Cuban first vice-president Miguel Diaz-Canel said university students must question cultural models that currently spread as imposed on the island and he insisted in the need for the creation of values that favor cultural, ethical and humanistic development.

Cuban President Raul Castro condemned the terrorist attack perpetrated against the French Charlie Hebdo weekly, which took 12 lives.

Cuban first vice-president Miguel Diaz-Canel evaluated the social and economic development, challenges and potentials in the eastern province of Camaguey.

Provincial electoral commissions will be constituted on Thursday in solemn meetings throughout Cuba, aimed at the successful development of elections of delegates to the municipal assemblies of the People's Power, convened for April 19.

The Stations Network of the Cuban National Seismological Service recorded an earthquake at 8:08 am yesterday at 9.1 kilometers southwest of the city of Santiago de Cuba, with a magnitude of 3.2 on the Richter scale, Granma newspaper reported today.

Gema Hernandez Perez, the daughter of Gerardo Hernandez (one of The Five) and Adriana Perez, was born on Tuesday in Havana at 8:30 a.m. by cesarean section, the Cubadebate Web site reported.

University students of the United states arrived on Tuesday in this city for an academic program of exchanges between Cuban institutions and the University of Hartwick, of the state of New York.

The National Electoral Commission (CEN), was officially constituted on Tuesday in this capital for the forthcoming partial elections to elect delegates to the National Assemblies of the People's Power.

At 12:55 pm on Monday the Stations Network of the Cuban National Seismological Service recorded a perceptible earthquake, located at coordinates 20.13 of north latitude and 73.98 of west longitude, 21.7 km East-Southeast of Maisí, in the province of Guantánamo, with a depth of 4.6 km and a magnitude of 3.0 on the Richter scale.

A new Ecuadorian construction brigade has headed for Cuba to support housing projects underway in the eastern province of Santiago de Cuba, hard hit by hurricane Sandy in 2012.

Cuba´s Council of State called for the election next April 19 of municipal delegates of People´s Power, Granma newspaper announced on Monday.

Brazil´s More Doctors Program counts on 14 thousand 462 health professionals working in 3 thousand 785 municipalities and 34 indigenous districts of the country, out of whom 11 thousand 429 are Cuban doctors under an accord signed by the Pan-American Health Organization.

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro sent Raul Castro a letter upon the release of the remaining three Cuban anti-terrorist fighters in US prisons.

José Ramón Machado Ventura, second secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba , said in Matanzas that the startup of the harvest in that province shows an encouraging and very different from the past years picture.

Héctor Rodríguez, Minister of Education of Venezuela, sent a huge hug to the Cuban teachers, due to the celebration of the Educator Day, this December 22 in Cuba.