba as unjustifiable. During conclusions of a meeting, Caribbean leaders reiterated their concern over the sanctions announced by the US administration under Title III of Helms-Burton Act, which tightens the economic, commercial and financial blockade towards Cuba.

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Diaz-Canel receives Panamanian political leader

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Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, yesterday afternoon received Pedro Miguel González Pinzón, secretary general of the Democratic Revolutionary Party of Panama (PRD), who is visiting our country on the invitation of the Communist Party of Cuba Central Committee. n a fraternal atmosphere, they discussed the historical relations of sisterhood shared by the two nations and highlighted the decisive contribution to these ties of Comandante en jefe Fidel Castro Ruz and General Omar Torrijos Herrera.

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Army General Raúl Castro Ruz honored for contributions to urban, suburban, and family agriculture

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Prime Minister Manuel Marrero noted that the country’s Urban, Suburban, and Family Agriculture program has become a popular movement, ready to do much more to increase municipal food supplies and develop local self-sufficiency. m A plaque recognizing Army General Raul Castro Ruz for his contributions to the Urban, Suburban and Family Farming Program, since its creation, was accepted by Cuban Prime Minister Manuel Marrero Cruz, during a national meeting here of participants in the movement, to assess progress being made.