Cuba's deputy prime minister Jorge Luis Perdomo praised the results of Biotech Pharma (BPL), a biotechnological joint venture with China to manufacture and market the humanized monoclonal antibody Nimotuzumab, made in Cuba and used to treat nasopharyngeal cancer.

With the slogan: “For the Homeland, our hands and hearts”, the Cuban Trade Unions (CTC) called for a large-scale mobilization on May 1st to celebrate International Workers' Day by showing their unconditional support to the Revolution and Socialism, as they proved at the polls in March 26th national elections.

Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla, Cuban foreign minister, said today that the recent Summit for Democracy is a sign of the international moral isolation of the United States, its host.

With the presence of Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez, first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) and president of the country, the Plenary Session of the National Council of the Cuban Workers' Federation (CTC by its Spanish acronym) is taking place today in Havana.

Some 5,000 residents in the Zapata Swamp, in the province of Matanzas, are benefiting from the definitive start-up of a desalination plant that provides drinking water of excellent quality.

The Chinese government handed over a food donation to over twenty institutions with the health and education sectors in the western province of Matanzas.

Cuban deputy Prime Minister Jorge Luis Perdomo kicked off a working visit to China aimed at strengthening bilateral cooperation in the areas of telecommunications, digital television, cybersecurity, biotechnology and health.

Six million 164 thousand 876 Cubans cast their ballots at last Sunday’s parliamentary elections, said the president of the National Electoral Council Alina Balserio in a press conference.

Cuba’s National Assembly of People’s Power (Parliament) appreciated the messages of congratulations sent in by the president of the Nicaraguan National Assembly, Gustavo Porras Cortes, after the successful parliamentary elections held last Sunday.

Alina Balseiro Gutiérrez, president of the National Electoral Council (CEN), will inform today in a press conference at 4:00 p.m., the final results of the recent elections, in which 75.92% of the voters chose the 470 deputies of the 10th Legislature of the National Assembly of People's Power (Parliament).

Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez sent a message to Pope Francis, who was admitted in hospital on Wednesday for a respiratory infection, wishing him a speedy recovery.

The high voter turnout in the recent Cuban elections—over 75% of the electoral roll—confirms the commitment of our people with their future, said Yusley Izquierdo Sierra, president of the Hermanos Saíz Association (AHS) in the province of Pinar del Río.

Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez attended the ceremony for the presentation of State distinctions awarded by the Young Communist League (UJC) to members, collectives and cadres who excelled in the fulfillment of the tasks entrusted to that political organization.

The Cuban Interior Ministry announced on Wednesday the return to Cuba on Tuesday by the US Coast Guard Service of 29 irregular migrants—27 men and 2 women—through the Orozco harbor, Bahia Honda, in the western province of Artemisa.

Fernando González, president of the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP), thanked Germany for the support of the daily newspaper Junge Welt to the European campaign against the U.S. blockade of Cuba.