Cuba

Cuba devoted last year 13 percent of its Gross Domestic Product to education, the highest rate in Latin America, expert Nihan Blanchy Koseleci specialist said today.»

A Cuban medical brigade traveled to Chile this Thursday, to assist people affected by severe flooding and heavy rains.  »

Panamanian social organizations denounced today that Venezuelan and Cuban counterrevolutionaries aim to use the Panamanian nation as a platform to plot against those nations during the 7th Summit of the Americas.»

The Summit of the Americas in Panama will be an opportunity to prove the challenges of the new course in the relations between Cuba and the United States, an article from The New York Times states today.»

The decision to invite Cuba to the Summit of the Americas had a massive support, Panamanian Foreign Minister Isabel de Saint Malo said in an interview to the local newspaper La Estrella de Panama releases today.»

Granma daily reported on a recent meeting held by leader of the Cuban Revolution Fidel Castro, with Venezuelan youths at the Educational Complex Vilma Espin Guillois in Havana.»

Esteban Lazo Hernández, President of the People’s Power National Assembly of Cuba, met with visiting President of Latin American Parliament (Parlatino), Elias Castillo.»

All Cuban health professionals working in Sierra Leone fighting Ebola epidemics have returned after staying for six months in that African nation, media stressed today.»

Cuba has received more than 300 formal requests to settle in the Special Development Zone Mariel (ZEDM), it was reported in an online business forum prior to the Summit of the Americas.»

A series of activities to mark May Day are taking place in Cuban labor centers, including state-owned companies, cooperatives and private entities to tell about the agenda for celebrations May 1-5 throughout the island.»