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January 1895 dealt a devastating blow to José Martí: Spanish spies in collusion with the American police had seized an arms shipment and several ships in the Port of Fernandina, in Florida, destined to start the Necessary War in Cuba, which thwarted years of preparations and Martí’s efforts to collect tons of ammunition and weapons to that end.

A mini photo album, a caricature and Abba records are some of the few belongings that Reynier Díaz Negrín, a.k.a. Rey, keeps from his relationship with Alberto Milián Sierra, his partner for more than seven years.

"This is a socialist Code,” were Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez’s words to define the draft Family Code—currently submitted to popular consultation—as it concerns everyone, in light of the “degree of emancipation” and the “safeguards” it provides to the Cuban family and for sectors such as the elderly, people with disabilities, women, children and young people.

The eastern coastal Cuban settlement of Manzanillo was one of the communities picked in Cuba, along the city of Camaguey, for the implementation of the international and research project Nature4Cities.

The President of the Cuban National Assembly of People’s Power (Cuban Parliament) Esteban Lazo Hernandez met in Havana with Viacheslav V Volodin, Chairman of State Duma of the Russian Federation Assembly, who is paying an official visit to the island.

Viacheslav Volodin, president of the Russian State Duma, begins today an official visit to Cuba, during which he will meet with Esteban Lazo, head of the National Assembly of People's Power (Parliament) and of the Council of State.

If you get connected to the Internet in Cuba and with enter Plaza del Carmen in the search engine, Google will probably not send you to the Spanish city of Granada, a luxury hotel in the Dominican Republic, or famous neighborhoods in Murcia or Valencia.

On February 25, 1853, the Cuban priest, philosopher, politician and educator Felix Varela died in St. Augustine, Florida, United States. He was at once a mortal and a cosmos for his brilliant lucidity and influential revolutionary example, valid for all times.

The provincial assessment assemblies of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC), bound to begin in the near future, will devote their sessions to evaluate the membership’s performance and their decisive role vis-à-vis the current economic and ideological challenges and in the work in vulnerable communities and neighborhoods, without overlooking the political process of discussion within the grassroots organizations.

The tangible and intangible values of Cuban patrimonial cities were on the spotlight of participants during the opening day of the 15th National Symposium on City Management Challenges, underway at the Santa Cecilia Conventions Center in this eastern Cuban city.

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