Lianys Torres Rivera (On the right) Cuba Minrex Photo

Hanoi, September 3 (RHC) -- Vietnam and Cuba are celebrating this month the 45th anniversary of the visit by Fidel Castro to VietNam’s liberated areas in 1973, regarded as a landmark in the bilateral relations between the two countries.... More


Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel at the Rafael María de Mendive Elementary School in Old Havana,

Havana, Sep 3 (RHC) -- President Miguel Diaz-Canel attended Monday in Havana the inauguration of the new school year in Cuba. Monday September 3rd marked the beginning of the 2018-2019 school course island-wide. More than 10,000 educational centers open their doors to over two million students.... More


Havana, September 3 (RHC)-- Some two million Cuban children, teens and young people are returning or arriving for the first time today in classrooms island-wide for the beginning of the school year 2018-2019.... More


Havana, September 2 (RHC)-- Cuba´s Foreign Ministry has strongly criticized the decision by Brazil´s Electoral Court to exclude the candidacy of former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva for the October presidential elections.... More


Jesus "Chucho" Valdes

Havana, August 31 (RHC)—Renown Cuban pianist Jesus Chucho Valdes has been included in the 2018 class of lifetime achievement awards by the Latin Recording Academy.... More


Rogelio Sierra

Havana, August 30 (RHC)-- Cuba's Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister Rogelio Sierra will lead the country's delegation to the 49th Pacific Islands Forum (PIF), set for September 3rd through the 6th in the Republic of Nauru. ... More


Writer Marta Acosta receives the award. Granma Photo

Havana, Aug 30 (RCH) – Cuban Marta Acosta has won the 2018 Julio Cortázar Iberoamerican Short Story Contest. The winning text by the young writer was El Olor de los cerezos, The Scent of Cherry Trees.... More


Havana, August 30 (RHC)-- The 1st Round of Cuba-Belize Migratory Talks concluded Wednesday in Havana after two days of negotiations headed by Ambassador Ernesto Soberón Guzmán, Director of Consular Affairs and Cuban Residents Abroad of the Cuban Foreign Ministry and the Deputy Foreign Minister of Belize Patrick Andrews. ... More


Havana, August 29 (RHC)-- The Panamanian COPA Airlines has opened a business office in the central Cuban city of Santa Clara, located in the province of Villa Clara, which has become a place of growing tourist interest.... More


Carilda Oliver Labra

Matanzas,  August 29 (RHC)-- Carilda Oliver, National Literature Award recipient and outstanding Cuban poet, passed away Wednesday morning at 96 years of age at her home in Matanzas province, from which she wrote most of her extensive work.... More


Havana, August 28 (RHC)-- Cuba now holds the world record for the largest Cuba Libre cocktail ever made, after this year’s 12th Pan American Cocktail Rally of the International Bartenders' Association being held in Havana this week.... More


Cuban emigrants in Miami debate Draft of Constitution. PL Photo

Miami, August 28 (RHC)-- Cuban emigrants living in Miami, Florida, have recognized the importance of the new constitutional law currently being discussed in their mother country.... More


Havana, August 28 (RHC)-- Some two hundred and forty thousand students will begin university studies in Cuba on September 3rd, when the 2019 school year begins.... More


Havana, August 28 (RHC)-- The Cuban Foreign Ministry has reported that dozens of banks in the world closed their relations with Cuban or foreign companies in 2018 to eliminate any link with Havana due to the U.S. blockade.... More


Havana, August 27 (RHC)-- Cuban foreign trade loses billions of dollars as a result of the economic and financial blockade imposed by the United States for more than half a century.... More


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