US President Barack Obama said at the Summit of the Americas that his administration's policy towards Cuba marks the beginning of a new era in relations with Latin America.

Cuban President Raul Castro met on Friday in the Panamanian capital with United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon.

Cuba is the only country in Latin America and the Caribbean that has managed to meet all the global objectives for Education for All (EPT) in the period 2000-2015, a goal achieved scarcely by one third of the world's nations, according to the 2015 Follow-up Report of Education for All in the World, presented on Thursday by the United Nations Education, Science and Culture Organization (UNESCO).

Aleida Guevara, daughter of Cuban-Argentinean revolutionary Ernesto Che Guevara, described as shameful the presence in the activities of the Summit of the Americas of Felix Rodriguez Mendigutia, who was directly involved in the assassination of her father, in Bolivia.

In order to guarantee the success of partial elections of the People's Power, scheduled for April 19, a dynamic test intended to finalize organizational details will take place across Cuba on Sunday.

During a ceremony held Wednesday in support of Venezuela, in Havana, Cuban first vice-president Miguel Diaz Canel recalled that the normalization of relations between Cuba and the United States includes a two-stage and complex process.

Cuba counts on over one million university graduates, representing 11.1 percent of the population and 18.7 percent of its labor force.

Cuban farmer Abelardo Silva currently heads a cooperative farm in the western province of Artemisa and is part of the Cuban delegation participating in one of the forums running parallel to the 7th Summit of the Americas, in Panama.

Cuba's representatives to the parallel forums that will be held as part of the 7th Summit of the Americas reported on Tuesday in Panama City the presence in these forums of mercenaries paid by historic enemies of the Cuban Revolution.

The World Health Day, celebrated every April 7th, is dedicated this year to food safety and it is an opportunity for Cuba to show everything is doing in order to create good eating habits.

The members of the Cuban delegation to the forums that will run parallel to the 7th Summit of the America in Panama begin to leave for that Central American nation on Tuesday.

The Cuban News Agency (acn) has announced the opening of a paid ad space, both on tabloid and on-line, in which cooperatives, state companies, private workers and people in general can now post ads to advertize products and services.

The Cuban Workers´ Confederation (CTC), the union gathering over 3 million Cubans, was excluded from the Civil Society Forum called by the Summit of the Americas in Panama next week.

Nearly 117 Cuban medical professionals are currently assisting the Namibian people in 13 out of 14 regions of that African nation, said doctor Aniuska Palacios, who heads Medical Collaboration Services in Namibia.

Cuban Foreign Trade Minister Rodrigo Malmierca said that the island will show at the Summit of the Americas´ Business Forum its opportunities to develop international economic relations based on the new Foreign Investment Law and the setting up of the Special Development Zone at the western Mariel Harbor.