Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel said on Wednesday that some people intend to involve Cuba in alleged practices of repression, espionage, persecution and torture in Venezuela, which reveals their intentions to distort history.

Established on August 23, 1960, the Federation of Cuban Women (FMC) is more than a historical entity brimming with memories and duties, as its heartbeat intensifies among the new generations with multiple tasks to protect emancipation and pay endless tribute to its founder, the frontline combat comrade Vilma Espín Guillois.

Nearly 51,000 women worked in science and technology in 2023, according to the latest yearbook published by Cuba’s ONEI (National Statistics and Information Bureau).

On the premise of ratifying themselves as an active force at the service of the Homeland, the members of the Federation of Cuban Women (FMC) in this province celebrated the 64th anniversary of their organization.

Cuba’s Foreign Ministry denounced on Tuesday evil-minded accusations intending to involve the island in alleged repression, espionage, persecution and torture practice in Venezuela.

 The 7th Latin American Parachuting Championship and the 3rd Parachuting Friendship Cup kicked off Tuesday in the western Cuban resort of Varadero, aimed at promoting experience exchange and friendship among local and international participants.

The Cuban Oil Industry (Cupet by its Spanish acronym) mourned the death at 83 of PhD. Juan Alfonso Fleites Melo, an outstanding personality in the oil industry who in 1992 became the first general manager of the entity.

The Cuban Academy of Sciences (ACC) renewed in Havana its call to apply for its national awards for the results of scientific research 2024, whose deadline for admission of proposals in person or virtual expires on October 30.

The actions of external meddling and political-media manipulation against Venezuela must cease, said Bruno Rodriquez Parrilla, Cuban foreign minister.

In a post on X, Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel sent his condolences to family, friends and colleagues of José Felipe Soto, an emblematic employee of Hotel Nacional de Cuba.

They wanted to silence the rebellion and its song when on August 17, 1870 a Spanish firing squad killed Major General of the Liberation Army Pedro “Perucho” Figueredo Cisneros, who went down in Cuban history as one of the first freedom fighters and the one who bequeathed to his compatriots the battle song that became the National Anthem.

Given that the Food and Nutrition Sovereignty Act (SSAN) has met obstacles since it came into force in October 2022, an action plan has been devised to improve the results of the relevant work teams.

Carlos Baliño, an experienced fighter who had created the Cuban Revolutionary Party together with José Martí in 1892, and the young university leader Julio Antonio Mella, established the First Communist Party of Cuba on August 16, 1925, when such an organization was already essential as a source of national patriotism.

 In a post on X, Cuban vice president Salvador Valdés Mesa referred to his meeting with Kassim Majaliwa, Prime Minister of the United Republic of Tanzania, in which both leaders talked about the links between the two countries.

In a statement issued on the occasion of the 98th anniversary of Fidel's birth and signed by its president Fernando González Llort, the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP) evokes its close relations with Bolivarian leader Hugo Chavez, reaffirms its solidarity with Venezuela now that it’s threatened by imperial maneuvers against the results of the recent presidential elections, and celebrates “the resounding victory of President Nicolás Maduro Moros, reelected by the Venezuelan people, who exercised their legitimate right to sovereignty and self-determination and to choose the destiny of the nation in a free, transparent and democratic electoral process.