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February Monday

At a meeting Tuesday with Garry Conille, UNICEF Regional Director for Latin America and the Caribbean, Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel highlighted the assistance provided by UNICEF and its impact on Cuban children and teenagers affected by natural disasters.

The immensity of the pain caused by the barbaric crime of October 6, 1976 that took the lives of the 73 passengers of Cubana de Aviación’s Flight 455 off the coast of Barbados, among them the young and victorious members of the National Fencing Team who were returning home after winning a regional championship, still makes us shudder.

Between August 25 and September 7, 1959, Chicago, U.S.A. hosted the 3rd Pan American Games, a multi-sport event in which the number of athletes dropped this time to 2,161.

On October 4, 1963, Hurricane Flora made landfall in eastern Cuba with sustained winds of 160 km/h and extreme rainfall amounts that pounded the 63,000 square kilometers of the region for five days, recalled Professor Luis Enrique Ramos Guadalupe, coordinator of the History Commission of the Meteorological Society of Cuba.

EsculTunas is the name of the winning application of the innovation challenge launched by the co-Lab Las Tunas project as part of the "Capital of Cuban Sculpture" Laboratory, an informatics solution that this province will present at the Cibersociedad(cybersociety) congress, Oct. 16-20.

Cuba and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) stressed the willingness to continue expanding and developing relations in areas of mutual interest such as tourism, agriculture and renewable energies.

Gerardo Peñalver, Cuban first deputy foreign minister, denounced today at the United Nations General Assembly the manipulation of terrorism to turn it into a political instrument against any country.

On October 3, 1963, 60 years ago, the Revolutionary Government of Cuba signed the 2nd Agrarian Reform Law to put an end to the remnants of the latifundia, by reducing land tenure to five caballerias, from the 30 stipulated by the first Law of 1959, which, in addition to radically changing the agrarian production system, dealt a definitive blow to the counterrevolution in the countryside.

Athletes from 22 countries participated at the Second Pan American Games, held in Mexico City from March 12 to 26, 1955, an event in which Cuba dropped to ninth place in the medal standings.

Cuba’s Meteorology Institute alerted on Monday that tropical storm Philippe has maintained its organization and intensity and was located just 25 kilometers east of the island of Barbuda, in the northern Lesser Antilles.

Miguel Diaz-Canel, First Secretary of Cuba’s Communist Party Central Committee and Cuban President attended the opening Monday of a multi-sector regional business forum called “Expo ALADI-Cuba 2023.

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