The five antiterrorist fighters and heroes of the Republic of Cuba concluded a 10-day visit to South Africa on Friday and they will now travel to Namibia and later to Angola.

The five Cuban antiterrorist fighters participated on Thursday in an international solidarity symposium of the tripartite alliance in South Africa.

Politburo member Miguel Diaz-Canel, First Vice-president of the councils of State and Ministers, met on Wednesday afternoon with Carlos Mesa, former Bolivian President and official representative and international spokesperson of the Maritime Demand of the Pluri-national State of Bolivia, who is on a working tour of several countries in the region.

Support and wide repercussion received on Wednesday in the United States the reestablishment of its diplomatic relations with Cuba.

Up next, the English language version of the letter sent by Army General Raúl Castro, President of the councils of State and Ministers of the Republic of Cuba to the President of the United States of America, Barack Obama, on the reestablishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries and the opening of embassies, as published by the www.cubaminrex.cu Web site:

Representatives of 10 Caribbean countries will meet in eastern Santiago de Cuba city July 16 and 17 for the Cuba-Caribbean Business Forum.

Cuban lawmakers will analyze the results of the fight on crime, corruption, illegalities and social indiscipline at the Cuban Parliament session, which was called July 15.

Cuba and China signed eight new cooperation accords during the 8th Meeting of the Cuba-China Joint Working Group on Biotechnology and the pharmaceutical industry, which wound up Tuesday in Havana.

Cuban News Agency now reproduces the statement issued by the Revolutionary Government of the republic of Cuba regarding the re-establishment of diplomatic relations between Cuba and the United States of America

José Ramón Cabañas, chief of the Cuban Interest Section in Washington, handed Anthony Blinken, US Deputy Secretary of State, a letter from the Cuban President Raul Castro to Barack Obama.

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.