Seven citizens, including an Argentinean, were given up to 13 years of prison in Cuba after being convicted with corruption in a Cuban oil company, which was inflicted huge financial loss and damage of 14 crude oil wells.

As Cuban tourism is growing over 15 percent annually, Italy´s MSC Cruise Ship company announced that Havana will be its home port as of December for its winter operations in the Caribbean.

The first flight by the JetBlue airline company from New York to Havana took place Friday in what has been described as part of the steps adopted over the past few months towards the resumption of relations between Cuba and the United States.

The historic leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro visited the Food Industry Research Center Friday evening, where he exchange views for over four hours with 19 cheese makers who are taking a course at that center in Havana.

Angola is the first African country to surpass the figure of one million people that have learned how to read and write by way of the Cuban literacy teaching method Yes, I Can, according to statements by Alfredo Diaz, adviser-consultant with the Angolan Education Ministry.

Chinese and Cuban industry ministers, MiaoWei and Salvador Pardo favored the expansion of joint projects for the future development of the two nations, according to diplomatic sources.

The five antiterrorist fighters and heroes of the Republic of Cuba concluded a 10-day visit to South Africa on Friday and they will now travel to Namibia and later to Angola.

The five Cuban antiterrorist fighters participated on Thursday in an international solidarity symposium of the tripartite alliance in South Africa.

Politburo member Miguel Diaz-Canel, First Vice-president of the councils of State and Ministers, met on Wednesday afternoon with Carlos Mesa, former Bolivian President and official representative and international spokesperson of the Maritime Demand of the Pluri-national State of Bolivia, who is on a working tour of several countries in the region.

Support and wide repercussion received on Wednesday in the United States the reestablishment of its diplomatic relations with Cuba.

Up next, the English language version of the letter sent by Army General Raúl Castro, President of the councils of State and Ministers of the Republic of Cuba to the President of the United States of America, Barack Obama, on the reestablishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries and the opening of embassies, as published by the www.cubaminrex.cu Web site:

Representatives of 10 Caribbean countries will meet in eastern Santiago de Cuba city July 16 and 17 for the Cuba-Caribbean Business Forum.

Cuban lawmakers will analyze the results of the fight on crime, corruption, illegalities and social indiscipline at the Cuban Parliament session, which was called July 15.

Cuba and China signed eight new cooperation accords during the 8th Meeting of the Cuba-China Joint Working Group on Biotechnology and the pharmaceutical industry, which wound up Tuesday in Havana.

Cuban News Agency now reproduces the statement issued by the Revolutionary Government of the republic of Cuba regarding the re-establishment of diplomatic relations between Cuba and the United States of America