Gambian President Yahya Jammeh will visit Cuba this week in his first foreign trip since 2011. He come to the island as a special guest of Cuban counterpart Raul Castro and is scheduled to take off on Friday.»

A group of Cuban artists will pay homage to Bolivarian leader Hugo Chavez with a cultural program taking place Saturday evening at the Havana-based Casa del ALBA Cultural Center.»

Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the Communist Party of China’s Central Committee, was elected president of the People’s Republic of China and chairman of the People’s Republic of China’s Central Military Commission on Thursday.»

Renowned Cuban poetess Carilda Oliver Labra was presented an Honorary Doctor’s Degree by the University of Matanzas’s Humanistic Sciences School.»

Venezuelan Executive Vice President Nicolas Maduro was officially sworn in on Friday as the country’s acting president, following the death of President Hugo Chavez on Tuesday.»

Cuban President Raúl Castro, bid farewell to Venezuela on Saturday alter attending the official funeral of late President Hugo Chavez, who died on March 5.»

Some thirty world leaders gathered in Caracas to join throngs of mourners at a state funeral for Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez on Friday.»

Cuban President Raul Castro led the Cuban people’s tribute to late Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez Frias in the eastern city of Santiago de Cuba.»

Presidents of Bolivia (Evo Morales), Argentina (Cristina Fernandez) and Uruguay (Jose Mujica) arrived here today to attend the funeral of Venzuelan Head of State Hugo Chavez, who died on Tuesday afternoon in the Doctor Carlos Arvelo Military Hospital.»

Venezuelans gathered in all the Bolivar plazas of the country to pay tribute to President Hugo Chavez.»