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French President Meets Cuban Foreign Minister

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French President François Hollande met today with Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez, who is on an official visit to this country.

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Cuban First Vice President Welcomes New York Governor

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Cuban First Vice President Miguel Diaz-Canel welcomed today the Governor of New York, Andrew Cuomo, who is heading a New Yorker trade delegation that is visiting this country.

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Cuba Readies for Partial Election Runoff

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The National Electoral Commission (CEN) is preparing since today for the partial election runoff in Cuba, to elect the delegates to the Municipal Assemblies of the People”s Power.
During the first round, held on Sunday, April 19, about 11,425 delegates were elected and some 1,164 should be chosen on April 26 in runoff, CEN president Alina Balseiro stated.

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Message of the Secretary-General for 2015

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The word ‘mother’ holds great power. It evokes memories of the women who gave us life, nurtured us as infants and helped mould us into who we are today. The Earth is the ultimate mother – an astounding planet that has, since time immemorial, supported life in myriad forms. As humans, we outgrow the need for constant maternal care. But we can never outgrow our reliance on Mother Earth. As long as we live, we need air, water, fertile soil and the countless other gifts this planet bestows.

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Argentina President Travels to Russia

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President of Argentina Cristina Fernandez is travelling today to Russia with a portfolio full of issues to discuss in business, politics, joint production, energy, industry and culture. An official communiqué issued by the Argentine Government said that the visit of Fernandez to Russia is seeking to strengthen the bilateral alliance described by the two sides as strategic.

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Cuban Election Process Marked by Broad Participation

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Cuba held partial elections, described as satisfactory and positive, and characterized by the broad participation of voters. More than 7,700,000 citizens voted to elect the delegates to the Municipal Assemblies of the People’s Power in 24,646 polling stations opened yesterday.

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ABC invents bomb threat in a Cuban plane, remove this news and makes a mockery to all media that reproduce that

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We can read in various digital sites including eleconomista.es (1) and in the Qué dailyt (2), that a Cubana de Aviacion flight that connected Madrid- Havana was canceled this past Saturday cause of a bomb threat . The news also toured social networks Twitter and Facebook, being a leit motive of alarmist comments on the websites from the ” anti-Castro” extreme right-wing

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Press near to Spanish Government acknowledges that it blackmails Cuba with the ETA theme in dialogue with the US

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For years, the “anti-terrorist” harder message against the Basque organization ETA was a factor in attracting votes for the right-wing Spanish Popular Party, now in government (1). In marked decline in the polls for the upcoming elections (2), this party is now trying to resurrect the ghost of ETA, although it ceased its armed activity over three years ago

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Sean Penn and Andy Garcia opine about Cuba: can you imagine which one is interviewed by all major Spanish newspapers?

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Sean Penn , who promotes his film “The Gunman” (1) , assuring in an US media that the so-called “trade embargo (from US against Cuba) is a lock in practice” and qualified as an “archaic” measure. He also highlighted “the positive consequences of the Cuban Revolution , as literacy”; and considered that a hypothetical normalization of relations between the two countries not only “bring exciting changes to the Island”, but Cuba “will also enrich culturally to US”

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UNASUR Celebrates its Eighth Anniversary

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The Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) begins today the celebrations to mark the eighth anniversary of this bloc, which focuses on political, social, economic and environmental integration of the region. UNASUR said that the agenda of activities will be carried out today and tomorrow at the headquarters of the bloc, located at the Half of the World, in northern Quito.