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06 October 2017

Cuban President Raúl Castro Ruz received on Thursday afternoon Mrs. Alicia Bárcena Ibarra, Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), who is visiting Cuba.

04 October 2017

The Cuban government is waiting for a response from Puerto Rican authorities to offer solidarity to the people of that Caribbean island, hardly hit by Hurricane Maria two weeks ago.

04 October 2017

Yurisan Villavicencio Matos, of 16 years and with residence in the municipality of Florida, received a kidney transplant the past September 18 in the center of Nephrology, University Hospital Manuel Ascunce Domenech, of this city. It was the second benefited child from such medical procedure in pediatric age group in the province of Camagüey.

03 October 2017

Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez addressed the press in Havana this afternoon, following the Trump Administration's announcement earlier today that 15 Cuban diplomats from the island's Embassy in Washington will have to leave the country.

01 October 2017

Members of the Norwegian Union of Municipal and General Employees (Fagforbundet) are here today to provide medical assistance in Puerto Piloto, in this eastern Cuban province, which was harshly hammered by Hurricane Irma.

01 October 2017

"Whoever is doing this is obviously trying to disrupt the normalization process between the United States and Cuba,” said U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy about the alleged 'sonic attacks' against U.S. diplomats in Cuba, which prompted the Trump Administration to reduce the diplomatic staff at the U.S. embassy in Havana by 60%.

29 September 2017

Russian business group RZD intends to modernize Cuban railway infrastructure, for which it will sign a contract of 1.8 billion euros, local media reported today.

29 September 2017

As part of its intention to taking Internet services to Cuban homes, the Cuban Telecommunications Company (Etecsa), as of September 29, will continue to commercialize the Nauta Hogar service, incorporating it gradually, and until the month of December, to all the provinces of the country.

28 September 2017

Cuba commemorates today the 57th anniversary of the founding of the largest mass organization in the country, known as the Committee for the Defense of the Revolution (CDR).

28 September 2017

With the purpose of relieving the professorial deficit and ensure better preparation in the exercise of the educational instruction, the University of Ignacio Agramonte Loynaz opened its doors to some 35 students from 12th grade, who at the end of the current school year will opt for teaching careers.