Cuban first vice-president Miguel Diaz-Canel paid tribute on Tueday to Ecuadorian hero Eloy Alfaro at his monument in the capital Quito.

French ambassador to Cuba Jean Marie Bruno said on Tuesday that the upcoming visit to his country by President Raul Castro proves the bonds of solidarity between France and Cuba.

France´s State Secretary for Foreign Trade, Tourism and The French Overseas, Matthias Fekl, said that Cuba and France are now living a historic moment as he addressed the annual gala of the Cuba-Cooperation Association in Paris.

US President Barack Obama thanked the Cuban government for hosting the peace talks between the Colombian government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces guerrillas.

The people of Lampedusa received on Sunday the Miracle Cross given as a gift from Cuba to Pope Francisco who donated the sculpture to the Italian island, one of the sites hardest hit by the migratory crisis affecting Europe, reported the La Sicilia daily.

At the end of 2015, the Cuban educational program "Yes I Can" in Argentina had reached the figure of 30,253 persons that can now read and write, since its implementation in 2003, asserted on Tuesday pedagogue Jorge Padrón, who oversees courses in the country.

Ecuador´s vice-president Xavier Lasso said in Quito that his country has "nearly everything ready" to host the 4th Summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States, CELAC, later this month.

Chilean senator Alejandro Navarro proposed the country´s Heath Ministry to implement a More Doctors program, similar to that of Brazil, with a Cuban medical mission to relieve the lack of health services in his country.

In what has been considered in Argentina another government anti-popular measure, rightist president Mauricio Macri disqualified 380 medical doctors graduated in Cuba disregarding their impact on the people.

The government of El Salvador has reiterated its readiness to contribute to the solution of the complex situation of a group of Cubans who for more than a month stay in Costa Rica.

Central American countries agreed in a meeting in Guatemala on Monday to airlift some 8 thousand Cubans stranded in Costa Rica to El Salvador starting the first week of January.

Representatives of Central American nations, plus Ecuador, Cuba, Colombia and the U.S., addressed in Mexico the situation of thousands of Cuban stranded in Costa Rica in their effort to make it to US territory encouraged by Washington´s policies.

With deep sorrow and indignation, the Cuban Arab Association condemned the assassination of legendary Lebanese combatant of Hezbollah Samir Al Kantar amidst attacks perpetrated by an Israeli raid against a residential area in the city of Jaramana, in Damascus.

Cuban experts with the Labiofam Pharmaceutical Labs Company are joining a local Malaria campaign in the African country in an effort to reduce the fatal impact of that disease on the population.