The news flowed faster than ever: Altamira, one of the zones of silence in the province of Cienfuegos, already enjoys cell phone coverage after the Empresa de Telecomunicaciones de Cuba S.A (ETECSA) set up a radio base, which they promised they would to hail the 26th of July, National Rebellion Day.

The members of the 32nd Pastors for Peace Friendshipment Caravan will learn first-hand about Cuba’s identity, culture and socioeconomic situation in visits to entities, heritage sites and state and non-state cooperatives in the province of Matanzas, where they will be able to appreciate the effects of the U.S. blockade.

“This group includes attorneys, teachers, students, all sorts of people, but in truth we are Fidel,” said Gail Walker, executive director of the Interreligious Foundation for Community Organization in charge of the 30 plus year-old Pastors for Peace Friendshipment Caravans, during the official reception of its members in the province of Matanzas.

The implementation in agriculture of nine international cooperation projects worth millions of dollars is of great benefit to the province of Guantánamo.

Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla and South African Deputy Foreign Minister Alvin Botes stated their willingness to hold high-level talks and develop economic and cooperation ties between both nations.

The Cuban National Assembly of People’s Power (Parliament) is holding the 9th Session of its 9th Legislature on July 21-23 at Havana’s Conventions Palace.

Representatives of Cuba and Morocco held a virtual exchange to identify opportunities to open bilateral cooperation projects in education.

The 63-year-old U.S. economic, commercial and financial blockade makes it hard for the Cubans to enjoy a decent way of life and the universal rights to proper food, health and education, which is why civil society demands its end every year in international forums.

“Cuba is a beacon, a path and an example to those who dream of a better and more humane world,” said Reverend Claudia de la Cruz, co-director of the People’s Forum in New York and member of the 32nd Friendshipment Caravan organized by Pastors for Peace, whose members called for the end of the U.S. blockade of Cuba.

The Government of the province of Santiago de Cuba awarded the Merit for Life distinction to the Ernesto Che Guevara solidarity brigade from Spain and to Michele Curto, president of the Agency for Cultural and Economic Exchange with Cuba, for their contribution to the fight against COVID-19.

“Cuba is synonymous with humanity,” said social worker Solimar Ortiz Jusino, deputy director of the Juan Rius Rivera Brigade of Puerto Rico, which is paying its 31st visit to our country in defiance of the U.S. blockade to support the Cuban people in their decision to preserve and continue the work of the Revolution.

Miguel Diaz-Canel, First Secretary of Cuba’s Communist Party and President of Cuba attended the cultural-political ceremony held at the Communist Party Central Committee headquarters in Havana marking National Rebellion Day, to be commemorated nationwide on July 26.

Claudia Alvarez, one of the 90 activists with the 32 Pastors for Peace Caravan visiting Cuba said that she was honored to visit the homeland which has been able to resist all adversities on its way to building a just political and social project, said

A new world caravan for the end of the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed on Cuba by the U.S. government will take place on July 31 in some 20 cities around the world.

Faced with the country's limitations with diesel and gasoline for transportation and electricity generation, workers of the Center for Industrial Biotechnology Studies (CEBI by its Spanish acronym) of the University of Oriente are researching alternative sources for obtaining clean fuels.