Students and workers of the city of Havana were granted on Thursday membership to the Young Communist League, UJC on occasion of the 173rd and 90th anniversaries of the birth of Antonio Maceo and Ernesto Che Guevara, respectively.

The Antonio Maceo Studies Center in the Eastern city of Santiago de Cuba paid tribute on Thursday to the Independence leader on the 173rd anniversary of his birth.

Pioneer schoolchildren and students from Pre-university level and youth in general, in representation of the new generations paid tribute on Thursday in Camaguey to Ernesto Che Guevara and Antonio Maceo on occasion of their birthdays.

The Economic, financial and commercial blockade imposed by the United States against Cuba is unacceptable and we must condemn it, said the Communications Director of the Association of the Inter-American Telecommunications Company (ASIET) Pablo Garcia de Castro.

Cuban Economy and Planning Minister Ricardo Cabrisas met on Wednesday in Havana with Senator Serguey V. Kalashnikov, Coordinator of the Parliamentary Friendship with Cuba Group and First Vice President of the Committee of the Economic Policy of the Russian Federation Council.

Josaia Voreqe Bainimarama, Prime Minister of the Republic of Fiji, thanked Cuba for its support to his country, especially in the training of human resources.

Cuba pays special attention to the socio-economic development of the country and the welfare of its population and there is a will to develop computerization of Cuban society and access to Internet, said Maimir Mesa, Minister of Communications.

A panel on the advances of informatics in Cuban Society was held prior to the inauguration on Tuesday of the 6 th Latin American Telecommunications Congress at the Melia Marina Varadero Hotel in Matanzas province.

Rogelio Sierra, Cuba´s Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, will arrive today in Guyana, country he visits as part of a tour of the Caribbean.

The First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Cuban Communist Party, Army General Raul Castro exchanged with the members of the Secretariat of the Central Committee, first secretaries of the provincial and municipal committees, authorities of the auxiliary structure of the Central Committee, grass roots organizations and the Young Communist League after the conclusion of a three day meeting at the Nico Lopez School of the Party in Havana.

Cuban Vice President and Health Minister, Roberto Morales Ojeda, said on Monday in the city of Manzanillo that there are over 400 thousand health professionals offering their services in about 165 countries.

Roberto Morales Ojeda, Vice President of the Council of State and Cuba´s Minister of Public Health, said that more than 400 thousand professionals from that sector have collaborated in some 165 countries.

On May 29, 2018, the Embassy of the United States in Havana informed the Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs that, on the 27th of the same month, an official of that Embassy reported symptoms of health as a result of "indefinite sounds" in her residence place.

Cuban long jumper Juan Miguel Echevarria won the gold medal in the sixth stop of the 2018 IAAF Diamond League, based in Stockholm, Sweden, where he scored 8.83 meters.

A study carried out in Cuba with some 3,000 women who have suffered from ischemic heart disease showed that the age of the disease in women is falling, announced an expert in Havana.