The president of the Cuban Writers and Artists’ Union Luis Morlote is heading a delegation to the 25th Europe-Latin America Parliamentary Assembly, underway in Madrid, Spain.

Activists attending a Caribbean forum in solidarity with Cuba in this eastern city demanded the end of the over-60-year US economic, commercial and financial blockade of Cuba.

Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez, First Secretary of Cuba’s Communist Party Central Committee and President of Cuba is touring social centers in eastern Santiago de Cuba, venue of July26th National Rebellion Day ceremony, marking the 70th anniversary of the attacks on the Moncada Garrison back in 1965 by revolutionaries led by Fidel Castro.

Cuba remembers today the Latin American independence leader Simon Bolivar, El Libertador, on the occasion of the 240th anniversary of his birth.

Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla, Cuban Foreign Minister, denounced today the effects of the U.S. economic, commercial and financial blockade on his country, including barriers to the purchase of medicines.

Intended to strengthen the struggle for peace and regional integration, the Caribbean Meeting of Solidarity with Cuba and Just Causes began at the University of Oriente, in the city of Santiago de Cuba.

The Carlos J. Finlay University of Medical Sciences of the province of Camagüey, established by the Cuban Revolution on June 4, 1980, graduated another 124 students—54 of them from other countries—who took the courses of Clinical Bioanalysis, Medical Imaging and Radiophysics, Hygiene and Epidemiology, and Health Information System.

The FAO Cuba office will continue helping with a project designed to protect marine biodiversity in the Gulf of Guacanayabo, in the province of Granma, through the management of fishery and other marine-coastal resources.

Army General Raul Castro Ruz and Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and President of the Republic, are participating today in the debates on the relationship between the deputies to the National Assembly of People's Power (ANPP) and the voters of the territories where they were elected.

Deputies to the National Assembly of People's Power (ANPP) continue today the analysis of issues of interest to the population as part of the 1st Ordinary Session of the Cuban Parliament, in its 10th Legislature.

With the implementation of the general directives for the prevention and confrontation of crime, illegalities, corruption and social indiscipline, modest results can be seen but the effectiveness needed has not yet been achieved, said Manuel Marrero Cruz, Cuban Prime Minister, on Twitter.

The Cuban State and Government cannot be indifferent to the occurrence of illicit activities, social indiscipline, manifestations of corruption and crime that destroy the structure of our society, said Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba, speaking on Thursday at the plenary debates of the 1st Ordinary Session of the 10th Legislature.

Tropical Storm Don has gained some organization and intensity in the waters of the North Atlantic. It now has maximum sustained winds of 85 kilometers per hour, with a central pressure of 1002 hectoPascal, reports the Institute of Meteorology in its Tropical Cyclone Warning No. 8.

The Cuban National Assembly of People’s Power (parliament) adopted a military penal code law during the First Session of its 10th Legislature, held Wednesday in Havana.

A charter flight from the United States deported 33 irregular migrants to Cuba in what has been the fourth operation of its kind this year.