On August 23, 2021, the Federation of Cuban Women will celebrate its 61st anniversary by fulfilling urgent tasks in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic in a country that grows by the day on selfless and creative work and refuses to yield to the U.S. illegal and criminal blockade.

On August 23, 1906, General Alejandro Rodriguez, chief of the Rural Guard, informed President Tomas Estrada Palma of the fulfillment of his order to kill General Quintin Banderas, but his macabre task was not finished: the president demanded that his remains be thrown into a common grave so that he would not have a tomb of his own where he would be remembered and flowers would be placed.

There are no words to thank all the work of Cuban women and mainly, within all their greatness, those in the health sector, said Manuel Marrero Cruz, Cuban prime minister, today in Havana, on the occasion of the 61st anniversary of the Federation of Cuban Women (FMC by its Spanish acronym), which was celebrated on Monday.

Army General Raul Castro, the first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and president of the country, Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez, and other Cuban authorities congratulated women on the 61st anniversary of the founding of the Federation of Cuban Women (FMC by its Spanish acronym) on Twitter.

Miguel Diaz-Canel, first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and president of the country, held a telephone conversation with Vietnamese president Nguyen Xuan Phuc.

 The first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba, Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez, sent today a message to the National Guild of Writers and Artists of Cuba (UNEAC by its Spanish acronym), on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of its founding.

Decree-Law No.35 on Telecommunications, information and communication technologies and the use of the radio-electric spectrum in Cuba, published this week in the Official Gazette, is the first high-ranking legal regulation of the country that presents a legal basis for the defense of national sovereignty and people in cyberspace.

Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla, Cuban foreign minister, condemned today the new sanctions announced by the administration of U.S. president Joseph Biden against Cuban officers.

The first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and president of the country, Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez, visited this morning the Havana neighborhood of La Guinera, located in Arroyo Naranjo municipality, the Presidency reported on Twitter.

Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez wrote on Twitter today that, 106 years after his physical disappearance, Finlay has been paid the most beautiful tribute by the heirs of his work with the encouraging results of the children's vaccine, in reference to the information provided by Vicente Vérez Bencomo, general director of the Finlay Vaccine Institute, on the promising preliminary results of the clinical trials with Soberana Pediatría.

Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez stressed today on Twitter that by next week almost one million more people in another 22 municipalities will be vaccinated with Abdala and Soberana, which means that more than three million Cubans will have received all the doses as our industry is working at full speed to produce the necessary quantities to immunize the entire population.

The Institute of Meteorology reports in its Tropical Cyclone Warning No. 18 that, in the early morning, Hurricane Grace has been tracking a course close to the west, with a slight decrease in the extent of cloudy and rainy areas near its center of circulation.

Grace became the second hurricane of the current season after increasing maximum wind speed to 120 kilometers per hour on Wednesday, the Cuban Meteorology Institute reported.

Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez said on Wednesday that Cuba uses innovation to wage a battle for life in facing the coronavirus causing COVID-19.

Cuba keeps in motion its anti-Covid-19 vaccination process and has administered 12,225,378 doses of the vaccine candidates Soberana 02 and Soberana Plus and of the national vaccine Abdala until August 16, according to the Ministry of Public Health.
To date, 4,854,330 Cubans have received at least one dose, whereas 4,323,115 of them have already received two and 3,047,933 all three of them.