The cyclonic season in the geographic area of the tropical Atlantic Ocean, including the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea, extends from June to November and in the eighth month begins its most active period of disasters, when tropical cyclones and other hazards of natural, technological and sanitary origin are expected.

Cuban Prime Minister Manuel Marrero Cruz congratulated today the eastern city of Baracoa, the so-called Villa Primada, on the 512th anniversary of its founding.

Naima Ariatne Trujillo, Cuban minister of education, is heading the Cuban delegation that will attend today the inauguration of the president of Paraguay, Santiago Peña Palacios.

Casa de las Americas announced the 64th edition of its Literary Prize, to be held between April 22 and 26, 2024.

Solidarity movements from Latin America and the Caribbean demanded the end of the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the United States (U.S.) against Cuba, as part of the closing of the 3rd Central American Meeting of Solidarity with the Caribbean nation.

Ninety-eight years ago, under a strong climate of repression and in a residence on Calzada 81 in the capital's Vedado neighborhood, where the Hubert de Blanck Theater is today, representatives of several groups met to found the first Cuban Communist Party on August 16 and 17, 1925.

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.