The president of the Venezuelan Consortium of Aeronautical Industries and Air Services (Conviasa), Ramón Celestino Velásquez, reported through his Twitter account that the company will link Havana with the state of Falcón, in the northwest of the South American country.

He indicated that these commercial flights will allow “to consolidate integration, cultural, commercial and tourist exchange between two sister peoples. Let’s keep moving forward!” he pointed out.

According to the audiovisual that accompanies the tweet, Conviasa will leave Falcón every Saturday at 11:00 a.m., local time, with scheduled arrival in the Cuban capital at 2:00 p.m.

The return will be with departure from the José Martí international airport in Havana at 10:00 local time, and arrival in Venezuela at 1:00 p.m.

(Taken from Latin Press)

The two ships transport 400,000 food modules, fifty electrical transformers, conducting cables, and more than 22,000 square meters of zinc sheets.

The captain of the Carmita, Jorge Coello Valladares, told Granma that the trip to Cuba will last six and a half days.

(With information from Granma)

In its Twitter account, the military high command pointed out that “as long as drug production, consumption and trafficking issues continue to be handled with hypocrisy, as an instrument of manipulation and imperial blackmail, we will be further and further away from saving humanity from this scourge every day.” ”.

“Venezuela does and will do its job without rhetoric or rest,” he stressed.

The Ministry of People’s Power for Foreign Relations published a statement this Saturday in which it strongly rejected the Joe Biden Administration’s memorandum on drug-producing countries and condemned its interventionist role.

The note described the publication, released on September 15, as inconsistent, infamous and legally lacking, in which the United States refers to “the main countries that produce illicit drugs or transit important drugs for fiscal year 2023.”

Venezuela condemned the role of the US Administration in pretending “to be the policeman of the international arena and to persist in the imposition of extraterritorial policies.”

That text disregards the faithful compliance with the international commitments of the Bolivarian Government, whose tenor to address the permanent fight against illicit drug trafficking “has been under the foundations of the UN and in total aversion to unilateral practices of politicized evaluation,” he added. the.

It is ostensible, he said, that since the expulsion of the Drug Control Administration of Venezuela, his government achieved “with sovereign policies, the largest seizures and confiscations in history.”

Likewise, he stated, “he has waged war without quarter” against drug traffickers and irregular groups outside the law, thus registering in 2021, the record for the seizure of 51 tons of drugs in more than 5,000 procedures.

The Biden government published a memorandum this Thursday in which Venezuela is included in the list of the main drug transit and production countries.

In its memorandum, the US identifies Venezuela, Afghanistan, Bahamas, Belize, Myanmar, Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, India, Jamaica, Laos, Mexico, Nicaragua, Pakistan, Panama, Peru and the Dominican Republic as “major drug transit countries” or “illicit drug producers” by 2023.

In the text, published on the website of the Department of State, the US indicates that the presence of a nation on that list “does not constitute a reflection of the efforts made by its Government against drugs or the level of cooperation with the United States.” Joined”.

In addition, he mentioned Venezuela, Afghanistan, Myanmar and Bolivia “for having demonstrably failed to comply with their responsibility to make substantial efforts during the preceding 12 months to observe the obligations they assumed under international agreements against drug trafficking.”

(With information from Prensa Latina and EFE)

The Colombian-Venezuelan border was closed to vehicular traffic since 2015, a policy maintained and reinforced by former Colombian President Iván Duque since 2018.

According to the Venezuelan head of state, “we are taking firm steps for a progressive, productive and happy opening of the 2,229 kilometers of border with Colombia.”

Maduro celebrated that for Venezuela, what he called “a gigantic market of 45 million inhabitants” will be opened in Colombia, to which Caracas, in full economic recovery, will be able to present its export offer that has grown, he said.

According to the Venezuelan president, Colombia “has high-quality products that Venezuela has always bought, distributed and consumed, and now, four years later, we are still producing, and we have a very good export offer for the people of Colombia.”

Venezuela and Colombia advance towards the restitution of commercial exchange

“We are going to the progressive, productive and happy opening of the 2,229 kilometers of border with Colombia. We are working in technical commissions to guarantee mobility.” detailed the @NicolasMaduro pic.twitter.com/olS4eEfff7

– Presidential Press (@PresidentialVen) August 31, 2022

The Venezuelan president invited investors from Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay and Colombia to come and work the land: “We are going to make good agreements and produce food to export to Colombia, to the Middle East.”

In addition, the new Colombian ambassador to Venezuela, Armando Benedetti, confirmed that the petrochemical company Monómeros, which is owned by Venezuela and is located in Barranquilla, Colombia, will be managed by the board of directors appointed by President Nicolás Maduro, after more than three years controlled by a former opposition deputy.

According to the Bogotá ambassador, Nicolás Maduro is the president recognized by Colombian President Gustavo Petro, unlike his predecessor, Iván Duque, who identified another person.

(With information from Telesur)

This meeting took place in the context of the stay of the also Minister of Economy and Planning of Cuba during his visit to Caracas since last August 24, where he developed a broad work agenda, the Presidency reported on his web portal. .

During his visit to this capital, Gil also met with Vice President Delcy Rodríguez in order to review the progress of bilateral relations, exchanged with officials from the island’s embassy here about the Cuban reality and shared with collaborators at the Center Salvador Allende Comprehensive Diagnosis.

Vice President Rodríguez, Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs for the Caribbean, Raúl Li Causi, and the head of the Central Bank of Venezuela, Calixto Ortega, attended the meeting at the Miraflores Palace on the Venezuelan side.

The president of the Development and Export Bank and the Venezuelan Foreign Trade Corporation, Héctor Obregón, also participated, the source said.

On the Cuban side, Dagoberto Rodríguez, the island’s ambassador here, and Roberto López, deputy minister of Foreign Trade and technical secretary of the Cuba-Venezuela Comprehensive Cooperation Agreement, attended.

Both countries maintain an extensive exchange of cooperation in different sectors that include health, economy, education, sports, communication, food, science and energy.

The Comprehensive Cuba-Venezuela Cooperation Agreement emerged in October 2000 at the initiative of commanders Fidel Castro (1926-2016) and Hugo Chávez (1954-2013) under the principles of solidarity, brotherhood and complementarity.

In its two decades of implementation, it has been strengthened despite the challenges imposed by the US blockade against both States, increased in recent years with new coercive measures that violate the principles of international law and the peaceful coexistence of peoples.

Official data from the island revealed that up to October of last year, official cooperation projects amounted to 1,487, and more than 255,000 collaborators served on the land of Simón Bolívar.

On May 10, Maduro reported on a creative and profound refounding of the cooperation map between the two countries to expand mutual support 2022-2030.

(With information from PL)

It could be the human aspect of the work, the confidence returned, the lives saved here. Or perhaps the thousand and one expressions of brotherhood that have marked the hopes of Venezuela, over more than two decades.

There must be a reason. But as the unmistakable people in white lab coats make their way to the vaccination center, the humble of Ciudad Tiuna, in the Caracas municipality of Libertador, seem to see the dawn approaching.

“There they are, may the Lord bless them,” exclaimed a middle-aged woman from Caracas, when she saw them appear on a corner, a few meters away from the Simoncito Early Childhood Center, one of the vaccination sites where the Cuban vaccine Abdala is being administered. The first 10,000 residents, of the four million projected across the country, will receive their three doses here.

The sun had not yet climbed the hills that surround this city, and those in the white coats, almost all very young, were here, amidst jokes, affection and good humor, with their very Cuban greetings, which were reciprocated with a murmured thank you.

Not a trace of discouragement. No bitterness among these “slaves,” as the enemies of Cuba want to portray them, with no qualms about the malicious nature of their slanders, meant to discredit the work of our health personnel, who have served in more than 160 nations around the world, and helped battle the coronavirus in 40.

No one could blame these professionals for feeling frustrated, if there were a speck of truth in the Goebbelian statements made by Antony Blinken last July 1, when he returned to his cynical discourse, in another attempt to link our country to human trafficking.

“I don’t give a lick about this outrage against us, as they say here,” said Alía Acosta Sala, a nurse from the Isle of Youth, on her second mission in Venezuela. “No one forced me to come here; I am here of my own free will, only the call of duty dictates.”

“They want to justify all the evil they do to us”, Alía continued, while injecting Abdala into a Venezuelan shoulder, “They slander us to tarnish the solidarity effort we make, while they, with much greater resources, do nothing,” she said, before invoking a very Cuban song: “They can’t stop us.”

Similar views were expressed by Dr. Luis Bueno Pardo, a 34 year old doctor from Santiago de Cuba, a specialist in General Comprehensive Medicine, and Delia Virgen Yero, a nurse from Manzanillo, both of whom are working in the Abdala vaccination program, in the urban area of Ciudad Tiuna.

“Thank you and God bless you are the words and phrases we most hear from Venezuelans these days,” says Delia Virgen, “We have had to clarify a few aspects of the vaccine to some, it is true, but I have received the blessing of many; some have dedicated poems to us, and I have seen others cry with gratitude.”

A few meters away, in the same room, as if to confirm that intrigue and lies will never undermine the prestige of Cuban medicine, Juan Velázquez, a 57-year-old driver, admits, “I had my doubts when I heard about this vaccine; some people out there don’t say very good things about it.”

“So why did you come, despite your doubts?” I ask.
“I’m here because the vaccine is Cuban; I want to take care of my life.”

(Taken from Granma)

“200 years after the legendary Battle of Carabobo, Our America continues to bet on integration,” he wrote, and congratulated President Nicolas Maduro, the Venezuelan people and the Bolivarian army for the anniversary of the historic event, which sealed the emancipation of Venezuela. “Cuba shares your passion for the historic project that was forged in the Battle of Carabobo,” he added.

In other messages, the Cuban leader recalled that Cuban blood was shed in Carabobo, and that “there will always be Cuban blood whenever the fate of our Venezuelan brothers and sisters is endangered.”

Cuba was represented at the summit by Minister of Foreign Affairs Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, who stated, “Cuba maintains its commitment to solidarity and international cooperation for the benefit of the region’s peoples, and this will be the case in confronting the pandemic and the provision of vaccines, to the extent of our possibilities.”

He also thanked ALBA-TCP member states for their support to the Cuban resolution against the blockade, recently approved by the United Nations General Assembly.

“Our strong system of science and technological innovation made possible the results that Cuba and ALBA have obtained in the fight against the pandemic. This was accomplished, although Cuba’s capacity to import supplies to guarantee basic medicines was affected (by the blockade),” Rodríguez Parrilla explained, calling for the U.S. to eliminate unilateral coercive measures against ALBA nations and renounce the neoliberal paradigm that has brought so much hadship to the region.

“The will of the sister nations of ALBA to continue advancing cannot be stopped,” he insisted, and reaffirming the Cuban people’s solidarity, he stated that the bloc will always be able to count on us “on the front linea of this battle for life, dignity, peace and justice.”

On the bicentenary of the Battle of Carabobo, and Bolivarian Army Day, an impressive military parade, held at the very site of the battle, served as the preamble to the Summit.

There could not have been a better place for the regional meeting to reaffirm its commitment to move forward in a present full of challenges and threats from the United States, possible only with the unity of our peoples.

(Taken from Granma)

“Cuba is grateful to all the institutions and individuals who, with good will and active interventions, contributed to overcoming the multiple obstacles to guaranteeing the participation of our national baseball team in the pre-Olympic in Florida,” stated Party Political Bureau member and Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla.

The FCB, for its part and in the name of millions of compatriots anxiously awaiting these games, also recognized the efforts of the World Confederation of Baseball and Softball, the Organizing Committee, the United States’ Olympic Committee and Baseball USA, for their support to “concretizing a right which is legitimately ours,” adding that the players will participate with “the dignity, team spirit and commitment to fair play which characterize the Cuban sports movement.”

The news was welcomed by players who have been waiting for this decision, which, as has been reiterated over the last few days, is imperative to realizing their aspiration to struggle for the dream of competing in

Cuba has scheduled training games with Nicaragua and subsequently the Dominican Republic, which are essential to fine-tuning details before the team’s first game of the tournament, with Venezuela as their rival.

(Taken from Granma)

The accord was signed during the 21st session of the intergovernmental commission in charge of the Cuba-Venezuela Comprehensive Cooperation Agreement, chaired by Cuban Deputy Prime Minister Ricardo Cabrisas Ruiz and the Bolivarian Republic’s Executive Vice President Delcy Rodríguez Gómez, who reviewed the challenges facing collaboration in 2021 and progress made on current projects, marked by an adverse political situation and the COVID-19 epidemic.

A new cooperation project was agreed upon to promote the expansion and use of moringa, thitonia, mulberry and other grasses for animal fodder in Venezuela, which includes the exchange of knowledge and production support in areas of agricultural management and agro-industrial transformation to manufacture animal feed.

Cabrisas Ruiz explained that the approved annual cooperation plan is directed toward improving key sectors such as health – with joint efforts to mitigate the effects of the pandemic and undertake actions for the development and application of Cuban vaccines – and to strengthen links in activities related to energy, transportation, education, culture and sports.

These projects, he emphasized, will serve as a foundation for the elaboration of a 2030 Resistance and Development Plan, based on an alignment of Cuba’s National Economic Development Plan through 2030 and Venezuela’s Plan of the Homeland through 2025.

The Venezuelan Vice President highlighted the two countries’ resistance in the face of the blockade and unilateral coercive measures imposed by the U.S. “Cuba-Venezuela cooperation has been essential to the victorious resistance of our peoples, who will not succumb to extortion or coercion, and will continue their path of victory into the future,” she stated.

The delegations, including several ministers from the two countries, reiterated their determination to advance in the improvement and expansion of cooperation in all spheres of development, to overcome the negative effects of the economic persecution that the United States maintains as a matter of policy meant to asphyxiate the two nations.

(Taken from Granma)

According to Rios, who is a specialist in angiology and vascular surgery, the possibility of benefiting the Venezuelans with one of the flagship medicines of the Cuban biotechnology, the recombinant human epidermal growth factor is a privilege.

In dialogue with Prensa Latina, the technical coordinator of the Good Living for Diabetics Program highlighted that the efficacy in using this drug in patients with a satisfactory response to the treatment reflects the positive impact of the project.

The Cuban collaborator, who favors health preventive and promotional actions, explained the importance of this function to achieve an early diagnosis of injuries and avoid invasive procedures.

Cuban angiologists and vascular surgeons are advising and training colleagues in Venezuela through comprehensive care for people affected with this disease.

With more than 250,000 patients treated since 2008, the Good Living for Diabetics Program has the participation of the Cuban Medical Mission, the Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology and the Immuno-Testing Vaccination Research Center, both from Cuba.

(Taken from Prensa Latina)