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Cuba, Smooth Transfer of Power in Line with Continuation of Revolution Policy

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Cuba, Smooth Transfer of Power in Line with Continuation of Revolution Policy

PEJOURNAL - Speaking in an interview, head of the research of the House of Latin America, said that the recent political developments in Cuba would have a decisive impact on strengthening the roots of the revolution and its dynamism and the most striking reflection and updated form of the political upheaval in Cuba following the eighth congress of the Communist Party was the end of Raul Castro’s tenure in power and the election of Diaz-Canel, the 61-year-old president of that country, as the first Secretary of the Communist Party. He evaluated the move as a turning point in the process…

Cuba aspires to vaccinate its entire population

BY: Alexis Bandrich Vega* PEJOURNAL - Soberana 01 has been called the phase I-II clinical trial that will validate the efficacy of the Cuban vaccine candidate against COVID-19, which began to be applied to a group of volunteers on August 24. The works are developed by the Finlay Vaccine Institute, which has more than 30 years of experience in vaccine development and a long history of cooperation with the Pasteur Institute of Iran. Initially, work began with 20 volunteers from two population groups, between 19 and 59 years old and another from 60 to 80, to whom different doses of…

American sanctions and global economic crisis

BY: Pooya Mirzaei PEJOURNAL - U.S. new sanctions on Iran, Russia, Venezuela and N. Korea and tariff conflicts with China and E.U. is going to be a part of daily news. Broadening the criteria of sanctions and putting concentration on financial systems, not only decreases the effect of the sanctions in wider view but also makes the policy makers of the targeted countries to reach to this conclusion that for preventing the collapse of international economy, global financial system generally and common global trade currency (USD) specially must be replaced with more independent alternatives. If we look at U.S. financial…