In memory of the speech delivered by Commander in Chief Fidel Castro, known as Words to the Intellectuals, which has made history as the address that marked the cultural policy of the Revolution, several institutions will have today a busy schedule of celebrations.

On June 30, 1957, Josué País García, Floro Vistel Somodeville and Salvador Pascual Salcedo, young members of the 26th of July National Revolutionary Movement, fell in combat in the city of Santiago de Cuba, as victims of savage and unlawful crimes committed by hired assassins of Batista's tyranny at a time when the Rebel Army was growing stronger and spreading throughout the Sierra Maestra Mountains.

Damages to the Comandante Pinares General Teaching Hospital in the municipality of San Cristóbal, caused by Tuesday's earthquake, led to the suspension of hospitalization services and made the fight against COVID-19 in the region all the more complicated.

The 5.1 magnitude earthquake that shook western Cuba is a normal event, though rare, said Olearys Gonzalez, director of the National Center for Seismological Research, which is based in this city.

Cuban deputy foreign minister Anayansi Rodriguez and Martin Tlapa, deputy foreign minister of the Zcheck Republic presided over a virtual session of political consultations between both nations’ foreign ministries.

An earthquake of 5.1 magnitude shook the western region of Cuba today, with reports of perceptibility in Havana, Artemisa and Isle of Youth, with no material or human damages registered so far.

After six months of inactivity, the Latex Articles Factory in Las Tunas province is back to work, with the ambitious challenge of producing 283, 000 pairs of domestic gloves until next July, an input that will be mainly destined for the health sector.

Cuba ratified today its commitment to the fight against terrorism in all its forms and manifestations, including State terrorism.

Of the 993 houses planned to be finished by December, some 395 have been completed in Cienfuegos between January and May, which places the province at the forefront of the National Housing Program, said the provincial director of housing, Teresa Roldan Fumero.

In the contemporary Cuba there is no place for the usual annexationists nor for the mercenaries of the moment, said today on Twitter the president of the country, Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez.

Given the growing number of COVID-19 cases and the spread of SARS-Cov-2 in across the region, the Temporary Working Group (GTT) of Santiago de Cuba is implementing strict measures to contain the fresh outbreak of the disease.

A study on the Pata de Elefante ("Elephant Foot") garlic developed by the University of Artemisa (UA) at the La Rebeca farm school of the Niceto Perez Credit and Services Cooperative (CCS), in Guira de Melena(western Cuba), has demonstrated the benefits of the species in favor of food security.

Cuba was present on Monday at the opening of the International Conference on Science and Technology of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO), to be held in Vienna, Austria, until July 2, the Cuban embassy to that European country reported on Twitter.

Last June 24, 89 Cuban emigrants were returned from Mexico, which rises the number of them to more than 500 so far in 2021, said Colonel Roberto Aguilera Puig, head of the Border Unit of the Ministry of the Interior’s Division of Identification and Aliens.

Members of the Committee of Innovators and Rationalizers of Cementos Cienfuegos S.A. saved the industry five million pesos in the last two years, thanks to a number of innovations to keep production going in the midst of the current economic crisis caused by the U.S. economic blockade.