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24 April, 2018 Cuba Has a Lot to Show in Public Health

Cuba is the best model and example to show what it has done in universal coverage or what is the same, health for all, the Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said at a press conference in the Convention Palace of Havana.

24 April, 2018 Scientific Workshop on May 1st Started

The Secretary General of the Workers’ Central Union of Cuba (CTC), Ulises Guilarte de Nacimiento, inaugurated in Havana the twelfth May 1st International Scientific Workshop, at the Torcedores Palace in Havana.

23 April, 2018 Cuban President Receives Head of State of Bolivia

The President of the Councils of State and of Ministers of Cuba, Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez, received in the Palace of the Revolution of Havana Bolivian President Evo Morales, who pays an official visit on the island.

23 April, 2018 Health for All Trade Fair Opens its Doors

The director of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, and Issa Etienne, at the head of the Pan-American Health Organization, cut the inaugural ribbon at the fourteenth Health for All Trade Fair, dedicated to Fidel´s legacy, to Raul and to the Cuban people.

23 April, 2018 Presidents of Cuba and Bolivia Visit Scientific Center

In the company of the President of the Councils of State and Ministers, Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez, Bolivian President Evo Morales toured the Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (CIGB), in Havana.

19 April, 2018 Another Forceful Victory of Our People

At the closing of the constitutive session of the ninth legislature of the Parliament, the first Secretary of the Party, Army General Raul Castro highlighted that this coincided with the date on which, 57 years ago, Cuba won the victory in Playa Giron and gave to imperialism its first major defeat in Latin America.

19 April, 2018 Fidelity to the Historical Generation of Revolution

In assuming the mandate of the people as President of the Councils of State and of Ministers, Miguel Diaz-Canel dedicated his first thought to the historical generation that with humility and consecration accompanies this hour of pressing challenges.

19 April, 2018 Cuba: Unity, Guarantee of Future

On the day of the victory in Playa Giron 57 years ago, it will be announced today the conformation of the Council of State elected by the deputies in the constitutive session of the National Assembly of Popular Power, attended by Cuban President Army General Raul Castro, First Secretary of the Party.

19 April, 2018 Miguel Diaz-Canel Is Elected President of Cuba

In the constitutive session of the ninth legislature of the National Assembly of People´s Power, attended by the first Secretary of the party, Raul Castro, it was reported today the result of the Cuban deputies’ voting, who elected Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez as President of the country

18 April, 2018 Esteban Lazo Proposed as Speaker of Cuban Parliament

The National Candidacy Commission proposed Wednesday Esteban Lazo as Speaker of the 9th Legislature of the newly-inaugurated Cuban Parliament, nomination that will have to be ratified by direct and secret vote by the 605 lawmakers.

17 April, 2018 For an Active and Satisfactory Longevity

The thirteenth Centenarians Meeting takes place in the context of the fourteenth International Meeting of Longevity in the Convention Palace of Havana.

17 April, 2018 With the Conviction of Serving and Representing People

When tomorrow April 18 the constitutive session of the National Assembly of People´s Power begins for its IX legislature, the current Cuban society will be represented in it and we will arrive at that date after a road where the people were protagonists.

16 April, 2018 Committed to Socialism

With the presence of Vice-President Mercedes Lopez Acea, First Secretary of the Party in Havana, took place the event for the anniversary 57 of the proclamation of the Socialist Character of the Revolution, a fact that marked the way forward in the construction of a social process based on humanism and fairness.

16 April, 2018 They Advance National Assembly Constitutive Sitting

The Council of State of the Republic of Cuba, in use of the faculties conferred to it, agreed to begin the constitutive sitting of the ninth legislature of the National Assembly of People´s Power on Wednesday April 18, 2018, at 9 a.m. at the Convention Palace.