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9 May, 2018 Cuba´s Reasons to Be Proud on Human Rights

In just one week, Cuba will present for the third time in Geneva, Switzerland, a report for the Universal Periodic Review on human rights, an area in which the island shows unattainable results for many nations.
8 May, 2018 Raul Met with UN Secretary General

The First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba, Army General Raul Castro Ruz, met with His Excellency Mr. Antonio Guterres, Secretary General of the United Nations Organization, who is on an official visit to Cuba.
8 May, 2018 Cuba Ratifies Its Commitment to ECLAC

We´ll put our efforts to seek a more fair, equable and inclusive world, Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez said when Cuba assumed the leadership of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC).
7 May, 2018 Havana Is Venue of Important Meeting of ECLAC

The most important biennial meeting of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) Organization With relevant analysis topics for the future of the region, began in Cuba with some activities associated with its thirty-seven session.
7 May, 2018 Cuba: Example of South-South Cooperation

The Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Alicia Barcena, remarked the fact there is a country like Cuba in the area which has taught new forms of cooperation, sharing what it has, not what they have aplenty.
7 May, 2018 Ethiopia and Cuba Strengthen Ties in Education

Ethiopia and Cuba are strengthening cooperation ties in education, with the signing of various agreements that seek to contribute to the socioeconomic development of this country.
4 May, 2018 For Schools without Homophobia and Transphobia

Since today until May 18, the Cuban days against homophobia and transphobia, in its eleventh edition, are developed with the aim of promoting respect for free and responsible sexual orientation and gender identity, as an exercise of justice and social equity.
4 May, 2018 Namibian Vice President Thanks Cuba´s Solidarity

We will forever say thanks to the leaders, people and the Communist Party of Cuba, Namibian Vice-President Nangolo Mbumba said, referring to the heroic performance of the island that averted a larger number of victims in the Cassinga massacre.
4 May, 2018 UN Secretary-General Will Meet with Cuban President

The Secretary General of the United Nations Organization (UN), Antonio Guterres, will soon have a meeting with the newly elected president of Cuba, Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez, as part of his next official visit to Havana.
4 May, 2018 Cuba Prepares Meteor 2018 Exercise

HAVANA, Cuba.- On May 19 and 20 it will take place the Popular Exercise of Actions in Disaster Situations “Meteor 2018”, it was reported in the National Staff of the Civil Defense in Havana, with the presence of its chief, Major General Ramon Pardo Guerra. To strengthen capacities to confront earthquakes, hurricanes, intense drought and […]
4 May, 2018 Cuba Strengthens Policy for Consumer Protection

The Resolution number 54 of 2018 of the Ministry of Internal Trade, published in the Official Gazette of Cuba, establishes the obligations of suppliers of products services, for the State sphere and for the non-State sector.
4 May, 2018 Cuba to Apply Bonuses to Electronic Purchase

Cuba advances in the computerization of its society by implementing a bonus for the electronic purchase of products and services in its retail chain, it was reported here today.
4 May, 2018 Cuba Invests in Improving Its Soils

Cuba is working to improve the efficiency of the National Soil Improvement and Conservation Program, which this year includes investments raised to 58.6 million pesos (equal in USD to the official exchange rate), experts of the sector said here today.
3 May, 2018 Cuba Celebrates World Press Freedom Day

With the participation of the President of Latin American Federation of Journalists (FELAP), Juan Carlos Camano, World Press Freedom Day was held in Havana.
3 May, 2018 Cuba Shows its Results in Ocular Health

“Our country has been an example for the world in its participation in the visual recovery of more than three million people,” Carmen Rosa Martinez, National Director of Medical Care of the Ministry of Public Health, said in the Convention Palace of Havana.
3 May, 2018 Cuban Banking Applies Bonus for Using Magnetic Cards

In order to encourage the use of magnetic card as a safe and efficient means of payment, the Cuban banking system implements a bonus to payments made through point-of-sale terminals in stores, for the purchasing its products or services.
2 May, 2018 The Main Fight is against Blockade, Cuban Union Leader Says

“The denunciation of the blockade imposed unilaterally by the United States against Cuba, is currently our main battle,” the Secretary General of the Workers’ Central Union of Cuba (CTC), Ulises Guilarte de Nacimiento ratified.
2 May, 2018 Cuba to Host ECLAC Meeting in Havana

A founding member of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Cuba will be responsible for the organization of the thirty-seventh session, from May 7 to 11, based at the Convention Palace of Havana.