The Ministry of the Interior (Minint) today reported the arrest in this capital of 10 Panamanian citizens, residents in that country, for threatening the constitutional order of Cuba.
According to the official statement, the detainees "are perpetrators of acts of propaganda against the constitutional order, regulated in article 124 of the Penal Code."
"Initial investigations indicate that these individuals had been directed to enter the island for the purpose of making signs with subversive content," the text states.
He also added that they were to leave the country once that objective was achieved and, upon returning to Panama, they would each receive between one thousand and one thousand five hundred dollars.
According to the Minint report, those involved admitted "to being the perpetrators of acts of this nature, carried out in Havana during the early morning of Saturday, February 28."
Mexico City, March 2 (Prensa Latina) Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum announced today the arrival of a second shipment of humanitarian aid from Mexico to Cuba and confirmed that shipments to the Caribbean nation will continue.
“By the way, humanitarian aid has arrived and we will continue sending aid to Cuba,” the head of the Executive Branch stated during her usual press conference.
On Saturday, the ships Papaloapan and Huasteco, of the Mexican Navy, arrived at the port of Havana with a total of 1,193 tons of food supplies, in a context marked by the tightening of the economic blockade that the United States has imposed on the island for more than six decades.
The ships had departed from the port of Veracruz on February 24 and transported food such as beans and powdered milk.
According to the Foreign Ministry, a total of 23 tons of material aid included in the shipment were delivered by various social organizations with the support of the Mexico City Government at the collection center set up in the Historic Center, and this corresponds to the first delivery.
The shipment is the second from Mexico to the island, following the arrival in Havana on February 12 of some 814 tons of basic food and hygiene items.
Seems like former presidents Mohammad Khatami, Hassan Rouhani and Mohammad Mokhber are still alive. Idk, why they felt like killing Ahmadinejad when he was out of politics for a while now. This just feels like a weird dream they had bc he was painted as the main bad guy 20 years ago.
But I found his post presidential twitter behavior very amusing, and as a result sorta liked him for no good reason. Also because after the bush years, I was finally able to properly pronouce his name.
Same lol. I'm a bit nostalgic for him bc he used to visit latam countries back then and would always appear on TV.
Suppose they’ll say they’re cleaning up potential regime backfillers…. But really reads more like revenge/vindictiness and lack of more consequential targets.
Yes, he hadn't the best relation with the Ayatollahs recently, they banned his presidency bid. I think considering the age of the Trump and Bibi administration people, they think killing him would be a major PR victory bc he was painted as this big bad during the 2000s.
Rudy Giuliani: What Reza Pahlavi is attempting to do—by declaring himself Iran's "transitional leader"—is dangerous and will only destabilize the situation further.
Pahlavi has next to no support inside the country, as he is literally the son of the man who was overthrown by the Iranian people after years of brutality, theft and oppressive rule.
The Iranian people will not resort back to a tyrannical monarchy after freeing themselves of a tyrannical Islamic regime.
To anyone wondering, this was the end of the last Shah of Iran:
Mohammad Reza wanted to go back to Mexico, saying he had pleasant memories of Cuernavaca, but was refused. Mexico was a candidate to be a rotating member of the UN Security Council, but needed the vote of Cuba to be admitted, and the Cuban leader Fidel Castro told President José López Portillo that Cuba's vote was conditional on Mexico not accepting the Shah again.
He left the United States on 15 December 1979 and lived for a short time in the Isla Contadora in Panama. This caused riots by Panamanians who objected to the Shah being in their country. General Omar Torrijos, the dictator of Panama, kept Mohammad Reza Shah as a virtual prisoner at the Paitilla Medical Center, a hospital condemned by the former Shah's US doctors as "an inadequate and poorly staffed hospital", and in order to hasten his death allowed only Panamanian doctors to treat his cancer.
General Torrijos, a populist left-winger, had only taken in Mohammad Reza under heavy US pressure, and he made no secret of his dislike of Mohammad Reza, whom he called after meeting him "the saddest man he had ever met". When he first met Mohammad Reza, Torrijos taunted him by telling him "it must be hard to fall off the Peacock Throne into Contadora" and called him a chupon, a Spanish slang term for "someone who is finished".
Torrijos added to Mohammad Reza's misery by making his chief bodyguard a militantly Marxist sociology professor who spent much time lecturing Mohammad Reza on how he deserved his fate because he had been a tool of the "American imperialism" that was ostensibly oppressing the Third World, and charged Mohammad Reza a monthly rent of US$21,000, making him pay for all his food and the wages of the 200 National Guardsmen assigned as his bodyguards.
Torrijos is underrated af lmao
President Carter did not wish to admit Mohammad Reza to the US but came under pressure from Henry Kissinger, who phoned Carter to say he would not endorse the SALT II treaty that Carter had just signed with the Soviet Union unless the former Shah was allowed into the United States, reportedly prompting Carter more than once to hang up his phone in rage in the Oval Office and shout "Fuck the Shah!".
On 22 October 1979, President Jimmy Carter reluctantly allowed the Shah into the United States to undergo surgical treatment at the Weill Cornell Medical Center. While there, Mohammad Reza used the name of "David D. Newsom," Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs at that time, as his temporary code name, without Newsom's knowledge. Mohammad Reza's time in New York was highly uncomfortable; he was under a heavy security detail as every day, Iranian students studying in the US gathered outside his hospital to shout "Death to the Shah!", a chorus that Mohammad Reza heard.
The former Shah was obsessed with watching news from Iran, and was greatly upset at the new order being imposed by the Islamic Republic. Mohammad Reza could no longer walk by this time, and for security reasons had to be moved in his wheelchair under the cover of darkness when he went to the hospital while covered in a blanket, as the chances of his assassination were too great.
Argentina's President Javier Milei was among the first to react to the killing of Khamenei. Milei praised the Israeli–Unites States military operations that ended in Khamenei's "elimination", adding that "[Khamenei] was one of the most evil, violent, and cruel persons ever seen in the history of humankind."Milei further blamed Khamenei for Iran's sponsoring of terrorism and the 1994 AMIA bombing in Buenos Aires, adding that Argentina would continue to pursue others responsible for the attack and make them pay with their freedom or their lives
The Supreme National Security Council of Iran: The testimony of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei will be the catalyst for a great uprising against the tyrants of the world. In Iran, a 40-day mourning period has been declared in memory of Ayatollah Khamenei. The upcoming week has been declared a non-working one. The new spiritual leader of Iran will be determined by the Council of Ayatollahs in the near future. Among the main candidates is the son of Ayatollah Khamenei.
From Mexico? No, Claudia said something vague about in the future sendind oil after negociating with Cuba. She also was vague and smiled saying something like, we'll just have to wait a bit more.
From Russia? Yes, they sent a ship with oil to Cuba.
Havana, Feb 28 (Prensa Latina) The Papaloapan and Huasteco ships of the Mexican Navy docked today in the port of Havana with nearly 1,200 tons of food aid for the Cuban people.
The Papaloapan ship is carrying 1,078 tons of beans and powdered milk, while the ARM Huasteco arrived with 92 tons of beans and 23 tons of various food items, according to the Granma newspaper.
Cuba's Minister of Domestic Trade, Betsy Díaz, reported that the shipment donated by Mexico will be immediately incorporated into the distribution network for the Cuban people, prioritizing vulnerable groups and reaching as many people as possible, depending on the quantities available.
Speaking about the arrival of the ships, the official explained that this is the third time that supplies have been received from the Mexican government and people, and extended, on behalf of the Cuban government and people, special thanks to the President of Mexico, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of the Navy, the Mexican Embassy in Cuba, and the civil society and Cuban residents who participated in the collection.
Díaz Velázquez explained that the previous donation received by sea was distributed to the provinces of Mayabeque, Artemisa, Havana, and the special municipality of Isla de la Juventud. He also reported that a previous air shipment of 45 tons, destined for Pinar del Río, is currently being distributed and will be completed in the coming days.
The minister stressed that these resources arrive "at a very complex time" and are part of the alternatives to face the effects of the blockade measures imposed by the United States government against Cuba.
