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Caridad Porchete, left, and her sister Eliane Porchete, take a school class through a television program in their dining room while schools are closed amid the new coronavirus pandemic in the Minas community of Guanabacoa, in the province of Havana, Cuba
CUBA’S Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez condemned a media blackout on the country’s progress against Covid-19 at the weekend.
Mr Rodriguez pointed out that while Cuba is the only Latin American country with a vaccine candidate, it suffers a “media blockade” about its achievements.
“Cuban scientists share their progress with the world, show protocols against the pandemic and results of their own vaccine candidate. However, little information about this is shared. Ignoring or censoring successes is part of the media blockade,” he tweeted.
On January 29, US President Donald Trump declared Cuba an ‘unusual and extraordinary threat’ to US national security and tightened the blockade against the island nation MANOLO DE LOS SANTOS reports
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