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Million Cubans Stand by Doctor Felix Baez

Messages of hope, encouragement, love and solidarity fill different social networking platforms to support Doctor Felix Baez, infected with Ebola in Sierra Leone. After the news of his transfer to the University Hospital of Geneva in Switzerland and the stability of his condition was made public, comments through multiple websites of the Caribbean nation and the most popular social networks »

Cuban Doctor Stricken by Ebola Transferred to Europe for Further Treatment

Cuban doctor Felix Baez Sarria, member of the Henry Reeves medical brigade in Sierra Leone, was diagnosed with Ebola and is now under treatment at a Switzerland-based specialized center, with no complications, the Cuban Health Ministry reported on Wednesday. The report published on Granma newspaper explains that on November 16, the Cuban doctor, a specialist in Internal Medicine who had »

US Actions against Cuba Counterproductive, The New York Times Says

For the fifth time in less than a month, The New York Times published a long editorial on Cuba, in which it listed the countless destabilizing efforts by the United States to overthrow the Cuban government. In an article entitled “In Cuba, Misadventures in Regime Change”, the Editorial Committee of the influential New York-based newspaper on Sunday reviewed Washington’s countless »

Overwhelming Rejection to US Blockade on Cuba Expected at UN Assembly

With more elements than ever before concerning what Washington calls embargo, the General Assembly of the United Nations will analyze this Tuesday, and will vote for the 23rd consecutive time, on the US blockade on Cuba issue, which is expected to be a resounding victory against that hostile policy. Greater condemnation of such a stunt is also awaited. This fact »

Sancti Spiritus Health Workers Willing to Fight Ebola

Over 500 health workers from the central Cuban province of Sancti Spiritus have voluntarily registered themselves to leave for African countries, in order to help in the eradication of Ebola. Dr. Aris Fontain Espinosa, head of the cooperation department of the Provincial Health Management, told the press that the territory is already represented in the health team that recently left »

Puerto Rican Visitors Hold Solidarity Meeting in Sancti Spiritus (+photos)

The 48 members of the Puerto Rican Juan Rius Rivera Solidarity-with-Cuba Brigade, who currently visit Sancti Spiritus, held a meeting with representatives of the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP) in the headquarters of that institution. Since their arrival in this central Cuban city last Saturday, they’ve been engaged in the fulfilment of a busy agenda which included »

Alba-TCP Join Efforts to Reinforce Surveillance, Prevention against Ebola

The countries of the Bolivarian Alternative for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA) regional bloc put together an action plan for a joint response to the Ebola pandemic in Africa. The Final Declaration of the ALBA Extraordinary Summit on Ebola lists as one of its main objectives the strengthening of “professional development for experts in the treatment of Ebola patients” »

Raul at Summit on Ebola: Cuba is Willing to Work Side by Side with Every Country

When addressing the heads of State and Government of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America-Trade Treaty of the Peoples (ALBA-TCP) and observer countries gathered in Havana for the summit on Ebola, Cuban President Raul Castro referred to the importance of the action of the international community, under the leadership of the World Health Organization, the Pan American »

Raul Castro Presides Over Extraordinary ALBA-TCP Summit on Ebola

President of the Councils of State and Ministers, Army General Raul Castro, presides over this Monday in Havana, the Extraordinary Summit of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America-Trade Treaty of the Peoples (ALBA-TCP), on Ebola. The meeting was officially started with the welcoming greeting of the Cuban president to the delegations from member countries, as well as »

Cuba Venue of ALBA-TCP Extraordinary Summit on Ebola

The Extraordinary Summit of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America-Trade Treaty of the Peoples (ALBA-TCP) on Ebola started this Monday, October 20th with the official greeting to dignitaries of the member countries. Granma newspaper reports that the heads of state of Venezuela, Cuba, Bolivia, Nicaragua, the Commonwealth of Dominica, Antigua and Barbuda, Ecuador, Saint Vincent and the »