The Cuba-France Cooperation Association, CubaCoop, urged French President Emmanuel Macron to work in the context of the European Union for the lifting of the US economic, commercial and financial blockade of Cuba.

Roberto Morales Ojeda, member of the Politburo of Cuba’s Communist Party and Secretary of the Party’s Central Committee welcomed the President of Spain’s Communist Party Jose Luis Centella Gomez.

Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla, Cuban foreign minister, said today on Twitter that the United States, with a larger number of prisoners than any other country (more than two million), lacks the authority to judge the penal system of other states.

Cuba works from a deep feeling of love for humanity, said today on Twitter Sira Rego, spokeswoman of the United Left Party and vice president of the group The Left in the European Parliament.

Member of the European Parliament Sandra Pereira, a militant of the Portuguese Communist Party (PCP) and vice president of the Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly (EuroLat), has on several occasions defended the reality of Cuba, from the podium of the European Parliament and in other international scenarios.

MP Fofana Queita, head of the permanent commission for public works, housing, transport, energy, science and technology, and of the parliamentary group of friendship with our country at the National People's Assembly of the Republic of Guinea-Bissau, visited the seat of the Cuban parliament on Wednesday.

Cuba congratulated today the people and the government of the Republic of Benin, on the occasion of the celebration Tuesday of the 48th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two nations.

Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla, Cuban foreign minister, mourned today the loss of human lives and other damages caused by a flood that occurred on Monday in Quito, Ecuador, with a preliminary death toll of 21 people.

A tour of historic, social and cultural sites in the areas of the Zapata Swamp in the western province of Matanzas, was the first activity of a leftist group of nine European parliamentarians and other officials visiting Cuba.

Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla, Cuban foreign minister, condemned today the vulgar media manipulation carried out against Cuba by transnational media, such as the Spanish newspaper El Pais.

Members of the Bridges of Love project and friends of Cuba in the United States reiterated their demand for the end of the blockade that for more than six decades has tried to suffocate the Cuban people.

The Bridges of Love Belgium initiative held yesterday a new mobilization in Brussels to condemn and demand the immediate lifting of the U.S. economic, commercial and financial blockade of Cuba.

Eugenio Martinez Enriquez, director general for Latin America and the Caribbean of the Cuban foreign ministry, urged today the State of Colombia to respect the security guarantees of the Final Peace Agreement, signed in Havana in 2016.

Members of the European Parliament and of the delegation of the Left Group of that legislative body denounced today the extraterritorial nature of the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the U.S. government on Cuba, which has affected the official trip of several members of the European Parliament and officials to the Caribbean country.