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Cuba carried out a dynamic test prior to the popular referendum on the new Family Code

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The dynamic test prior to the popular referendum on the new Family Code, to be held on September 25, ended today throughout Cuba. During the exercise, the specialists checked the availability of material and human resources, as well as computer systems and data transmission. The president of the National Electoral Council, Alina Balseiro, explained that the electoral steps taken are very important, both the dynamic test and the vote abroad, planned as established in the program.

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Cuban Vice President visits the burning chapel of Isabel II

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The Vice President of Cuba, Salvador Valdés, visited this Sunday the funeral chapel of Elizabeth II in the Palace of Westminster, to pay tribute to the British monarch who died on September 8 at the age of 96. Valdés, who heads the Cuban delegation to the sovereign’s funeral, also signed the book of condolences opened by the UK Foreign Ministry at Lancaster House, a diplomatic source reported. The vice president of the Caribbean island will also attend the reception that the new King Carlos III will offer this Sunday.

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Referendum held on the Family Code for Cubans abroad

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This Sunday, September 18, the referendum began on the new Family Code for Cubans who are abroad in state missions, who will be able to exercise their right in more than a thousand authorized schools in different cities of the world. The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Cuba, Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, voted in the referendum for the new Family Code, according to what the diplomat reported. The foreign minister exercised his right at the electoral college located at the headquarters of the Cuban mission to the United Nations, in New York.

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Havana prepared for the dynamic test of the Popular Referendum of the new Family Code

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Havana is ready for the dynamic test that this Sunday will put into practice the electoral system with a view to the popular referendum of the new Family Code, Maydelis Dupuy Zapata, president of the Provincial Electoral Council, assured today. Exclusively to the Cuban News Agency, the official explained that the territory’s 3,891 polling stations will open this Sunday and the conditions for this process will be verified, although the voting rehearsal and data processing will be carried out in 4,000 chosen polling stations. .

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To remove Cuba from the black list

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Negotiations between the FARC-EP and the Colombian government stretched over four years to end the five-decade war. Fortunately, Cuba did not pay attention to President Duque, respected the protocols that he had promised to enforce and did not extradite the members of the ELN commission who have been in Havana since 2017, when Ecuador resigned from hosting the talks. of peace with the guerrillas, and the Santos government asked the Cuban government to agree to become the venue for those talks.

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Cuba is getting ready for a small but more efficient harvest

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In mid-November, the sugar harvest should begin in Cuba in 23 sugar mills, a lower figure than in the previous contest, which “we must ensure that they are efficient, that they have a level of resources that guarantee stable production,” said the first secretary. of the Central Committee of the Party and President of the Republic, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, during a meeting that evaluated the preparations for the 2022-2023 sugar harvest.

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Business Guide groups more than 370 thousand Cuban economic actors

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Some 370,000 economic actors are grouped in the Cuban Business Guide (www. Negocioscuba.cu), a directory that integrates all forms of management in the country, the result of an alliance between the National Association of Economists and Accountants of Cuba (ANEC), the Cuban Telecommunications Company (Etecsa) and the mipyme Dofleini S.R.L.
The platform has among its novelties the unique national classifier for all forms of economic management.

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Body of missing underwater fisherman found in Matanzas

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The Civil Defense in the province of Matanzas confirmed the rescue of the body of Hensley Boza, 19 years old and a resident of the provincial capital, after he perished near the coast of the bay while practicing underwater fishing. Lieutenant Colonel William González Hernández, head of the Civil Defense in Matanzas, explained to TV Yumurí that around one in the afternoon last Monday, the young man along with his girlfriend was near the coast where they practiced underwater fishing.

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MINSAP reports on the second case of Monkeypox in the country

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Informamos a nuestra población que hoy se confirmó el segundo caso de Viruela Símica diagnosticado en el territorio nacional, el cual no guarda relación con el caso anterior. Se trata de un ciudadano cubano, residente en Estados Unidos, de 60 años de edad, masculino, que arriba a Cuba el día 26 de agosto de 2022 por el aeropuerto internacional José Martí de La Habana, procedente de Miami, Estados Unidos. Durante el Control Sanitario Internacional en frontera no declaró problema de salud.

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Officers and workers who contributed to the extinction of the fire at the Matanzas supertanker base are decorated

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With the presence of the first secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba and president of the Republic, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, the award ceremony was held this Wednesday for those who, at the risk of their own lives, contributed significantly to extinguishing the fire of large proportions occurred at the beginning of the month at the super tanker base in Matanzas. In the ceremony held in the Laguito Protocol Hall, in Havana, the work of officers and workers from the Ministry of the Interior and the Revolutionary Armed Forces.