The Torricelli Act, also known as the Cuban Democracy Act, was passed by the U.S. Congress on October 23, 1992, during an escalation of the economic and financial blockade imposed on Cuba at a time when the U.S. far right and the Miami-based anti-Cuban mafia believed that the Revolution had hours to live.

Following the freefall trend of COVID-19 cases in Havana, local authorities announced the ease of COVID-19 restrictions including mobility prohibition for individuals and traffic during late night hours.

Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez celebrated on his Twitter account Mexico’s designation as guest of honor of the International Book Fair in Cuba 2022.

Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez celebrated today on Twitter both Cuban Culture Day and the 50th anniversary of the publication of Roberto Fernández Retamar’s essay Caliban, an important work of Cuban literature that he highly recommended young people to read.

For more than eight years, Marlene García Collado has been walking for hours through rural and urban areas of Isle of Youth to promote the propagation of the breadfruit tree (Artocarpus altilis), a perennial crop, whose vegetative cycle exceeds five decades.

Cuban students throughout the island have continued to progressively return to their classrooms since the October 4 in-person resumption of the 2020-2021 school year, always depending on the control of the COVID-19 disease in each territory.

Miguel Diaz-Canel, first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and president of the country, highlighted today the value of the socialist state enterprise in the current Cuba.

Several panels and talks about the transcendence of the historical facts leading up to the celebration of Cuban Culture Day on October 20 are being held in the city of Holguin.

With the return to the classrooms this Monday of final-year students in several provinces and towns, Cuba will take another step towards the resumption of in-person education to finish the 2020-2021 school year in General Education.

The following is a statement issued by the Cuban Trade Unions:

Members of the Cuba Academy of Sciences stressed the need to keep on the integration achieved under the COVID-19 pandemic which allowed the development of local vaccines, new medications and treatment protocols.

In line with the international conventions to which Cuba is part, the Preliminary Draft of the Code of Families strengthens the country's will to eliminate all forms of discrimination against women, to ensure the rights of children and adolescents and people with disabilities.

Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla, Cuban foreign minister, highlighted today on Twitter Cuba's progress in the gradual recovery of its economy, despite the impact of the COVID-19 and the tightening of the U.S. economic, commercial and financial blockade.
Rodriguez Parrilla underlined the strengths of a diverse productive network and the improved participation of entrepreneurship.

Cuban deputy foreign minister Anayansi Rodriguez Camejo and the permanent undersecretary of the UK foreign ministry, Philip Barton, held a virtual meeting on Thursday, where they reaffirmed the willingness to strengthen bilateral relations.