Over one hundred ranchers and forest workers are still fighting a large-scale blaze that broke out Tuesday in the western Pinar del Rio locality known as Torre Vieja, municipality of San Juan y Martinez.

Cuba and Canada held the VI Meeting of Inter-Chancellery Political Consultations, a space for dialogue that ratified the good state of bilateral relations between both nations and their willingness to increase cooperation in economic, commercial and political areas.

Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel attending the lecture "Media lessons of the Palestinian genocide: propaganda, silencing and informative resistance", given by the renowned Lebanese journalist Wafica Mehdi, director of the Spanish-language editorial office of the pan-Arab satellite channel Al Mayadeen, in closing the IV International Colloquium “Patria”.

Cuban Prime Minister Manuel Marrero Cruz described his recent official visit to Congo―the first stop of a tour of Africa that will also take him to Namibia and Equatorial Guinea―as successful and conducive to stronger bilateral relations.



During his stay, Marrero Cruz met with members of the Cuban medical brigade deployed in Congo and valued as noble their mission to save lives in different countries of the world while the enemies of the Revolution try to discredit the work of Cuban doctors, he said.
More than 500 Cuban health professionals have treated more than 631,000 patients since the island offered their cooperation to this African nation in 1965.

The Premier’s program also included a meeting with Congolese President Denis Sassou-N'Guesso during which they talked about history and the possibilities to raise economic and trade relations to the same level as political relations, as well as with Pierre Ngolo, president of the Congolese Senate, to whom he conveyed warm greetings from Esteban Lazo, president of the National Assembly of People's Power and stressed the importance of continuing to strengthen parliamentary ties.

Marrero Cruz will travel to Namibia to attend both President-elect Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah’s inauguration on March 21 and the celebrations for the 35th anniversary of the diplomatic relations between the two countries.

In the area destined for the construction of the future photovoltaic solar park (PSF by its Spanish acronym) of Calabazar de Sagua, a rural community located in the municipality of Encrucijada in the central province of Villaclara, work is already progressing on the construction of the platform of this work which, after its connection to the National Electric System (SEN), will save the country more than 8,000 tons of fuel per year.

With a program focused on the role of the media in the cognitive war, social networks, artificial intelligence and education and media literacy of citizens, the 4th International Colloquium Patria will continue today in Havana its program for the exchange of counter-hegemonic communicative experiences.

Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez, first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and president of the country, highlighted the main role of Telesur as a communications platform that, for 20 years, has represented the courage and integration of the peoples of Our America.

Continuing to work for the unity of the left-wing forces of Latin America and the Caribbean as what it is, "a strategic value", was one of the consensuses between the first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and president of the country, Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez, and Jorge Alberto Kreyness, secretary general of the Communist Party of Argentina.

Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez, first secretary of the Central Committee of the Party and president of the country, received at the Palace of the Revolution the renowned US actor, director and producer Kevin Costner, who is making his second visit to the island, this time interested in issues related to underwater archeology.

The University of Matanzas (UM), in the western province, relevant institution for the formation of human capital in the territory, will host from Tuesday until the end of the week a meeting between educators from Cuba and US.

Cuban Prime Minister Manuel Marrero arrived in the Congolese capital Brazzaville on Monday to pay a two-day official visit aimed at strengthening bilateral political, economic, commercial and cooperation relations.

Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez, first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) and president of the country, attends today the opening of the 4th International Colloquium Patria at the monument to the student leader Julio Antonio Mella, in Havana.

The provincial electric company reported, through its Telegram channel, that as of 5:51 p.m. on Sunday, 167 circuits were connected in Havana, which represents more than 575,200 customers with electricity supply.

In view of the arrival of a new cold front to the west of the country, the Cuban Maritime Administration (AMC) announced through its Facebook profile the suspension of maritime navigation between the ports of Batabano, Nueva Gerona and Largo del Sur Key.

Lazaro Guerra Hernandez, general director of Electricity of the Ministry of Energy and Mines, informed -via telephone to the Sunday news program of the Cuban News Channel- that the national electricity system currently generates 1,057 megawatts (MW), as a result of the progressive advance in the coverage of electricity in the country.