Cuba evokes today the Father of the Homeland, Carlos Manuel de Cespedes, and Raul Roa, known as the foreign minister of dignity, on the 204th and 116th anniversary of their respective birthdays.

The Government of Havana announces today that as an organizational measure for the fuel sale, in view of the lack of fuel in the country, its sale will be limited in those service centers intended for all consumers.

A new modality in the commercialization of agricultural inputs is being developed by the Logistics Business Group of the Ministry of Agriculture (GELMA), by incorporating the sale in freely convertible currency in twenty of the stores that operate throughout the country.

The US Coast Guard Service returned 27 irregular Cuban migrants on Sunday, April 16 in its 36th operation of its kind this year.

 HAVANA, Cuba, Apr 17 (ACN) Roberto Morales Ojeda, member of the Political Bureau and Secretary of Organization of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba, congratulated today the members of the Anti-Aircraft Defense and Revolutionary Air Force (DAAFAR by its Spanish acronym) on the 62nd anniversary of its creation.

 LAS TUNAS, Cuba, Apr 17 (ACN) A severe local storm broke the tranquility of this city last night, with heavy rains that reached over 120 millimeters (mm) in just two hours and 34 minutes, which have been considered by specialists of the Provincial Meteorological Center as the heaviest so far this year.

Combined forces of the Cuban Forest Ranger Corps (CGB by its Spanish acronym) and forest firefighters continue today to tackle a fire in the rural area known as Loma de Fana, northwest of the town of Montezuelo, in the municipality of Mantua, in the province of Pinar del Rio.

Miguel Diaz-Canel, first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) and president of the country, congratulated today the writers, artists, journalists and cultural and informative institutions that received the Replica of the Machete Mambí of Generalissimo Maximo Gomez, awarded by the Revolutionary Armed Forces (FAR).

Cuban prime minister Manuel Marrero Cruz participates today in the annual review of the Ministry of Construction ( MICONS), a meeting to analyze the main results of the field in 2022 and projections for 2023.

A delegation headed by Andrei Korol, rector of the Belarusian University of Minsk, begins today an official visit to Cuba, which will include exchanges in centers of high studies and meetings with authorities of the island.

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The Ozone Technical Office (OTOZ) and its representatives in the country begin today in Matanzas(western Cuba) their first face-to-face meeting since the time of the pandemic, in coordination with the delegation in the province of the Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment.

The Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MINREX) reported that the Russian Foreign Minister Serguei Lavrov will travel to Cuba on April 19 as part of a tour scheduled to also include Brazil, Venezuela and Nicaragua to promote political, commercial, economic, educational, humanitarian, cultural and other forms of cooperation.

Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez evoked on his official Twitter account the day when Commander in Chief Fidel Castro proclaimed the socialist character of the Revolution.

Cuba’s Institute of Water Resources announced that China donated equipment to face the current drought affecting the island.