17 April, 2018
FAO Alerts on Labor Risks for Farmers
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, FAO, warned about the risks to which agricultural workers and foresters are exposed.
The thirteenth Centenarians Meeting takes place in the context of the fourteenth International Meeting of Longevity in the Convention Palace of Havana.
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.
Cuban authorities signed a book of condolences at the Embassy of Algeria in Havana in which they expressed their solidarity with that country after the accident of a military plane.
Dozens of anti-war protesters gathered on Sunday in front of the White House in Washington to condemn the US-led military attacks on Syria and seconded by France and the United Kingdom.
The President of Bolivia, Evo Morales, saluted the 57th anniversary of the proclamation of the Socialist Character of the Cuban Revolution by Fidel Castro Ruz in 1961.
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.
Cuban President Raul Castro Ruz received in the Jose Marti International Airport the Cuban delegation that attended the eighth Summit of the Americas, which took place in Lima, Peru.
The Association of Cuban Residents in Bolivia condemned the attitude of the self-appointed representatives of Cuban civil society in the side events of the 8th Summit of the Americas in Peru.
The Cultural and Friendship Association PHILCUBA sponsored the launch of the book ”Fidel Castro y la Revolución Cubana” (Fidel Castro and the Cuban Revolution) in this capital.
Bolivian President Evo Morales today condemned ”categorically the unilateral sanctions and threats of invasion made by the government of the United States against Venezuela”, and demanded the unconditional lifting of the blockade of Cuba.
Philippine Education Minister Leonor Briones was paid a courtesy visit by Cuban Ambassador Ibete Fernandez, with whom she assessed the possibility of starting relations of collaboration in the educational field.
The Finlay Vaccine Institute (IFV) in Cuba and its Vietnamese counterpart, Vabiotech, signed a memorandum of understanding in this capital to boost cooperation relations.
The People’s Power National Assembly will install next April 19 its Ninth Legislature with the mission of strengthening unity around the revolution in the island, asserted here today Parliament Member Digna Guerra.
Local media today highlighted the solidarity with Cuba and Venezuela at the Peoples” Summit in Peru, as well as the demands for Latin American and Caribbean unity.
The Cuban Foreign Minister, Bruno Rodriguez, warned on Saturday at the Summit of the Americas in Lima, Peru, there exists the danger of a return to the use of force in Latin America due to the aggressive policies the US is currently pursuing and the rise of the right in some countries in the region.
The Argentinean Solidarity with Cuba Movement (MasCuba) expressed its support for the civil society delegation that represents the Caribbean island at the 8th Summit of the Americas in Lima, Peru.
-The President of Ecuador, Lenin Moreno, confirmed this Friday the death of Diario El Comercio newspaper´s team, kidnapped last March 26 in the parish of Machops, in the province of Esmeraldas, Ecuador