Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel and his wife Lis Cuesta Peraza pose with Portuguese President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa (centre), during a welcome ceremony outside the 16th century Jeronimos Monastery in Lisbon, July 14, 2023
CUBAN President Miguel Diaz-Canel was greeted by over a thousand Cuba solidarity campaigners in Lisbon on Saturday.
The socialist island’s leader is in Europe for an EU-Celac (Community of Latin American and Caribbean states) summit beginning on Monday.
His rapturous reception in Portugal comes after the European Parliament provoked strong criticism from Latin American countries with a resolution calling for sanctions on Mr Diaz-Canel and saying that “autocratic regimes” should not be allowed to participate in summits with the EU.
Where normally only the US and its ally Israel vote to strangle Cuba economically, there have been special efforts to slander and isolate the besieged socialist island nation year — so we must redouble our solidarity, writes TARIQ ANDERSON
The recent speech by Cuba’s President Miguel Diaz-Canel is an affirmation of Amilcar Cabral’s revolutionary principle, writes ISAAC SANEY
During visits to Cheney School and Oxford Brookes University, Ismara Mercedes Vargas Walter highlighted how Cuba devotes half its budget to education, health and social security despite the US blockade, reports ROGER McKENZIE
