Starting from December 1st, Cubans wishing to enter Ecuador will require a tourist visa, according to the announcement made on Thursday in Quito by Deputy Foreign Minister Xavier Lasso.

A meeting of the foreign ministers of the Central American Integration System (SICA) plus Cuba, Mexico, Ecuador and Colombia unanimously rejected the US´s 1966 Cuban Adjustment Act and other related policies that encourage illegal departures of Cubans to the United States.

The foreign ministers of Central American countries are meeting Tuesday in El Salvador to address the situation of over 25 thousand Cubans stranded in Costa Rica in their attempt to emigrate to the United States.

The situation of the over 2 thousand Cubans stranded in Costa Rica could be described as calm and tense at the same time as they hope that next Tuesday´s Central American and Caribbean ministerial forum finds a solution to their case.

His Highness Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad Al-Thani, Emir of the State of Qatar, will arrive in Cuba tomorrow, Sunday, November 22, on an official visit.

An article published on Granma newspaper on Friday, entitled "The Odyssey for the American Dream" addressed the situation of nearly 2000 Cubans left stranded in Costa Rica, which have raised concern of countries of the region, currently trying to come up with a solution to the case.

Swaziland ´s Health Director Samuel Vusi Magagula said thanked Cuba for the contribution of their medical personnel to his country.

The Cuban government reiterated on Tuesday its condemnation of the politicization of the migration issue by the United States and called for legal, safe and orderly emigration.

A majority of possible voters in the US states of Ohio, Indiana, Iowa and Tennessee back the reestablishment of relations with Cuba, according to a survey that revealed large support to the lifting of US trade and travel restrictions on the island.

The signing of a contract on Cuba's participation in the Astana 2017 World Exhibition took place on Tuesday in a solemn ceremony at the Foreign Ministry of Kazakhstan, confirmed the island's embassy to that nation, according to the Prensa Latina news agency.

Cuban foreign minister Bruno Rodriguez extended sympathies to his Lebanese counterpart Gebran Bassil for the 44 victims of a terrorist attack perpetrated in a southern neighborhood of Beirut.

Cuba and Vietnam opened the 33 rd session of their joint intergovernmental commission in an effort to keep deepening bilateral economic and commercial relations.

Angolan President Jose Eduardo dos Santos thanked yesterday, in Luanda , on behalf of his people and government the participation of Cuba during the struggle for independence and national reconstruction , Granma newspaper published.

Forty years after the beginning of Operation Carlota, the Cuban internationalist military mission in the People´s Republic of Angola back in the 1990s, both Angolans and Cubans treasure moving memories of that crucial chapter of their history.