For over 50 years now, Washington has tried to paralyze the Cuban transport system by stiffening its commercial, economic and financial blockade, which from April 2013 up to date along has inflicted damage on the sector calculated at 540 million dollars, said Transport minister Cesar Arocha.

Niger's President Issoufou Mahamadou described his official visit to Cuba this week as excellent and he said he was optimistic about the future of bilateral relations between the two countries.

Cuban first vice-president Miguel Diaz-Canel stressed the need to empower the culture institutional system in tune with today's reality, during a meeting on Tuesday with executives of the Cuban Artists and Writers' Association.

The President of Equatorial Guinea Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo expressed his desire to move towards an increase in all kinds of bonds between his country and Cuba.

Some 400 delegates and guests, half of them Cubans, will meet today in this city to discuss the role of universities in the health of population.

Army General Raul Castro, President of the councils of State and Ministers, received Dr. Hifikepunye Pohamba, President of the Republic of Namibia, who is in Cuba on an official visit.

Army General Raul Castro, President of the councils of State and Ministers, met in Monday afternoon with Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, President of the Republic of Equatorial Guinea, who is on an official visit to Cuba.

Cooperation relations with Cuba began before Namibia reached its indepdence and both nations now enjoy strong relationship, said Namibian President Hifikepunye Pohamba during a tour, Sunday, of Havana's National Zoo, accompanied by Cuba's First Vice-president Miguel Diaz Canel.

Niger's President Issoufou Mahamadou arrived Sunday on an official visit to Cuba aimed at strengthening bilateral relations, which are particularly developing in the areas of health, sports and education.

Cuban President Raul Castro sent a message of congratulations to participants at the 25th International Congress on Orthopedics and Traumatology, which winds up Saturday in the central city of Trinidad.

Cuba will punish officials with the Biological Laboratories Entrepreneurial Group Labiofam after they launched two perfumes in presumed homage to Cuban-Argentinean guerrilla fighter Ernesto Che Guevara and Bolivarian leader Hugo Chavez.

The presidents of Namibia and Equatorial Guinea, Hifikepunye Pohamba and Obiang Nguema Mbasogo are paying official visits to Cuba on Saturday, Granma newspaper announced.

Cuba's vice-president Salvador Valdes Mesa met on Friday in Havana with Simon Khaya Moyo, president of the African National Union of Zimbabwe, the ruling party in that African country.

Salvador Valdes Mesa, member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Cuban Communist Party (CC of the PCC) and Vice-president of the Council of State, received Simon Khaya Moyo, President of the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF), the party of the government of that African nation.

The historic leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro, highlighted in a letter sent to President Nicolás Maduro, the bravery shown by the Venezuelan head of state in his speech before the United Nations General Assembly, in which he called for the re-founding of the UN.