The implementation of fiber optic transmission in railroads in Cuba, which will favor an improvement in the communications system of that means of transport, is expected to culminate this year up to the province of Camagüey, and subsequently spread to Santiago de Cuba.

The Cuban Council of State, at the suggestion of its President, agreed to free Marino Murillo from the post of Minister of Planning and the Economy and appoint the Vice-president of the Council of Ministers, Ricardo Cabrisas, in his place, according to an official note released on Wednesday.

Faced with difficulties and threats there is no room for improvisation and much less defeatism, said Army General Raul Castro, First Secretary of the Cuban Communist Party (PCC) and President of the councils of State and Ministers, adding that the Cuban people will once again rise to difficulties.

Marino Murillo, a member of the Politburo and Vice-president of the Council of Ministers, said on Friday that despite the financial constraints experienced by the country, the strategic programs and services to the population will be supported.

The Vice-president of the Council of State, Gladys Bejerano, signed on Thursday morning, on behalf of the Cuban government, the Book of Condolences opened at the Embassy of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago to Havana to pay posthumous tribute to Patrick Manning, former Prime Minister of that nation, who died recently.

First Secretary of the Cuban Communist Party, President Raul Castro, presided over the Second Plenary of the Central Committee held on Thursday afternoon to discuss the current situation of the Cuban economy.

The Cuban Parliament today adopted an update of the Social and Economic Guidelines for the country´s development up to 2021.

One of the matters captivating the attention on Wednesday of deputies of the National Assembly of the People's Power, met at Havana's Convention Center prior to its seventh regular period of sessions, was the expansion of Internet services on the island.

Palmiro Leon Soria Saucedo, Bolivia's ambassador to Cuba, received in this city the Friendship Medal from the hands of Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla, Cuban Minister of Foreign Affairs.

Gustavo Rodriguez, Minister of Agriculture, asserted on Tuesday in this capital that the impact of climate change on agricultural crops forced to change work methods in this sector.

Cuba will conclude in August a gas pipeline that will make it possible to recover 150 thousand cubic meters of gas, a strategic investment that impacts on saving that fuel, informed on Tuesday in this capital Alfredo Lopez, Minister of Energy and Mines.

A complex panorama impacts on the country's income and marks the behavior of the economy in the first half of the year, but with the guarantee that the basic services of the population, as it was known on Monday in the sessions of the 10 Committees of the National Assembly of the People's Power, will be protected.

The International Relations Committee of the National Assembly of People's Power (ANPP) called to increase several times over efforts and wills in the global demand for the elimination of the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the U.S. on Cuba.

Cuba reiterated on Wednesday in Geneva its solidarity and support for the government and people of Ecuador in the reconstruction efforts of the country after the earthquake that hit it in April 2016.

The member of the Political Bureau of the Cuban Communist Party (PCC) and Vice-president of the Council of State, Salvador Valdes Mesa, held talks on issues of common interest with the member of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), Choe Ryong Hae, the Korean KCNA agency informed, according to a Prensa Latina report.