Who’s behind the anti-Cuban show in San Isidro?

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# Puppets in the service of the U.S., #Cuba, #Small group of mercenaries

 

The latest staging by a small group of mercenaries is very similar to those mounted by other puppets in the service of the U.S. government seeking to destabilize our country and destroy the Revolution.

Since the end of the 19th century, the San Isidro neighborhood in Old Havana was considered a “tolerance zone,” until 1959, when life changed with the triumph of the Revolution.

It was a neighborhood of humble people, harassed by the presence of Yankee Marines who came ashore in search of fun and cheap sex. Once the butt of jokes, San Isidro now has 14 family doctors’ offices, a traditional medicine clinic, a veterinary clinic, three child care centers, a kindergarten and four schools.

I had the opportunity to interact with residents, during a neighborhood discussion organized by the local Committee for the Defense of the Revolution (cdr) about two years ago, a tribute to honor Comandante en Jefe, Fidel Castro Ruz.

We met, without a stage, no prepared speeches, beneath a kapok treein a park. I remember two comments made, one in which, on behalf of all present, a resident declared his unconditional support for the Revolution, based on his religious faith.

The people are in the streets defending their Revolution.

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#"We want to tell the world that our youth truly love the Revolution., #Cuba, #I live in a free country, #The idea (of the tángana) emerged in a room

Centro Habana’s Trillo Park was the scene of a passionate debate, a tángana, yesterday, where the dignity of the homeland was reaffirmed with condemnation of the most recent U.S. manipulations designed to discredit our country, energetically rejected by thousands of young people, along with the President of the Republic, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez.

This was a tángana in defense of their Revolution facing a new attack.

Intransigence, confidence in victory and the power of truth, the ideas of Martí, Fidel and Raúl, reigned in the park alongside the bronze statue of General Quintín Bandera, renowned for leading machete charges in Cuba’s wars of independence. His firm determination seemed to portend another resounding defeat for U.S. imperialism, with the farce mounted by its paid mercenaries in San Isidro exposed and denounced, despite the distortion of events meant to destabilize and create chaos in socialist Cuba.

The arrival of the President surprised the crowd, and his emphatic words further raised spirits.

“The Cuban people are in the streets; we do not tolerate interference by our enemies. We solve our problems amongst ourselves.”

He reiterated that in Cuba there is room for dialogue on any subject for socialism, for the Revolution, which is the same as saying for our revolutionary, supportive and internationalist people.

And then the President added: “I’m going to make a request. Today is Silvio’s (Rodríguez) birthday. He composed a beautiful song, my favorite, called Pequeña serenata diurna. I would like to ask that we all sing it together, because today is one of those days when we must ask the dead to forgive our happiness, and our heroes, to forgive us for days like this.”

The crowd cheered and sang: “I live in a free country, which can only be free, on this earth and at this moment, and I am happy because I am giant…”

Also on hand in the park were sports legends Alberto Juantorena, Maria Caridad Colon and Ana Fidelia Quirot, enjoying the afternoon, the music and the rousing speeches by students and young workers reaffirming what the Cuban people are made of.

Cuba demands US respect its sovereignty.

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# Aggressions the United States, #Carlos Fernandez de Cossio, #Cuba, #Cuba demands

The General Director in charge of the United States at the Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Carlos Fernandez de Cossio, affirmed that Cuba will defend its sovereignty against the aggressions the United States currently intensifies.

Cuba will not tolerate intervention in its internal affairs and will always defend its right to self-determination, the Cuban diplomat said on a television appearance on Monday to denounce that the US Embassy in Havana was involved in those acts of destabilization.

Fernandez de Cossio informed on the direct involvement of US Charge d’Affaires in Havana Timothy Zuñiga-Brown in support of the protagonists of an alleged hunger strike in a Havana neighborhood.

With this action, posted on social media, the members of the so-called San Isidro Movement tried to force the release of one of its members, who was sentenced on contempt of authority charges.

The US diplomat was summoned on Saturday to the Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs to convey him the rules of behavior established by the Vienna Convention, and that Cuba will not allow any state to interfere in its internal affairs, he said.

According to a press release from the island’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, issued that day, Fernandez de Cossio asked Zuñiga-Brown to convey that statement to the US Department of State.

Cuba does not accept such behavior, and it will not allow him and his Embassy to conduct themselves in Cuba in contempt of the law and norms, in violation of their obligations as diplomats, he said.

He also made clear that the Cuban government ‘is fully aware of the US involvement in financing, guiding and inciting groups and individuals to challenge the government’s authority, both through peaceful means and violent ways.’

Cuban Foreign Minister distinguishes Fidel Castro’s legacy.

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#Cuba, #Fidel Castro's legacy, Fidel.

Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez today highlighted the legacy of leader Fidel Castro in the island’s diplomacy.

‘Four years after his physical departure, the legacy multiplies. It lasts in Revolutionary Diplomacy,’ read the headline of his Twitter account.

The Foreign Minister recalled a phrase from the leader about the importance of living based on Cuban principles, ethics and ideals.

‘The grateful ones will accompany you,’ added the head of the island’s diplomacy.

A day of remembrance of Fidel Castro is commemorated today in Cuba, on the fourth anniversary of the departure of the leader of the Revolution.

Regarding the date, cultural, academic and political organizations of the largest of the Antilles call for tribute activities in the national territory, especially in a virtual way complying with the health measures against Covid-19.

As part of the commemoration, university students will pay tribute to the Commander in Chief at night from the steps leading to the University of Havana, where he studied law and began his active political life.

Fidel Castro was born in Birán (east) on August 13, 1926 and died in Havana, on November 25, 2016.

He led one of the most influential insurgent movements in Latin America in the 50s of last century.

With the 1959 victory, the Revolution challenged the United States as a model of resistance of Latin America and elsewhere.

Humanism, anti-imperialism and anti-neoliberalism: Youth taking Fidel’s path.

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#Anti-imperialism, #Anti-neoliberalism, #Cuba, #FIDEL IS FIDEL, #Ideas para banners ”

The legacy of the humanist, anti-imperialist and anti-neoliberal ideas of Comandante en Jefe Fidel Castro Ruz, will be present today, and tomorrow November 26, during the International Online Youth Forum “Banner Ideas.”

Commemorating the fourth anniversary of the leader of the Cuban Revolution’s departure to eternity, focused on the maxim: “Unity for solidarity, anti-imperialism and anti-neoliberalism: Action for necessary transformation in times of COVID,” the event is sponsored by the Young Communists League (UJC) and Cuban student and social organizations.

This is an opportunity to raise ideas as banners of justice, hope and confidence in a world that we must make better, Diosvany Acosta Abrahante, first secretary of the UJC National Committee, noted on his Twitter account.

Many voices from around the world are sure to come together to remember Fidel’s legacy and denounce the outrages of imperialism, he added.

With the goal of analyzing and proposing actions to confront the current situation, more than 2,000 organizations in 162 countries will meet via the UJC website (www.ujc.cu); @ujcuba, for Facebook and YouTube, and @UJCdeCuba, for Twitter – to discuss how we can recover from the pandemic, and achieve economic development and social welfare for our peoples, according to an ACN report.

Leonel Pérez Friman, president of the Latin American and Caribbean Organization of Students (Oclae), insisted, “We did not want to lose the opportunity to bring the world closer to the struggles of the Cuban people, to that calls we always raise for solidarity and unity of the peoples.”

Also a member of the University Student Federation (FEU) Secretariat, Pérez pointed out that, in addition to the health disaster left by the new coronavirus, urgently needed are unity around actions for peace and against wars and armed conflicts; stopping aggression against the environment and climate change, and demanding an end of blockades and unilateral coercive measures, violations to human, gender and international rights, unemployment, as well as limited access to education and health services.

Cuba highlights historic international condemnation of US blockade.

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#Cuba, #Cubavsbloqueo, United States

 Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez praised the historic rejection of the international community of the United States’ economic, commercial and financial blockade against Cuba.

In his Twitter account, the Foreign Minister recalled that since November 24th, 1992, the United Nations General Assembly has spoken out against this policy every year, based on an almost unanimous vote in favor of its elimination.

‘The rejection of the international community due to its extraterritorial, illegal and genocidal nature is categorical,’ the Rodriguez tweeted, adding that the blockade is real and must cease immediately and without any conditions.

From April 2019 to March 2020, the US economic siege against the Cuba caused losses in the order of 5.570.3 million dollars, a record figure for a year, according to Cuban authorities.

The calculations, however, do not consider the actions of the U.S. government in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic, during which the unilateral coercive measures did not cease.

According to the Cuban report that serves as the basis for the annual vote at the General Assembly, the degree of hostility has reached unprecedented levels at this stage, as evidenced by the increase in the persecution of financial and commercial transactions.

Fidel: A necessary presence.

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#Cuba, #FIDEL IS FIDEL, #Revolution

This last year we have seen you riding, as an invincible warrior, into combat against an epidemic, the consequences of which you anticipated, with your vision of future, when you filled the island with doctors and research centers to confront – with science – the many diseases that would appear over time.

You knew that it would be poor countries that would be the most affected and made much-needed solidarity a fundamental banner of the Revolution, unfortunately little practiced where selfishness and greed prevail under the name of neo-liberalism.

Although you left for another dimension, you are leading the current battles, from the depths of a rock extracted from the mountains of your Sierra Maestra. We confirm how necessary you are – perhaps indispensable.

But the current year of 2020, four years after we accompanied you to immortality, has been singular, given the challenges, the battles fought, the action of a people who know you are present, who saw and felt you in every effort undertaken, on every front, in every victory achieved and every adversity faced.

I can imagine how you would feel knowing that a doctor or nurse, of those tens of thousands you saw trained, today face, there in the red zone or in the rear of a hospital, doctor’s office or polyclinic, a terrible pandemic that has endangered all of humanity.

What would you say when those who by the thousands departed to confront Covid-19 in other lands around the world, making a reality of that phrase you repeated so many times, “We do not give away what we have left over; we share what we have.”

How present you have been at the Finlay Vaccine Institute, among those who have set out to make your teaching a reality and to produce the candidate vaccines Sovereign 01 and 02, to combat the pandemic not only in Cuba, but making them available to the entire world, to the poorest countries.

How many times have you visited the exemplary Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology Center, and how many times have you discussed the role of science in the development of our homeland, with workers, doctors, scientists?

You are recalled here and now, within every institution located in the Scientific Pole. Working there are many of those who shook your hand, those who answered your questions, those who accepted the challenge you posed to undertake the necessary work of those who cannot wait, over time and with quality.

When I see the thousands of members of the Henry Reeve Contingent brigades depart and return victorious, I am reminded of the first health professionals organized to offer solidarity abroad.

Today, more than ever, your thoughts are present, as expressed in the constitution of this medical contingent: “We have shown that human beings can and must be better. We demonstrate the value of conscience and ethics. We offer lives.”

I remember the time in May of 2001, when I participated as a journalist in your visit to Algeria, the meetings with leaders and professionals of that nation, who were always grateful for the honor of being the first to receive a Cuban medical brigade, just a few months after that nation achieved its independence.

On May 24, 1963, a group of 58 health professionals departed to Algeria, including 32 doctors, four dentists, 14 nurses and eight technicians who worked in different parts of the country for some 18 months.

Nor can I forget Barbados, when in December 2005, you spoke to Caribbean leaders at the Cuba-CARICOM Summit, and referred to Operation Miracle that had saved the vision of so many in these small countries. You were moved by what leaders like Ralph Gonsalves, Prime Minister of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, said, who, with tears in his eyes, thanked you for Cuba’s great solidarity with the world’s most needy.

Today, when you are not physically present among us, you continue to be a daily reference that marks a human work of extraordinary magnitude.

This is why, across the Caribbean, you are remembered and venerated, in the countries of Africa, in a grateful Vietnam, in Latin America where Cuban solidarity, our medical and educational missions, and others, have contributed to millions, saving lives, curing disease, and more millions learning to read and write.

Another battle waged this year, one of those in which you always took the lead, was the battle against tropical storms like Eta, with their devastating impact on agricultural, housing, schools and other institutions. We remember the great flood control works you conceived when a hurricane named Flora, October 3, 1963, struck our country, mainly areas in the present provinces of Las Tunas, Holguín, Granma and Camagüey.

US blockade for greater damage to Cuba by eliminating remittances.

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#Cuba, #Western Union, US Blockade

Cuban Minister of Mincex, Rodrigo Marmierca, highlighted today that the US economic, commercial and financial blockade against Cuba maintains its original objective of going against the people by prohibiting Western Union from transferring remittances to the island.

The head of the portfolio of the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Foreign Investment (Mincex) highlighted in his Twitter account that from this day on, Western Union is unable to carry out intermediation operations in the financial flow process.

With the implementation of this new measure against the Cuban people, the official channels for sending remittances to the country are closed.

Previously, Financiera Cimex, S.A. (Fincimex), authorized by the Central Bank of Cuba to carry out these operations, explained that the service of the 407 payment points of the US company in the national territory is interrupted.

He stressed that the position of the northern government accentuates the magnitude of how the United States directly affects the Cuban family by interrupting ties against which it acts deliberately and in times of a crisis aggravated by COVID-19.

Air traffic increases in Cuba with reopening of airports.

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# Air traffic increased in Cuba, #Cuba, #International airlines are gradually requesting flights to Cuba.

 Air traffic increased in Cuba in the last few weeks when the country’s airports reopened operations, although they are currently at 40% compared to 2019 due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Roberto Peña, president of the Cuban Civil Aviation Corporation (CACSA), said that travelers’ movement decreased in the island as globally, which should return to 2019 levels at least by 2023.

Air freight also suffered a negative impact, although this is one of the activities that maintained cargo, humanitarian and collaboration flights with vitality, Peña said on national television this Thursday.

Although the CACSA president predicted a serious decrease in late 2020, international airlines are gradually requesting flights to Cuba.

According to Brigadier General Armando Luis Daniel Lopez, president of Cuba’s Civil Aeronautics Institute (IACC), before the air terminals closed as a result of the pandemic, about 60 companies were flying to the island and little by little they asked return.

Cuban Foreign Minister rejects US ban on humanitarian flights.

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# Ban by the US State Department on humanitarian cargo flights from the United States to Cuba., #Cuba, #Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez

Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez rejected the recent ban by the US State Department on humanitarian cargo flights from the United States to Cuba.

 

The new measure is a ruthless act, the head of Cuban diplomacy tweeted.

‘Trump’s administration reinforces the punishment of Cuban families in both countries until the last moment,’ he further wrote.

Media outlets reported this week that the US government refused to exempt two charter airlines from the ban on flights between the United States and Cuba.

‘We received a notice from the Department of State that the requests were not within the specified exceptions and that the granting of the requested authority would not be in the interest of US foreign policy,’ the Department of Transportation (DOT) reported in a statement quoted by Sputnik.