Berta Zuniga, daughter of the assassinated Honduran indigenous leader Berta Caceres characterized Cuba on Tuesday as the torch of hope in the region and a reference in the fight for the sovereignty of nations in face of the different hegemonic attempts in the region.

Cuban First Vice-President Miguel Diaz-Canel said in Managua that Nicaragua can always count on the support, friendship and cooperation of the Cuban people and government.

Cuba´s First Vice-President Miguel Diaz-Canel heads the Cuban delegation to the swearing-in ceremony of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega to take place this afternoon.

The eighth and last US airlines company to open commercial flights to Havana was Alaska, which opened that route on Thursday with a flight from Seattle to the city´s Jose Marti International Airport.

Cuban and American professionals and others from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) successfully completed a sampling expedition between Cayo Largo and the Banco de Jagua Marine Park in the province of Cienfuegos.

The leader of the Cuban Revolution Fidel Castro Ruz was honored on Wednesday in Grenada on the occasion of the 44th anniversary of relations between the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and Cuba.

Cuba is today an example not only in Latin American, but global, of human rights, the facilitator of the peace process between the government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia-People's Army (FARC-EP by its Spanish acronym), Henry Acosta, said in Quito, Ecuador.

Cuban ambassador to the United Nations, Ana Silvia Rodríguez, thanked all the people that had come to the Permanent Mission to express the condolences and solidarity on the passing of the historic leader of the Cuban Revolution Fidel Castro

More expressions of condolence by political figures, the press and civil society for the death of the leader of the Cuban revolution emanate from Saint George's, Grenada, while the ashes of Fidel Castro travel around Cuba in national tribute, Prensa Latina news agency reported.

The Ecuadorian National Assembly honored the recently deceased Cuban leader Fidel Castro and his people, whom it considered an example of solidarity and altruism, Prensa Latina news agency reported.

Danish Michael Moller, Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva, expressed his condolences for the death of the Cuban Revolution's historic leader, Fidel Castro, Prensa Latina news agency reported.

The former President of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, described the historic leader of the Cuban Revolution Fidel Castro as a worldwide leader whose ideas will last for his defense of political principles and humanist values.

Michael Worbs, Chairperson of UNESCO Executive Board, considered Fidel Castro as one of the most emblematic men of the 20th century when offering his condolences for the death of the historic leader of the Cuban Revolution, Prensa Latina news agency reported.

The UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon went to Cuba's Mission to the United Nations to sign the condolence book opened at the diplomatic headquarters on the death of Cuban Revolution leader Fidel Castro.