Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel congratulated all Computer and Communications Workers on their Day, celebrated every year in honor of the first official transmission of Radio Rebelde in the Sierra Maestra Mountains back in 1958 in a 20-minute-long broadcast conducted by the legendary Argentine-Cuban guerrilla Ernesto Che Guevara and initiated with the notes of the National Anthem.

"I have to confess that going into the so-called red zone is a bit scary, but once here there is no turning back," said Yadian Rodriguez Noda, 22, over the phone from the University of Matanzas (UM), now housing low-risk COVID-19 positives, six days after he crossed the tape that separates the ordinary safe environment he has always known from a different and complex scenario which only a few crazy people dare to enter.

"It was a convulsive but formidable period, the most extraordinary, intense and glorious of my life," Julio Garcia Oliveras says as he recalls his student days and the struggle against Batista's tyranny at the University of Havana and in the streets. Those were his words when I interviewed him, some time before his death in 2017.

Cuba will soon start working on a project related to the lignum vitae (“tree of life”) approved by the Tree Species Program of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) and funded by the European Union.

 At a time when educational challenges are greater than ever, the President of the Republic, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, praised the initiative to establish a pedagogical scientific complex in Ciudad Libertad and suggested the creation of an experimental pedagogical theme park bound to be part of a nationwide project.

Top local authorities will pay tribute today, together with a representation of the people in this province, the 126th anniversary of the armed uprising against Spain and the resumption of the Necessary War.

The freedom of the Homeland will be reaffirmed today in this city before the tombs of its Heroes and Martyrs in a ceremony in honor of José Martí, the spirit behind the restart of the independence war against Spain on February 24, 1895.

The passion for Cuba, its history and the most universal of its sons, José Martí, will mark the final sessions of the 45th edition of the National Youth Seminar on Martí Studies, virtual for the first time and starting today, 126 years after the Cuban people restarted their independence struggles.

Cuban authorities and international representations in the island congratulated on Tuesday through the social network Twitter, the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Foreign Investment (MINCEX), on the 60th anniversary of its founding.

Representatives of the Cuban Bioethics Commission are participating at the public meetings of the Extraordinary Session of the International Bioethics Committee, with the UN Education Science and Culture Organization (UNESCO) virtually underway till February 26. shorturl.at/chN56

Osvaldo Vento, president of the National Institute of Sports, Physical Education and Recreation ( INDER by its Spanish acronym), congratulated today on Twitter the workers of that organization, on the occasion of their 60th birthday.

Yolanda Ferrer Gomez, chairwoman of the International Relations Commission of the National Assembly of People's Power of Cuba (Parliament), pointed out that the work of that commission during 2020 took place in a complex world scenario, characterized by the ominous policy of the Trump administration and the impact of COVID-19.

Cuban foreign minister Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla will participate online in the High-Level Segment of the 46th regular session of the Human Rights Council, to be held today in Geneva, Switzerland, the Cuban foreign ministry announced in a message on Twitter.

The Cuban foreign ministry's website (Cubaminrex) reported today that the International Bioethics Committee (IBC), the Intergovernmental Bioethics Committee (IGBC) and the World Commission on the Ethics of Scientific Knowledge and Technology (COMEST) will meet virtually from February 22 to 26.

The introduction of science in food production has increasingly become a necessity, given the consequences of climate change and future prospects in the sector; therefore, programs that contribute to achieving food sovereignty are being developed, in which Biocubafarma plays a key role.