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CUBA | New US Sanctions to close 400 Western Unions in Cuba

CUBA | New US Sanctions to close 400 Western Unions in Cuba

HAVANA,  Cuba, October 20, 2020 - Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez has confirmed that over four hundred Western Union offices in Cuba will close their doors within thirty days due to new economic embargo regulations against the Cuban government imposed by the Trump administration.

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Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodrigues Parrilla

CUBA | US Sanctions cost the Cuban people US$5.6 billion last year

HAVANA, October 23, 2020  —  Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla has condemned what he said was a progressive tightening of the economic, commercial and financial blockade against his country by the United States, resulting in a gradual suffocation of the island’s economy.

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Cuba’s Ambassador to Barbados, Sergio Jorge Pastrana and Barbados’ Ambassador to CARICOM, David Comissiong, lay wreaths at the Cubana monument during yesterday’s commemoration ceremony in Payne’s Bay. (S. Pilé/BGIS)

BARBADOS | Remembering Cubana Flight 455 - The Caribbean Must Remain a Zone of Peace !

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, October 8, 2020 - Tuesday October 6, was the 44th anniversary of the terrorist bombing of Cubana Flight 455 just off the west coast of Barbados, and repeatedly, speakers who gathered to commemorate the event at the Cubana Memorial site at Paynes Bay, St. James, called for the Caribbean to remain a Zone of Peace.

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Cuba’s Ambassador to Barbados, Sergio Jorge Pastrana, speaking at the 44th commemoration of the Cubana Airlines tragedy, held at the Cubana Monument in Paynes Bay today. (S. Pilé/BGIS)

BARBADOS | Six More Months For Cuban Nurses In Barbados

BRIDGETOWN,  Barbados, October 6, 2020 - Despite efforts by the United States government to intimidate regional countries  being assisted by the Cuban Government in the provision of nurses and doctors to fight the Coronavirus pandemic, the Cuban contingent of nurses, who were assigned to help Barbados in its fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, will continue their work on the island for another six months.

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Cuban Doctors in Brazil have assisted 113-million patients in more than three thousand municipalities and provided permanent health coverage to 60 million Brazilians.

CUBA | The US Intensifies its Campaign against Cuban Doctors Internationally

HAVANA, Cuba, September 30, 2020 - The Cuban government has lashed out at the United States government in condemnation of  its campaign to discredit Cuba’s international medical cooperation and exert pressure on the governments that have asked for it in order to deprive peoples of these health services.

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CUBA denounces at UN tightening of US blockade

CUBA denounces at UN tightening of US blockade

United Nations, Sep 30 (Prensa Latina) Cuba's Prime Minister Manuel Marrero denounced on Tuesday the tightening of the US blockade against the country amid the Covid-19 pandemic, in a virtual event at the UN.

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The Pullman Cayo Coco Hotel, in Jardines del Rey, ready to receive tourists. Photo: Ortelio González Martínez

CUBA reopens its borders to international tourism

HAVANA, Cuba, September 24, 2020 - Granma - The renowned Cuban beach resorts of Jardines del Rey and Cayo Santa María, off the northern coast of Ciego de Ávila and Villa Clara, are ready to welcome guests.

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