New measures to reinforce safety in Cuba's automobile traffic, in view of the upcoming summer months, have been implemented by the National Traffic Directorate and the Road Safety Commission.

The visit of the Secretariat and auxiliary structures of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) to this province, the second capital of the island, begins today with the aim of evaluating the political, economic and social functioning of the territory.

One of Cuba's most emblematic restaurant-bars, El Floridita, which this year celebrates its 205th anniversary, has been included among the 50 best bars in North America and the Caribbean, a renowned list recently announced in New York City.

Representatives of several countries attending the 9th Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles denounced the over-60-year US economic, commercial, and financial blockade against Cuba.

At a meeting in the Center for Clinical Engineering and Electromedicine (CICEM), Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel said that Cuba can achieve anything we set our mind to because the country has sufficiently clever, talented and capable people to that end.

Aylín Álvarez, first secretary of the National Bureau of the Young Communist League, congratulated the University of Havana (UH) for having reached the 467th place in the QS World University Rankings 2023, which confirms it is among the world’s 500 best, and highlighted the pride and commitment of UH students, professors and workers after going up 35 places with respect to last year.

Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez said that the recently announced US measures constitute an extraordinarily limited step in the policy between both nations.

Cuban and Panamanian parliament authorities ratified on Wednesday their willingness to expand and deepen relations between their legislative bodies, in tune with the historic relations between the two Latin American nations.

“The United States can prevent Cuba's presence in Los Angeles, but it is powerless to silence either our voice or hide the truth,” Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez said today in a message to the Cuban civil society excluded from the 9th Summit of the Americas, which he described as being held with discriminatory participation and insufficient regional representation, revealing of the U.S. government’s inability to understand its neighbors.

 On the occasion of the Day of the Legal Worker in Cuba, Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez highlighted the patriotic, revolutionary and anti-imperialist tradition of Cuban Law as he congratulated the members of the country’s legal community, who are also holding their 9th Congress.

At barely 18, Ismael Mompeller Rodriguez learned to weave with palm leaves in his hometown in the province of Ciego de Avila, where the fields brim with these centuries-old trees.

Cuban researchers and journalists agree that Latin America and the Caribbean should seek solutions to their problems through local mechanisms of dialogue and integration, as opposed to those imposed by the United States.