Miguel Diaz-Canel, first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and president of the country, condemned today the application of the economic, commercial and financial blockade of the US against Cuba.

On different issues to be developed in the 9th Plenary Session of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC), to be held on December 12 and 13, said on Monday representatives of the political organization in the television program Mesa Redonda.

Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez, first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba (CC -PCC) and president of the country, as part of his tour of the country's municipalities, visited on Monday in Santiago de Cuba the agro-ecological farm "La Victoria", belonging to the Julio Trigo Lopez Credit and Services Cooperative (CCS), in the town of Siboney.

Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez welcomed Togo’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, African Integration and Togolese Abroad Robert Dussey, who paid an official visit to the island.

 Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez, first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and president of the country, began a visit today to Guantanamo through the municipality of San Antonio del Sur, the most affected by Hurricane Oscar.

The Cuban State and civil society are committed to the anti-racist cause, to honor our African roots and the Cuban color, raised by the national poet Nicolas Guillen, ratified Alpidio Alonso, Minister of Culture, at the opening today of the International Conference Cuba 2024 for the Decade of Afro-descendants.

Students in the municipalities of Campechuela and Pilon, in the eastern province of Granma, are now enjoying new school materials thanks to a recent donation from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (Unesco).

A 3.4-magnitude earthquake in the Cuban eastern provinces of Guantanamo and Santiago de Cuba was reported today by the National Center for Seismological Research (CNRS).

As a result of the vote held to elect the new government figures in the eastern province of Las Tunas, validated by the National Electoral Council, Yelenys Tornet Menendez was elected on Sunday as provincial governor and Juana Yamilka Viñals Suarez, as deputy governor.

The Cuba 2024 International Conference for the Decade of People of African Descent will be held from today until December 13, in Havana and Matanzas, with the purpose of making visible Cuba's commitment and work in the fight against racism and discrimination based on skin color and ethnic, national or territorial origin.

The capital repair of the motor unit of the generator sets of the Basic Business Unit (UEB) Geysel will begin next year, an investment that will allow rescuing part of the electric power generation capacity installed in the country.

The 11th Symposium of Cuban Criminalistic Technique and the 4th Day of Biometric Identification (Tecnicrim 2024) will start tomorrow and its sessions will be extended until next Thursday at the Havana Convention Center, announced the Ministry of Interior.

Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel presided over the political and military memorial commemorating the 128th anniversary of the fall in combat of Major General and Lieutenant General Antonio Maceo Grajales and his aide Panchito Gómez Toro, the 35th anniversary of Operation Tribute, and the 90th anniversary of the birth of revolutionary fighter Frank País.

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (Unesco) recognized the cassava as Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.

On December 7, 1989, 35 years ago, Operation Tribute, initiated the day before, culminated with the burial of the remains of the Cuban combatants who had fallen in internationalist missions in Africa, in the sacred soil where they were born and which awaited them with intense emotion.
During the previous day, the Cuban people had paid homage in a funeral chapel to the remains of the 2,085 heroes who were finally welcomed in the arms of their proud and moved homeland. Both in the cemeteries and in the wakes, the presence of relatives and compatriots had been massive in that Operation, which took place throughout the country.