The clandestine movement in the town of San Juan y Martinez had decided to organize a public rally on August 13, 1957, to mark the leader Fidel Castro’s 31st birthday, so the brothers Luis and Sergio Saiz Montes de Oca, leaders of the local 26th of July Movement (M7/26), got ready to participate and said goodbye to their mother Esther, a primary school teacher, to whom they said: "Don’t be afraid, one day you will be proud of us".

Doctors Manuel Cardoso Luis, Isildo Povelina Alberto and Mara Krisnayana de Jesús Brás, recent graduates of the University of Medical Sciences of the province Cienfuegos (UCM), hold that studying in Cuba was possible thanks to Commander in Chief Fidel Castro Ruz.

There is luminosity in every August 13 that can never be extinguished, not even with all the blockades in the world, because it is the date of the happy day on which the undefeated leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro Ruz, was born 97 years ago.

The eighth month of the year represents the most active period of the cyclonic season, from June 1 to November 30 in the geographical area of the North Atlantic, including the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea, a Cuban expert affirmed.

 The mutual support between our people in challenging times is to think about the welfare of the Great Homeland, said Diosdado Cabello Rondon, first vice president of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), on Thursday in Havana, on the day that closes the program of his party's visit to Cuba.

 Miguel Diaz-Canel, first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and president of the country, congratulated the young Argentine tiktoker Bruno Lonatti on his birthday.

Cuban Prime Minister Manuel Marrero Cruz highlighted today the importance of the so-called “Casitas Infantiles” (Children’s Little Homes) for the integral development of children in the one to five age group.

The Cuban Trade Unions (CTC) in the province of Santiago de Cuba is saluting August 13—Commander-in-Chief Fidel Castro’s 97th birthday—with visits to heritage sites, special morning discussions and cultural activities across workplaces.

Roberto Morales Ojeda, secretary of organization of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba, and Hiroshige Seko, secretary-general of the Liberal Democratic Party of the House of Councillors of Japan, called for closer ties of friendship between their countries.

The Cuban Foreign Ministry (MINREX) reasserted its solidarity with native communities in their struggle to become visible and survive.

“Despite all our difficulties, [the province of] Pinar del Río is not alone in its struggle to recover from the effects of Hurricane Ian,” Cuban vice president Salvador Valdés Mesa stressed.

On Wednesday, the U.S. Coast Guard returned to Cuba a group of irregular migrants (SGC), namely eight men and two women, who departed from the island and were intercepted at sea.

Diosdado Cabello, first vice president of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) talked on Tuesday afternoon with leaders, cadres and officials of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba (CCPCC).

The Ministry of Labor and Social Security (MTSS) reported on the modification of the bases of the social security contribution for self-employed workers and members of non-agricultural cooperatives established before the entry into force of Decree Law 48 of August 6, 2021.

Ana Maria Mari Machado, vice president of the National Assembly of People's Power and the Council of State, received on Tuesday Hiroshige Seko, secretary general of the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan in the Asian nation's House of Councilors, and his delegation.