In order to pay tribute to the Heroic Guerrilla in the year of the 95th anniversary of his birth, the Commandant Ernesto Che Guevara Sculpture Complex in Santa Clara will host today the national event for April 4, the feast of the Cuban youth vanguard.

Santiago de Cuba, April 3 (ACN) An activist organization in favor of the rights of lesbian and bisexual women in this eastern Cuban city, known as Las Isabelas Network—set up in 2002-- promotes education on sexual health, self-esteem and against genre violence.

 Deputy Foreign Minister Gerardo Penalver Portal presented his credentials to the United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres as extraordinary and plenipotentiary ambassador, and permanent representative of Cuba at the New York-based world organization.

 A fire that broke out overnight in the Batabano town, in the Mayabeque province, south of Havana, was controlled early on Monday by Cuban firefighters.

Havana’s Alejandro Humbold Institute for Tropical Agriculture Research (INIFAT) is currently developing projects to boost the island’s agricultural potential through a program in the preservation of plant and animal species in the locality of Zapata Swamp, western Matanzas province.

Cuba began today the data collection for the National Occupation Survey (ENO by its Spanish acronym) of the Center for Population and Development Studies of the National Office of Statistics and Information (ONEI by its Spanish acronym), which will be carried out until June 30.

The 13th Caribbean Training Camp for the International University Programming Competition (ICPC) will be held in Havana April 24 to May 6, 2023, in an on-site format.

The Cuban Society of Geology reiterated its national and international call to the 10th Cuban Convention of Earth Sciences (GEOCIENCIAS 2023), to be held April 10-14 at the Havana Convention Center.

Cuba's deputy prime minister Jorge Luis Perdomo praised the results of Biotech Pharma (BPL), a biotechnological joint venture with China to manufacture and market the humanized monoclonal antibody Nimotuzumab, made in Cuba and used to treat nasopharyngeal cancer.

With the slogan: “For the Homeland, our hands and hearts”, the Cuban Trade Unions (CTC) called for a large-scale mobilization on May 1st to celebrate International Workers' Day by showing their unconditional support to the Revolution and Socialism, as they proved at the polls in March 26th national elections.

Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla, Cuban foreign minister, said today that the recent Summit for Democracy is a sign of the international moral isolation of the United States, its host.

With the presence of Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez, first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) and president of the country, the Plenary Session of the National Council of the Cuban Workers' Federation (CTC by its Spanish acronym) is taking place today in Havana.

Some 5,000 residents in the Zapata Swamp, in the province of Matanzas, are benefiting from the definitive start-up of a desalination plant that provides drinking water of excellent quality.

The Chinese government handed over a food donation to over twenty institutions with the health and education sectors in the western province of Matanzas.

Cuban deputy Prime Minister Jorge Luis Perdomo kicked off a working visit to China aimed at strengthening bilateral cooperation in the areas of telecommunications, digital television, cybersecurity, biotechnology and health.