Havana, Cuba.- The First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba (CC-PCC) and President of the Republic, Miguel Díaz-Canel congratulated on Monday Santiago Peña on his election, the day before, as president of Paraguay. In his Twitter profile, the Cuban head of state ratified to his counterpart the willingness of the […]
Havana, Cuba.- Mexico, Colombia and Cuba today formalized the Latin American and Caribbean Medicines agency (AMLAC) with the signing of the Acapulco Declaration that includes details and commitments of the common initiative. In a ceremony chaired by Jorge Alcocer, Mexico’s Secretary of Health, and representatives of the regulatory bodies for health control and surveillance of […]
Havana, Cuba.- Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel received this Tuesday at the Palace of the Revolution his counterpart from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Željka Cvijanovi?. During the official talks, the president of our country assured Cvijanovi? that her visit was long awaited. He also ratified the willingness to expand political, economic, trade and cooperation relations between the […]
Havana, Cuba.- Željka Cvijanovi?, President of Bosnia and Herzegovina, will arrive in Cuba on Monday for an official visit. It will be the first visit of the president of that country to Cuba since diplomatic relations were established. During her stay here, Cvijanovi? will meet with Cuban authorities and carry out other activities of interest. […]
Havana, Cuba.- After his reelection as president of the Republic of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel proposed this Wednesday to ratify Manuel Marrero Cruz as prime minister. In the constitutive session of the 10th Legislature of the National Assembly of People’s Power, his proposal was approved by a majority of votes, taking into account that Marrero Cruz’s […]
Havana, Cuba.- The deputies to the Cuban Parliament today reelected Miguel Díaz-Canel as President of the Republic for the next five years, and Salvador Valdés to occupy the vice presidency. The president of the National Electoral Council, Alina Balseiro, pointed out that all of the 462 parliamentarians present at the constitutive session of the 10th […]
Havana, Cuba.- The president of Cuba’s National Nominations Commission, Consuelo Baeza, informed that among all 21 proposals to be members of the Council of State, 10 are new lawmakers. Among the new proposals are the deputy director of the Finlay Vaccines Institute, Yuri Valdés; the second head of the Social Workers Unit, Yurisa Lahera, and […]
Havana, Cuba.- The deputies to the National Assembly of People’s Power of Cuba (ANPP) were sworn in today on the constitutive day of the 10th Legislature. Sportswoman Yarileidis Cirilo, the youngest legislator in the unicameral Parliament, read out the oath, in which they declared their loyalty to the Homeland and to enforce the Constitution of […]
Havana, Cuba.- Cuban National Assembly of People’s Power celebrates this Wednesday the constitutive session in its 10th Legislature, in accordance with the provisions of the Constitution and the Electoral Law. The legislative body of the Caribbean nation, when constituting itself for a new Legislature, elects its president, vice president, secretary and other members of the […]
Havana city, Cuba.- The National People’s Power Assembly (Cuban Parliament) is holding the constituent session of its 10th Legislature on Wednesday, following the provisions of the Constitution and the Electoral Law. The Cuban legislative body, when constituted for a new Legislature, elects its President, Vice President, Secretary, and other State Council members. It also elects […]
Havana, Cuba.- Delta Air Lines resumed on Monday direct flights from Miami International Airport to Havana’s José Martí International Airport, the Cuban terminal’s Twitter account reported. According to the tweet, the airlines will offer travelers two daily flights. Delta Air Lines, with its headquarters located in Atlanta, Georgia, returned to the Cuban market in 2016 […]
Havana, Cuba.- The director of International Relations of the Cuban Ministry of Agriculture, Orlando Díaz, highlighted on Tuesday the links between the country’s agricultural sector and that of the United States, despite the blockade imposed on the island by the nation northern. During the first day of the Fourth Cuba-United States Agricultural Business Conference, Díaz […]
Havana, Cuba.- Cuban Prime Minister Manuel Marrero Cruz participated today in Havana in the annual assessment of the Ministry of Finance and Prices (MFP). The working meeting was also attended by Alejandro Gil Fernandez, deputy prime minister and head of economy and planning, and the minister of finance and prices, Meisi Bolaños Weiss, as well […]
Havana, Cuba.- Cuban First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Gerardo Peñalver presented the credentials that accredit him as extraordinary and plenipotentiary ambassador to the United Nations Organization (UN) in New York, USA. Peñalver presented the supporting document to the Secretary General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, who conveyed an affectionate greeting to the Cuban […]
Havana, Cuba.- The United States Coast Guard returned a group of 64 irregular migrants to Cuba this Sunday, who left the country illegally by sea and were intercepted. A note from the Cuban Ministry of the Interior (MININT) reports that the return occurred through the port of Orozco, in Bahía Honda, in the province of […]
Havana, Cuba.- he head of the Business Council between Russia and Cuba, Boris Titov, announced in Moscow that his country will sell food, chemical products and other household items to the Caribbean nation through a special commercial house. The Russian politician and businessman stated that the new facility would be a unified wholesale importer of […]
Havana, Cuba.- Cuba’s Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Elio Rodríguez Perdomo co-chaired this Tuesday in South Africa, with his counterpart Alvin Botes, the seventeenth meeting of the inter-foreign ministry consultation mechanism. The Cuban diplomat reported on Twitter that as part of his work schedule in Pretoria, the South African administrative capital, he also held a […]
Havana, Cuba.- The leader of the Cuban Revolution, Army General Raúl Castro Ruz, exercised his right to vote this Sunday in the national elections to elect deputies to the National Assembly of People’s Power (Parliament). Before voting in the Playa municipality, in Havana, he shared with neighbors of the community and talked with the members […]
