Miguel Díaz-Canel, President of the Councils of State and Ministers, inaugurated on Monday the Hotel Río San Juan, in this Cuban city, during the government visit to the western province of Matanzas.

Cuba's Foreign Minister, Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla, received Florida's member of the U.S. House of Representatives, Charlie Crist, who came to Cuba heading a delegation made up of legislative assistants from other Congressional offices and businessmen.

A severe local storm affected the city of Santa Clara on Sunday afternoon, and the Institute of Meteorology reported that, according to preliminary reports, in the province of Villa Clara there were strong gusts of wind, hailstorms and intense rains in some localities.

Bruno Rodriguez, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Cuba, will be received this Monday by his Costa Rican counterpart Manuel Ventura, as part of the program foreseen in the official three-day visit of the Cuban diplomat.

José Ramón Machado Ventura, second secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba, said that the Cuban Workers Federation (CTC) is decisive in the current circumstances, in which the Homeland requires the support of the working class, along with the peasants and other manual and intellectual workers.

The 14th contingent of the May Day Brigade of Voluntary Work and Solidarity with Cuba will arrive this Thursday in the province of Sancti Spíritus, as part of its visit to the archipelago from the 22nd to the 5th of next month.

Gladys María Bejerano Portela, Vice President of the Council of State and Comptroller General of the Republic, arrived on Wednesday in China at the head of the high-level Cuban delegation that will attend from this Thursday until Saturday the II Forum of the Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation, in Beijing, under the title "Cooperation of the Belt and Road Forum, shaping a brighter shared future".

The Communist Party of Russia awarded the Lenin Prize to Army General Raúl Castro Ruz, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba, according to Sputnik.

The XXI Congress of the Cuban Workers Federation (CTC), concludes today in this capital with the reading of the report resulting from the debates and the presentation of the secretariat and the National Council of that workers' organization.

Ulises Guilarte de Nacimiento, secretary general of the Confederation of Cuban Workers, and Zingiswa Losi, President of Congress of South African Trade Unions, today signed a memorandum of understanding for exchanges of experience and cooperation between their organizations.

Senior leaders of the Communist Parties of China (CPC) and Cuba (PCC) discussed in Beijing today actions that help maintaining the high level of bonds between their organizations.

Cuba and Angola strengthened collaboration in various sectors with a view to the future at the closing of the XIV session of its Intergovernmental Joint Commission, informed Prensa Latina agency.

"I had telephone conversations with His Excellencies Uhuru Kenyatta, President of the Republic of Kenya, and Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed, President of the Federal Republic of Somalia, as part of our efforts to secure the return of our two abducted doctors," announced from his Twitter account the President of the Councils of State and Ministers, Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez.

The Cuban Revolutionary Government reiterated that it will resist any US attempt to overthrow the Revolution, in the wake of the escalation of the aggressiveness of the Trump Administration.
Cuban News Agency reproduces the full text of the Declaration of the Revolutionary Government of Cuba:

A memorandum of intent for the approval of the Financing Agreement and Cooperation Projects between the Republic of Cuba and the European Union (EU), worth 61.5 million Euros, was signed on Tuesday in Havana.