The final session of the 7th Congress of the Cuban Communist Party (PCC) began in this capital, attended by the historic leader of the Revolution, Fidel Castro, and Army General Raul Castro, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the PCC.

The final session of the 7th Cuban Communist Party Congress has been scheduled to begin at 10:00 a.m. Tuesday at Havana's Convention Center, coinciding with the 55th anniversary of the historic victory of Bay of Pigs.

Cuban Communist Party member Bruno Rodriguez stressed the challenge posed by the main report submitted by Raul Castro, First Secretary of the political organization, to the current 7th Communist Congress.

Participants at the 7th Congress of the Cuban Communist Party, in sessions since Saturday, today will elect the organization´s Central Committee, to be released on Tuesday along with the members of the Politburo, the first and second secretaries.

A Cuban 26-member emergency medical brigade departed for Ecuador on Sunday, as hundreds of other Cuban doctors are in that country assisting the victims of the 7.8 quake that has caused huge human loss and property damage in the coastal zone of that South American nation.

Cuban President Raul Castro on Monday sent a message of condolences to his Ecuadorian counterpart Rafael Correa after the 7.8 quake that caused over 270 deaths and more than 2 thousand injured in the South American country.

With the debate in the morning session of the Central Report presented on the opening day by Army General Raul Castro, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Cuban Communist Party (CC of the PCC), work in committees of the 7th Congress continued today at the capital's Convention Center.

Although Cuban economy grew in the last five years at a rate of 2.8 percent annually that figure was not enough to progress in the development of the country, points out the brief report on the evolution of Cuban economy in the 2011-2015 period.

The documents emanating from the 7th Congress of the Cuban Communist Party (PCC) will be subject to democratic analysis in order to enrich them and improve them, stated Army General Raul Castro, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the PCC and President of the councils of State and Ministers.

Army General Raul Castro, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Cuban Communist Party, reaffirmed that the blockade imposed by the United States on the island continues to be the main obstacle to the normalization of relations between the two countries.

Property relations determine the social system of a country, so the means of production remain in the hands of workers, pointed out Army General Raul Castro on Saturday.

Army General Raul Castro, First Secretary of the Cuban Communist Party (PCC), ratified on Saturday the socialist nature of the Cuban Revolution while reading the main report to the Seventh Congress of the organization.

The Seventh Congress of the Cuban Communist Party (PCC) was inaugurated at Havana's Convention Center, with a strategic agenda for the socio-economic development of the country in the long term.

Cuban professionals announced in this city the completion of a research project on the long-term impact of extreme climate changes and their consequences for the country.

Cuban President Raul Castro congratulated his counterpart of Vietnam, Tran Dai Quang, and Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc, on their recent election for these positions, according to information released today in Hanoi.