The countdown to the U.S. war against Spain began in January 1898 with the "friendly visit" to Havana of the battleship Maine, which on Tuesday, February 15 became a jumble of twisted pieces of iron laid in the bottom of the bay after an explosion that killed 254 men and which the American press used to accuse Spain of being responsible and to promote war against that nation.

Roberto Morales Ojeda, member of the Political Bureau and Secretary of Organization of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba, received on Wednesday the president of the Vietnam Women's Union (VWU), comrade Ha Thi Nga.

The 24th National Congress on Cuban History begins today at this city’s university with an extensive theoretical program to be addressed in four working commissions in which Cuban researchers will discuss issues such as the struggles for independence and national liberation, the Cuban Revolution in power, and the country’s political and economic transformations and cultural and educational processes.

Activists from 15 countries of the world, members of solidarity brigades will march along the Cuban people on May Day in Havana to ratify their full support of the people who are defending the Cuban Revolution from Imperialist aggressions.

Among other processes designed to promote the advance of the new generations as an alternative to higher education is the establishment of the University College in its two variants.

A traffic accident on Tuesday afternoon on the highway linking the provinces of Havana and Pinar del Río took a preliminary toll of 48 injured.

With an artistic program attended by Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez and top political and government leaders, the 61st anniversary of the victory at Bay of Pigs was honored today in this city at Teatro Nacional.

The Cuban Electric Company announced restless efforts to reestablish power output after breakdown of major thermo-electric plant plus other unexpected events.

With floral wreaths from Army General Raul Castro Ruz and Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez, first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and president of the country, a tribute was paid today to the martyrs of Bay of Pigs.

Inspired by the structure of the Casa Insolita ("Unusual House"), a facility located in the city of Las Tunas (eastern Cuba), where optical and physical phenomena related to the force of gravity are shown, the construction of a Fantastic Park is planned to be completed by late 2023 in this city.

The defeat of the mercenary invasion, which will be 61 years old this April 19, began to be prepared before the landing of more than a thousand men supported by tanks, artillery and aircraft at Playa Giron and Playa Larga, where they were to establish a puppet government that would justify the direct intervention of the United States.

 In the effort towards Cuba's digital transformation, the ministry of labor and social security (MTSS) will make available to the administrations an innovative computer system for human resources management, which would be considered the digital employment file.

Outstanding Cuban musician Jose Luis Cortes, known as “El Tosco”, passed today at 70 as a consequence of a stroke, the Cuban Music Institute reported.

Cuban seismological service stations keep permanent surveillance about seismic conditions in areas near the country, which have been very active since the 7.3 quake that hit Haiti on 14 August, 2021.

In the presence of Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez, workers and professors at Havana’s Higher Institute of International Relations (ISRI) pay homage on Monday to Raul Roa Garcia, who was known as an outstanding scholar, diplomat and former Foreign Minister on his 115th birthday.