O Centro de Controle Estatal de Medicamentos, Equipamentos e Dispositivos Médicos (Cecmed), autorizou o início da fase III dos testes clínicos da vacina candidata Soberana 02, após rigorosa análise da documentação apresentada pelo Instituto Finlay de Vacinas.

Anteriormente, o presidente da República de Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, publicou na quarta-feira, 3 de março, em sua conta no Twitter, que a fase III dos testes clínicos da Soberana 02 e Abdala começará em breve, em Havana, Santiago de Cuba e Guantánamo, com mais de 85 mil voluntários; e também a fase II da Soberana 01 em Cienfuegos. «A esperança vem, mas não vamos esquecer a responsabilidade», disse.

O presidente também destacou «outro marco em nossa ciência: a Soberana 01A, uma nova vacina candidata (a quinta em Cuba) para convalescentes da Covid-19. A ciência cubana continua fornecendo boas noticias».

Tais resultados nos lembram que a história da Revolução é um ciclo contínuo, pontuado por momentos épicos que, embora partam de um contexto de época, servem para definir tanto a consistência desse processo social quanto o de seu povo, ator fundamental de todas as conquistas.

As epopeias nacionais, desde 1959, têm a auréola das grandes causas coletivas, nas quais a decisão de uma sociedade se une ao espírito de seu tempo e à fé em uma causa. Nós, cubanos, participamos de vários destes que coloriram nossa história com os pigmentos verdes da esperança, porque nenhum povo que as encenou deve amputar suas certezas do amanhã.

Intervimos e vencemos na Campanha de Alfabetização, na limpeza de bandidos no Escambray, na agressão bélica imperialista de Playa Girón, nos planos de institucionalização, nos conflitos produtivos, na industrialização das províncias, na batalha pela volta do menino Elián González …

Cuba, em breve, abraçará uma nova epopéia, talvez a mais marcante que se possa lutar hoje: a imunização de seu povo contra um vírus mortal que tem aterrorizado o mundo.

A pandemia é um dos principais desafios desta época, junto com o aquecimento global, o perigo de uma explosão nuclear e a política de predação dos Estados Unidos.

Depois de produzir – graças ao desenvolvimento da biotecnologia – a que constitui a primeira vacina da América Latina contra o vírus SARS-COV-2, segundo a Organização Pan-Americana da Saúde e a Organização das Nações Unidas para o Desenvolvimento Industrial, a Ilha estará no ideal possibilidade de iniciar uma campanha de vacinação que imunize sua população contra a Covid-19.

Após o anúncio do primeiro lote de 150 mil doses da Soberana 02 (dos cem milhões previstos) e a preparação do segundo, foi anunciado o início da produção da vacina candidata Abdala.

O que está acontecendo neste país – em meio a um bloqueio atroz a qualquer entrada financeira – é algo só crível porque se trata de Cuba, de sua Revolução, de seu olho insone para preservar a saúde do povo, obra do esforço de Fidel.

(Tirado de Granma)

The International Relations Commission of the National Assembly of People’s Power has expressed its strongest rejection of the European Parliament’s Common Resolution (2019/2929 RSP), given its interventionist content and disrespect for Cuban sovereignty, with absolute ignorance of our reality.

Cuban legislators commented on the text, approved by a 56% majority vote, stating, “Unfortunately, such statements respond to the new slander campaign orchestrated by the United States government, as part of its failed policy of hostility and aggression toward Cuba, which has escalated over the last few months, and run up against the Cuban people’s capacity for resistance.”

The International Relations Commission also expressed “deep concern that a group of Euro deputies, who are members of certain political forces within the European Parliament, echoing this campaign with evident political motivations, have lent themselves to orchestrating this anti-Cuban maneuver by promoting such statements in the forum, in open subordination to the imperial desires of the United States and alignment with its aggressive policy toward Cuba.”

This resolution “contradicts the spirit of respectful dialogue that has prevailed in relations between Cuba and the European Union,” the Cuban statement points out and adds: “Following its usual course of action, the United States finances activities that threaten Cuba’s constitutional order, attempting to recruit mercenaries to artificially fabricate the “opposition” they desire, in the absence of legitimate support for their goals of domination. Such is the case with José Daniel Ferrer, whose criminal record has been well documented.

The International Relations Commission stated, “There is plenty of evidence of these actions which the U.S. government would never allow in its own territory, with which it openly violates the bilateral Agreement on the restoration of diplomatic relations between the two countries and disregards the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations and international law. This constitutes clear and unacceptable interference in Cuba’s internal affairs.”

The Cuban deputies reiterate, “Unacceptable resolutions such as this only serve as a basis and support for the attempts of the U.S. government to destroy the noble and generous work of the Cuban Revolution, and to justify its policy of blockade, which constitutes the most serious and flagrant violation of human rights of our entire people.”

And finally, “expresses to the European Parliament the willingness of Cuban legislators to continue maintaining relations with the European Parliament and to continue exchanges with its members on the basis of recognition of our differences and respect for our independence and sovereignty, in accordance with the principles of international law”.

(Granma)

Both options appear explicitly and without modesty, for example, in Spanish newspapers such as “El Pais” and “ABC”, and in notes of agencies such as “Europa Press”.

Each death endorsed to the government ignites, through social networks, hatred and persecution against Chavism. And it makes it easier for the Spanish police, by just one example, to violate the Vienna Convention and collaborate with a Venezuelan ultra-right group in the siege and abduction of more than 100 people in a diplomatic compound in Venezuela in Madrid,with the complicity of the media, of course.

Everything is a construction. A mediatic script that turns reality upside down;because of the 42 people who died between April, 3rd and May16th, the vast majority were killed by opponents. 25 of them, almost a 60%, were Chavez followers or police officers. Two were motorists who died in accidents caused by the placement of barricades. 9 died electrocuted in the looting of a bakery. To date, only 3 deaths have been directly ejecuted by police, and several officials have been arrested for that. Finally, three deaths of young opponents (which is under investigation) were produced with homemade weapons at close range, which points to selective murders of “false flag”.

The media conceal the extreme violence of the protests and the neo-fascist character of many of its participants. Despite this, President Nicolas Maduro has given a strict order that the police, in no case, carry firearms.

The videos of beatings to police or simply to people who recriminated the opposition violence never appear in the international media. Neither, curiously, the lynching of journalists, nor the attack or burning of Chavez followers homes, party headquarters that support the Government and public goods of all kinds, including a Maternal Hospital, medical offices or libraries.

The media silent that the outbreaks of protest is reduced only to a few middle and upper class municipalities in the country, where the mayoralties oppose their local police and even their garbage recollection: in places like Barquisimeto have come to sprinkle the wastes that are then burned in the public highway.There are images of these events that have not interested any international channel.

The media don´t report on Venezuela. Its task is to prepare public opinion to justify -or, at least, to remain immobile-in the case of an international intervention in Venezuela. As in Libya.

To avoid this, an intense and courageous mobilization of preventive solidarity is necessary, as the blatant denunciation of the role of these vulgar propagandists of violence and terror.

(Cubainformación)

During his stay, the Portuguese dignitary will hold official conversations with Army General Raúl Castro Ruz, president of Cuba’s Councils of State and Ministers, in addition to other activities.

(Granma)