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Eurasian Economic Union analyzes Cuba’s observer status

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The Eurasian Economic Union (EU) analyzed on Friday Cuba’s status as an observer State, during a meeting by videoconference in which Cuba’s President Miguel Diaz-Canel participated. According to images shown here by the capital’s television, besides Cuba, Uzbekistan also participated at the highest level, another country whose status as an observer was analyzed at the UEE meeting.

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Cuba’s Minister deems vital monetary overhaul to boost development

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Cuba’s Minister of Economy Alejandro Gil affirmed on Friday that the monetary overhaul, with the Cuban peso as the only national currency, is an indispensable measure to boost the country’s development. We are entering a period of deep and necessary transformations, for all’s sake, Gil tweeted referring to the implementation of the monetary and exchange rate unification that will come into force on January 1, 2021.

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Cuba will start currency unification as of Jan 1st

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Cuba will start dismantling its current two-teer monetary system as of January 1st, leaving the traditional peso (CUP) as the only official currency of the land at an initial exchange rate of 24 to 1 US dollar. President Miguel Diaz-Canel made the announcement last night at a special message to the nation in a radio-television hookup.It is the first measure formally announced as part of broader plan to overhaul the economy.

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Monetary and exchange rate regulation in Cuba begins on January 1: The exchange rate will be 24 Cuban pesos to one dollar

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With the presence of Army General Raúl Castro Ruz, first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba; The President of Republic of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez reported that the monetary and exchange rate regulation process will begin on January 1, with a rate exchange of 24 Cuban pesos for one dollar. “The corresponding elaborations and analysis have been concluded, as well as all the necessary legal norms, so it is considered that the conditions are created to announce the start of the regulation process as of January 1,”

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Statement by Miguel Mario Díaz-Canel Bermúdez at the thirty first Special Session of the United Nations General Assembly

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Statement by Miguel Mario Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, President of the Republic of Cuba at the thirty first Special Session of the United Nations General Assembly in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. “I would like to thank the Republic of Azerbaijan, the current president of the Non-Aligned Movement, for the initiative to convene this Special Session of the General Assembly”

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Machado Ventura emphasizes the role of Party schools in strengthening revolutionary ideology

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The call for the 8th Congress of the Communist Party of Cuba was announced today, December 2, during a commemoration of the 64th anniversary of the Revolutionary Armed Forces and the 60th of the Party school system, with Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermúdez on hand.

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San Isidro: The latest episode of the imperial reality show

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Donald Trump is leaving. But some Cubans, who arouse only shame in others, are claiming him as their president. “Trump 2020,” they shout. As President, he’s done almost everything to choke the people of Cuba, and now he has the cynicism to say that this is to help them. When he blocked, delayed, or increased the cost of the arrival of petroleum shipments, when he blocked commerce and transfers of funds to the country, he said sarcastically that they don’t know how to manage their economy.

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The Granma, breaking through the fog

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Neither the bad weather, the rough seas, or the overloading of a yacht in no way suited to make the crossing from Mexico to Cuba, could daunt the 82 expeditionaries committed to being “free or martyrs,” as the Granma broke through the fog, in the words of poet Luis Rogelio Nogueras. December 2, 1956, at a point on the southern coast of eastern Cuba known as Los Cayuelos, the men under Fidel’s leadership disembarked, intent upon honoring the blood spilled in the name of independence before them.

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“Those who designed the San Isidro farce were in the wrong country.”

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“Those who designed the San Isidro farce were in the wrong country; they got the history wrong; and the armed forces wrong. We do not tolerate interference, provocation or manipulation. Our people have all the courage and the moral authority needed to sustain a fight for the heart of Cuba.” With this statement on Twitter, President of the Republic Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez made clear the nation’s position regarding the latest political provocation financed by the United States government.

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The defense of the socialist homeland is an honor, a duty and a right

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What law has greater authority than the one that grants legitimacy, written and approved by the vote of the overwhelming majority of the people, who enact it themselves, for their own wellbeing, to define the present and protect the future of their children?
What opinion can refute the arguments set forth in the Constitution of the Republic, or annul the rights established for its citizens.