Dubai, Nov 29 (Prensa Latina) Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel reaffirmed on Wednesday the unwavering support for the cause and legitimate struggle of the Palestinian people against the illegal occupation and genocide on International Day of Solidarity with Palestine.

On the X platform, Díaz-Canel stressed that “the countries of the world must settle the historical debt with Palestine by demanding peace.”

Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez also expressed the “support and unwavering solidarity” of the Cuban people.

In his message on the same social media, Rodríguez demanded a ceasefire and the end of the genocide committed by Israel and noted that the world community cannot remain impassive in the face of disregard for international law.

Cuba has maintained its historic position of support for the Palestinian cause and defends a comprehensive, just, and lasting solution to the conflict based on the creation of two States.

Since the beginning of Israel’s aggression against the Gazan population on October 7, Cuba’s authorities, institutions, civil society organizations, and the population have expressed their rejection to the violence that has killed more than 15,000 Palestinians, including 6,000 children.

The Cuban president and other senior authorities recently led a march in the Cuban capital in solidarity with Palestine, which was organized by the Cuban Young Communist League (UJC) to demand an end to those attacks.

They also demanded a lasting solution to the conflict that would allow the Palestinian people to exercise their right to self-determination and have an independent and sovereign State within the pre-1967 borders, with East Jerusalem as its capital.

The International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People is celebrated on November 29 each year. The United Nations General Assembly adopted it in December 1977.

Díaz-Canel arrived in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on Tuesday to participate in the 28th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP28) and to pay an official working visit.

This is Díaz-Canel’s first official visit to the UAE. He came accompanied by Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez and representatives of other ministries, institutions, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

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Havana, Nov 25 (Prensa Latina) Cuba pays tribute to the historic leader of the Revolution, Fidel Castro (1926-2016), with multiple tributes throughout the country dedicated to evoke his legacy, on the seventh anniversary of his physical disappearance.

The day before, cultural institutions also joined the tributes to the historic leader with the panel “Hart’s Vision of Fidel”, convened by the “Oficina del Programa Martiano” of the island.

The dialogue was led by prestigious intellectuals such as the director of Casa de las Americas, Abel Prieto; the director of the Oficina del Programa Martiano, Eduardo Torres Cuevas, and writers and researchers Pedro Pablo Rodriguez and Eloisa Carrera, widow of Armando Hart.

Fidel Castro led one of the most influential insurgent movements in Latin America in the 1950s and, with his triumph, commanded one of the most influential leftist governments in the region.

His role in consolidating the revolutionary process; the economic and social transformations of the country; the development of education, health, sports, culture and science; the confrontation of U.S. aggressions and the call for unity in the region made him a universal symbol of resistance.

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Cochabamba, Bolivia, Nov 26 (Prensa Latina) The Bolivian Movement of Solidarity with Cuba on Sunday reaffirms its strength after an extensive day in which it paid tribute in Cochabamba to the historical leader of the Cuban Revolution Fidel Castro.

“Solidarity cannot be blocked like food, medicines and even oxygen in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic as it happened with Cuba”, as assured by Dr. Émer Valderrama, president of this social movement in Cochabamba.

Valderrama availed himself of such an opportunity to welcome the Cuban Ambassador to Bolivia Danilo Sánchez, the representative for the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP) Junior Bolaños, Cuban diplomats as well as members of the solidarity movement from La Paz, Cochabamba, Pando, Oruro, Tarija and Beni, on the 7th anniversary of Fidel Castro´s death.

Plus, the meeting was attended by specialists from Cuba´s Health Ministry (MINSAP), doctors graduated in Cuba, Cuban residents in Bolivia and children of martyrs of Che Guevara’s guerrilla in this country.

As closing speech, Ambassador Sanchez stressed that solidarity to break the blockade has to be concrete and also praised collaboration between the two countries in livestock, agriculture, advances in the medical-pharmaceutical industry and in other sectors.

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