The Cuban government conveyed messages of sympathy to the governments and people of the Bahamas, Haiti, Jamaica, Canada and the United States regarding the devastation left behind by Hurricane Sandy.»

Yaguajay, a northern municipality in the Cuban central province of Sancti Spiritus, pays tribute to the Cuban diplomat Crescencio Nicomedes Galañena Hernandez, murdered in Argentina in August 1976, victim of the Operation Condor, which involved the country’s military dictatorship that killed thousands of people.»