The death of Camilo Cienfuegos 55 years ago was remembered on Tuesday with a ceremony in the place where the legendary Commander of the Rebel Army carried out his last combat against forces of the Fulgencio Batista dictatorship.

Army General Raul Castro, President of the councils of State and Ministers, received the Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Alicia Barcenas (CEPAL), who is on a working visit to Cuba.

The blockade, the criminal policy implemented by the United States against Cuba for over five decades now, received on Tuesday a majority condemnation of the United Nations General Assembly.

Miguel Diaz-Canel, First Vice-president of the councils of State and Ministers, received Alicia Barcenas, Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), who is on a working visit to Cuba.

Cuban President Raul Castro presided over a session of the Council of Ministers on Friday, which considered and adopted policies and measures related to the update of the country´s economic model.

Tourism Ministry's Communication director Dalila Gonzalez announced in Havana a list of new air connections to Cuba during the winter or high-tourist season, which will favor an increase of trips to the island.

New air routes will be available starting from the high (winter season) of Cuban tourism (November-April), pointed out on Friday authorities of the island's tourist sector.

The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) praised on Friday in this capital the Cuban Program "Educa a tu Hijo" (Educate your Child) for contributing to the comprehensive development of children and adolescents.

A declaration approved on Thursday by a Cuban Parliamentary Hearing against the US economic, commercial and financial blockade of the island stresses that the Cuban people will never surrender despite that economic war.

US directives with the Florida Aquarium paid a working visit this week to Cuba to consider joint efforts with the island´s National Aquarium in the research on coral reefs.

Spain´s Foreign minister Jose Garcia-Margallo announced that he is planning to visit Cuba before the end of this year.

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said that he met with Cuban Revolution leader Fidel Castro for four hours in Havana, following the recent special summit of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America on the situation of the Ebola virus.

Experts and executives of the aquarium located in Florida, the United States, traveled to Cuba to explore a possible association with Havana's National Aquarium in research works to restore coral reefs.

Washington welcomes the possibility to jointly work with Cuba in the fight against Ebola, according to US media outlets citing a US State Department Source who asked to not be identified.

Despite a global alarm over the worst Ebola outbreak on record, Cuban doctors are eager to travel to West Africa and start healing the sick, Reuters news agency reported