Cuba counts on over one million university graduates, representing 11.1 percent of the population and 18.7 percent of its labor force.

Cuban farmer Abelardo Silva currently heads a cooperative farm in the western province of Artemisa and is part of the Cuban delegation participating in one of the forums running parallel to the 7th Summit of the Americas, in Panama.

Cuba's representatives to the parallel forums that will be held as part of the 7th Summit of the Americas reported on Tuesday in Panama City the presence in these forums of mercenaries paid by historic enemies of the Cuban Revolution.

The World Health Day, celebrated every April 7th, is dedicated this year to food safety and it is an opportunity for Cuba to show everything is doing in order to create good eating habits.

The members of the Cuban delegation to the forums that will run parallel to the 7th Summit of the America in Panama begin to leave for that Central American nation on Tuesday.

The Cuban News Agency (acn) has announced the opening of a paid ad space, both on tabloid and on-line, in which cooperatives, state companies, private workers and people in general can now post ads to advertize products and services.

The Cuban Workers´ Confederation (CTC), the union gathering over 3 million Cubans, was excluded from the Civil Society Forum called by the Summit of the Americas in Panama next week.

Nearly 117 Cuban medical professionals are currently assisting the Namibian people in 13 out of 14 regions of that African nation, said doctor Aniuska Palacios, who heads Medical Collaboration Services in Namibia.

Cuban Foreign Trade Minister Rodrigo Malmierca said that the island will show at the Summit of the Americas´ Business Forum its opportunities to develop international economic relations based on the new Foreign Investment Law and the setting up of the Special Development Zone at the western Mariel Harbor.

The Cuban Academy of Sciences (ACC) has a new Corresponding Member, Doctor of Sciences Mark Rasenick, distinguished Professor of Physiology, Biophysics and Psychiatry at the University of Illinois, Chicago, U.S.A.

A total of 177 companies from 28 countries, 35 of them Cuban, have confirmed their participation in the 13th edition of Havana's Health for All Trade Fair, which will run from April 20th to the 24 th at PABEXPO Pavilion.

More than 1,500 academicians and researchers will meet in Havana for the 15th Meeting of Geographers of Latin America, to be held on April 6-9 at the capital's Convention Center.

A 52-year old ration card that guarantees a limited amount of staples for the peoples' basic food basket at highly subsidized prices is still considered as necessary given unstable presence of certain products at the offer-and-demand domestic market and their very high prices, which most pockets cannot afford.

Fifty three years ago, the Organization of American States (OAS) expelled Cuba under the pressure of Washington, and although in 2009 the organization changed its decision, Cuba maintains its firm stance not to return to the OAS, an issue that now surfaces with the approach of the Summit of the Americas.

The president of a Cuban Taxi cab cooperative, Martin Jose Betancourt will participate at the Entrepreneurial Forum of the 7th Summit of the Americas, in Panama, as an actor of the new changes taking place in Cuban economy.