Thousands of messages are at the doors of the White House on Friday demanding the release of the three anti-terrorist Cubans held in US prisons since 1998.

Colombia's Revolutionary Armed Forces-People's Army (FARC-EP) announced new proposals on the issue related to the victims of the armed conflict in an effort to advance the peace process agenda underway in Havana.

The leader of The Nation of Islam, Louis Farrakhan said in Barbados that Fidel Castro made solidarity among the peoples the reason of his existence.

Cuba defended at the 20th Sao Paulo Forum, in Bolivia, the viability of Socialism amidst the current world crisis, which causes violence, instability, discontent and insecurity in many countries.

A piece by Cuban artist Fabian Sotolongo is part of the collective exhibition "We Draw for Gaza" on display at the Mahmoud Darwish Museum of Palestine, against the Israeli genocide at Gaza Strip supported by the U.S. government.

A low pressure area with showers and thunderstorms about 300 miles of the Lesser Antilles is expected to develop over the next two days with possibilities to turn into a tropical depression at it moves west-northwestwards at 15 to 20 miles per hour towards the eastern Caribbean sea.

The director of the Investigation and Analysis Team with Kaspersky Lab, Dmitry Bestuzhev, denounced an espionage campaign aimed at military institutions, government agencies and embassies of Latin American countries, which kicked off in 2010.

Cuban ambassador to Portugal Johana Tablada strongly rejected critical statements against the Cuban medical cooperation in that country by the president of the Bastonario da Ordem dos Medicos, or Portuguese Medical Association, Jose Manuel Silva by describing them in a disrespectful and irrational manner.

The Panamanian government has resumed a national literacy program to lower current illiteracy levels estimated at 5.5 percent down to 3.0 percent in five years, an effort that will count on Cuban assistance.

The rector of the Santo Domingo Autonomous University (UASD) in the Dominican Republic, Ivan Grullon, welcomed a Cuban delegation to attend the presentation of the book entitled "Fidel Castro, Trujillo, USA" by writer Hamlet Hermann.

Palestinian ambassador to Venezuela Linda Sobeh Ali told Telesur TV during the current Israeli invasion on Gaza Strip, which has left nearly 2 thousand deaths, that Palestine does not want to have enemies but only peace.

HAVANA, Cuba, Aug 12 (acn) Washington has launched a new initiative to Latin America called America Visits the Americas, which consists of expeditions, in what it calls cooperative maritime security operations to enhance inter-operational activities and build partnership to foster regional security.

Ecuador's President Rafael Correa said that Cuba is a champion of international collaboration in relation to its economic sector.