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Cuban Women

Cuban women on all fronts

Cuban women on all fronts
In recognition of their tireless efforts to advance the rights of women, a group of 37 men and women were awarded the August 23 Distinction

Author: Amaya Saborit Alfonso | amaya@granma.cu
august 20, 2015 09:08:30

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José Ramón Machado Ventura presented the FMC’s August 23 Distinction to a group of men and women, in recognition of their efforts to advance the rights of women. Photo: Anabel Díaz

Yesterday, August 19, in recognition of their tireless efforts to advance the rights of women, a group of 37 men and women were awarded the August 23 Distinction. The ceremony took place in the El Laguito protocol hall and was presided by Teresa Amarelle Boué, Party Central Committee member and FMC secretary general.
José Ramón Machado Ventura, Party Central Committee second secretary and a Council of Ministers vice president, presented the awards and emphasized that Cuban women “must be, and are, on all fronts in our country.”
The Distinction was granted by the Federation of Cuban Women (FMC), on the occasion of its 55th anniversary, to deserving individuals based on their professional and social careers; their ethical, revolutionary values; their exemplary conduct in areas such as government, the judiciary, science, production, the arts, culture and sports.

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Cuba / US Relations

The challenge of building a future without forgetting the past Hundreds

The challenge of building a future without forgetting the past
Hundreds of people gathered outside the newly reopened U.S. Embassy in Havana on August 14, to witness the historic flag-raising ceremony, the equivalent of no longer be prisoners of the past, standing before him where the three Marines who which took place at the Cuban mission in Washington on July 20.

Author: Iramsy Peraza Forte | internet@granma.cu
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Author: Sergio Alejandro Gómez | internet@granma.cu
august 18, 2015 12:08:58

Hundreds of people and journalists from across the world attended the reopening ceremony of the U.S. Embassy in Havana.

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Photo: Juvenal Balán

WHEN John Kerry stated on August 14, in Havana that Cuba and the United States could lowered the U.S. embassy flag on January 1961. To his right was Wayne Smith, a young diplomat assigned to the Cuban capital at the moment when President Eisenhower decided to sever diplomatic relations. Smith later became Head of the U.S. Interests Section at the end of the James Carter administration, but resigned at the beginning of Ronald Reagan’s presidency, becoming a tireless advocate for a change in U.S. policy towards the island. From the Malecón, three classic Chevrolets watched over the official reopening ceremony, the foremost a black 1959Impala.
History, just like the stars and stripes flag, was up in the air that morning.

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Latin America

Fidel’s fraternal meeting with Maduro and Evo (+Photos)

Fidel’s fraternal meeting with Maduro and Evo (+Photos)
The historic leader of the Cuban Revolution held a fraternal meeting, yesterday August 13, with Presidents Nicolás Maduro and Evo Morales.
Author: Granma | internet@granma.cu
august 14, 2015 08:08:46

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Foto: Estudio Revolució

The historic leader of the Cuban Revolution held a fraternal meeting, yesterday August 13, with Presidents Nicolás Maduro and Evo Morales, on the occasion of his 89th birthday.

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http://en.granma.cu/cuba/2015-08-14/fidels-fraternal-meeting-with-maduro-and-evo-photos

 

Cuban Political History

El primer Partido Comunista de Cuba, for Spanish readers

El primer Partido Comunista de Cuba
El 16 de agosto de 1925, en una vieja casa de la calle Calzada, en el Vedado, demolida tiempo después y donde hoy se erige la sala Hubert de Blanck se fundó en primer Partido Comunista de Cuba
Autor: Pedro Antonio García | internet@granma.cu
16 de agosto de 2015 22:08:09

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Julio Antonio Mella y Carlos Baliño, dos figuras fundamentales en la fundación del Primer Partido Comunista de Cuba el 16 de agosto de 1925. Foto: Archivo
Eran un puñado de revolucionarios. Reu­nidos el 16 de agosto de 1925 en una vieja casa de la calle Calzada, en el Vedado, demolida tiempo después y donde hoy se erige la sala Hubert de Blanck, tenían como su principal misión la de crear el primer Partido Comunista de Cuba y afiliarlo a la Tercera Internacional, fundada por Lenin en 1919.
Carlos Baliño, uno de los fundadores del Partido Revo­lucionario Cubano, junto a José Martí, y quien durante las primeras décadas de la república neocolonial se había dedicado a difundir las ideas marxistas en la Isla, procedió a recibir las credenciales de los delegados. De la Agrupación Comunista (AC) de La Habana, a la cual también pertenecía, asistían el dirigente estudiantil antimperialista Julio Antonio Mella y el sindicalista de los cigarreros Alejandro Barrei­ro. Por la AC de la Sección Hebrea y su Juventud Comunista, asistían Yoshka Grinberg, Yunger Semiovich (seudónimo de Fabio Grobart) y Félix Gurbich.

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