Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez, first secretary of the Central Committee of the Cuban communist party and president of the country, marked today the 211th anniversary of Venezuela's Declaration of Independence.

As part of his official visit to Cuba, Luis Felipe López-Calva, regional director for Latin America and the Caribbean of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), was received by Déborah Rivas, deputy Minister of Foreign Trade and Foreign Investment.

Members of the XXXI Juan Rius Rivera Brigade, from Puerto Rico, paid tribute this Monday to the founding fathers of the Cuban nation at the Santa Ifigenia patrimonial cemetery in this city.

The United Nations undersecretary general and regional director for Latin America and the Caribbean of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), Luis Felipe Lopez-Calva, will pay an official visit to Cuba from today until Thursday, July 7.

Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla, Cuban foreign minister, praised today on Twitter the 49th anniversary of the creation of the Caribbean Community ( CARICOM).

A group of 12 Cuban doctors arrived on Sunday in the Maldives to provide their services, in the framework of the cooperation agreement signed between the health ministries of both countries.

The transformations initiated by the Revolution with the Agrarian Reform Law of 1959, the reduction of rents and the application of other measures in favor of the people were enough to justify the blockade actions by U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower, who limited the sugar quota that the U.S. bought annually from the island.

Nearly 19 % of the national territory's surface is occupied by the 144 new protected areas officially declared by the Council of Ministers.

A group of specialists will present this Tuesday in Havana their experiences on the incorporation of the State Plan to confront climate change to the curricular contents in teacher training.

 While visiting this city, the Puerto Rican “Juan Rius Rivera” Brigade reasserted its commitment to make sure that nothing separates the Puerto Rican and Cuban peoples in their struggles against the U.S. blockade.

The Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) once again placed Cuba as the second of the five countries in the world that currently boast gender parity in Parliament and the world’s second with the highest proportion of women deputies.

A 737-800 Boeign with the Canadian OWG airline company from Montreal arrived at the Abel Santa Maria International Airport on Friday.

 With deep sorrow, Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez, first secretary of the Central Committee of the Cuban communist party and president of the country, expressed today his condolences and those of the Cuban people to the family and friends of Major General Luis Alberto Rodriguez Lopez-Calleja, who died Friday as a result of a cardiorespiratory failure.

Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez, first secretary of the Central Committee of the Cuban communist party and president of the country, described as vile, cowardly and inadmissible the physical aggression suffered by Spanish journalist and documentary filmmaker Ana Hurtado on Thursday.

With deep concern Cuba informs that in the early hours of the morning Friday, July 1, as a result of a cardiorespiratory failure, Major General Luis Alberto Rodriguez Lopez-Calleja, executive president of the Business Administration Group of the Revolutionary Armed Forces, died.