On the morning of February 25, 1901, Republican Senator Orville Platt, 73, a prominent member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Cuban Affairs, presided over the only legislative initiative with which he would be known beyond his country: the approval of an amendment under his name, to be added to the Army Expenditure Act and annexed to the Constitution of the future Cuban republic, that would give the U.S. the right to intervene and control trade and foreign relations in the Island, among other humiliating prerogatives.

On February 26, 1869, the Assembly of Representatives of Central Region decreed the abolition of slavery, an essential sign of revolutionary belligerence, under the advice of Ignacio Agramonte y Loynaz, a young lawyer and selfless fighter who excelled in combat.

The contributions made by science and innovation to the country's economic and social development are unquestionable. It is no coincidence that this has been defined by the President of the Republic, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, as one of the three pillars on which the construction of the Cuban government's management system is based.

The José Martí International Airport in Havana, the largest of its kind in the country, celebrated its 91st anniversary on Wednesday, according to the official Twitter profile of Empresa Cubana de Aeropuertos y Servicios Aeroportuarios S.A (ECASA).

The breakout of Cuban independence war 126 years ago against Spanish colonial rule was marked on Twitter Wednesday by Cuban authorities.

Cuba denounced the negative impact on international scientific cooperation against the COVID 19 pandemic by the US economic, commercial and financial blockade against the island and coercive measures on other nations.

Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel congratulated all Computer and Communications Workers on their Day, celebrated every year in honor of the first official transmission of Radio Rebelde in the Sierra Maestra Mountains back in 1958 in a 20-minute-long broadcast conducted by the legendary Argentine-Cuban guerrilla Ernesto Che Guevara and initiated with the notes of the National Anthem.

"I have to confess that going into the so-called red zone is a bit scary, but once here there is no turning back," said Yadian Rodriguez Noda, 22, over the phone from the University of Matanzas (UM), now housing low-risk COVID-19 positives, six days after he crossed the tape that separates the ordinary safe environment he has always known from a different and complex scenario which only a few crazy people dare to enter.

"It was a convulsive but formidable period, the most extraordinary, intense and glorious of my life," Julio Garcia Oliveras says as he recalls his student days and the struggle against Batista's tyranny at the University of Havana and in the streets. Those were his words when I interviewed him, some time before his death in 2017.

Cuba will soon start working on a project related to the lignum vitae (“tree of life”) approved by the Tree Species Program of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) and funded by the European Union.

 At a time when educational challenges are greater than ever, the President of the Republic, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, praised the initiative to establish a pedagogical scientific complex in Ciudad Libertad and suggested the creation of an experimental pedagogical theme park bound to be part of a nationwide project.

Top local authorities will pay tribute today, together with a representation of the people in this province, the 126th anniversary of the armed uprising against Spain and the resumption of the Necessary War.

The freedom of the Homeland will be reaffirmed today in this city before the tombs of its Heroes and Martyrs in a ceremony in honor of José Martí, the spirit behind the restart of the independence war against Spain on February 24, 1895.

The passion for Cuba, its history and the most universal of its sons, José Martí, will mark the final sessions of the 45th edition of the National Youth Seminar on Martí Studies, virtual for the first time and starting today, 126 years after the Cuban people restarted their independence struggles.

Cuban authorities and international representations in the island congratulated on Tuesday through the social network Twitter, the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Foreign Investment (MINCEX), on the 60th anniversary of its founding.