Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez, first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) and president of the country, is participating today in the organization's Municipal Assessment Assembly in Santiago de Cuba.

The Revolutionary Government denounces the economic, commercial and financial blockade formally imposed by the United States on February 3, 1962, which has been in force for more than 60 years.

Cuba began on Tuesday a process of popular consultation of the draft Family Code, an exercise of participatory democracy scheduled to run until April 30 throughout the country in which people will be able to participate, give opinions and contribute to the final provisions of the Act..

“Nature, always dazzling, keeps unbeatable beauties under the waters,” Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez wrote today on Twitter on the occasion of World Wetlands Day, in a message urging everyone to preserve and look after these areas in order to ensure their sustainability and enjoyment.

The implementation of a project based on the integrated management of the Great Northern Wetland of Ciego de Avila (GHNCA), the second largest of its kind in Cuba after the Zapata Swamp, adds to the country's efforts to achieve sustainable development and adaptation to climate change.

It is impossible to visit the city of Santiago de Cuba for the first time without dropping by the Museum of Rum, now located in the Santiago de Cuba Rum Factory of the Cuba Ron S.A. Corporation, a new and greater value-adding venue that allows to know the history of the liquor and even witness the production process in the bottling area.

At 35, Nora Esther Martínez de Osaba is one of the jurists in the province of Pinar del Río who supports the popular consultation process of the Draft Family Code, launched Tuesday nationwide.

Voter José Rafael Ricardo described as a legal opportunity to ponder affection, inclusion and respect for diversity the draft Family Code, submitted since Tuesday to popular consultation across the country.

Doctor of Political Sciences and Law professor Osvaldo M. Álvarez Torres said in this city that feelings such as affection, love and loyalty are at the root of the Draft Family Code currently submitted to popular consultation throughout Cuba.

Cuban environment authorities confirmed the certainty that the coastal resilience project against Climate Chage, though ecosystem-based adaptation, will be achieved in tune with local and community development plans.

 The National Program for the Prevention of Pregnancy in Adolescents, promoted by the Cuban Women’s Federation till April 4, kicked off Tuesday in a rural community of this city, in the eastern province of Granma.

Farmer Yens martin Tirado, renowned producer in this province, has turned to biologic agents to control the action of Thrips insects attacking bean flowers.

Esteban Lazo Hernandez, president of the National Assembly of People's Power of Cuba (Parliament), received today at the headquarters of the Cuban legislature a delegation of Euro deputies belonging to the European Leaft Party, which since yesterday began an official visit to the island.

Cuban PM Manuel Marrero Cruz, highlighted today on Twitter the beginning of the popular consultation of the New Family Code Project, in neighborhoods and communities of Cuba.

The popular consultation of the Family Code Project in its 24th version begins today throughout the country and will last until April 30 in more than 78,000 meeting points.