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- El Paso Diary
The El Paso Diary is written by José Pertierra--an attorney who represents the government of Venezuela in its request for the extradition of Luis Posada Carriles. Pertierra´s journals describe the testimony, evidence, legal skirmishes, quirks and follies of this very historic trial that features for the first time the close collaboration of the United States government with Cuban authorities to prosecute an ex CIA agent who is one of the masterminds of the fifty-year old dirty war against Cuba.
Authors
- Bernie Dwyer
- Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla
- Deisy Francis Mexidor
- Fidel Castro Ruz
- José Pertierra
- Raúl Castro Ruz
- Ricardo Alarcón de Quesada
- Amy Goodman
- Arleen Rodríguez Derivet
- Frei Betto
- Hugo Chávez Frías
- Josh R. Nelson
- Juan Gelman
- Luis Rumbaut
- Michael Moore
- Mumia Abu-Jamal
- Noam Chomsky
- Reinaldo Taladrid Herrero
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Articles of Rights
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Cuba votes in referendum its new Family Code
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
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 code that Cuban families deserve
The Family Code will be made available to the people of Cuba for its ratification in a referendum next Sunday, September 25, as was reported in the recently concluded National Assembly of People’s Power in the work session on July 22 last. This is the text that results after the popular consultation stage is completed and responds to the mandate established in the Eleventh Transitory Provision of the Constitution of the Republic of Cuba proclaimed on April 10, 2019, which orders the highest legislative body to order the start of the process that concluded on April 30 and the final step that is yet to come.
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The rights of boys and girls are as sacred the children themselves
The rights of children and adolescents were among the topics which generated the most comments during the popular consultation of the proposed new Families Code, in which more that six million Cubans took part. The protection of children has become an issue that requires increasingly acute consideration. The intention of the draft Code is to reflect the priority Cuba gives to the healthy development of minors and the care of their physical and psychological integrity, within and outside the family environment.
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The social dilemma
A documentary that Netflix premiered last week can now be found on ElPackage , the off-line download service that operates informally in Cuba. The other side of the United States blockade of the island is the circulation, without customs or copyright payments, of all kinds of series, movies, video games and computer programs that are produced within 90 miles of our territory.
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Guantánamo: Resisting an illegal occupation for 120 years
The Guantánamo Naval Base is evidence of U.S. geopolitical and economic interests, riding roughshod over Cuba’s sovereignty and harming the Cuban people. This was noted by historian José Sánchez Guerra, during the “Theoretical Encounter: 120 Years of the Yankee Military Presence in Guantánamo,” held at the University of Medical Sciences of this territory; as part of which professors, social science researchers and university students
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53% of scientists in Cuba are women
Some 86,426 individuals work in Cuba’s science sector, 53% of whom are women, according to the President of the Cuban Academy of Sciences (ACC) Dr. Luis C. Velázquez Pérez speaking during the First International Science and Education Congress taking place in the Havana International Conference Center.
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Regional meeting on women to be held in Havana
Forty years after the first Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean, hosted by Cuba, the forthcoming Fifty-Sixth Meeting of the Presiding Officers of the Conference will be held October 5-6, in Havana.
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Vilma Espín honored on International Women’s Day
The tribute to the heroine of the guerilla and underground struggles took place at the site where her ashes rest in the monumental mausoleum to the heroes and martyrs of the Frank País García Second Eastern Front, founded by Comandante Raúl Castro Ruz, where she joined the armed struggle and fought until the Revolution triumphed in 1959.
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Gratitude and recognition for Cuban women
“The first words, the first thoughts, the greatest tribute to him, Comandante of all battles,” stated Teresa Amarelle, secretary general of the Federation of Cuban Women (FMC) in her inaugural words at the main national event for International Women’s Day, held in the Ñico López museum and park – formerly the Carlos Manuel de Céspedes barracks – of this eastern city. She emphasized this tribute to Fidel, noting that among his battles, the fight for equal rights and opportunities for women was a permanent cause.