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President Raúl Castro receives Evo Morales

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On the afternoon of Friday, May 20, the President of Cuba’s Councils of State and Ministers, Army General Raúl Castro, received Bolivian President, Evo Morales, on an official visit to the country. Among members of the Bolivian delegation accompanying Morales were the country’s Foreign Minister, David Choquehuanca and Ambassador to Cuba, Palmiro Soria.

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Cuba-Africa collaboration: A bridge between sister nations

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Cuba is renowned for its worldwide collaboration efforts, due among other reasons, to the readiness of Cuban doctors to go wherever they are needed, including remote areas or in response to natural disasters or epidemics.

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Bolivian President Evo Morales to visit Cuba

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Compañero Evo Morales Ayma, President of the President of the Plurinational State of Bolivia, will arrive in Cuba on an official visit. During his stay, the Bolivian President will hold official talks with Army General Raúl Castro Ruz, President of the Councils of State and Ministers, and undertake other activities.

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President Maduro condemns attacks against Venezuela

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Venezuela is currently experiencing the fiercest media and political onslaught of the last ten years, President Nicolás Maduro warned this Tuesday, May 17, during a press conference in the Salón Ayacucho of the Miraflores Palace, Caracas, which was live streamed to the country’s embassies and consulates across the world.

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The world must hear the truth about Venezuela

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Venezuela’s ambassador in Cuba, Alí Rodríguez Araque, spoke to the press at the embassy in Havana emphasizing that there are two very distinct explanations of what is happening in this country being disseminated by the press: a media campaign to destabilize the country, and another seeking to get the truth about what is happening to the world.

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Cuba and Italy strengthen cooperation

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Italy has been one of the trading partners that has historically valued the Cuban market. With this spirit of exchange and expectations set on further cooperation and development, a business forum was recently held (May 10-12) in Havana’s Hotel Nacional, seeking closer ties between Cuban enterprises and businesses from the Mediterranean country.

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Declaration from Cuba’s Revolutionary Government

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What has occurred in Brazil is part of the reactionary counter-offensive launched by imperialism and the oligarchy against revolutionary and progressive governments in Latin America and the Caribbean, which threatens the peace and stability of nations, violating the spirit and letter of the Proclamation of Latin America and the Caribbean as a Zone of Peace, signed by the region’s heads of state and government during the 2nd CELAC Summit, held in January of 2014 in Havana.

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Blockade must end if Cuba-U.S. relations are to advance

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While Cuba and the United States have made important progress over the last 17 months, economic and commercial relations continue to be hampered by the blockade which remains in full force despite modifications, the Ministry of Foreign Relations (Minrex) reported yesterday, May 12, in a press conference.

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Barack Obama comes to the land of Martí and Fidel

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The President of the United States, Barack Obama, lands at José Martí International Airport at 16:19 local time on a cloudy and rainy afternoon in Havana city, after two and a half hours flying time from Washington.

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Inaugural Cuba-U.S. direct postal service flight arrives

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Cuba and the U.S. officially resumed direct postal services with the arrival of an inaugural flight from the U.S. city of Miami to Havana’s José Martí International Airport on March 16