Cuba is hosting from today the ITU Global Youth Summit, aimed at empowering the younger generations in the field of digital technology by putting them at the forefront of discussions and decision-making.
Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez has rejected Washington's decision to restore a harsh policy against Cuba, announced this Friday by U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
Pope Francis yesterday stressed the importance of the decision of the Cuban Government to free 553 prisoners sentenced for various causes, within the context of the Jubilee of the Catholic Church in 2025.
"Why do some people have to walk barefoot for others to travel in luxurious automobiles? Why do some people have to live 35 years for others to live 70? Why do some people have to be miserably poor for others to be exaggeratedly rich? I speak in the name of the children in the world who do not have a piece of bread; I speak in the name of the sick who do not have medicine; I speak in the name of those who have been denied the right to life and human dignity."