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.

The communications sector is one of the most affected by the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the U.S. government against Cuba, causing damages in this important area to the whole Cuban society.

As part of an official working visit, a delegation led by nine MEPs belonging to the European Left Party toured this locality and showed their support for the Cuban Revolution in this historic site of the country.

Over 80 percent of current polluting sources identified in western Matanzas province have already been targeted by rehabilitation actions, according to local environmental officials.

 The Cuban province of Matanzas recorded the lowest temperatures of the last five years in the early morning, with a minimum of 3.5 °C in this locality, according to official data from the Center of Forecasts of the territory.

 Minimum temperatures below 10 degrees Celsius (°C) were reported today by 34 weather stations in Cuba, with the lowest value, 2.8 °C, registered in Bainoa (Mayabeque)(western region), a possible record for January, according to the Institute of Meteorology.

Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez highlighted today on his Twitter account the resistance of Cubans against the US blockade of the Caribbean island.

Cuban Deputy Prime Minister Ines Maria Chapman attended a workshop on gender violence, held at Hotel Nacional de Cuba, where she urged to bring to the fore and react immediately to cases of gender violence.

The Martyrs of 1912 Honorific Department was set up at Santiago’s Antonio Maceo Studies Center having in mind that this eastern city was the epicenter of an armed protest by the Independent Party of People of Color on May 20, 1912 and which was cruelly crashed by the Spanish rulers.

Cuban Prime Minister Manuel Marrero Cruz called authorities in this western Cuban province to base everyday work on science and innovation as a government strategy adapted to the local scenarios.

Over 132 thousand Cuban in several municipalities of this eastern province are being affected by server drought which has left to the depletion of drinking water sources.

The new Family Code is progressive, first-worldist and above all very necessary for the current Cuban society, said Iris Maria Mendez Trujillo, head of the Law Department at the University of Matanzas, in an exclusive interview to the Cuban News Agency.

Authorities, institutions and the people of Cuba are today evoking the legacy of the National Hero, Jose Marti, on the 169th anniversary of his birth.