The new school term begins in Cuba on Monday, at a particularly complex time due to the difficult economic situation the island is going through. According to educational authorities, this situation is caused by the intensification of the economic, commercial and financial blockade by the United States, and in the midst of the confrontation with the strategies of ideological subversion against the Revolution.
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Chairman of the Standing Committee on International Affairs and National Security of the Council of the Republic Sergei Rachkov met with the parliamentary delegation of the Republic of Cuba on the sidelines of the 147th Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) in Luanda, Angola, on 25 October, BelTA learned from the press service of the upper house of parliament.
Cuba denounced the destabilizing plan and its execution; the reinforcement of a merciless economic war to provoke and exploit the natural irritation of the population; and the way in which all this is financed, every year, with tens of millions of dollars from the U.S. federal budget.
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In altruistic gesture, Canadian and Cuban friends residing in that country are coordinating actions to achieve greater effectiveness in the process of collecting resources, storing and paying for transportation.
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Díaz-Canel received Qiu Xiaoqi, special representative of the Government of the People's Republic of China for Latin American Affairs.
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