Miguel Diaz-Canel, first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and president of the country, recalled today the birthdays of Carlos Manuel de Cespedes, the father of the homeland, and Raul Roa, known as the foreign minister of dignity.

Students of Higher education all over Cuba return today to classes to begin the 2022 academic year in university degrees and short-cycle training programs, without renouncing the use of virtual spaces for teaching and learning.

Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel evoked today on Twitter the epic events of Bay of Pigs 61 years ago, when the fighters of the Island faced up to the invasion financed by the United States.

Recalling the US bombing of Cuba airports 61 years ago, Cuba President Miguel Diaz-Canel acknowledged the braveness of the Cuban people by writing on his Twitter account that Cuba’s heroism prevailed over cowardice.

The European Union (EU) ratified in a statement released on Thursday its rejection of the U.S. economic, commercial and financial blockade against Cuba, as well as its firm condemnation of the extraterritorial scope of that policy.

The Bolivian Solidarity Coordinator, an organization grouping social, indigenous and famer associations donated 2 million 286 thousand syringes and needles to support medical services at the Centro Habana Pediatric Hospital and in other health institutions in this capital city.

“We have to get involved and give support, because this is everyone's work and it is for the better,” Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel said today during a visit to the Havana neighborhood of Miraflores-Jesús Menéndez, in the municipality of Boyeros.

Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez stressed today on Twitter that prevention and education should be at the root of the inspections and audits carried out in the country and pointed out that it is not just a matter of checking things but of teaching everyone to strengthen internal control and improve prevention.

In an article published in El País on October 28, 1890, Fermín Valdés Domínguez, a close friend of Cuba’s National Hero José Martí and back then a doctor in the town of Baracoa, describes the visit of Dr. Carlos de la Torre y Huerta to the city in September of that year.

The Cuban Ministry of Construction intends to fulfill the plan of 37,991 new homes despite the current limitations in that field, according to Minister René Mesa Villafaña, who remarked that the top leadership of the country is monitoring this effort, aware that the demand far exceeds the supplying.

Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez praised the performance of the General Comptroller’s Office in 2021 and he assigned the office new missions in 2022 in tune with the challenges and transformations facing the nation.

Mexican authorities on Wednesday returned 37 irregular Cuban migrants to the island in tune with bilateral migration accords.

Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Cuba, remarked today on Twitter that the United States considers human rights as a tool that it uses in an opportunistic manner to attack countries that refuse to yield to its dictates and rewards and gives money to governments with lousy human rights records.

Cuban Prime Minister Manuel Marrero Cruz evoked today on Twitter the 61st anniversary of the terrorist act against the store El Encanto in Havana, an event in which the employee Fe del Valle Ramos lost her life.

During the night of April 13, 1961, 61 years ago, the department store El Encanto, the largest one in Cuba, burned down as a result of the only major terrorist attack that the enemy could carry out in Havana as part of Operation Pluto—the mercenary invasion of Bay of Pigs that would start on the 17th.