The National Council of the over-three-million-member Confederation of Cuban Workers (CTC) called its 20th Congress for 2013 during a plenary session that focused on the update of the island’s economic model.»

The head of the observers’ mission of the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR), Carlos Alvarez, said that “there is no possibility of fraud” in the Venezuelan electoral system, so “the voters’ can not be distorted.”»

Chaired by Cuban President Raul Castro, an expanded meeting of the Cuban Council of Ministers was recently held in Havana, which had as its first point on the agenda the debts of state companies between December 2011 and July 2012.»

Cuban President, Raul Castro, saw off his Bolivian counterpart Evo Morales, who concluded on Monday a brief working visit to the Caribbean nation.»

Cuban President Raul Castro received El Salvador’s First Lady and Secretary for Social Inclusion, Doctor Vanda Pignato, who is on a working visit to Cuba.»