Since last May 18, different media have manipulated the news about the seizure in Puerto Cristobal, Panama, of 1 517 drug bricks (cocaine) in 46 sports bags inside a container with sacks of charcoal exported from Cuba and with final destination in Turkey.

Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel attended the final session of the 18th Political Council of the Bolivarian Alliance of the Peoples of Our America– Peoples´ Trade Treaty (ALBA-TCP), which run in Havana.

Ri Su Yong, Vice Chairman of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea and full member of the Politburo of the Workers' Party of Korea arrived in Cuba on a working visit.

The President of the Councils of State and Ministers, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, met this Monday with comrade Pham Binh Minh, Vice Prime Minister and Chancellor of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, who is making an official visit to Cuba.

Bruno Rodriguez, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Cuba, received on Monday in Havana his Venezuelan counterpart Jorge Arreaza, who arrived in Havana to participate in the XVIII Political Council of the Bolivarian Alliance of the Peoples of Our America - People's Trade Treaty.

Representatives of the Ministries of Foreign Affairs of Cuba and Vietnam signed on Monday in Havana a plan of political consultations for the period 2020-2022 with the purpose of expanding bilateral cooperation.

The health authorities of this capital reported that so far three people have died as a result of an accident that took place at 12:30 in the morning on 23rd and Malecón Streets when an old American car drove into the sidewalk of the emblematic Havana seafront boulevard.

The 28th Political Council of the Bolivarian Alliance of the Peoples of Our America-People's Trade Treaty will meet next May 21 in this capital, with the participation of representatives of the member countries of this Latin American and Caribbean integration mechanism.

Pham Binh Min, First Vice President and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Vietnam, arrived in Cuba this Sunday evening on an official visit.

At 7:45 p.m. on Thursday, May 16, 2019, the Cuban National Seismological Service's network of stations recorded an earthquake reported as perceptible, located at coordinates 19.84 degrees North Latitude and -75.79 degrees West Longitude, with a depth of 3.6 km. It had a magnitude of 3.0 and its epicenter was located 22.8 km south-southeast of the city of Santiago de Cuba, province of Santiago de Cuba. This is the No.1 perceptible earthquake of the year 2019.

Bruno Rodriguez, Cuba's Minister of Foreign Affairs condemned the occupation of Venezuela's embassy in Washington, which he described as shameful and illegal.

Crew actions and miscalculations during the take-off maneuver are the most likely cause of the plane crash of May 18, 2018, when a Boeing-737 from the Mexican company Damojh S.A., chartered by the Cuban Aviation Company, crashed at the José Martí international airport in this capital.

The Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Turkey, Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu, will make an official visit to Cuba starting this May 17, announced the Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Army General Raúl Castro Ruz, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba, received this Thursday morning Admiral Miao Hua, member of the Central Military Commission of the People's Republic of China and director of its Department of Political Work, as well as the delegation that accompanies him, who are making an official visit to our country, invited by the Ministry of the Revolutionary Armed Forces.

Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez received on Thursday his Canadian counterpart Chrystia Freelandwho is making a working visit to Cuba.