HAVANA, Cuba, Apr 29 (acn) The case of Cuba must be distinguished because it opens to foreign investment but selects important items for the country and protects national jobs, highlighted on Tuesday in Havana Alicia Barcena, executive secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC).

In Cuba there are more than two million people over 60 years of age, 19 percent of the total population, and is the first Latin American country with the oldest population, announced an expert in this capital on Tuesday.

Cuban President Raul Castro received on Monday afternoon Cardinal Beniamino Stella, prefect of the Congregation for the Clergy of the Holy See, who is visiting the Cuban Catholic Church.

A call for this May Day parade to be compact, colorful and combative was made in this capital on Monday, during a plenary meeting on the occasion of International Workers' Day.

The Association of Cuban Writers and Artists (UNEAC) conferred on Monday the status of honorary members to the five Cuban antiterrorists who suffered unjust imprisonment in the United States. It was conferred during a meeting attended by Miguel Diaz-Canel, member of the Political Bureau of the Cuban Communist Party and First Vice-president of the councils of State and Ministers.

The second highest temperature value in the history of weather records in Cuba and the highest in the province of Holguin was reported last Sunday by two weather stations in the territory, which recorded 38.7 Celsius degrees.

Encouraged by the return to Cuba of the five anti-terrorists who were imprisoned for years in US jails and of the health professionals who fought Ebola in western Africa, nearly 60 thousand health workers will join the May Day march next Friday at Havana´s Revolution Square.

Over 1.2 million Cubans were called to vote at the second round of municipal elections in 1.166 electoral districts, in all 149 Cuban municipalities needing to complete the total of local government representatives.

One thousand 164 constituencies will carry out their second round of elections on Sunday, April 26, to elect delegates to the Municipal Assemblies of the People's Power.

Roberto Morales, member of the Central Committee of the Cuban Communist Party and Minister of Public Health (Minsap) signed on Thursday in this capital cooperation agreements with three African countries.

Esteban Lazo, member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Cuban Communist Party and President of the National Assembly of the People's Power received in Havana on Wednesday a group of Brazilian senators and deputies.

Dr. José Luis Di Fabio, representative in Cuba of the Pan American and World Health organizations (PAHO / WHO) praised today in this city the country's progress in the care of pregnant women.

In order to mark the Language Day, the Cuban Book Institute (ICL by its Spanish acronym), together with the Movement of Friends of the Book and the Provincial Center of Books and Literature of this city will conduct various activities from April 23rd.

The general director of the UN Education Science and Culture Organization (UNESCO), Irina Bokova, met with Cuban foreign minister Bruno Rodriguez, who paid a recent visit to France.

US activist Walter Tillow was awarded Cuba´s Friendship Medal on Tuesday in recognition of his solidarity with the island and particularly his work for the release of the five Cuban anti-terrorist fighters who were imprisoned for years in US jails.