As of today in Havana, and later on in the city of Santiago de Cuba, Brazilian intellectual Frei Betto, advisor to the Cuban government for the design and implementation of the National Plan for Food Sovereignty and Nutrition Education (Plan SAN), will carry out a busy program of related popular education activities.

The president of the National Assembly of People’s Power (Cuban Parliament) Esteban Lazo Hernandez call on local authorities in this eastern city on Friday to undertake a government labor marked by permanent its linkage with the people and have the population to increasingly participate in the decision-taking processes and contribute to the solution of the problems, many of which can be found in the very territories.

The 14th University 2022 International Congress wound up Friday in Havana after designing the priorities of higher education and the need to increase efforts towards sustainable development.

About 300 migrants from Haiti, who landed on the shores of Ciego de Avila in the early morning of February 9, while trying to reach the United States, are receiving attention from the Red Cross, until they can safely return to their country.

 A total of 109 special circumscriptions will operate at Cuban embassies and consular offices abroad for the process of popular consultation on the draft Family Code, which will run until April 30.

The University of Camagüey(central Cuba) will inaugurate in early this year a research institute on Artificial Intelligence in Hebei, along with the University of International Studies of that Chinese province.

The Agroforestry Cooperative Development Project (Prodecafe), which benefits 140 productive forms of Guantanamo(eastern Cuba), is the result of the collaboration between Cuba and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) to contribute to the sustainable development of the sector, strengthen food security and improve the living conditions of rural families.

On the occasion of the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez, first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and president of the country, recognized today the island's women scientists, who currently represent 53 % of the workers in that sector.

A new day of exchanges was held in Cienfuegos (central Cuba) by researchers from the Federal State Unitary Enterprise Moscow Aviation Materials Research Institute (VIAM by its Russian acronym) and the Center for Environmental Studies of Cienfuegos (CEAC by its Spanish acronym).

After four days of hard work, the International Congress Universidad 2022 concludes today in Havana and the closing ceremony will be attended by Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez, first secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba and president of the country.

The setting up in this central Cuban province of a center for disaster risk reduction with integrated approach will strengthen local capacities to deal with extreme natural phenomena.

“We have learned that science and innovation have answers for everyone,” Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez wrote today on Twitter in reference to the 13th International Congress University 2022, which concludes this Friday.

In order to properly understand the new Family Code, Reina Arias, a resident of the province of Sancti Spiritus, hardly puts down the document whenever her work allows some reading time. She has had to check terms, ask questions and compare ideas at home, but today she refers to it as an all-encompassing text of vital importance in today’s Cuba.

Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez received on Wednesday, at the Palace of the Revolution, the president of the Communist Party of Spain, José Luis Centella Gómez, with whom he held a fraternal and friendly dialogue in which they discussed issues related to regional and international affairs.

Soon after the world was forced into confinement by the spread of COVID-19 in 2020, the effects became noticeable in international trade as border closure restrictions affected maritime transport, which moves about 80% of the goods consumed on the planet, according to estimates by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development.