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Statements by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Cuba, Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla

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This attack against the Cuban embassy in the United States has in any case been encouraged by the increasingly hostile rhetoric against our country that has both publicly and systematically involved the US Secretary of State as well as high officials of that Department in charge of relations with the Western Hemisphere, and even the US embassy in Havana. Statements by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Cuba, Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla.

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Cuba awaits information regarding firearm attack on our embassy in Washington

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During the dawn hours today, April 30, 2020, an unknown individual fired a gun into the Cuban Embassy in the United States. The official website of the Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs reported that no staff members suffered injury, as all were safely protected, although the building was damaged. The Cuban government has no information about the individual involved, who was detained by local authorities at the scene and is in custody, the Ministry indicated.

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Some 20 measures to stimulate Cuba’s birth rate being studied

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The President of the Republic of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, led a meeting to analyze the country’s demographic dynamics and implementation of a series of measures to address the important questions of declining population, low fertility levels and increased aging. According to the President’s website, Díaz-Canel emphasized the importance of working intelligently and intensively on the issue, with appropriate monitoring, to ensure more births and avoid further reduction of the population.

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Epidemic could peak in Cuba next week

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Raúl Guinovart Díaz, dean of the University of Havana’s Mathematics Department, states, “The forecast now indicates that approximately next week we will reach the peak, ahead of the international average. This is a reserved prognosis that will depend on the evolution of the disease over the next few days.” Any relaxing of social distancing measures could, however, reverse the current pattern, he noted, saying “The epidemic is vulnerable to the actions we take, but this depends on social behavior and government measures

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Another life-saving brigade travels to South Africa

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A brigade of 217 Cuban health professionals has arrived in South Africa to support the battle against COVID-19 in that country, bringing to 22 the total number of “medical embassies” that have traveled abroad to help save lives. A total of more than 1,450 men and women in white lab coats from the Henry Reeve Contingent have traveled to 22 nations in Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, Africa and the Middle East to confront the pandemic.

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Gaining time in the COVID-19 battle

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Since the first cases of COVID-19 were confirmed on the island at the beginning of March, the Cuban government has prioritized the daily battle against the pandemic and holds daily meetings to review the situation and make key decisions. This Thursday’s meeting at the Palace of the Revolution was marked by three important discussions related to the COVID-19 battle, one with Public Health experts, another with scientists from various sectors, and finally with the government task force created to lead the country’s efforts to combat the new coronavirus.

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A new era in world history

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On the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the birth of Vladimir Ilich Lenin, Granma shares several quotes from the Russian revolutionary’s seminal works: We have created a Soviet type of state and by that we have ushered in a new era in world history, the era of the political rule of the proletariat, which is to supersede the era of bourgeois rule. (Notes of a Publicist). Without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement .

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Another gesture added to Cuba’s history of solidarity

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With the arrival of 20 health professionals from the Henry Reeve International Contingent of Doctors Specialized in Disaster Situations and Serious Epidemics to Honduras on April 19, the internationalist tradition of our island with the Central American country was reinforced. In a tweet, Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla described the event as “a new gesture of solidarity from Cuba at a time when a global effort is needed to curb the pandemic.”

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Only socialism will save humanity

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On the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, in a message to the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba reiterated its unity with “all revolutionaries of the world” in reverently honoring the memory of the leader of the legendary October socialist revolution in Russia. The text begins the fraternal greeting with the words of Comandante en Jefe Fidel Castro Ruz: “It must be said that Lenin’s thought has had a great influence on the Cuban revolutionary process.

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Solidarity and love for one’s neighbors defeat the blockade’s barriers

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The United States has not been able to control COVID-19. The Donald Trump administration did not react in time, played down the reality, and as a result more than 34,000 people have died. Yet the government finds time to attack Cuba.

The U.S. blockade of Cuba, the longest in history anywhere, has been maintained and tightened to limit the Cuban health system’s access to essential inputs to confront the deadly SARS CoV-2. Nonetheless, medical education on the island has overcome the barriers that have been erected by successive U.S. administrations, and which Trump has set out to reinforce.