Vicente de la O Levy, Cuba's Minister of Energy and Mines, informed this Thursday that the delays in the delivery of salt for the population's consumption are due to transportation problems.

A new Cuban entrepreneurial draft legislation will be submitted to discussions and approval by the National Assembly of People’s Power (Parliament) in December this year.

In the spirit of relating constantly to people, the candidates for deputies to the National Assembly of People's Power (ANPP) from the province of Villa Clara return to local communities to meet with the residents, and Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel is not the exception.

 “Neither my father nor I voted in the elections held in Cuba before the triumph of the Revolution,” said José Herminio Castañeda Rodríguez-Gallo, a veteran of the last war for liberation waged in the country.

Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla called to start a fund to cope with losses and damages caused by climate change.

Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla thanked the Russian people and government for a donation of 25,000 tons of wheat.

Arte bajo las olas (Art beneath the waves), the first course of the Ibero-American School of Underwater Photography and Painting, intended to making submerged scenes visible in a creative way and raising awareness about their protection, started in this city.

The Council of State, at the proposal of the President of the Republic and prior approval of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Party, agreed to promote comrade Joaquín Alonso Vázquez, current president of Casas de Cambio (Cadeca S. A.), to the post of Minister President of the Central Bank of Cuba.

Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez asked for the implementation of a fund with the necessary financing to face the losses and damages caused by the effects of climate change.

Cuba and Angola reaffirmed on Wednesday the will to continue strengthening bilateral relations, during a meeting between Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, Cuban Foreign Minister, and María Cândida Pereira Teixeira, ambassador of that African nation.

Cuban authorities extended their gratitude to the Russian government for a 25-thousand-ton wheat donation, a gesture affirming the historic bonds of brotherhood and reciprocal support between the two nations.

Cuba remembers today the explosion of the battleship U.S.S. Maine 125 years ago in the Havana harbor, used by the United States as a pretext to intervene in the Spanish-Cuban war of independence.

The 23rd session of the Algeria-Cuba Joint Intergovernmental Commission finished in this city with the signing of seven legal instruments that expand and consolidate economic and trade relations and cooperation between the two countries by the Algerian Minister of Health, Population and Hospital Reform, Abdelhak Saihi, and senior Cuban officials.

 The Marta Abreu University of Las Villas (UCLV) awarded Professor Edilbert Van Driessche, from the Free University of Brussels (VUB), the degree of Doctor Honoris Causa of Agricultural Sciences as part of the celebrations for 25 years of cooperation between the two universities.

Ana María Mari Machado, vice president of Cuba's National Assembly of People's Power (Parliament) met in this city with Inlavanh Keobounphanh, president of the Lao Women's Union, to discuss the fundamental role of women in society and other topics of common interest, such as women's empowerment and their presence in government positions.