Puerto Rican independence leader Oscar Lopez Rivera, who is visiting Cuba for the first time, expressed on Monday in Havana his gratitude for the Cuban people, “example of resistance and main defender of Puerto Rican independence”.

The 9th International Meeting on Researchers and Experts on Information and Communication (ICOM 2017) began on Monday in Havana with the participation of over 400 researchers from 20 countries.

Happy to visit Cuba for the first time, whose leaders and people he thanked for their support for his release, the Puerto Rican independence leader Oscar López Rivera arrived in Havana this morning.

Cuba was elected on Thursday a member of UNESCO’s Inter-governmental Council of the International Program for the Development of Communications.

Puerto Rican Independence leader Oscar Lopez Rivera who unjustly served almost 36 years in US prisons will arrive on November 12th to Cuba on an official visit, where he is to receive the Solidarity Order conferred by the Council of State.

The US government measures announced on Wednesday by the US State, Treasury and Commerce Departments confirm the serious setback of bilateral relations as a result of the change of policy towards Cuba pronounced by President Donald Trump, said Josefina Vidal Ferreiro, General Director of the US Division of the Foreign Ministry.

Vice President of the Council of Ministers, Ulises Rosales del Toro met on Wednesday in Havana with Niger’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Cooperation, African Integration and Nigeriens Living Abroad, Ibrahim Yacoubou who is on an official visit to the island.

Cuban President Raul Castro and First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Cuban Communist Party assisted on Tuesday in Havana at the political-cultural gala for the Centennial of the October Socialist Revolution.

Cuba works so that in the near future all its provinces to have botanical gardens, with the aim of contributing to the conservation of the flora and allowing the visit of scientists and lovers of these leisure centers.

The President of the Cuban National Assembly, Esteban Lazo Hernandez thanked on Thursday in Havana the African governments for voting for Cuba’s Resolution demanding an end to the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the US against the Caribbean island.

Sunwing Airlines inaugurated a flight between Toronto and Santa Clara on Thursday with tourists visiting the central part of the country via the Abel Santamaria International Airport during the country’s high tourism season.

The nomination process of candidates to the municipal assemblies of the People’s Power scheduled from September 4th to October 30th has successfully concluded in the country.

The Minister of Science, Technology and Environment, Elba Rosa Perez Montoya met on Wednesday in Paris with Vladimir Ryabinin, Executive Secretary of UNESCO’s Intergovernmental Oceanography Commission.

Cuba and Turkey coincide in broadening their comercial ties and increase business that will contribute in bilateral exchanges in economy, culture and biotechnology.

National Brazil Day was [I1] celebrated on Wednesday in the context of the 35th International Havana Trade Fair, FIHAV 2017 with desires of reinforcing economic and commercial relations between the South American nation and Cuba.