With a high scientific and technical level students from seven nations, including Belize, Angola, Peru and the Saharawi Democratic Republic graduated from the Medical University of this westernmost Cuban province.
Cuba discusses new model of press management
A debate took place today in the 8th Session of the National Board of the Union of Cuban Journalists (UPEC), attended by 15 media outlets—including ACN—about a project to change the existing model of press editorial and economic management.
Ariana, a young mother of three, is grateful to Cuba
Ariana Izquierdo Ortega, a 29-year-old single mother, cannot conceal her emotion and gratitude as she tells the story of her past months together with her little girls aged two, four and ten.
FotoSub, International Underwater Photography Event in Varadero Beach
Underwater photography enthusiasts from Mexico, Span and the United States will contest the FOTOSUB Varadero 2022 competition off the northern coast of this western province July 21-25.
Pastors for Peace Caravan Again Defies US Blockade of Cuba
The activists with the 32nd US-Cuba Pastors for Peace Friendshipment Caravan will arrive in Havana on Monday, July 18, in a new defying action against the over-60-year US economic, commercial and financial blockade of the Cuban people.
Vice President offers condolences on the death of dos Santos
Cuban VP Salvador Valdés Mesa signed the book of condolences opened by the Angolan Embassy in this city on the occasion of the passing of the former president of that nation, José Eduardo dos Santos.
1962: military commanders and the CIA prepared fake news against Cuba
More than six decades ago, Colonel John H. Glenn, a 39-year-old astronaut, took off in the Mercury Atlas 6 from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) launch center at Cape Canaveral, Florida, but a sudden urge to urinate caused strain in the flight control room when the electrical sensors inside Glenn’s spacesuit got wet, which could damage and even destroy the spacecraft.
Puerto Rican solidarity brigade visits eastern Cuba
Members of the Juan Rius Rivera Brigade organized by the Cuba Solidarity Movement in Puerto Rico will arrive today in the province of Granma as part of a program of visits to and meetings in various regions of the country.
Cuba Calls for Youth Participation in Government Policies
Cuba called for the leading participation of youth movements in the design of government policies, during the high-level forum of youth authorities with the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of our Americas and Peoples’ Trade Treaty (ALBA-TCP).
Cuban Students Healthy after Ammonia Leak
Twelve students at the Maximo Gomez Education Center in Camaguey were assisted and are in good conditions after an ammonia leak occurred Tuesday morning from the Tinima Beer Brewery near their school.
Cuba continues seeking alternatives to food sovereignty
More than six decades have passed and the panorama of the Cuban countryside is very different from the one left by capitalism in 1959, when 200,000 farming families did not have a stick of land to sow, and half of the best lands were in the hands of foreign companies, while nearly 300,000 hectares remained uncultivated.
University of Havana opens Summer School
The Summer School of the University of Havana (UH) opens its doors today to nearly 280 students for the first time in an integrated way, by including different subjects such as tourism, economics, humanities and exact sciences.
One year after the failed soft coup attempt
In another July, as hot as this one, only 12 months ago, protests, riots and violent actions took place in the national panorama that caused revolts in different regions, and received immediate popular repulse.
Cuban Population Shrinking and Aging, Experts Say
Demographic research proves that the Cuban population is decreasing and aging, said the deputy chief of the National Statistics and Information Office (ONEI) Juan Carlos Alfonso.
Zimbabwe and Cuba to Deepen Bilateral Cooperation
Cuban Communist Party Organization Secretary Roberto Morales and Simbarashe Mumbengegwi, member of the Politburo of the National African Union of Zimbabwe-Patriotic Fron (ZANU-PF) agreed to further deepen historic brotherhood and cooperation relations between their countries.
Transformations in Cuban communities are comprehensive and permanent, Diaz-Canel affirms
The actions carried out for the transformation of neighborhoods considered vulnerable have an integral and permanent character, said Miguel Diaz-Canel, first secretary of the Central Committee of the Cuban communist party and president of the country.