The Cuban Association of People with Physical-Motor Disabilities (ACLIFIM), with more than 7,000 members in the province of Holguin, is promoting investments in a program to eliminate architectural barriers as part of the implementation of social protection programs.

Cuba’s Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez reaffirmed his country’s willingness to keep providing international cooperation in several areas.

The University of Camaguey “Ignacio Agramonte Loynaz,” in eastern Cuba and Mexico’s University of Puebla looked at ways to further expand bilateral academic and cooperation exchange.

The creation and implementation of the Cuba Innovates and Grows Scientific Corridor is one of the priorities of the Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment ( CITMA by its Spanish acronym) for this year.

Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla, Cuban foreign minister, highlighted today on Twitter Cuba's efforts to help other countries in the fight against the COVID-19.

 Cuban president Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez rejected today on Twitter the accusations about alleged Cuban meddling in the U.S. elections.

Anayansi Rodriguez, deputy foreign minister of Cuba, and Faisal Niaz Tirmizi, undersecretary for the Americas of the Pakistani Foreign Ministry, agreed in evaluating as fruitful the V Round of Bilateral Political Consultations, held on Wednesday in virtual format.
The diplomats exchanged views on issues of common interest in bilateral relations and the regional and international agenda, the Cuban Foreign Ministry website reported.

Alicia Bárcena, executive secretary of the United Nations Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), recognized Cuba for its solidarity in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, in the framework of the IV Latin American and Caribbean Forum on Sustainable Development, in online development from March 15 to 18.

With the invitation to taste a Cuban coffee and a good conversation among friends, the outstanding singer Erick Jon is hosting an online get-together on Fridays through his social network accounts that includes musicians, visual artists, presenters, entrepreneurs, actors and a variety of guests who will talk about their projects and experiences in this year of fight against COVID-19.

The enterprise Genesis Galerías de Arte, founded in 2001 with the aim of promoting and marketing the best contemporary Cuban art at national and international level, reached its first two decades of life Tuesday, and celebrates it with an excellent program of virtual exhibitions.

Empresa de Proyectos de Arquitectura e Ingeniería (EMPAI) is the first entity in the province of Matanzas to certify its services to the Cuban standard NC-ISO 50001 on energy management and thus contributes to the optimal use of our resources.

The Cuban ambassador to China Carlos Miguel Pereira Hernandez and the director general of the Department of Latin America and the Caribbean of the Foreign Ministry in Beijing, Cai Wei, ratified the interest in strengthening bilateral relations, based on the consensus reached by the leaders of both countries.

When COVID-19 arrived in Cuba a year ago, alarms went off before the horrifying images of first-world intensive care units overwhelmed by the number of infected people and the lack of diagnostic devices. We even heard of a case where the doctors chose to ventilate a young man over an old man who had little chance of survival and there were no lung ventilators to spare.

The Carlos J. Finlay Order, the Cuban government's highest decoration for contributions to scientific development for the benefit of mankind, will be awarded today to 23 high-level professionals of the outstanding recognition, most of them from Havana.