Sam Nujoma, who was the first president of Namibia, held a private meeting with the five Cuban anti-terrorist fighters, who are visiting that African nation.

A Miami-based Club of Ibero-American Artists and Intellectuals plans to coordinate projects aimed at strengthening relations with Cuban artists and creators in an effort to encourage cultural Exchange.

Given the natural phenomena affecting the Venezuela state of Apure, the Cuban health workers in that nation expressed their determination to assist the people in that area and in any region affected by natural disasters.

Artists, researchers and communication experts from around the Caribbean are meeting during three days at the Caribbean Festival, underway in Santiago de Cuba city.

Seven citizens, including an Argentinean, were given up to 13 years of prison in Cuba after being convicted with corruption in a Cuban oil company, which was inflicted huge financial loss and damage of 14 crude oil wells.

As Cuban tourism is growing over 15 percent annually, Italy´s MSC Cruise Ship company announced that Havana will be its home port as of December for its winter operations in the Caribbean.

The first flight by the JetBlue airline company from New York to Havana took place Friday in what has been described as part of the steps adopted over the past few months towards the resumption of relations between Cuba and the United States.

The historic leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro visited the Food Industry Research Center Friday evening, where he exchange views for over four hours with 19 cheese makers who are taking a course at that center in Havana.

Angola is the first African country to surpass the figure of one million people that have learned how to read and write by way of the Cuban literacy teaching method Yes, I Can, according to statements by Alfredo Diaz, adviser-consultant with the Angolan Education Ministry.

Chinese and Cuban industry ministers, MiaoWei and Salvador Pardo favored the expansion of joint projects for the future development of the two nations, according to diplomatic sources.

The five antiterrorist fighters and heroes of the Republic of Cuba concluded a 10-day visit to South Africa on Friday and they will now travel to Namibia and later to Angola.

The five Cuban antiterrorist fighters participated on Thursday in an international solidarity symposium of the tripartite alliance in South Africa.

Politburo member Miguel Diaz-Canel, First Vice-president of the councils of State and Ministers, met on Wednesday afternoon with Carlos Mesa, former Bolivian President and official representative and international spokesperson of the Maritime Demand of the Pluri-national State of Bolivia, who is on a working tour of several countries in the region.

Support and wide repercussion received on Wednesday in the United States the reestablishment of its diplomatic relations with Cuba.

Up next, the English language version of the letter sent by Army General Raúl Castro, President of the councils of State and Ministers of the Republic of Cuba to the President of the United States of America, Barack Obama, on the reestablishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries and the opening of embassies, as published by the www.cubaminrex.cu Web site: