Cuba is developing the international collaboration project MasCafe to increase the productive yields and quality of Arabica coffee in the eastern region of the archipelago, according to statements made by a qualified source.

The 2nd International Colloquium Patria will conclude today, Cuban Press Day, with the reading of the final declaration of the event, the presentation of the Jose Marti and Juan Gualberto Gomez National Journalism Awards, and a political-cultural event on the steps of the University of Havana.

The formation and development of Belarus' socio-economic model and the impact that the management of scientific, scientific-technical and innovative activity has had on it, was the subject of the March session of the National Innovation Council (CNI), led by Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party and President of the Republic.

Cuba is taking part at the Forum of the Information Society Summit, underway in Geneva till Friday.

Cuba reiterated on Monday its willingness to strengthen relations with the Holy See on the occasion of the 10th Pontificate of Pope Francis.

 Cuban deputy Justice Minister Pilar Varona presented the island’s successful experience in the fight against illegal drugs during the 66 session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) underway in Austria.

Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez and World Food Program (WFP) representative here Henri Labande reiterated their willingness to keep strengthening relations and expand bilateral cooperation.

In the framework of the 50th anniversary of the Court System, the first edition of the Master's Degree in Judicial Law was opened today at the Aula Magna of the University of Havana (UH).

On the occasion of the Day of the Cuban Architect, Manuel Marrero Cruz, Cuban Prime Minister, congratulated today the professionals of that sector who are dedicated to projecting, designing and directing buildings, spaces or structures.
On Twitter, the head of government, who is a graduate in Architecture, took the opportunity to congratulate his colleagues in the profession.

With wreaths of flowers from Army General Raul Castro Ruz, leader of the Cuban Revolution, and the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and President of the Republic, Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez, the Federation of University Students (FEU) paid tribute today to the heroes of the actions of March 13, 1957.

Cuba evokes today the 66th anniversary of the assault on the Presidential Palace, a transcendental action carried out by young Cubans to execute dictator Fulgencio Batista, which was accompanied by the takeover of the Radio Reloj radio station, in order to call for a popular insurrection.

With the participation of 58 foreign guests and more than a hundred specialists from the national media, the 2nd edition of the International Colloquium Patria began today in Havana.

Time further enhances the value of the commitment to the altar of the Homeland, carried out on March 13, 1957, by the revolutionary commando led by Jose Antonio Echeverria, fallen in action, with the aim of executing the tyrant Fulgencio Batista in the Presidential Palace itself, and then, from the University to give weapons to the people to start a massive popular armed struggle that would put an end to the dictatorship.

The Cuban Society of Mathematics and Computer Science will present tomorrow in Havana its Sofia Vasilievna Kovalevskaya Award.

Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez recalled on this date the signature in 1996 of the Helms-Burton Act by then U.S. President Bill Clinton.