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Cuba votes in referendum its new Family Code

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This September 25, Cuba submits the new Family Code to a popular referendum, a step that will decide on the entry into force of this important legislation. From seven in the morning, the more than 24,000 polling stations in the country will open their doors in a civic and democratic process that constitutes an unprecedented event: never before has a law been submitted to the will of the people, who will have the last word (Yes or No), which as simple as it may seem, has great significance for the present and future of the nation.

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Cuban President votes in a referendum on the Family Code

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The President of the Republic of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, and his wife Lis Cuesta arrived at 7:48 in the morning at school 3 of constituency 57, in the municipality of Playa, where they exercised their right to vote in the popular referendum. of the Family Code. At the end of the process, he told the press that it is going to be an intense day, which we arrived at as a result of a process that had to do with the construction of a fair, necessary, up-to-date, modern regulation that gives rights and guarantees to all people and diversities of families and creeds.

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The truth and example of Cuba will prevail

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The more resolutely the Cuban people demonstrate their refusal to retreat in the face of hostility and the tightening of the blockade, our enemies’ campaigns grow increasingly more crude and shameless. They now presume to attack Cuba raising banners, incredibly, in defense of the poorest members of the population, in particular Blacks and those of mixed race. Today the Revolution continues to be, as Fidel said on April 16, 1961, on the eve of the Playa Girón invasion (on the Bay of Pigs).

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Díaz-Canel: A better world is possible, and urgently necessary! Let us struggle for it!

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Speech by Miguel M. Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, President of the Republic of Cuba, at the closing of the Anti-Imperialist Solidarity Conference, For Democracy and Against Neoliberalism, at Havana’s Convention Center, November 3, 2019

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Anti-imperialist unity key to victory

Conferencia

- With the presence of Army General Raúl Castro Ruz, first secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba Central Committee; President of the Republic, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez; President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela Nicolás Maduro Moros; Second party Secretary José ramón Machado ventura; and Eseban Lazo, president of the National Assembly of People’s Power and the Council of State, Anti-Imperialist Solidarity Conference, For Democracy and Against Neoliberalism concluded yesterday, November 3, in Havana.

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International community condemns hostile U.S. policy toward Cuba

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The world condemns the blockade against Cuba while the United Nations ignores so many years of voting whose vast majority is against

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Cuba vs blockade

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The significant negative impact of measures recently adopted by the U.S. to tighten the blockade is not reflected in the following account, since this escalation occurred after the time period analyzed. HEALTH The damage caused by sanctions on Cuba in the field of health is unquestionable. This hostile policy obstructs the acquisition of technology, raw materials, reagents, diagnostic tools, equipment and spare parts, as well as medicines for the treatment of serious diseases like cancer- Between April 2018 and March 2019, damages in this sector amounted to $104,148,178, a figure that far exceeds last year’s estimate of $6,123,498.

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Díaz-Canel reviews response to energy contingency in Sancti Spíritus

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Measures adopted in Sancti Spíritus to respond to the national energy contingency, with fuel shortages impacting the economy, were evaluated this morning during a working meeting chaired by Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, President of the Councils of State and of Ministers.

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Cuba calls Anti-imperialist Solidarity Conference for Democracy and against Neoliberalism

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To discuss the needed articulation of movements, organizations and groups focused on the struggle against imperialism, the Cuban Social Movement Coalition has called an Anti-imperialist Solidarity Conference for Democracy and against Neoliberalism, November 1-3, in Havana’s International Conference Center.

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Why Cuba needs a new electoral law

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What will the approval of a new electoral law mean for Cuba? What reforms will it include? What positive experience of previous electoral processes will be considered? What challenges will its implementation pose?