Fernandina de Jagua, the former settlement known today as the city of Cienfuegos, celebrates today the 202nd anniversary of its foundation by Don Luis De Clouet and a group of French settlers.

With reservoirs at 50% of their capacity, authorities of the National Institute of Hydraulic Resources (INRH) in this province are taking steps toward a more rational use of water and the continuity of food production plans.

Under the theme Innovation for sustainable development: Goals 2030. Ibero-America facing the challenge of the coronavirus, the Principality of Andorra will host today the XXVII Ibero-American Summit of Heads of State and Government, to be attended by representatives of 22 nations, most of them online, due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Orlando Rey Santos, a specialist in Environmental Policy and Climate Change advisor for the Ministry of Science, Technology and the Environment (CITMA), assured that Cuba will have good years in its environmental and climate policy.

Cuba will present its results in applying innovation towards sustainable development during the 27th Ibero-American Summit of Heads of State and Government to kick off Wednesday focusing on that specific goal.

Turkey’s Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu described as positive his country’s bilateral relations with Cuba during an exchange with the island’s ambassador to Turkey Luis Amoros.

At the proposal of the Cuban president, Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez, the Council of State adopted the following resolutions:

Santiago de Cuba and Le Lamentin, in Martinique, began a celebration day for the 25th anniversary of the collaboration between these municipalities, extending until December 15.

Rogelio Sierra, Cuban deputy foreign minister, was appointed as the new rector of the Raul Roa Garcia Higher Institute of International Relations (ISRI), located in Havana.

A new edition of the Festival of Endemic Birds of the Caribbean in Cuba will begin on Thursday, April 22, this time in a totally online way, due to the new outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic.

A representation of students and professors of the University of Havana (UH) gathered today at the Julio Antonio Mella Memorial to endorse the agreements and results of the recently concluded 8th Congress of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC).

The new Cuban ambassadors to the Republic of Croatia and the Plurinational State of Bolivia, Loipa Sanchez Lorenzo and Danilo Sanchez Vazquez, respectively, presented on Monday before the highest authorities of both governments the Letters of Credence that accredit them in their positions.

 The 8th Congress of the Cuban Communist Party was described as a cornerstone in the history of the revolution as it marked the transfer to the country’s major tasks to new generations of Cubans.

The Communist Party is and must always be the most revolutionary factor within the Revolution; it is the force that revolutionizes the Revolution, said Miguel Diaz-Canel, First Secretary of the political organization and Head of State during the closing session of the 8th Communist Party Congress.

Army General Raul Castro and President Miguel Diaz-Canel sent floral wreaths to homage the Cuban combatants killed in action against the 1961 US-led Bay of Pigs mercenary invasion, which ended up with the first US military defeat in Latin America.