Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez, First Secretary of Cuba’s Communist Party Central Committee and Cuban President is departing on a tour of the United Arab Emirates, Qatar and Iran where he will meet official and working agendas.

Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez congratulated Bolivian Celinda Sosa Lunda who was appointed new Foreign Minister of the South American nation.

The Cuban Industrial Property Office (OCPI by its Spanish acronym) kicks off today the first of three days of sessions of its Training Seminar for Science and Technology Parks in order to strengthen the dynamizing structures of science, technology and innovation.

152 years after one of the most savage crimes perpetrated in Cuba by the Spanish colonial regime, Miguel Diaz-Canel, President of the Republic, said today that this time has not been able to subtract pain to the Homeland, for the execution of eight innocent people.

On November 27, 1871, Spanish colonialism perpetrated in Havana one of its most savage crimes on Cuban territory: the execution by firing squad of eight totally innocent first-year medical students, sacrificed more than anything else as an example to the sons and daughters of this land of freedom fighters since 1868.
The date has become one of the saddest and at the same time clamorous days in history, the compatriots of those young people have been able to find today, if you will, the brightness of that painful and somber event.

U.S.-funded rebel bands in rural Cuba were characterized by their extreme cruelty, as they showed on November 26, 1961 when they arrived at the hut of the peasant and militia member Pedro Lantigua in the Escambray Mountains, where the literacy teacher Manuel Ascunce Domenech was doing his duty.

Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez, First Secretary of Cuba’s Communist Party Central Committee and Cuban President granted the Friendship Medal to Le Thanh Tung, Vietnamese ambassador to Havana.

Prominent Cuban artist and intellectual Amaury Perez Vidal received on Thursday an honorary doctorate degree from the University of the American Cultural Institute in Mexico.

Students, workers and Rebel Army vets attended the launch in Havana of the book “I am Fidel” in the eve of the seventh anniversary of the passing of the historic leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro.

Roberto Morales Ojeda, member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) and Secretary of Organization, held today an exchange with workers and directors of the Cuban News Agency (ACN) and toured its facilities.

The attention to unfavorable epidemiological events, the surgical activity and the promotion of scientific development to achieve a better attention to patients, represent the objectives of the workers of the Amalia Simoni Provincial Clinical and Surgical Teaching Hospital in central Cuba, which today celebrates its 64th anniversary.

The authorities at a plenary session of the provincial committee of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) in Matanzas called today to strengthen the state agricultural enterprise and generalize positive experiences in food production.

Manuel Marrero Cruz, member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and Prime Minister of the Republic, closed today the scientific event held in Havana as part of the 2nd National Conference on Cybersecurity.

A few hours before the seventh anniversary of the physical loss of Commander-in-Chief Fidel Castro, Cuban Vice President Salvador Valdes Mesa paid tribute today to the historic leader of the Revolution, during his transit through France, returning from a tour of countries in the African continent.

The Commander of the Revolution Ramiro Valdes Menendez, Cuban deputy prime minister, presided over today, in this central-southern city, the act of recognition to the workers, for the completion of the capital repair of the Cienfuegos Refinery S. A., and the contribution given to other major works in Cuba.