Cubans will receive the President of the United States this afternoon in Havana with the hospitality that characterizes it, and with the respect he deserves for being a Head of State.

The Deputy National Security Advisor of the United States, Benjamin Rhodes, came to Cuba on Thursday on an official visit, as part of preparations for the trip to the island of President Barack Obama, who will arrive in Havana on Sunday.

The President of the United States of America, Barack H. Obama will arrive on an official visit to Cuba in the afternoon of Sunday, March 20.

U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker will travel to Cuba with business persons from her country, as part of the delegation accompanying President Barack Obama during his visit to the island on March 20-22.

The Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, Kiril, sent a message to the President of the councils of State and Ministers of the Republic of Cuba, Army General Raul Castro, which was published on Monday by the Granma newspaper.

The Cuban Foreign Ministry condemned the attack against the constitution and democracy in Brazil, which has made former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva a target for unjustifiable and disproportionate judicial and parliamentary actions.

Cuban and Venezuelan people paid homage on Friday in Havana to Commander Hugo Chavez "the best friend the Cuban people has ever had" as defined by Fidel Castro, on the occasion of the 3rd anniversary of his death on March 5th.

US President Barack Obam will attend an exhibition baseball game, March 22, between MLB Tampa Bay Rays and a Cuban selection at Havana´s Latinoamericano stadium.

HAVANA, Cuba, Feb 24 (acn) A little more than eight months after its implementation, and conceived in the solidarity initiative called Operation Miracle, the National Eye Center of El Salvador carried out operation four thousand, a figure planned as an annual goal, Prensa Latina (PL) reported.

Muriel Bowser, mayor of Washington DC, the U.S. capital, confessed that if she had the opportunity to speak with President Barack Obama upon his return to the United States, "she would tell him to be daring" with respect to Cuba.

The 7 th International Psychology Convention to be held in Havana from May 9th to the 13th will center on the need to look for ways on the classification of subjectivity, an understanding of complexities and the diversity in the dimensions of humanity as part of social and personal development.

Up next, ACN brings you the statement published by the Office of the Press Secretary of the White House on President Barack Obama's Travel to Cuba and Argentina in March, as published in English on February 18 by the www.whitehouse.gov Web site:

John Kerry, U.S. Secretary of State, met today in Washington with Rodrigo Malmierca, Cuban Minister of Foreign Trade and Investment, and members of the delegation accompanying him, Prensa Latina reported.

The President of the United States, Barack Obama, will visit Cuba on March 21 and 22, announced in a press conference the director general of the United States Office of the Cuban Foreign Ministry, Josefina Vidal.