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.

The United States and Cuba began today in Washington their second regulatory talks, a mechanism to progress in commercial bonds with the executive measures of President Barack Obama aimed at modifying the blockade imposed on the island.

Qiang Tang, Deputy Director General of the United Nations Education, Science and Culture Organization (UNESCO), highlighted on Monday Cuba's commitment to education in Latin America and the Caribbean, at the opening of the 10 th International Congress University 2016 .

A laborious environment is perceived in the vicinity of the Russian Orthodox Cathedral Our Lady of Kazan, which is getting ready to receive this Sunday to the Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia, who will officiate a Divine Liturgy in that temple.

Dr. Stephen Berman, former president of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) expressed in this capital on Friday his rejection of the U.S. blockade against Cuba, in force for over half a century now, which he described as a problem for both nations.

The President of Slovakia, Andrej Kiska, received a courtesy visit from Ricardo Cabrisas, Vice-president of the Cuban Council of Ministers, informed on Thursday the Embassy of the Caribbean island to this European country.

Cuba is honored to host the meeting of the heads of the Catholic Church and the Russian Orthodox Church and will offer all conditions for the fulfilling of the historic encounter, the Cuban Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Friday.