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No one can erase Cuba’s loving contribution in Bolivia and Ecuador

Medicos Boplivia

These past few days, doctors lending their services in Bolivia and Ecuador have returned to the homeland, leaving behind their patients, families with few resources, but very grateful to those who treated their ailments, living as neighbors in their communities.

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Varadero aspires to be the world’s best beach resort

Varadero

Varadero begins the high tourist season with additional motivation, aspiring to win recognition as the world’s best beach resort in 2020. To compete for this title, explained Ivis Fernández Peña, Tourism Ministry representative in the province, the peninsula must be declared an environmental resort area, a status already acquired by more than ten facilities in Varadero.

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Havana: Beautiful, sensitive, tenacious

Raul teatro

Army General Raúl Castro Ruz, first secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba; President of the Republic Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, and Party Second Secretary José Ramón Machado Ventura, attended the solemn session of the Havana Provincial Assembly of People’s Power on November 16, in García Lorca Hall of the city’s Alicia Alonso Gran Teatro.To honor the Cuban capital’s five centuries, the Provincial Assembly convened its first extraordinary session, which was also attended by Esteban Lazo Hernández, president of the National Assembly of People’s Power and the Council of State, as well as Vice President of the Republic Salvador Valdés Mesa.

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Raúl meets President of Russian Federation Council

Raul Rusia

The first secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba Central Committee, Army General Raúl Castro Ruz, on November 16 received the president of the Federal Council of the Russian Federation’s Federal Assembly, Valentina Ivanovna Matvienko, who led her country’s delegation to celebrations for the 500th anniversary of Havana.

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Second group of Cuban health professionals working in Bolivia welcomed home

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To the joy of the Cuban people, this group of 207 internationalists included four who were arbitrarily detained in Bolivia: Amparo Lourdes García Buchaca, Electromedicine expert; Idalberto Delgado Baró, economist; Ramón Emilio Álvarez Cepero, specialist in Intensive Care and Endocrinology; and Alexander Torres Enriquez, Comprehensive General Medicine specialist.

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Who loses when cultural ties are severed?

Cuba orquesta

If at first I felt a mixture of indignation and stupor when reading the memorandum signed this week by U.S. President Donald Trump, drastically restricting the participation of federal entities in educational and cultural exchange programs with Cuba and three other countries, a second reading led me to think about how much the U.S. people will lose when deprived of these contacts and their contribution to spiritual life.

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Raúl receives François Hollande

Raul y Hollande

The first secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba Central Committee, Army General Raúl Castro Ruz, received the most excellent Mr. François Hollande, former President of France, visiting our country on the occasion of celebrations for the 500th anniversary of Havana.

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Omara Portuondo says her Latin Grammy was accepted on behalf of Cuba

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In the name of Cuba, Omara Portuondo stated, she accepted the Latin Grammy for Musical Excellence, November 13, in Las Vegas. This sincere emotion was accompanied by another, according to the legendary singer, “I hold in my heart forever the memory of members of the D’Aida quartet, my colleagues in feeling and the Buena Vista Social Club, Aida Diestro, Elena Burque, Moraima Secada, HaydéePortuondo, César Portillo, José Antonio Méndez, Ibrahim Ferrer, Compay Segundo, Rubén González, and so many others, it hurts to mention, are with me here to receive this award.”

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Cuba demands the immediate release of four Cuban health workers detained in Bolivia

Bolivia

During the last few hours, several acting authorities in the Plurinational State of Bolivia have presented the idea that Cuban collaborators are encouraging protests taking place in Bolivia, along with a similar campaign on social media, through accounts of doubtful origin and false profiles, inciting violence against health personnel.In this context, on November 13, four members of the Medical Brigade in El Alto were arrested by the police as they were traveling to their residence with money withdrawn from a bank to pay for basic services and rent for the 107 members of the Brigade Medical in the region

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ALBA-TCP Political Council condemns coup and calls for the defense of Bolivia

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The Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America-Peoples Trade Agreement (ALBA-TCP) Political Council held its eighth extraordinary meeting this Thursday in Managua, Nicaragua, and adopted a Final Declaration categorically condemning the coup against the government of Evo Morales Ayma, President of the Plurinational State of Bolivia.The event’s closing session was attended by Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega, who emphasized, “ALBA countries are small in size, but large in dignity