Cuba exceeds 8,000 Covid-19 cases in one day
For the first time since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic in Cuba, this Caribbean nation surpassed today eight thousand cases in the past 24 hours, health authorities reported.
In a televised appearance, the National Director of Epidemiology, Dr. Francisco Duran, confirmed 8,853 patients positive to the virus, which causes Covid-19, and the death of 80 people due to complications with this disease.
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Mission of the Cuban Radio
The Cuban Radio System is a state entity of the Cuban Radio and Television Institute (ICRT), established to supervise, monitor, analyze and organize the creative process and the development of national radio.
The Institute has a vice-president -who runs the entire radio system, three general directors and nine methodological directors, as well as 96 stations located throughout the country.
The mission of the approximately 7,000 workers of the Cuban Radio System is to offer a programming of high political, ideological, social, ethical and aesthetic values, in line with the Battle of Ideas fought in Cuba.
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Bombing in Hiroshima and Nagasaki: an abominable crime
Radio Mayabeque
76 years have passed since that crime against humanity committed by the government of the United States of America, dropping atomic bombs during World War II against the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.Read More...
When solidarity is for real
Ed Newman / Radio Havana Cuba
The United States insists on saying that it is concerned about the Cuban people... a concern that ironically translates into the ongoing genocidal blockade that hinders the fight against COVID-19. Read More...
Formulas against #Cuba to incite hatred
Prensa Latina
A new approach to the riots on August 5, 1994, and July 11, 2021, in Cuba shows more similarities than differences between them, despite the 27-year span.Read More...
Rafael González Muñoz, "a national dialogue is imposed"
Cubaliteraria Site
We in the Hermanos Saíz Association agreed that events such as those that happened on July 11 should not have happened, and it has to do with what we have inherited from 59 to here, from the highest figures of this country who have always had the ability to dialogue.Read More...
From Social Media
Tribute to Fidel by social networks
Radio Cubana / Traslation By Gilda Gil
Activities on the virtual platforms, including exhibitions, book presentations, and talks will commemorate throughout the country, the 95th anniversary of the birth of the Commander in Chief, Fidel Castro.Read More...
Washington is committing crimes against humanity
Xinhua writer Zhao Wencai
As global COVID-19 cases crossed the gruesome 200-million mark on Thursday and new variants are fueling fresh surges, Washington is committing crimes against humanity by trying to take the world hostage in the battle to beat the cunning virus.Read More...
On the Radio
Benny More: The greatest sonero
Rolando Alvarez Estevez, Translated by Daysi Olano Fernandez
All Cuban people celebrated this week the 90th anniversary of the birth of Benny Moré, known worldwide as "El Barbaro del Ritmo ". His work, permanently present in the network of radio stations across the country, dressed in recent days along with special programs on the life of this genius of...Read More...
Interview to Ana Maria Valdivia, Radio Reloj broadcaster
By: Roberto Rodríguez Menendez, Translated by Daysi Olano FernandezAlmost every day, we listen to her voice reading the news on Radio Reloj, though she didn’t start her professional career there.Read More...
Luis Rielo Morejon: A Child that Never Was
Josefa Bracero Torres Translated by Daysi Olano Fernandez
On July 24, 1933 at 2:30 in the morning, was born a cute boy who was named Luis …It is written a little notebook where my father recorded the dates of birth of each of his children, I was the fourth. My birth was in place I do not remember its name. After 6 months my family moved to my uncle’s...Read More...
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Tweet of the day
I reject the US opportunistic measures against Cuba's Ministry of Interior officers and Armed Forces Prevention Troops.
— Bruno Rodríguez P (@BrunoRguezP) August 13, 2021
Such measures reflect double standards of a government used to manipulation and lies to maintain the blockade against #Cuba.