Los Agradecidos Quartet to Sing To Fidel at CELAC Summit

Los Agradecidos, (The Grateful), informal name given to the quartet of Raul Torres, Luna Manzanares, Eduardo Sosa and Ann Garces will perform this weekend in the Dominican Republic as a tribute to the leader of the Cuban Revolution Fidel Castro during the 5th Summit of CELAC.

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Oscar Lopez Rivera: Awaiting An Embrace

US President Barack Obama pardoned on Tuesday Puerto Rican independence leader Oscar Lopez Rivera after being unjustly imprisoned for over 30 years.  This news multiplied with the speed of modern times.

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The Divisions of Animal and Plant Health of the Ministry of Agriculture of Cuba and the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service of the US Department of Agriculture signed in Washington DC a Memorandum of Understanding for cooperation.

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A report by agencies of the United Nations Organization registers Cuba as the country with the lowest prevalence of low birth weight (5.3%) in the region, Granma newspaper reported.

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Crews from the Ministry of Construction (MICONS) of Cuba started building 59 solar power plants throughout the country, according to sources from that entity.


Cuba begins production of a vaccine against pig plague

The Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering Center in the province of Camaguey has begun the production of a vaccine against the classic pig plague, disease that affect raising of pork in Cuba.


The eastern province of Santiago de Cuba has received modern agricultural machinery benefiting the bean cultivation which is one of the main priorities of the food production in the country.


Medical graduate Felierix Castro said on Monday in Sancti Spiritus that the US brain drain policy took many friends away from him when recalling that some medical students of his generation were seduced for the Medical Parole Program.


Even when the US-Cuba normalization of relations is supposedly gaining momentum, Washington keeps punishing US and foreign entities for having violated the regulations established by the nearly-60-year US economic, commercial and financial blockade of the island.