“Our truth is in the ideas of justice that we defend and in the wonderful work that we build against the tide,” said Rogelio Polanco Fuentes, member of the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) and head of its Ideological Department at the ceremony of the 2023 National Journalism Awards, held on the occasion of Cuban Press Day.

The adoption of an action plan to counteract the conservative media machinery and the training of professionals committed to the values of popular transformation were the focus of debate in the last day of the 2nd International Colloquium Patria (Homeland).

The Cuban Parliament’s Commission on Industry, Construction and Energy addressed on Tuesday the island’s policy on renewable energy and measures aimed at fostering the rational use of such sources of energy.

The US Coast Guard Service returned 37 irregular Cuban migrants to the island on Tuesday.

The blockade against Cuba, an illegal policy of economic choking driven and sustained by the United States, has reached a new level with the offensive of digital imperialism. One of the least visible forms of this situation is the digital blockade which implies much more than an act of censorship and exclusion, it is a restriction to individual and collective development, to the formation of citizenship, to the integral participation in human development.

With a strong condemnation of the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the United States on Cuba and the discrediting and manipulation campaigns, journalists, intellectuals, activists and politicians from 14 countries endorsed today the final declaration of the 2nd International Colloquium Patria.

Cuban president Miguel Diaz-Canel gave an interview to the pan-Arab satellite channel Al Mayadeen, in which he addressed several issues related to the Revolution and its challenges, and international relations.

Cuban authorities and institutions congratulate today the country's media workers, on the occasion of the Press Day, which evokes the creation of the newspaper Patria, considered a paradigm of revolutionary journalism.

Cuba is developing the international collaboration project MasCafe to increase the productive yields and quality of Arabica coffee in the eastern region of the archipelago, according to statements made by a qualified source.

The 2nd International Colloquium Patria will conclude today, Cuban Press Day, with the reading of the final declaration of the event, the presentation of the Jose Marti and Juan Gualberto Gomez National Journalism Awards, and a political-cultural event on the steps of the University of Havana.

The formation and development of Belarus' socio-economic model and the impact that the management of scientific, scientific-technical and innovative activity has had on it, was the subject of the March session of the National Innovation Council (CNI), led by Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party and President of the Republic.

Cuba is taking part at the Forum of the Information Society Summit, underway in Geneva till Friday.

Cuba reiterated on Monday its willingness to strengthen relations with the Holy See on the occasion of the 10th Pontificate of Pope Francis.

 Cuban deputy Justice Minister Pilar Varona presented the island’s successful experience in the fight against illegal drugs during the 66 session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) underway in Austria.

Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez and World Food Program (WFP) representative here Henri Labande reiterated their willingness to keep strengthening relations and expand bilateral cooperation.