“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.

Cuba and Belarus agreed to politically support their mutual interest in expanding and diversifying economic and trade relations, during political consultations on Tuesday between Cuban deputy foreign minister Anayansi Rodriguez and her Belarusian counterpart Evgeny Shestakov.

 Havana, Jun 7 (ACN) Cuba commemorated on Tuesday the 87th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations with the Holy See, an event that took place in 1935 under Decree Law 208 which established a Vatican’s diplomatic mission on the island.

 With the aim of discussing fundamental issues of agricultural biotechnology, the 1st edition of the scientific event BioCubaAgro is taking place at the Plaza America Convention Center in Varadero, with the participation of world leaders and high-level specialists from 18 countries.

More than 4,800 citizens have been evacuated in the province of Matanzas, with the priority of protecting human lives in a territory with saturated soils due to constant rains, reports of floods and reservoirs with high flow.

The Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment (CITMA by its Spanish acronym), in the province of Holguin, is promoting several projects aimed at protecting coastal areas, as part of the implementation of the Tarea Vida (Task Life), the Cuban State's plan to confront climate change.

The Union of Jurists of Cuba (UNJC) will open today its 9th Congress at the Havana Convention Center, aimed at strengthening the organization and its affiliates from the social and legal responsibility that represents its work.

Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel said that the new Family Code, currently in the make, will be a necessary, worthy law made by the Cuban people.

Miguel Diaz-Canel, Cuban president, said today on Twitter that the voice of Latin America and the Caribbean, as in the past, will resound in Los Angeles during the 9th Summit of the Americas, with the absence of key leaders.

The National Assembly of People's Power (Parliament) of Cuba congratulated today the newspaper Trabajadores, on the occasion of its 52nd anniversary, and thanked the meritorious work of this publication.

Workers from the Attorney General's Office of the Republic (FGR by its Spanish acronym) reaffirmed today their commitment to the principles of socialist legality during the main ceremony for the Legal Workers' Day, to be commemorated on June 8.

The United States government, abusing the privilege granted by its status as host country, decided in advance to exclude Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua from the 9th Summit of the Americas, to be held in the city of Los Angeles this June. It refused to meet the just demands of numerous governments to change this discriminatory and unacceptable position.