Cuba

Vietnam’s Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung today began an official visit to Cuba, on an invitation by President Raul Castro.»

On the occasion of bicentennial of the birth of the Spanish-Cuban writer Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda, more than 105.000 people claim her posthumous appointment as member of the Real Academia Española (RAE), rejected in 1853.»

Cuba’s Council of Ministers approved a salary increase for the health sector during a meeting on Wednesday headed by President Raul Castro.»

Cuba called at the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) for the total elimination of nuclear weapons, and highlighted a decision from the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) to declare the region a peace zone.»

The International Committee for the Freedom of the Cuban 5 called to celebrate a campaign of denunciation and solidarity on June 4-11 in Washington.»

Cuban State Council convened an extraordinary session of the National Assembly of People’s Power for Mar. 29, to discuss the draft bill on foreign investment.»

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.»

Great challenges face the Cuban Press in its daily efforts to turn the truth (on its broad dimension )into the Holy Grail of its work : a country like ours transforming for the better, a learned and very demanding people,  mental barriers that remain, an adversary that does not take a break  with its evil plans against the nation, a »

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.»

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.»