Army General Raul Castro, President of the councils of State and Ministers, met on Wednesday afternoon with Daniel Scioli, governor of the Argentinean province of Buenos Aires, who is on an official visit to the island.

During the fraternal meeting, the two leaders expressed satisfaction with the excellent state of relations between the two countries and exchanged views on the existing potential for developing ties in the economic-commercial areas and in cooperation. They also discussed other issues on the regional and international agendas.

Who we are? How do we act in our home? What criteria about ourselves? These and other questions have convergent points in the answer about honesty and quality, for being honest is to live in line with what we think, our behavior will reveal the transparency of being with others and ourselves.

Artemisa, Cuba.- Ariguanabo Marti Forest is active in the territory, weekly receive visitors from different institutions, entities and organizations.

A group of the Revolutionary Armed Forces toured the place that has events like the Granma yacht expedition or the meeting of Fidel and Raúl in Cinco Palmas.

Havana, Cuba - Cuban Minister of Foreign Affairs Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla delivered a speech at the ceremony to re-open the Cuban embassy in Washington DC this morning.

Cuba News Agency now reproduces the full text of his speech:

Artemisa - Members of the US 46th Venceremos Brigade, on a visit to Cuba, demanded yesterday the end of the economic, commercial, financial blockade imposed on Cuba.

It is time to put an end to the blockade; we need to end that policy which does not favor the Cuban people, Ana Miledys Rosales told Prensa Latina at the end of the official welcoming ceremony of the contingent at the Julio ntonio Mella international camp, in Caimito, in Artemisa province, west of Havana.

Havana, Cuba - After intense months of talks between the governments of Cuba and the United States, as had been announced, diplomatic relations between the two countries were re-established on Monday, at 12:01 midnight.

Coinciding with the date of the re-establishment of relations, at 10:33 a.m., the voice of a young officer of the Ceremony Unit of the General Staff of the Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces will be heard, and after the usual protocol the Cuban flag will be hoisted in the garden of the now embassy of the island to the United States, and the notes of the national anthem will be heard.