Speech delivered by Miguel Mario Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and President of the Republic, at the closing of the International Meeting of Solidarity with Cuba, at the Convention Center, on May 2, 2026, "Year of the Centennial of Commander in Chief Fidel Castro Ruz."

Cuba: May Day Speech Delivered at the Closing of the International Meeting of Solidarity! (3.5.2026)

When it is said that we are an extraordinary and unusual threat to the United States – and we are sure that this is not the feeling of the American people, that is the pretext used by the American government to attack us – one wonders: What is the threat, what is extraordinary about that threat, what is unusual about that threat, when Cuba is a country of peace, when Cuba is a country that has served as the setting for the main peace dialogues in the Latin American and Caribbean region, when Cuba was the place where the Catholic Church and the Russian Orthodox Church came to meet to resolve the schism they had maintained for more than fifteen hundred years?

I try to answer that question every day, but, as Bruno explains, there is no pretext, there is no reason to justify military aggression against Cuba. Well, that “extraordinary and unusual threat” may be the example of resistance and creativity of the Cuban people.

When we talk about solidarity, I think we are talking about three elements that distinguish the value of international solidarity:

One is the tenderness of the peoples, because among all of us we have learned to share something that Fidel taught us, and that is that we do not give out of solidarity what we have left over, but we give what we have to share it among all.

Cuba Grants Free Housing to All!

Cuba: Two Mothers Benefit from First “Container Modular Homes” in Havana! (3.5.2026)

The inauguration of the first two modular homes from maritime containers completed in Havana, where awards were given to the executing entities, were also attended by the members of the Political Bureau, Manuel Marrero Cruz, Prime Minister; Roberto Morales Ojeda, Secretary of Organization of the Central Committee; Army Corps General Lázaro Alberto Álvarez Casas, Minister of the Interior; and Major General José Amado Ricardo Guerra, secretary of the Council of Ministers, among other authorities.

Both houses, one adjacent to the other, are different designs and equipped with different materials, in their construction were used remnants of investment processes from tourism and technologies developed by the Revolutionary Armed Forces, whose minister, Army Corps General Álvaro López Miera, also a member of the Political Bureau, supervised the completion of the works earlier.

In the simple ceremony, the head of the Government of the Republic, Manuel Marrero Cruz, recalled the genesis of the programme, triggered by suggestions from the Commander of the Revolution Ramiro Valdés Menéndez and which resulted in the reuse of the maritime containers in which the parts and pieces of the photovoltaic solar panel parks sent by the People’s Republic of China are imported.

There is always an ambulance that starts, a doctor on board, a paramedic who drives. Photo: Ortelio González Martínez

Cuba: The Socialist Ambulance Service – The Sound of Life! (1.4.2026)

When you dial 104 on the phone, on the other end of the line not only operators answer. They answer stories. And, in Ciego de Ávila, these stories have not been written for more than a decade: that of a deceased on board an ambulance.

Reimundo Pineda Estrada, a graduate in Nursing – and in Economics – in charge of Human Resources at the Regional Ambulance Base of Ciego de Ávila, says it with the confidence of someone who knows every statistic, every route, every man and woman who makes up the Integrated Medical Emergency Service (SIUM) in the province, of which he is the founder.

“So far we have not had any loss of human life during the transfer to the healthcare centers,” he says. And the phrase, said like this, without fuss, weighs like an ingot. Because behind that statement there are ten years of statistics, two decades without a final sigh inside a mobile unit, with thousands of patients transferred within the province and outside it.

Ten years in more than 6,000 square kilometres of Ávila’s geography – and beyond the limits of the province – figures that no medical report can fully reflect.

My Revolutionary Clobber!

Cuba: My Study of Che Guevara’s Work! (27.2.2026)

Oddly, Audible, despite hosting some fairly right-wing and far-right tomes – to its credit – it also hosts Marx, Engels, Lenin, Mao Zedong, Ho Chi Minh, and Che Guevara (amongst others). Yes – some are bourgeois aberrations – but others are straight from the original ideological source material and convey clear Socialist and Communist thinking. So far – so good. Recently, whilst carrying-out my academic work of translating ancient Chinese texts into English – I play audio-books in the background – so I can continue to “learn” whilst working. This is how, over the last three-months, I made an effort to study the Cuban Revolutionary experience. This came about after I had a conversation (a few years ago) with a Spanish man now living in Sutton – who surprised me when he said he had no interest in China or the USSR – but rather the Central and South American experience. This got me thinking – as I used to generally integrate all these movements – assuming they were different aspects of the 1917 Russian Revolution (which of course they are). The point is that different ethno-centric experiences abound – even if we are political allies all heading in the same ideological direction.

Russia Helps Cuba With Car Industry!

Cuba: Russia Defies “Illegal” US Boycott with UAZ SUV Car Industry Initiative! (9.4.2025)

Last Friday, Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Dmitry Chernyshenko, accompanied by Ambassador Viktor V. Koronelli , took part in the launching ceremony of the first UAZ vehicle assembled in Cuba .

🔩 Modern UAZ SUVs, well-known on the island and around the world for their durability and reliability , will be assembled in Havana from Russian car kits.

Newspaper - US Terrorism in Cuba!

Cuba: 65th Anniversary of US Terrorism Bombing of the La Coubre Ship! (4.3.2025)

Cuban historiography agrees on pointing out that it was a sabotage prepared at the embarkation point by agents at the service of the United States to prevent the arrival of the shipment of arms and ammunition in Cuba. At the burial of the victims (March 5), Fidel Castro said for the first time the slogan that would accompany the Cuban revolutionary process until today: Homeland or Death.

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