More than 300 foreign companies are interested in investing at the Mariel Special Development Zone, whose requests are being under registering process and will be announced once they are settled at the place.

The Ranger Corps of Cuba (CGC by its Spanish acronym) warned in this city on the extreme danger of the fourth month of the year for forest fires.

Ulises Guilarte de Nacimiento, member of the Central Committee of the Cuban Communist Party and secretary general of the Cuban Workers Confederation (CTC), was received on Wednesday in Vietnam by the President of that Asian nation, Truong Tan Sang, the Prensa Latina news agency reported.

Havana will host an international forum on Industrial property and technology transfer, April 22-24 in collaboration with the World Intellectual Property Organization.

Representatives of Cuba and the United States will sit today in Washington D.C. to talk for the first time about human rights, an issue on which they have assured have profound differences.

Thirty students from the University of Virginiawere some of the first US citizens to come to Cuba after the December 17 announcement by presidents Barack Obama and Raul Catro to reestablish diplomatic relations and upon returning home the students, from the Virgina University´s Darden School of Business told their Cuba experience.

We have come here fully aware of the deep differences between our two countries as to their political systems, democracy and international law, but it is also possible to hold a civilized dialog on any issue, including human rights, said the Cuban permanent representative at the United Nations Anayansi Rodriguez in reference the human rights talks between Cuba and the United States, in Washington.

In Cuba, the National Electoral Commission (CEN) finalizes details for the next partial elections, traditionally characterized by the people's enthusiasm and wide participation, after a satisfactory nomination process.

Eighty seven years ago and with just 28 years of age, Ernest Hemingway visited Cuba for the first time. He came onboard the English steamboat Orita on April 1, 1928, which made a stopover in Havana in a route between La Rochelle, France and Key West, the U.S.A.

Cuban Parliament president Esteban Lazo said that the upcoming partial elections in Cuba, slated for April 19, will be again prove the people´s support of their socialist revolution and system.

Since the self-employed initiative was expanded in October 2010 in Cuba, some 147 thousand 693 young people have choice that labor modality, which represents 29 percent of the total figure of over 489 thousand 929 Cubans in those activities since late February.

Some 80 thousand people in 82 communities in the eastern province of Granma are under the impact of severe drought which affects domestic water consumption as local authorities take emergency measures to relieve their situation.

The call for a series of activities to mark May Day is taking place in Cuban labor centers, including state-owned companies, cooperatives and private entities to learn workers know about the agenda for celebrations May 1-5 throughout the island.

The official Cuban delegation to participate in the US-Cuba talks on Human Rights arrived in Washington D.C. on Sunday, the island´s Foreign Ministry announced on its webpage.

The Cuban Interest Section in Washington D.C. has once again extended its services up to June 30 despite the impossibility of finding a bank that takes its operation in the United States.