Business persons of Cuba and Spain will try to find new opportunities to grow in economic and commercial exchanges, on the occasion of the visit to the island next week of Luis de Guindos, Minister of Competitiveness and the Economy of the Iberian nation.

The Chinese vice president of the National Development and Reform Commission Lin Nian Xiu stated his country´s willingness to broaden cooperation with Cuba in the field of biotechnology.

The chronogram for Pope Francis´ September visit to Cuba was agreed upon by authorities from the Cuban government, the Vatican and the Conference of Catholic Bishops of Cuba.

The Havana City Historian, Eusebio Leal Spengler, expressed on Thursday in Havana the importance to transmit history to the new generations, in addition to studying other issues in order for students to achieve true integral knowledge.

In legitimate defense and totally legal the new Cuban Revolutionary Government nationalized the US Esso Standard Oil company in 1960 after refusing to refine oil that came from the former Soviet Union.

Cuban universities will have access to optic fiber connection allowing them faster Internet access starting January of 2016, according to an AIN report quoting Walter Baluja Director of Computer Science Department of the Ministry of Higher Education.

A new race in favor of friendship between the two peoples will be held in November, when a flotilla of motor boats from Key West, United States, will arrive in Cuban coasts.

Cuba´s Etecsa Telecom Company has announced that the infrastructure for public WiFi connection to the Internet is ready in four hotspots in Central Ciego de Avila province.

The First Vice-president of the councils of State and Ministers, Miguel Diaz-Canel, met on Saturday afternoon with Miguel Barbosa, President of the Executive Committee of the Mexican Senate, who heads the delegation that participates in the 15th Cuba-Mexico Inter-parliamentary Meeting, held in Havana for two days.

Army General Raul Castro, First Secretary of the Cuban Communist Party (PCC) and President of the councils of State and Ministers, received Kang Sok Su, member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Labor Party of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and Secretary of International Relations, who paid a visit to Cuba invited by the PCC.

The First Vice-president of the councils of State and Ministers, Miguel Díaz-Canel, met on Friday in Havana with Patrick Leia, Democrat Senator for Vermont and emeritus pro tempore president of the U.S. Senate, who is on a visit to the island accompanied by Benjamin Cardin, Senator for Maryland and leader of Democrats in the Committee of Foreign Affairs of the Senate, and by Dean Heller, Republican Senator for Nevada.

Esteban Lazo, member of the Politburo of the Cuban Communist Party and President of the National Assembly of People's Power, chaired on Friday in this capital the 15th Cuba-Mexico Inter-parliamentary Meeting aimed at strengthening relations between the two countries.

Delegations of Cuba and the European Union (EU) held technical talks on human rights issues as a result of the Sixth Session of the political dialogue at ministerial level.

Vice Admiral Vicente Eya Olomo, Delegate Minister of National Defense of the Republic of Equatorial Guinea, and the military delegation accompanying him, arrived in Cuba on Tuesday for an official visit, the Granma newspaper reported on Thursday.

The President of Cuba's National Assembly of the People's Power, Esteban Lazo, has convened the 5th Ordinary Period of Sessions of the 8th Legislature for July 15, 9:00 a.m., at Havana's Convention Center.