Santiago Luengo, delegate of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Federation for the operation to help on the effects of Hurricane Sandy in Cuba, extolled the social response of Cuba before these events.»

With a gala at the Heredia Theater, the 33rd International Caribbean Festival begins in Santiago de Cuba, an event uninterruptedly held for nearly 35 years as a meeting point among the cultures of the peoples of the region.»

A crowd accompanied the funeral cortege of Jesus Cejas, a member of the Cuban diplomatic corps killed in Argentina in 1976, whose remains were buried at the martyrs’ pantheon in Pinar del Rio.»

President Evo Morales travels to Bolivia after more than 13 hours waiting in Austria, where he arrived after Spain, Italy, Portugal, and France denied flight permission over their territories.»

The permanent commissions of the Cuban National Assembly of People’s Power will meet Thursday and Friday, this week, prior to the First Session of the Eight Legislature to take place Saturday at Havana’s Conventions Center.»

President Raul Castro welcomed in Havana Kim Kyok Sik, Chief of General Staff of the Army of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK).»

Cuban President Raul Castro said the country is making progresses and results are noticing, during a meeting with the Council of Ministers, Granma newspaper reported.»

The father of Edward Snowden, who is accused of espionage for revealing secret documents on intelligence to the press, said today that his son would return to the United States on certain conditions.»

Nearly 5,000 students from 70 nations will receive next month in Cuba their diplomas as doctors in medicine, official sources announced Havana .»

Since the opening in early June of 118 facilities for Internet access, nearly 11,000 Cubans have used those services, Juventud Rebelde newspaper reports.»