Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Secretary of State of the Holy See, sent today a letter to Emilio Aranguren Echeverria, president of the Conference of Catholic Bishops of Cuba (COCC by its Spanish acronym), on behalf of Pope Francis.

After the fire at the Matanzas Supertanker Base, countries of the world sent their messages of support to the people of the Caribbean nation and confidence that they will overcome this situation.

Authorities of the Cuban ministry of public health ( MINSAP by its Spanish acronym) and the Cuban Friendship Institute (ICAP by its Spanish acronym) received in Havana a donation from the Republic of Ghana for the medical care of the victims of the fire at the Supertanker Base in the city of Matanzas.

The Russian foreign ministry expressed its condolences for the losses suffered by Cuba due to the large-scale fire that affected the industrial zone of Matanzas since last Friday.

Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel congratulated Colombian President-elect Gustavo Petró on the occasion of his inauguration as head of state in the South American brother country and ratified Cuba's commitment to the peace process in Colombia.

A Boing 737-700 of the Mexican Air Force arrived Sauturday night at the Juan Gualberto Gómez International Airport, on the outskirts of this city, with 62 military personnel and 16 oil technicians.

Luis Arce Catacora, president of Bolivia, expressed his support to the Cuban people for the fire of great proportions in the Industrial Zone of the province of Matanzas.

Cuban Vice-president Salvador Valdes Mesa welcomed the Special Envoy of the Bahamas Alma Augusta Adams on Friday.

Cuba and Dominica signed a Memo of Understanding on Friday to establish technical cooperation in agriculture, including forestry, ranching and other areas of bilateral interest.

Cuba and Chile held their 2nd round of migration talks presided over by the general director for Consular Affairs and Cuban Residents Abroad Ernesto Soberon and by the head of Chile’s Migration Division Pedro Hernandez.

On April 6, 1960 Lester D. Mallory (1904-1994), Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, in a memorandum declassified in 1991, acknowledges that the majority of Cubans support Fidel and advises "to employ rapidly all possible means to weaken the economic life of Cuba... a course of action which, being as skillful and discreet as possible, will achieve the greatest progress in depriving Cuba of money and supplies, to reduce its financial resources and real wages, to cause hunger, despair and the overthrow of the Government".

Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez and his Serbian counterpart Nikola Selakovic ratified their governments’ willingness to further strengthen bilateral cooperation relations between their nations.

Cuba and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) ratified today their common values and principles regarding the recognition of information as a public good, according to the Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Cuba defended in the United Nations (UN) its position in favor of the total elimination of nuclear weapons, in a transparent, irreversible and verifiable manner, the Cuban Foreign Ministry stressed.