Dedicated to the 500 years of the founding of the Village of San Cristóbal, the XXXVI International Fair of Havana (FIHAV 2018) begins this Monday in this capital. This commercial Fair is consolidated as one of the most important in Latin America and the Caribbean.

The President of the Republic of Panama Juan Carlos Varela Rodríguez, will arrive in Cuba this Monday on an official visit.

Wang Yi, China's Minister of Foreign Affairs, said in Beijing that the upcoming state visit of Miguel Diaz-Canel, President of the Councils of State and Ministers of Cuba, will give continuity to the road traveled on bilateral ties and project long-term ones.

Cuba and El Salvador created new mechanisms to continue strengthening trade relations with the signing of the first additional protocol to the Partial Scope Agreement (PSA), according to information from Prensa Latina.

The 500th anniversary of Havana will be the opportunity to relaunch the capital as a renewed and updated tourist destination, said Minister Manuel Marrero Cruz.

Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel will make official visits to the Russian Federation and several Asian countries, the Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirmed on Wednesday.

The amount of water stored in reservoirs administered by the National Institute of Hydraulic Resources (INRH) amounts to 7.37 billion cubic meters, a figure that represents 81 percent of the total capacity, said in this city directors of the organization.

Dr. Eusebio Leal, Historian of Havana City, received in New York the Hadrian Award granted by the World Monuments Fund (WMF) in recognition of his efforts to preserve and restore Old Havana, declared Cultural Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1982.

Daouda Azoupiou, Burkina Faso´s Minister of Sports and Recreation, said that the brutal blockade against Cuba, which also attacks sports, must cease because it hinders the economic development of the country.

We will always continue fighting for the end of the blockade. It is an unjust decision against the people and it has not allowed Cuba to develop, Salvador Sanchez Ceren, president of El Salvador, said after his arrival in Havana for an official visit.

Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla received Donald Payne Jr., Democratic Congressman for the State of New Jersey and member of the Black Caucus of the House of Representatives of the United States Congress.

Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel is touring Ciego de Ávila's centers of economic and social interest as part of a government visit to the province.

The II Russia-Latin America and the Caribbean Business Forum will be held for the first time in the Cuban capital on October 29th, within the framework of the XXXVI International Fair of Havana (FIHAV 2018), official sources announced on Monday.

The XI Congress of Marine Sciences, MarCuba 2018, was inaugurated on Monday at the Conventions Center in Havana under the motto "Today's sciences for the coasts and the sea of the future".

Ana Maria Mari Machado, vice president of Cuba´s National Assembly of the People's Power, carries out an intense working agenda in France, as part of an official visit to that European country that concludes today.