El Toque: A Digital Platform Influencing Cuba’s Currency Market

El Toque and the informal Cuban currency market: independent media or economic weapon? Photo:EFE. July 8, 2025 Hour: 9:48 pm Amid Cuba’s economic challenges, the digital platform El Toque has become a controversial actor in the informal currency...

Cuba President meets PM Modi, expresses interest in India’s Digital Public Infrastructure and UPI

Rio de Janeiro [Brazil], July 7 (ANI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi held a meeting with Cuba's President Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez on the sidelines of the 17th BRICS Summit in Rio de Janeiro on Sunday. During the meeting, Diaz-Canel expressed...

Bitter pill: Cuba runs low on life-saving medicines

Cuban Jessica Rodriguez never knows if she will find the medicines that keep her four-year-old son alive in a country that has all but run out of essential drugs. On a near daily basis she sprints from one state-run pharmacy to another on a quest...

Cuba President meets PM Modi, shows interest in UPI and DPI

During the meeting, the two leaders reviewed bilateral ties in the areas of economic cooperation, development partnership, fintech, capacity building, science and technology, disaster management and healthcare, according to the Ministry of...

Sego Plans To Advance The South Gold Zone And The Cuba Zone Porphyry Copper-Gold Mineralization

(MENAFN- Newsfile Corp) Vancouver, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - July 8, 2025) - Sego Resources Inc. (TSXV: SGZ) ("Sego" or "the Company") is planning to execute a non-brokered private placement of up to $700,000 to fund a drilling and...

Cuba Joins BRICS Summit in Brazil: A Proven Step Toward Global South Solidarity and Sovereignty

“Díaz-Canel’s participation marks the second time the Cuban president has attended a BRICS Summit; the first was in Johannesburg, as chair of the Group of 77 and China. Photo: EFE.” Jule 6 2025 July 6, 2025 Hour: 8:50 am Cuba Joins BRICS:...

Meeting of heads of medical missions abroad kicks off in Havana

HAVANA, Cuba, Jul 8 (ACN) The 23rd Meeting of Heads of Medical Missions Abroad is being held in Havana to discuss strategies to strengthen international medical collaboration and professional training. At the opening of the meeting at the Main...

Cuban FM highlights Cuba's call at BRICS Summit

HAVANA, Cuba, Jul 7 (ACN) Cuban foreign minister Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla highlighted on X, Cuba's position at the 17th BRICS Summit in Rio de Janeiro. In a thread posted on that social network, the head of the Cuban diplomacy highlighted the call...

No Slander will Prevent Cuba from Contin…

The US government makes no secret of its policy of destroying and causing harm to Cuba. A clear example of this has been the attack on Cuban medical missions abroad —one of the most genuine and humane legacies of Commander-in-Chief Fidel Castro...

Health Authorities Dismantle Havana’s Only Efficient Pediatric Hospital

“They want to take away our surgical activity,” complains a doctor at La Balear Hospital in San Miguel del Padrón. The surgical operations at the San Miguel del Padrón pediatric hospital are at risk due to a lack of staff and supplies. / Havana...

Poor Folks Coffee in Matanzas, Cuba: Scarce, Cold & Bitter

The collapse of Cuban coffee is a palpable reality, evident in the product’s disappearance from ration stores. Photo: 14ymedio Many retirees would need to invest half of their pension in a simple 284-gram (0.62 lbs.) package of imported coffee. By...

"Today, if Brazil has a different primary health care system, we owe it to Cuba"

Photo: Estudios Revolución RIO DE JANEIRO. –"My message to the Cuban people is one of immense gratitude," said Dilma Rousseff, current president of the New Development Bank (NDB) of the BRICS Group, to the press team of the Presidency of the...

Chinese FM urges US to immediately lift blockade and sanctions against Cuba

Chinese FM spokesperson Mao Ning When asked to comment on media reports that US President Donald Trump signed a memorandum imposing a hard-line US policy toward Cuba and reversed measures put in place by former President Joe Biden on Monday,...

No slander will prevent Cuba from continuing to offer life

The professionals from the island, said Rousseff, are generous in their humanistic care for the sick. Photo: Araquém Alcántara The US government makes no secret of its policy of destroying and causing harm to Cuba. A clear example of this has been...

Mario Díaz-Balart criticizes regimes in Cuba and Nicaragua

CMQ Big Band revives Havana’s heyday in Alhaurín de la Torre

QMQ Big Band bring a little Havana to Alhaurín. Credit: CMQ FB The Portón del Jazz Festival returns for its second date on Friday, July 11, promising an spectacular evening of Cuban rhythms and pulsating big band sounds. Headlining the event is...

From ‘Go Find Rich Husband’ to Finding Herself: Mia Dio on Self-Worth and Miss Universe Cuba

For the 92 million monthly active users who scrolled through TikTok during the height of the pandemic (watching trendy dances, viral recipes, and comedic skits) Mia Angelina Donadio Cancio—known online as Mia Dio—likely stood out with her...

National Drug Observatory to strengthen preventive work in Cuba

HAVANA, Cuba, Jul 7 (ACN) This week, the opening of the National Drug Observatory (OND) in Cuba was prominent in the media agenda,with the goal of contributing to the information and research needed to prevent and mitigate the incidence of this...

Diaz-Canel expresses Cuba's commitment to South-South cooperation

HAVANA, Cuba, Jul 7 (ACN) Miguel Diaz-Canel, first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and president of the country, expressed today Cuba's commitment to continue promoting South-South cooperation. During an exchange...

Havana hosts 12th Environmental Management Congress

HAVANA, Cuba, July 4 (ACN) As part of the activities of the International Convention on Environment and Development, the 12th Congress on Environmental Management was held at the Havana Convention Center. The event aimed at exchanging experiences...