A regional meeting for local development and cultural life was dedicated to the 500th anniversary of the foundartion of the city of Sancti Spiritus, center of Cuba, to exchange experiences and present projects, with the attendance of experts from several provinces.»

The Cuban Workers Federation (CTC) called today to participate in the popular parade on May Day, to support the economic updating the country is experiencing in the interest of achieving a prosperous socialism.»

Cuban Health Minister Roberto Morales presented the flag to the seventh group of medical collaborators headed to work in Brazil, the press reported in Havana today.»

Soprano Barbara Llanes will offer two concerts in the French city of Enghien-les-Bains, neighboring this capital, where she will perform songs of the best Cuban composers from early and mid 20th century.»

The Bolivarian Alliance for the People of our Americas (ALBA) rejected recent interfering statements by US State Secretary John Kerry in relation to the option of imposing unilateral sanctions on Venezuela.»

Cuban antiterrorist fighter Rene Gonzalez appreciated the work done by solidarity groups in France to disseminate the truth about the Cubans unjustly condemned in the United States, and demand their release.»

Yosbany Veitia is included in the list traveling to USA for the quarter-finals of the 4th WSB.»

Cuban First Vice President Miguel Diaz-Canel is in Santiago de Chile, leading his country’s delegation for the inauguration of Michelle Bachelet as president of Chile.»

UN Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights, Flavia Pansieri, received Adriana Pérez, the wife of Gerardo Hernández, one of the five anti-terrorist Cuban fighters unfairly held in US prisons.»

President Raul Castro paid tribute to heroine Melba Hernandez, who died on Sunday, March 9, and whose ashes are at the headquarters of the Ministry of Revolutionary Armed Forces. On Monday night, the statesman laid a white rose in front of the coffin as a tribute to the combatant, who was one of the first one in joining to the »