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President Diaz-Canel assesses situation in central Cuba

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Cuba President Miguel Diaz-Canel is holding a working meeting in central Villa Clara on Monday to assess the region’s recovery from the fresh Covid-19 outbreak. Diaz-Canel is also verifying the implementation of health measures, the development of food production and the achievements in the execution of the Monetary Overhaul that started on January 1, 2021.

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Cuba condemns interference in Russia’s internal affairs

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Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez on Monday condemned Western countries’ interference in Russia’s internal affairs and reaffirmed his solidarity with Russian authorities. Russia denounced the provocation orchestrated by the West, particularly the United States, after supporting protests organized by followers of opposition blogger Alexei Navalni, prosecuted in two court cases, in several cities of the country.

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Cuba readies 100 million doses of anti-COVID vaccine

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The general director of the Finlay Vaccine Institute, Vicente Vérez Bencomo, announced, at a press conference with accredited foreign agencies in attendance, that Cuba is creating capacity to produce 100 million doses of the Soberana 02 injectable vaccine against COVID-19. He reiterated that the objective is to satisfy the needs of the country and also those of other nations interested in acquiring the vaccine.

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We are Cuba Viva, the country that insists on resisting and emerging victorious

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The hostile foreign policies of outgoing U.S. President Donald Trump (2017-2021) included an unprecedented number of measures and actions against Cuba. All spheres of our society and the daily lives of citizens suffered the impact of this aggression, further aggravated by the pandemic. During his four years in office, more than 240 measures were adopted, with special emphasis on creating obstacles to sources of hard currency income and disrupting our trade relations.

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Lenin

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On the one hand, what he calls the possessing classes who aspired to remove the Czar and replace him with a bourgeois power, in the style of the Western democracies of the United States and France; on the other, the Bolsheviks, who saw the Revolution as based on the class struggle and insisted on the necessity of the Soviets taking power. Between these two forces, which he describes as extreme, John places the “moderate” socialists, the quotation marks are his, not mine.

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Cuba and China sign mutual visa exemption agreement

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Deputy Foreign Minister Anayansi Rodríguez Camejo of the Republic of Cuba, and the People’s Republic of China’s ambassador in Havana, Chen Xi, signed an agreement between their two governments regarding the mutual exemption of visas for holders of diplomatic, service, official and public affairs passports. The purpose of the new agreement is to continue promoting friendly relations between the nations and facilitating the exchange of visits by their citizens.

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Cultured Cuba, living Cuba

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Cuban intellectual Roberto Fernández Retamar explained long ago, with the insight of a teacher, the usefulness of a poem, song or play for the true man, let’s say human being in all his or her fullness. Although a rifle or dagger can save us from death at the hands of an enemy, another weapon, born of, “manufactured” and enjoyed by the spirit, has saved us from a greater evil, that of an empty soul.

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An old anti-Cuban script with new puppets on stage

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On January 13, Cuban television once again denounced a number of actions that are part of the so-called soft coup strategy the U.S. government is attempting to implement in our country. After having failed for decades in its efforts to destroy the Revolution, the northern neighbor is resorting to new methods in its obsessive fixation on changing the course that Cuba sovereignly chose long ago.

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Vaccines and Sovereignty (III) The Antigen of Cuban Vaccines Against Covid-19

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The development of a vaccine today requires the existence of today’s conditions for this kind of research. It must begin by looking at the scientific literature for antecedents and ways of doing things that can lead to the implementation of more and more exquisite laboratory procedures and rigorous tests. In our case and for the above reasons, a firm base for the research was already established when the COVID 19 emergency arose.

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Raúl and Díaz-Canel meet with Lula

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In a fraternal environment, Cuba’s highest leadership and the President in Honor of the Brazilian Workers Party discussed the historic relations of sisterhood shared by the two peoples and parties. The first secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba Central Committee, Army General Raúl Castro Ruz, and the President of the Republic, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, Tuesday afternoon received the former President of Brazil, compañero Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who is visiting our country