The First International Colloquium on African American Studies was inaugurated on Wednesday in Casa de las Americas, with the words of its main organizer, Dr. Zuleica Romay Guerra, director of the Program on African American Studies of the renowned institution.

Cuba's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Bruno Rodriguez, said in Beijing that his country and China will continue to consolidate as an example of cooperation on the basis of equality, respect and mutual benefit.

For the second consecutive year, Cuba will join the celebration for the Global Running Day, an initiative that will seek to keep the planet in motion for 24 hours next Sunday, June 2.

The Ministry of Security of Panama recognized that the drugs seized in its country are not attributable to Cuba, which also dismantles another media onslaught against the island, reported Granma newspaper.

The Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO), Dr. Tedros Adhanom Gebreyesus, lamented what happened to Cuban doctors Assel Herrera Correa, and Landy Rodriguez Hernandez, who were kidnapped in Kenya.

Inés María Chapman, Vice President of the Councils of State and Ministers, represented Cuba as a guest country at the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Western Sahara Solidarity Conference in Pretoria, South Africa.

Cuba will strengthen its medical cooperation with Mozambique to help counter the impact of the devastating cyclone Idai, which devastated several countries in southern Africa, and in particular will send this Tuesday a field hospital with all its staff and essential equipment to Mozambique.

Peru stood out in the 20th Giraldilla International Badminton Tournament, which concluded last Sunday at Havana´s Sports City Coliseum, by winning three gold medals.

Bruno Rodriguez, Cuba's Minister of Foreign Affairs, expressed condolences to the governments and peoples of Colombia and Ethiopia for the air accidents that occurred during the past weekend, reported the Cubaminrex website.

Six years after the physical disappearance of Venezuelan leader Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías, on Tuesday his anti-imperialist legacy was remembered and Cuba's solidarity with the Bolivarian Revolution of Venezuela and its president Nicolás Maduro was ratified.

Rodrigo Malmierca Díaz, Cuban Minister of Foreign Trade and Foreign Investment, arrived in Algiers, the capital of Algeria, at the head of a large delegation from the Island that will participate in the XXII session of the Cuba-Algeria Intergovernmental Commission for Economic, Commercial, Scientific, Technical and Cultural Cooperation.

The Cuban government made public an statement warning of the dangerous escalation of US maneuvers that could lead to a military intervention in Venezuela. Cuban News Agency now reproduces the full statement.

Cuba does not recognize the moral or legal authority of the Organization of American States (OAS) to single it out, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Minrex) declared on Tuesday in the capital in an official statement.

Cuban News Agency now reproduces the full text of an open letter to the American people sent by the Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, on the imperialist intentions of the White House against his country: