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Genocide

The massacre must end

The massacre must end

“The day when future generations ask why we did not stop the holocaust, we will not have a dignified and reasonable answer,” said Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez in X

Author:  | internet@granma.cu

august 21, 2024 10:08:55

Photo: Prensa Latina

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken recently visited Tel Aviv and publicly stated that “perhaps” this is “the last chance for a ceasefire in Gaza”.
A few kilometers away from the meeting with the authorities of the Jewish country, a Dantesque spectacle, very similar to that left by the U.S. atomic bombs dropped on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, is the testimony of the Palestinian identity subjected to extermination in the Gaza Strip.
Logic indicates that a solution to this conflict is a long way off as long as a foreign actor – the U.S. – finances and supports Benjamin Netanyahu’s Zionist regime within the framework of the UN and other international institutions.
It must be made clear to Joe Biden and Blinken – once again sent to Israel as a kind of “fire-fighter” in the face of international condemnation – that they hold the solution in their hands: force Israel to stop the genocide in Palestine, or the White House will suspend the delivery of the most advanced weapons and the financial support of more than U.S. $4 billion a year.
In addition, the Biden administration, or the next one, can lift the veto in the UN Security Council when it comes to peace in Palestine and the cessation of Israeli aggression.
Coinciding with Blinken’s visit to Israel, the UN, in the voice of its Secretary-General António Guterres, called for “an end to impunity for attacks on humanitarian workers,” 280 of whom from 33 countries were killed last year alone.
And lest we forget, the number of Palestinians killed by Zionist shrapnel exceeds 40,000, not counting the estimated 10,000 more buried under the rubble of what was once Gaza City.
It is not the time for the visits of the Yankee representative or his worthless warnings, nor for the resolutions and appeals of the international institutions, which are neither heard nor followed by those guilty of genocide.
There is no direct action to stop the crime.

Cuban Sovereignty

Categorical rejection of unfounded allegations of election meddling in the USA

Categorical rejection of unfounded allegations of election meddling in the USA

Articles in the Miami Herald newspaper and others in the McClatchy press organization, to which this newspaper belongs, began a new slanderous campaign against Cuba at the end of July

Author:  | informacion@granmai.cu

august 26, 2024 15:08:33

 

Articles in the Miami Herald newspaper and others in the McClatchy press organization, to which this newspaper belongs, began a new slanderous campaign against Cuba at the end of July, citing anonymous intelligence sources to support the accusation, a common practice that this journalistic organization and its editors are accustomed to when lies are the basis of the report.
The accusation is that Cuba is making efforts to influence local electoral campaigns in the state of Florida in the United States.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs categorically denies the accusation. It also deplores the failure of the U.S. government, its State Department and its intelligence services to disqualify the direct reference to alleged government agencies on whose authority these slanderous articles appear to be based.
The U.S. government cannot cite any evidence or indication, because it does not exist, that Cuba has interfered or is proposing to interfere in its electoral processes, or that it is favoring any politician in the state of Florida or any other state in this country. Any reference to that is absolutely false.
If it were not a completely unfounded accusation on such a serious issue, the statement would be astonishing because it could be interpreted as the U.S. government having done a 180-degree turn and for the first time in more than a century finding it inappropriate to interfere in the electoral processes of other countries.  However, it is not clear from any of the articles whether this administration intends to abandon a practice as illegitimate as it is unacceptable that has long accompanied U.S. foreign policy.
Havana, August 26, 2024.

Venezuelan Elections

Constitution and democracy have triumphed in Venezuela

Constitution and democracy have triumphed in Venezuela

Venezuelan Foreign Minister Yván Gil denounced the U.S. State Department for “insisting on its despicable position of interfering in matters that do not concern it”

Author:  | internet@granma.cu

august 30, 2024 12:08:16

Caracas, Venezuela.- Venezuelan Foreign Minister Yván Gil denounced the U.S. State Department for “insisting on its despicable position of interfering in matters that do not concern it.”
The spokesman of this government, Matthew Miller, declared yesterday that “Edmundo González Urrutia obtained the majority of votes” in the presidential elections, despite the fact that the Supreme Court of Justice had certified the victory of Nicolás Maduro, as announced by the National Electoral Council since the night of July 28.
“We do not owe explanations to any foreign entity, much less to the hostile empire that manages a fascist puppet that was rejected by the majority of the people, as he personifies the hatred and aggression of its 930 sanctions, sabotages to our economy, assassination attempts and violent aggressions against our citizens”, wrote the Foreign Minister of the South American nation on Telegram.
In addition, he recalled that the former candidate of the ultra-right wing “refuses to recognize the public powers, before the rejection of an entire country”, since he did not attend the summons issued to him by the Supreme Court of Justice and, more recently, by the Public Ministry.
Another ally of the White House is playing along: the European Council, through the voice of its High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Josep Borrell, has denied the Bolivarian leader as legitimate president, while at the same time questioning Venezuelan democracy.
In the face of such accusations, Yván Gil pointed out that “in Bolivar’s homeland, where we expelled the European empires with blood and fire, we don’t care what he says, we know that his knees are no longer able to accept Washington’s orders, but Venezuela respects itself, here the Constitution and democracy have triumphed.

Cuban Medicine

Cuba includes pneumococcal vaccine in National Immunization Program

Cuba includes pneumococcal vaccine in National Immunization Program

The Cuban National Health System will begin using the Pneumosil 10-valent pneumococcal vaccine for all infants born this year, starting September 9

Author:  | internet@granma.cu

august 30, 2024 12:08:53

The Cuban National Health System will begin using the Pneumosil 10-valent pneumococcal vaccine for all infants born this year, starting September 9, announced Lena López Ambrón, director of the National Immunization Program of the Ministry of Health, at a press conference yesterday.
López Ambrón explained that all babies born between January 1 and June 30 of this year will be vaccinated, which is about 27,500 babies.
Likewise, those born in the month of July who reach two months of age, the date established for the first dose to be administered in the vaccination program, will be vaccinated, she said.
The vaccination program, she said, consists of the application of a first dose, after two months a second dose will be applied and seven months later a third booster dose will be applied.
The director of the National Immunization Program stressed that the side effects that can occur with this vaccine are the common ones: muscular discomfort, redness or inflammation of the site where the injection was administered, fever or chills, and there is a very low risk of presenting allergic reactions.

Photo: UnicefCuba

She commented that during the first week of September, the directors of immunization and of the Mother and Child Program will be trained on the characteristics and methods of application of Pneumosil 10 valente, with the participation of experts from the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO).
She added that from the indicated date, mothers and fathers should go with their children of the indicated ages to the vaccination centers in their health areas.
WHY VACCINATE AGAINST PNEUMOCOCCAL DISEASE?
López Ambrón said that the vaccine is the most effective measure to prevent the disease.
She added that with the inclusion of Pneumosil 10 valente in the vaccination scheme of the Island, this reaches 17 immunologicals, of which 12 are of national production, for the pride of Cuban biotechnology.
She explained that this pneumococcal vaccine prevents ten of the main serotypes in circulation – 1, 5, 6a, 6b, 7f, 9v, 14, 19a, 19f and 23f – which cause invasive pneumococcal diseases, mainly severe cases of acute meningitis, pneumonia or sepsis.
The doctor noted that Pneumosil has no contraindications with other immunizers in the program, such as pentavalent and bivalent oral polio vaccine.
The purchase of this vaccine was made possible thanks to support from the Global Vaccine Alliance and PAHO.