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Presidential Memorandum emphasizes toughened US policy on Cuba
The National Security Presidential Memorandum represents another component in the reestablishment of a more hardline approach to Cuba. Cuba Restricted List potentially to be expanded to include entities with which indirect financial transactions...
Diaz-Canel attends third working session of Cuban Parliament
HAVANA, Cuba, Jul 18 (ACN) Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez, first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and president of the country, attended today the third day of the 5th Session of the National Assembly of People's Power...

Cuban Culture, The Enduring Spirit Of Havana, And A Tariffs Shrug-Off
The bar at the Havana Club Museum, Havana, Cuba. Kevin Rozario Havana has a colorful history; from its heyday as the playground of rich Americans and Europeans until the last mid-century, to a sanctioned state that the Trump administration...
Cuba and Pakistan sign MoU to expand tourism relations
HAVANA, Cuba, Jul 18 (ACN) Cuban Ministry of Tourism and the Department of Culture, Tourism, Archaeology, and Museums of the Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the aim of expanding tourism...
Cuban diplomacy reaffirms its vocation to serve the people
HAVANA, Cuba, Jul 18 (ACN) The leading role of the Cuban people in the design of revolutionary diplomacy was reaffirmed by Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla, member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of Cuba and Minister of Foreign Affairs....
Cuban VP signed book of condolences for death of former Nigerian president
HAVANA, Cuba, Jul 18 (ACN) Salvador Valdes Mesa, Cuban VP, signed on Thursday the book of condolences opened by the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Nigeria to Havana for the death of former Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari, on Sunday, July...
Cuban Parliament urges strengthening legal advice in the country
HAVANA, Cuba, Jul 18 (ACN) The policy for ensuring compliance with laws and other provisions, and strengthening legal advice in the country, was analyzed during the second day of the 5th Ordinary Session of the National Assembly of People's Power...

Cuba's National Assembly of People's Power analyzes national energy recovery
Second Day of the Fifth Session of Parliament Havana, July 17 (RHC)-- Deputies of Cuba's National Assembly of People's Power are debating the progress of the Caribbean country's energy recovery and the mechanisms of popular control. On Thursday,...

How Cuban and Jamaican Criminals Became Eswatini’s Unlikely Prison Guests
In a move that stunned immigration watchers, the U.S. deported five violent convicts—including men from Cuba and Jamaica—not to their homelands, but to Eswatini, a tiny monarchy in Africa now grappling with the consequences of an unprecedented...

Exclusive: Foreign Diplomats Struggle to Survive in Cuba as Regime Freezes Bank Funds
A growing number of embassies of foreign countries in Havana, Cuba, are struggling to access cash as Cuban regime banks freeze their accounts, claiming they simply do not have cash on hand to give, multiple sources told Breitbart News this week....

Legislation and government management on the agenda of the Cuban Parliament
Meeting of the National Assembly of People's Power of Cuba Havana, July 18 (RHC)-- Government management in the eastern province of Camagüey and the approval of bills are on the agenda of the National Assembly of People's Power on Friday in its...

China demands end to US blockade of Cuba, expands scientific collaboration
In the following article for Workers World, Andrew Johnson highlights the deepening solidarity between China and Cuba, rooted in the two countries’ shared socialist project and their opposition to imperialism. The article highlights China’s...

Lost in the Rhetorical Mirage of Middle-Income Aspirations Without a Sustainable Economic Security Foundation Part -2
(Continued from Part-1) Nepal Entrapped by Super-Nationalism: A Costly Illusion Without Pragmatic Transformation. Nepal desperately needs a bold and realistic development vision transformation for long-term economic prosperity.T he opportunities...

US Deports a Cuban Gang Member and Four Other Convicts to the African Kingdom of Eswatini
The spokesperson for the African country says that Roberto Mosquera Del Peral and those expelled from Jamaica, Laos, Yemen and Vietnam are in transit. Roberto Mosquera Del Peral Cuban, is among the five fugitives who were detained in prison in...

ICE Deports Cuban Interior Ministry Thug Caught Beating Protesters
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) recently deported Cuban Interior Ministry official Daniel Morejón García who had participated in the brutal repression of the peaceful July 2021 anti-communist protests in Cuba, Martí Noticias...

Michael Hudson: How the Global Majority can free itself from US financial colonialism
Industrial capitalism was revolutionary in its fight to free Europe’s economies and parliaments from the hereditary privileges and vested interests that survived from feudalism. To make their manufactures competitive in world markets,...

A Business Spotlight on the ‘One Big Beautiful Bill Act’
Government By Anthony Birritteri, Editor-in-Chief On Jul 17, 2025 Despite the intrigue, criticisms, and rumors of what is in it and not in it, the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” (OBBA) that President Donald Trump signed on July 4 is beneficial to...
Cuban minister forced to resign immediately after claiming there are no beggars
Marta Elena Feitó Cabrera, Cuba’s Minister of Labour and Social Security, resigned on Tuesday, July 15, 2025, following intense backlash over remarks made during a parliamentary session on Monday. Feitó’s statements, which denied the existence of...

FM Rodriguez Accuses U.S. Politicians of Funding Subversion in Cuba
Cuban flag. X/ @PtisiMagazine July 17, 2025 Hour: 1:07 pm On Thursday, Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez harshly criticized U.S. politicians, accusing them of promoting efforts to politically destabilize his country. RELATED: Cuba Announces...

Cuban PM details economic strains, key reform strategy
Cuban Prime Minister Manuel Marrero Cruz outlines the country’s economic performance during the first half of the year and presents a roadmap for the months ahead. Cuban Prime Minister Manuel Marrero Cruz delivered a detailed address before the...