The National Association of Experts in Innovation and Rationalization (ANIR) showed its appreciation on Wednesday in this capital to the historic leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro, for his fighting spirit and ennobling example.

Over a carriage, hailed by his people and at the pace dancing music, Alfredo Despaigne, today´s Cuba best slugger, was received in an official and popular way, at the Martires de Barbados stadium, in this city, capital of Granma province.

The US economic, commercial and financial blockade of Cuba has been stiffened under the Obama administration with the growing persecution of transactions by banks that have made business with Cuba.

In his most recent article, "Uncertain Future" published on Granma newspaper, Cuban Revolution leader Fidel Castro criticizes the stance assumed by the new general secretary of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), praises the work of Stephen Hawking and referss to a Russia Today article on the Big Bang Theory.

Latin American experts participating in the International Renewable Energy Workshop, based in this city, will evaluate today possible cooperation agreements for the development of this industrial section in the region.

The president of the World Veterinary Association (WVA), Faouzi Kedrich, said on Tuesday he's honored to participate in the Pan-American Congress on Veterinary Sciences, Panvet 2014, under way in this capital.

The resident coordinator of the United Nations System to Cuba, Mirta Kaulard, acknowledged on Monday the efforts of the island's government to develop infrastructures for the use of renewable energy.

Cuban personalities received on Monday in this capital the 2014 Habitat Award for their contribution to the development of settlements in the country on the occasion of World Habitat Day, established by the United Nations (UN) in 1985.

Sara Kahn, representative of the World Animal Health Organization (OIE), praised on Monday the quality of professional training of veterinary teaching in Cuba, indispensable to control contagious diseases in animals and in human health care.

Cuban anti-terrorist fighter Rene Gonzalez recalled that terrorist actions against the island have been permanent since 1959, as Cubans recalled the 1976 bombing in mid air, off the Barbadian coast, of a civilian airplane with 73 people on board.

Cuban and foreign experts are gathering at an international forum on renewable energy, in Havana, particularly addressing the processing of biomass into usable gas, a project well underway in the Isle of Youth, south of the Cuban capital.

Doctor Aleida Guevara, daughter of Cuban-Argentinean guerrilla fighter Ernesto Che Guevara demanded the release of three anti-terrorist Cubans held in US prisons since 1998.

Relatives of one of the fencers murdered on the 1976 explosion of a Cubana airliner off the coast of Barbados demanded justice and that Luis Posada Carriles, one of the authors of the terrorist act, be prosecuted.

Miguel Diaz-Canel, First Vice-president of the councils of State and Ministers, met on Friday afternoon with Keji Furuya, member of the House of Representatives of Japan and President of the Japan-Cuba Friendship Parliamentary League, who is on a working visit to the Caribbean island.

Former U.S. Colonel Ann Wright, who served in the U.S. Army and in the Reserve for 29 years sent a letter to President Barack Obama requesting the release of the Cuban antiterrorists incarcerated in that country.