Cubanos y amigos solidarios en Toronto exigen levantamiento del bloqueo contra Cuba

 

Press Release by CNC: Canada silent so far, while others quick to provide aid to Cuba. Where's the Canadian Government?

 

 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Canadian Network on Cuba – Working in Friendship & Solidarity with Cuba

www.canadiannetworkoncuba.ca

Email: cncexec@canadiannetworkoncuba.ca

 

CANADA SO FAR SILENT, WHILE OTHERS QUICK TO PROVIDE AID TO CUBA AFTER MATANZAS FUEL SUPERTANK DISASTER

 

Canadians support Cuba – Where is our Canadian Government?

 

[Toronto, ON – August 11^th, 2022] – While countries such as Mexico and Venezuela were coming to Cuba’s aid in overcoming the unprecedented disastrous fire at the Matanzas oil storage facility, the Canadian government has been nowhere to be seen or heard in offering a helping hand, to a nation that has been providing humanitarian assistance across the globe for decades, despite facing its own ongoing hardships due to US economic sanctions.

 

Mexico sent 16 flights with over 45,000 litres of foam and other equipment for fighting the oil-fueled inferno, and Mexico and Venezuela combined sent over 100 reinforcements to battle alongside local firefighters. The UK, Russia, China, Argentina, and Jamaica have since also sent material aid to Cuba over the last five days. The United States cynically sat back and asked Havana to call them for “technical advice”, and sadly, even that is more than what Canada has done or offered so far.

 

The fire at the port city of Matanzas’ oil storage facility started last Friday evening, when lightning struck a rod on one of the storage tanks, with the charge being too powerful for it to absorb, igniting a massive explosion and subsequent raging fire that quickly spread to neighbouring storage tanks. As of today, there is 1 person deceased, 17 people “missing”, and at least 121 injured by burns and smoke inhalation.

 

Cubans face severe economic hardship due to sanctions by the United States which have only been tightened in recent years. Sanctions make it extremely cumbersome and expensive to do trade with other countries, and for Cubans to obtain basic necessities. They have also led to Cuba being forced to ration energy use and endure electricity blackouts. This will all be made significantly worse by this catastrophe.

 

Canadians have a special relationship with Cuba, being fortunate enough to be able to travel there and learn about the rich culture, make lifelong friends and connections, and witness an example of a country that does so much for its people with so little. Cuba reinvests its modest GDP into its universal public health care, education, other social services, and research and development, particularly in its biotechnology sector, which has benefitted many nations especially during the COVID-19 pandemic.

 

This is the worst fire in Cuba’s history, that has destroyed over 40% of the island’s main fuel storage facility, which generates electricity on the island, and the Canadian government has not so much as even offered condolences yet. Should we not have been one of the first to reach out and offer help to our Cuban neighbours?

 

If you would like more information about this, please contact Samantha Hislop, Co-Chair of Canadian Network on Cuba, at 647-628-0203, or email hislopsamantha@gmail.com

Appeal to Canada to help to Cuba fight the oil depot catastrophe in Matanzas

 

Canadian Network on Cuba – Working in  Friendship & Solidarity with   Cuba www.canadiannetworkoncuba.ca  cncexec@canadiannetworkoncuba.ca

The Honourable Mélanie Joly, Minister of Foreign Affairs Canada
House of Commons
Ottawa, ON
K1A 0A6

The Honourable Harjit S. Sajjan, P.C., M.P.

Minister of International Development
House of Commons
Ottawa, ON
K1A 0A6

 

August 10^th, 2022

To the Honourable Mélanie Joly,

To the Honourable Harjit S. Sajjan, P.C., M.P.,

 

The Canadian Network on Cuba is making this urgent appeal to Canadian Government to immediately send material aid in the face of the supertanker facility accident at Cuba’s main oil terminal in Matanzas, Cuba.  Hundreds of Cuban firefighters and others are working in flat-out impossible conditions.   More than a hundred people have been injured and hospitalized, and 17 are missing.

 

The Canadian Network on Cuba, comprised of 23 solidarity organizations from Victoria to Halifax, asks the Canadian government to join other countries, such as Mexico and Venezuela, who are helping Cuba at this dire time. 

 

The illegal, cruel US blockade of Cuba has deliberately cut Cuba off from getting basic materials desperately needed for treating burn victims from this disaster, as well as extinguishing a fire of this nature and dimension.

 

Canada has a long history of diplomatic and trade relations with Cuba and has consistently voted at the United Nations to condemn the US Blockade against Cuba.

 

Now is the time to stand up and be counted by sending urgently needed medical supplies to treat the burn victims and help vulnerable people from the air pollutants created by the toxic smoke.  We are less than 4 hours flight from Cuba. Canada needs to send what is needed - Now. 

 

Sincerely,

 

Samantha Hislop, email: hislopsamantha@gmail.com

Julio Fonseca, email: jfonseca@rogers.com

Co-Chairs, Canadian Network on Cuba

Call Me - Washington's Generosity, by Isaac Saney and Cheryl LaBash

 

Call Me - Washington's Generosity

*-Isaac Saney and Cheryl LaBash-

While various countries such as Mexico and Venezuela were concretely assisting Cuba in overcoming the unprecedented disastrous fire consuming the Mantanzas oil storage facility, the United States cynically sat on its hands, instead asking Havana to call them. As Mexico, for example, sent 16 flights with over 45,000 litres of foam and other equipment for fighting the raging inferno, the United States provided the tremendous contribution of a telephone number for Cuba to call for technical advice! Presumably, it was Cuba who had to cover the cost of the call.

Of course, the very generous offer of help is quite familiar to workers and the ever-growing impoverished masses in Canada and the United States, who when seeking relief from looming homelessness, hunger and general immiseration are told to call a number only to begin a soul crushing, spirit destroying and emotion shattering odyssey: A dead-end that leads to no relief, succour or refuge in a dog-eat-dog society where everyone fends for themselves, so characteristic and defining of profit driven and capital centred societies.

Yes, call me is a refrain that should resonate with so many. But unlike the promise of Blondie's 1980 song, no help will be arriving anytime soon. Here-in lies the rub, the clear connection between disenfranchisement, austerity and marginalisation at home, and imperial plunder, exploitation, and war aboard.

While, Washington may plead ignorance, saying Cuba (less than 100-miles away) never exactly stated what assistance it needed, what good neighbour just stands by and watches a house next-door catch on fire instead of immediately rushing to help?!

But, of course, Cuba has stated time and time again exactly what is required from Washington:

Remove Cuba from the arbitrary and unilateral U.S. State Department's State Sponsors of Terrorism list!  A list that makes it impossible for Cuba to obtain credits and loans from international financial institutions and economic assistance from other counties who fear U.S. reprisals and retaliations. A list that Washington uses as justification to openly intimidate and sanction international entities that already have economic relations with Cuba, pressuring them to break those relations with the island nation.

End the criminal and internationally condemned economic war against Cuba, which is the principal obstacle to Cuba’s social and economic development, causing damage exceeding $100 billion!

Cease the relentless campaign of disinformation, aggression, and subversion of Cuba’s legitimate constitutional order!

Call me, indeed! The ignominies of the empire are writ large and know no bounds.

*Isaac Saney is a Cuba specialist at Dalhousie University, Canada, and the author of Cuba: A Revolution In Motion and the forthcoming, Cuba, Africa, and Apartheid's End: Africa's Children Return. From 2008-2022, he served as co-chair and national spokesperson of the Canadian Network On Cuba, with which he now serves in an advisory capacity.

*Cheryl LaBash is co-chair of the National Network On Cuba in the United States and works in Washington, D.C. on national mobilization and legislative advocacy to end the U.S. economic, financial, and commercial blockade of Cuba, and writes on current Cuba related developments.

Red Canadiense de Solidaridad con Cuba (CNC) envió carta de condolencias a Embajador de Cuba en Canadá

Ambassador Hector Igarza Cabrera,

Cuban Embassy,

388 Main St,

Ottawa, ON

K1S 1E3

 

Dear Ambassador Héctor Igarza Cabrera, 

 

On behalf of the Canadian Network on Cuba (CNC), We would like to extend our most profound sympathies and condolences to you, the victims of the fire at the supertanker facility in Matanzas, and the entire Cuban nation in this extremely difficult time. We are shocked and devastated by the terrible human loss and injury incurred, and the excruciating hardship that ensues.

 

 

The CNC expresses its highest possible praise for the swift action of Cuban authorities.  We commend the brave and daunting work of the firefighters, Red Cross, and medical personnel in their heroic efforts to prevent further damage to the infrastructure and surrounding area and avert additional loss of life and injury. Those that are missing or lost their lives are true heroes, and our thoughts and sympathies are with their families.

 

 

In addition to the immediate and direct losses resulting from this terrible accident, we are aware of the subsequent effect this unspeakable tragedy will have on the Cuban people in their everyday lives and on the entire Cuban economy. We recognize that this will intensify Cuba’s struggle, in face of the severe U.S. economic sanctions and the ongoing pandemic.  We are confident that Cuba will triumph against this adversity as it wholeheartedly and consistently upholds basic human rights.

 

The Canadian Network on Cuba is here to support Cuba in any way that we can. Cuba is not alone.

 

 

Yours Sincerely,

Samantha Hislop 

Julio Fonseca

Co-chairs, Canadian Network on Cuba

 

Asociación de Cubanos inicia en Toronto campaña de recaudación de fondos para ayudar a Matanzas

 

Como cada mes en Toronto, este domingo 31 exigiremos el cese del bloqueo de EEUU contra las familias cubanas

 

Gaceta Oficial publica nuevas medidas para las importaciones no comerciales por personas naturales

 

La Gaceta Oficial de la República de Cuba publicó una resolución en la que se establecen las “reglas para las importaciones no comerciales que realizan las personas naturales”. Esta medida fue anunciada recientemente por el ministro de Economía, Alejandro Gil Fernández, en la Asamblea Nacional, donde informó sobre la flexibilización de la importación por personas naturales con carácter no comercial. La flexibilización de la importación por personas naturales con carácter no comercial incluye:

• Definir el carácter no comercial de la importación de las misceláneas por su valor y peso y por la diversidad de los artículos a importar, y no por las cantidades físicas.
• Incrementar la cantidad permitida a importar de algunos artículos. Por ejemplo: celulares, computadores, tabletas, neumáticos y llantas.
• Incrementar el límite de importación mediante envíos de 10 kg a 20 kg.
• Disminuir el valor del kilogramo de importación de 20 USD a 10 USD e incrementar el exento de pago de 1.5 kg a 3 kg para los artículos a los que se aplique el valor-peso.
• Disminuir el 70% del pago del impuesto aduanero (actualmente es del 100%, se reduce al 30%).

En la resolución publicada en la Gaceta Oficial la autoridad aduanera admite como importación no comercial a realizar por las personas naturales aquellas que estas realizan de manera ocasional para su uso personal, familiar o del hogar, mediante equipajes, envíos, menajes u otras cargas autorizadas. El documento establece el “Listado de Valores de Referencia” para algunos de los productos que como importaciones no comerciales traen las personas naturales por cualquier vía.

La presente Resolución entra en vigor a partir del 15 de agosto de 2022.  Por otro lado, el Ministerio de Finanzas y Precios estableció que:

“Las personas naturales que reciban en el territorio nacional envíos aéreos, marítimos, postales, y de mensajería sin carácter comercial, están exentas del pago del Impuesto Aduanero por los primeros treinta dólares estadounidenses (30.00 USD) del valor o su peso equivalente, hasta tres kilogramos (3 kg) del envío, en la relación valor/peso establecida por la Aduana General de la República”.

Tomado de Cubadebate 

Resistance, Resilience and Renewal: Cuba Commemorates Moncada, by Isaac Saney

Isaac Saney-*

July 26, 2022, marks the 69th anniversary of the act that is annually celebrated all over Cuba as the beginning of the movement and struggle that paved the way for the Cuban Revolution. On that day, Cuba’s rebels - led by Fidel Castro - rose up against the U.S.- supported dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista.  

On July 26, 1953, a group of courageous young men and women attacked the Moncada Barracks in the city of Santiago de Cuba, and the Carlos Manuel de Céspedes Barracks in Bayamo, in an attempt to overthrow the U.S. supported puppet dictator Fulgencio Batista. As the island's second largest military garrison, the Moncada Barracks was critical to Batista's military control of southern Cuba. The goal was to seize the weapons and distribute them to the people and spark a national uprising that would not only overthrow the Batista dictatorship but also establish Cuba's independence and sovereignty. This heroic act is annually commemorated all over Cuba as the beginning of the movement and struggle that laid the foundation of the Cuban Revolution.  

The attacks were carried out by an organization that was created in 1952, under the leadership of Fidel Castro and Abel Santamaria, and comprised of young workers, students, artisans, peasants, and landless farmers. It had around 1,500 members and affiliated itself with historic Cuban national liberation figures such as José Martí and Antonio Maceo. Around 120 youths were part of the attacks, approximately 70 of whom were killed, with many being tortured and executed after the attack. The survivors, including Fidel Castro, were subsequently put on trial, and given lengthy prison sentences. Most, including Fidel Castro, were released after an amnesty in May 1955. This amnesty was the result of the mass mobilization of Cubans in support of the imprisoned rebels. Under the leadership of Fidel Castro, the July 26th Movement galvanized Cubans, ultimately leading to the victory of the Cuban Revolution on January 1, 1959.

The Cuban Revolution is a culmination of the struggles for national independence and social justice, embodied in the indigenous resistance to Spanish colonisation, in African rebellions against slavery, reaching a crescendo on October 10, 1868 when Carlos Manuel de Céspedes launched the first war for independence, carried forward and deepened by José Martí and Antonio Maceo, and revived periodically throughout the 20th century when Cuba languished under U.S. hegemony, with Moncada a crucial signpost.  

The Cuban Revolution is, therefore, the crystallization and consummation of the historical aspirations of the Cuban people, manifested time and time again in their re-affirmation and determination to defend, strengthen and perfect the revolutionary project.

However, the empire has never accepted the verdict of the Cuban people; it has waged an unceasing economic war and campaign of destabilisation aimed at restoring U.S. imperialism's domination and tutelage.

This year’s Moncada celebrations and commemorations occur a little over one year after the failed U.S. financed and organized effort to overthrow Cuba's government by taking advantage of the amplification of serious challenges and difficulties faced by the Cuban nation due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the intensification of Washington’s unrelenting economic war.  

The July 11, 2021, protests in Cuba were maliciously manipulated by reactionary politicians and the monopoly media in various deliberate ways to discredit the Cuban Revolution and create a climate of disinformation and confusion to justify further aggressions against the island nation. However, overwhelmingly, the international community and the world solidarity movement with Cuba united rejecting Washington's economic war and destabilisation campaign. The U.S. state department failed miserably in pressuring countries in the Americas and across the world to join its ignominious and scurrilous attacks and manoeuvres against Cuba. The latest debacle at the Summit of the Americas not only underscored its failure to isolate Cuba but Washington's own estrangement from the region as many countries either stayed away in protest against Cuba's exclusion or sent lower-level delegations, with one participant after another calling for an end to U.S. hostilities against the heroic island nation.  

Nevertheless, Washington remains intransigent. Since the triumph of the Cuban Revolution in 1959, Washington has waged an unceasing assault, both military and economic, against the Cuban people, organizing an invasion, assassinations, terrorist attacks against civilians and systematic economic sabotage. Many of these acts were directly launched from and/or planned in the United States. These acts of terror against Cuba include the 1976 bombing of a civilian Cuban airliner that claimed the lives of 73 people and the 1997 Havana hotel bombings, which claimed the life of Fabio Di Celmo, a young Montrealer of Italian origin. As a point of fact, 3,478 Cubans have been killed and 2,099 injured, because of these terrorist acts.

The objective of Washington’s strategy is the negation and extinguishment of Cuba’s right to self-determination, sovereignty, and independence: to reimpose U.S. domination, hegemony, and tutelage.

The malign goal is to starve the Cuban people into submission by suffocating the economy for the purpose of generating shortages, hardships and exacerbating social inequalities that the Cuban Revolution has been working resolutely to eliminate in order to lead to Washington’s longed-for massive social unrest that would then serve as a pretext to intervene in Cuba.

This was unambiguously articulated by Lester D. Mallory, Vice Secretary of State, and an architect of U.S. Cuba policy. He wrote in a now-declassified U.S. State Department April 6, 1960, memorandum:

“The only foreseeable means of alienating internal support is through disenchantment and disaffection based on economic dissatisfaction and hardship … every possible means should be undertaken promptly to weaken the economic life of Cuba … denying money and supplies to Cuba, to decrease monetary and real wages, to bring about hunger, desperation, and overthrow of government.”

But what is it that Washington seeks to destroy? What is the society that the U.S. government is so zealously committed to undermining?  

Cuba is a society where universal education and health care, housing, food, and access to culture are fundamental human rights, and the state — within its limited resources — does its utmost to transform these aspirations into reality.

Indeed, in Cuba there are no homeless children roaming the streets eking out an existence in a dog-eat-dog society where everyone fends for themselves, so characteristic and defining of profit driven and capital centred societies.

This commitment is affirmed and ratified by and through Cuba’s system of popular power which provides consequential, concrete, and meaningful input into decision-making by the citizenry. Through mass participation and consultation these historical aspirations are expressed in a political consensus to defend, strengthen, and perfect the revolutionary project.

 

Cuba is the country that despite worldwide attacks on fundamental human rights has created a final draft of a new family code that will be voted on in a September 25, 2022, referendum. The code is guided by José Marti's dictum, "with all and for the good of all", guaranteeing respect for family diversity and defending the rights of all.

Cuba is also the country that has a vibrant biotechnology sector as its own highly effective vaccines and treatments against the corona virus have abundantly demonstrated. Indeed, Cuba’s successful vaccines are a direct challenge to the West’s monopoly over this vital medical technology, especially as these vaccines continue receiving international recognition.  

Besieged by the empire, the heroic island nation has made invaluable contributions to the well-being of the world’s nations and peoples, having established an unparalleled legacy of internationalism and humanitarianism.

More than 400,000 Cuban medical personnel have served in 164 countries fighting disease.

More than 2,000 Cubans gave their lives in the struggles to liberate Africa from the scourge of colonialism and the racist apartheid South African state.  As Nelson Mandela emphasized: "The Cuban people hold a special place in the hearts of the people of Africa. The Cuban internationalists have made a contribution to African independence, freedom, and justice, unparalleled for its principled and selfless character."

It is internationalist Cuba which has selflessly dispatched tens of thousands of medical personnel to dozens of countries across the world to fight disease, be it Ebola or COVID-19.

What Cuba has done nationally and internationally is no small feat. Its impressive achievements have occurred amid an all-sided brutal aggression by Washington.

Commemorations of Moncada Day in Cuba and internationally reflect the ties that exist between Cuba and the world.  The peoples of the world admire the courageous and rebellious spirit embodied in Moncada; a spirit that today is so powerfully manifested in Cuba’s steadfastness against the efforts of the empire to destroy the island’s independence. As Cuba's President, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez poignantly and repeatedly underscored, "We will not surrender the sovereignty of our country."

While the Moncada attack failed in fulfilling its immediate objective, it was central to the Cuban people's struggle for national affirmation and social emancipation. Cubans have always placed Moncada in a broad historical context, viewing it as a crucial link in the century-long striving of Cuba to free itself from Spanish colonial domination and U.S. tutelage, and then, establish authentic independence. At his trial Fidel Castro delivered a speech that eventually became the manifesto of the movement to overthrow the Batista tyranny. It was published as La Historia Me Absolvera (History Will Absolve Me) and laid out the national and social goals of the revolutionary movement that eventually triumphed on January 1, 1959. Today, the Moncada and Carlos Manuel de Cespedes barracks, now a school and a museum, stand as concrete symbols of that successful struggle.

Although that first battle was lost, the Revolution ultimately prevailed on January 1, 1959.

Since the Cuban people embarked on the road paved by Moncada, Cuba has refuted and continues to refute the colonialist mentality and practice of foisting on independent countries imperial arrangements and dictates that they resoundingly reject. The Cuban Revolution has refused to renounce its right to self-determination, independence and sovereignty, principles forged in the crucible of Moncada.  

*Isaac Saney is a Cuba specialist at Dalhousie University, and the author of Cuba: A Revolution In Motion and the forthcoming, Cuba, Africa, and Apartheid's End: Africa's Children Return. From 2008-2022, he served as co-chair and national spokesperson of the Canadian Network On Cuba, with which he now serves in an advisory capacity.

Declaración de Asociaciones de Cubanos Residentes en Canadá

 

DECLARACIÓN

Las asociaciones de cubanos residentes en Canadá exigimos una vez más y con renovada convicción el levantamiento inmediato del bloqueo estadounidense contra las familias cubanas y el cese de las campañas mediáticas que, financiadas por los EEUU, intentan manchar la imagen de Cuba en el mundo a base de mentiras y calumnias.

Hace 63 años el gobierno de EEUU institucionalizó su agresión abierta al pueblo cubano imponiéndole un bloqueo económico, financiero y comercial, que es hoy el sistema de medidas y sanciones más abarcador y antiguo en la historia de la humanidad.

Unido a este régimen de sanciones, EEUU intenta por todos los medios de incitar a la ejecución de actos vandálicos usando a operadores políticos en la isla con el objetivo expreso de alterar la tranquilidad de las calles en nuestra patria y destruir su orden constitucional. Cuba es una tierra de paz y lo seguirá siendo.

Reiteramos nuestro apoyo y nuestra disposición de ayudar a nuestro pueblo.

Deseamos paz y prosperidad a la patria.

No más sanciones. Abajo el bloqueo.

Asociaciones de Cubanos Residentes en Canadá

·       Asociación Cubanos Residentes en Toronto Juan Gualberto Gómez
·       Asociación Cultural Cubanos Residentes en Montreal Isla de Cuba
·       Asociación Cubanos Montreal Comunidad Cubana en Canadá
·       Asociación Cubano-Canadiense Ottawa-Gatineau

En Cuba desde hoy no es obligatorio el uso del nasobuco

 

El uso del nasobuco o mascarilla ya no será obligatorio en Cuba a partir de hoy, según informó este lunes el Ministerio de Salud Pública.

Como parte de las medidas para la nueva etapa relacionada con el control de la COVID-19, se establece eliminar su obligatoriedad para todas las actividades sociales, excepto en consultas médicas y servicios de hospitalización que así lo requieran, y en áreas con restricción durante los controles de foco.

Sin embargo, serán obligatorias las mascarillas en personas que presenten síntomas respiratorios, así como es importante que las continúen empleando las personas vulnerables como medida de protección, no solo ante la COVID-19.

El Minsap recomienda su utilización, también, en escenarios con aglomeración de personas, donde no sea posible un adecuado distanciamiento físico, y agrega que se mantiene la decisión de no permitir la entrada a centros de trabajo y estudiantiles de personas con síntomas respiratorios.

Además, en cada uno de esos lugares, así como en los servicios sanitarios y áreas de elaboración y expendio de alimentos, se deberán garantizar los recursos necesarios para el lavado y desinfección de las manos.

Entre otras medidas, la institución médica informa la eliminación del uso obligatorio de los pasos podálicos; aunque se debe mantener la desinfección de superficies de uso colectivo, para lo cual se utilizará hipoclorito de sodio al 0,5 % o solución hidroalcohólica al 70 %.

Asimismo, recomienda realizar a los trabajadores capacitaciones sistemáticas y actualizadas sobre las normas higiénicas de protección individual y colectiva.

Tomado de granma.cu

En Toronto cubanos y amigos solidarios exigiremos fin del bloqueo genocida de EEUU contra las familias cubanas

 

Cuba extiende flexibilización en importaciones por vía de pasajeros

Cuba prorrogó nuevamente la importación sin carácter comercial de alimentos, aseo y medicamentos, por la vía de pasajeros como equipaje acompañado y libre del pago de aranceles, trascendió hoy en la prensa local.

De acuerdo con un comunicado de la Aduana General de la República publicado por medios del país, la medida se hará extensiva y con carácter temporal hasta el 31 de diciembre de este año, sin límites en valor y cantidades.

La Aduana enfatizó que para el disfrute de tal beneficio es requisito que dichos productos estén diferenciados, en el equipaje acompañado, de los artículos de otra naturaleza.

«Se prorroga además hasta el 31 de diciembre, los beneficios arancelarios otorgados por el Ministerio de Finanzas y Precios, relacionados con la importación de estos productos por entidades nacionales, así como para los insumos y materias primas que las entidades autorizadas le importan a las formas de gestión no estatal», agrega la información.

Autoridades explicaron que persisten las limitaciones en las ofertas de alimentos y de otros productos básicos debido al recrudecimiento del bloqueo económico, comercial y financiero estadounidense, al impacto del enfrentamiento a la Covid-19 y a la crisis económica mundial.

En declaraciones a la Agencia Cubana de Noticias, Vladimir Regueiro Ale, viceministro primero del Ministerio de Finanzas y Precios, afirmó que las dificultades que aún atraviesa el país aconsejaron extender más allá del actual primer semestre la decisión adoptada por primera vez en julio de 2021.

Tomado de PrensaLatina

Declaración

 

La Asociación de Cubanos en Toronto “Juan Gualberto Gómez” envía sus más sentidas condolencias a los familiares y amigos de las víctimas de la explosión en el Hotel Saratoga en La Habana ayer. Les deseamos una pronta recuperación a los heridos y mucha fuerza a nuestro pueblo.

Nuestra asociación está recogiendo donaciones de nuestros miembros y amigos solidarios para crear un fondo de ayuda a los damnificados en esta tragedia.

Para nuestra patria todo nuestro apoyo y amor.

Estamos con ustedes en este momento de dolor. Cuenten con nosotros.

Asociación Cubanos Residentes en Toronto

Juan Gualberto Gómez

Domingo 24 de abril en Toronto: Mitin de protesta contra el bloqueo de EEUU impuesto a Cuba hace más de 60 años

 

Declaración Cubanos Residentes en Canadá

 

Declaración

En un emotivo encuentro ayer entre una representación de las asociaciones de cubanos residentes en Canadá y el nuevo embajador de la República de Cuba en este país norteño, Héctor Igarza, le hemos pedido que transmita al Presidente de Cuba Miguel Díaz-Canel nuestra solidaridad, apoyo y acompañamiento incondicionales en su labor en la dirección del país en momentos tan difíciles y complejos.

Guiados por nuestro amor a la Patria hemos reiterado nuestro compromiso inclaudicable con la justa causa de Cuba ante el recrudecimiento del bloqueo estadounidense y la feroz campaña mediática que a base de mentiras y fabricaciones trata de presentar una visión sesgada de la realidad cubana.

Continuamos exigiendo el levantamiento del cerco del gobierno de EEUU que acorrala a nuestras familias y además con malvada alevosía nos impide a nosotros ayudarlas.

Abajo el bloqueo

Viva Cuba libre, digna y soberana

Estamos contigo patria amada

Asociaciones de Cubanos Residentes en Canadá

9 de abril del 2022

Ottawa

Cuba elimina obligación de presentar PCR negativo y certificado de vacunación para entrar al país

 

En correspondencia con la situación epidemiológica internacional y nacional de la COVID-19 y los niveles de inmunización alcanzados, se ha decidido realizar las siguientes modificaciones a los requisitos de entrada al país como parte del Control Sanitario Internacional.

De acuerdo con Francisco Durán García, director nacional de Epidemiología del Minsap, las medidas de flexibilización entrarán en vigor el 6 de abril.

• Eliminar como requisito de entrada al país la presentación de una prueba para COVID-19 (Test de antígeno o PCR-RT) realizada en el país de origen, así como el certificado de vacunación anti-COVID-19.
• Se mantendrá la toma de muestra para estudio de SARS CoV-2 (gratuito) de forma aleatoria a viajeros en los puntos de entrada al país, teniendo en cuenta la cantidad de vuelos, la entrada de embarcaciones y el riesgo epidemiológico que represente el país de origen.
• De resultar positiva la muestra tomada en el punto de entrada se procederá según los protocolos aprobados en el país para el control clínico-epidemiológico de la COVID-19.
• Se mantienen todos los flujos y medidas implementadas en todos los puntos de entrada al país que garantizan el distanciamiento social y la desinfección de las manos y superficies.
• Se mantiene el uso obligatorio de la mascarilla en todos los puntos de entrada al país.