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.

Approved on July 1st of the year that gives it its name, the Constitution of 1940 could have been perfectible in many ways, like all human works. However, 82 years after that event, a consistent and honest look will highlight above all how faithful it was to its time and to the spirit of its distinguished predecessors, and its contribution to a progressive jurisprudence, with a clear attachment to justice, civility, human dignity and patriotic values.

Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez, first secretary of the Central Committee of the Cuban communist party and president of the country, described Thursday's meeting with representatives of the three associations that represent people with disabilities in Cuba, as a family meeting, friendly and full of commitment.

Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez, first secretary of the Central Committee of the Cuban communist party and president of the country, acknowledged today that the island gives high priority to the friendship and cooperation ties that unite the people, parties and governments of Cuba and Laos.

The seventh month of the year is the one that contributes the least rainfall to the rainy period in Cuba that runs from May to October, almost coinciding with the cyclonic season in the geographical area of the tropical Atlantic Ocean, including the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea.

Cuban Parliament vice-president Ana Maria Mari is heading a delegation to the Baku Conference of the Parliamentary Network with the Non-Aligned Movement, underway in Azerbaijan.

Canada’s Off We Go (OWG) airline company began commercial operations with Cuba with the arrival in this eastern Cuban city of the Boeing 737-400 flight from that country.

Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez met with Mr. Alexandre Ricard, President and CEO of Pernod Ricard, a famous French company that produces alcoholic beverages and whose role in the development of the Havana Club International (HCI), the growth of the Havana Club brand, and the prestige that Cuban rum has gained worldwide.

Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez stressed on Twitter that Cuba reasserts its vocation for solidarity and its traditional humane and dignified treatment of migrants, in reference to the rescue Tuesday of a ship full of Haitians that ran aground on an offshore Cuban key.

Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel welcomed Cuban American teacher Carlos Lazo, leader of the Bridges of Love supportive initiative and a group of his colleagues, students their parents currently visiting Cuba.

Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez wrote on Twitter that the politically motivated handling by Washington of migration relations with Cuba, along the strongest economic pressures, encourage irregular migration.

Cuba and Ethiopia today confirmed their willingness to strengthen bilateral ties, based on the historic relationship of friendship, solidarity and cooperation between the two countries.

Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, described as cordial the meeting he held Wednesday with Tanzania’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation Liberata Mulamula.