Cuban President Raul Castro congratulated on Monday in Havana Ecuador's President Elect Lenin Moreno Garces after winning the second round of the elections on Sunday.

The Ecuadorian people on Sunday went to the polls and decided to keep deepening their social revolution, pioneered for over 10 years by Rafael Correa. Presidential candidate Lenín Moreno, with a majority of votes, now leads the social process.

A 23-strong Cuban medical brigade, part of the Henry Reeve International Contingent of Physicians Specialized in Disaster Situations and Serious Epidemics, departed Thursday might for Peru.

The Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs released a statement on the aggressions of the Organization of American States (OAS) against Venezuela. Cuban News Agency now reproduces the full text of the statement:

Cuba will send an emergency medical brigade to Peru after heavy rains have affected different areas of that nation over the past few weeks.

Bolivian President Evo Morale will undergo minor surgery Friday in Cuba to extract a nodule from his left vocal cord, as informed by the Presidency Minister Rene Martinez.

Vietnam´s President Tran Dai Quang reiterated his country´s determination to stand shoulder to shoulder with Cuba in hard times.

Angolans and Cubans in Luanda highlighted the humanism of Revolution leader Fidel Castro on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of his first visit to Angola from March 23 to 27, 1977, published today Granma newspaper.

Cuban President Raul Castro sent a message of condolences to his Peruvian counterpart Pedro Pablo Kuczynski for the human and material losses his country is suffering due to natural disasters.

US Professor of the University of California in Los Angeles, Dr. Gabriel Danovitch expressed on Thursday in Havana that Cuba should be proud of its commendable results in kidney transplants despite the effects of Washington's economic blockade.

Brazilian Health minister Ricardo Barros admitted in Brasilia on Tuesday that local patients prefer to be treated by Cuban doctors working with the More Doctors program rather than by Brazilian physicians, as they stressed the strong commitment of the island´s professionals.

The Bolivian President Evo Morales thanked his Cuban peer Raul Castro, the medical team that treated him and the Cuban people for the medical care he received in Havana after arriving last week with throat issues.

Nicolás Maduro, president of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, announced the appointment of Bolivian politician, David Choquehuanca, as secretary general of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America - People's Trade Agreement (ALBA-TCP).

In the opening session of the Summit of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our Americas, ALBA, held in Caracas, Cuban President Raul Castro said that the crucial battle for sovereignty, emancipation and solidarity in Latin America and the Caribbean is being waged in Venezuela.