Esteban Lazo Hernández, President of that Body, chaired the meeting alon the Cuban President.

The objective of the Government Program to correct distortions and boost the economy aimed at increasing national production, with emphasis on food, was the focus of the analysis of the Council of State in its ordinary session attended by the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Party and President of the Republic Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez.

Cuban Economy Minister Joaquín Alonso Vázquez

Joaquín Alonso Vázquez, Cuba’s Minister of Economy and Planning (MEP), urged delegates at the 9th Congress of the National Association of Economists and Accountants of Cuba (ANEC) to propose concrete measures to counteract, circumvent, and combat the U.S. economic blockade, which has been imposed on the Cuban people for over six decades.

Cuba and South Africa labor ministers.

Marta Elena Feitó Cabrera, the Cuban Minister of Labor and Social Security, and Nomakhosazana Meth, the South African Minister of Employment and Labor, reaffirmed their commitment to strengthening and expanding cooperation in this sector.

Cuba Linda also demanded the exit of the Island from the unilateral list of countries allegedly sponsoring terrorism.

The French association Cuba Linda today reiterated its solidarity with the Caribbean island and its condemnation of the economic, commercial, and financial blockade imposed on it by the United States, a siege that it denounced as an act of war.