Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said in Caracas that Cuban Revolution leader Fidel Castro is a giant of the 20th and 21st centuries and that he fully illuminates the future.

The United Nations Cuban Association (ACNU) condemned on Tuesday the subversive plans organized and financed by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) against Cuba.

The director general of the World Trade Organization (WTO), Roberto zevedo, arrived in Havana on Tuesday afternoon as part of a tour that also includes Mexico and El Salvador.

The first secretary of the Young Communist League Yuniasky Crespo said that Cuban youngsters will mark International Youth Day, on August 12, full with join as they will reaffirm their commitment to all fair causes.

The historic leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro joined his signature to those of the group of intellectuals and politicians that have signed the Manifesto “In Defense of Palestine,” promoted by the Network in Defense of Humanity.

The countries with the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of our Americas, a regional integration bloc known by its acronyms ALBA rejected the most recently exposed subversive US Plans against Cuba and called it an immoral project.

Cuban Vice-president and general comptroller Gladys Bejerano was granted the Medal to the Merit for the Transparency of Fiscal Control in Colombia, where she is heading the island's delegation to the swearing-in ceremony for President Juan Manuel Santos.

The setting up of a solar farm in the outskirts of the western city of Pinar del Rio confirms the will of the Cuban government to develop renewable energy sources.

A group of 200 Cuban doctors departed on Friday for Ecuador in order to offer medical assistance in vulnerable and remote areas and to contribute to the Ecuadorian government plans to guarantee health services to all the people.

HAVANA, Cuba, Aug 6 (acn) Tripadvisor website, recognized as one of the leading online travel guides, granted the 2014 Excellence Certificate to Cienfuegos Dolphinarium, belonging to Palmares Extra-hotel Group, Juventud Rebelde (JR) newspaper reported today.

The coordinator for Latin America and the Caribbean of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), Hector Guerra, praised on Wednesday Cuba's work in favor of peace and world security.

US legislators and health activists criticized the US plans to use an HIV-Aids campaign in Cuba to carry out political activism by saying that such covert operations put US health programs at risk in all parts of the world.

The delegation from Colombia's Revolutionary Armed Forces-People's Army (FARC-EP) to the peace dialog underway in Havana called for the active participation of Colombian citizens in the process.

The Associated Press gave more details on Tuesday about the disclosure of a subversive plan against led by the US Agency for International Development, which sent Latin American youth to the island with the aim of encouraging a rebellion.

Cuba will be the Guest of Honor of the International Festival of Mayan Culture (Ficmaya) to be held in 2015 in the state of Yucatan, Mexico, announced on Tuesday in this capital Jorge Esma Bazan, president of the Festival.