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12 July, 2017 Parliament Supports Cuban Stance against New US Guidelines

Havana, Cuba.-The Cuban Parliament expressed its support to the Government Statement about the guidelines by US President Donald Trump regarding the island nation that represent a step backwards in the process for rapprochement between both countries. A statement by the Cuban parliamentary Commission for International Relations read that with the signing of the US presidential […]
12 July, 2017 Economic and Social Issues Focus Debates on Cuban Parliament

Havana, Cuba.-Cuban parliamentarians are analyzing today the implementation of the capacity recovery program in the food industry during the third and final working day of the Permanent Committees of that legislative body. Lawmakers will also receive information from the Ministry of Finance and Prices on the treatment given to social indisciplines, illegalities and corruption. They […]
11 July, 2017 Cuban Lawmakers Reject Trump’s Interventionist Policy

The Committee on International Relations of the Cuban Parliament endorsed this Tuesday the Revolutionary Government’s statement on the policy directive on Cuba announced by U.S. President Donald Trump.
11 July, 2017 Drugs in Cuba Are Not an Option

The Committee on Constitutional and Legal Affairs of the National Assembly of People’s Power, analyzed this Tuesday the implementation of the plans and strategies for preventing and confronting drug use in Cuba
10 July, 2017 Sustained Milk Production in Pinar del Rio

The deputy delegate of Agriculture for livestock in Pinar del Rio, Mario Gomez, said this Monday that in occasion of the central act for July 26, the farmers in the province will collect 60 thousand liters of milk daily.
10 July, 2017 Gala to Commemorate Manzanillo´s Foundation

Artists from Granma province and directed by Fernando Muñoz will perform tonight in the cultural gala on occasion of the birthday 235 of this city bathed by the waters of the Guacanayabo Gulf.
10 July, 2017 Community Program Has To Be Integral

Miguel Diaz-Canel said this Monday, we cannot limit community work to culture and education; it has to start from a government action, it is its responsibility to relate the institutions´ work, the communitarian leaderships, and the initiative.
10 July, 2017 On Economy in the First Semester

The realization of several measures has mitigated the unfavorable impact on economy during the first semester, what does not mean that all the problems are solved, Ricardo Cabrisas, Cuban minister of Economy and Planning said.
10 July, 2017 Tobacco Areas to Increase in Cuba

Pinar del Rio, Cuba.-Considered the greatest tobacco producing region in the country, this western Cuban province will increase 700 hectares for the crop of the solanaceous leaf in the coming campaign, and the initial plantings are scheduled for October. The total number of hectares to be covered has amounted to 18,704, according to Virginio Morales, […]
7 July, 2017 Minister of Agriculture Goes Through Granma Centers

Gustavo Rodriguez Rollero, minister of Agriculture, held this Friday an exchange with workers from Trece de Marzo and Emilio Jardin basic units of cooperative production, at Bejuquero, Bayamo.
7 July, 2017 Economy Targeted by Cuban Deputies

The execution of the Plan of Economy in the first semester will focus the agenda of the Cuban deputies to the ninth regular session of the eighth legislature of the National Assembly of People´s Power, convened for next July 14.
7 July, 2017 Cuban President Receives his Gabonese Counterpart

President Raul Castro headed the official reception ceremony to his counterpart of the Gabonese Republic, Ali Bongo Ondimba, who also paid tribute to the Cuban national hero at the Jose Marti Memorial in the Revolution Palace.

7 July, 2017 Gabon’s President Begins Official Talks in Cuba

Havana, Jul 7 (Prensa Latina) Gabon”s President, Ali Bongo, is complying here today with an official agenda whose objective is to meet with his peer and host, Raul Castro. Bongo, who started the visit yesterday, will hold talks with the Cuban President on issues of mutual and international interest. The agenda of the Gabonese leader […]
6 July, 2017 Workers’ Central Union of Cuba Recognizes Heroes of July 26

Members of different unions gave a warm welcome this Thursday in Havana, to assailants to Moncada and Carlos Manuel de Cespedes barracks, and expeditionaries of Granma yacht, at the headquarters of the Workers’ Central Union of Cuba (CTC).
6 July, 2017 Cuba and Gabon for Stronger Economic Linkages

Promoting growth-generating projects in areas of common interest, and to strengthen economic cooperation are the purposes of the Cuba-Gabon Business Forum, which will take place tomorrow in the context of the official visit to the island of the President of the African nation, Ali Bongo Ondimba.
6 July, 2017 UN Expert on Human Rights and Solidarity Will Visit Cuba

The Cuban Chancellery reported that the independent expert on human rights and international solidarity of the United Nations, Virginia Dandan, will visit Cuba in response to an invitation from the Government