Havana, Cuba - Army General Raul Castro, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Cuban Communist Party and President of the councils of State and Ministers, stated on Wednesday that the normalization of relations between Cuba and the U.S. will not be possible as long as the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by Washington against Havana exists, among other issues.

The establishment of diplomatic relations is the beginning of a process towards normalization of bilateral relations, but this normalization won’t be possible as long as the blockade exists; the territory illegally occupied by the Guantanamo Naval Base is not returned; radio broadcasts and television broadcasts violating international regulations don’t cease; and there’s no fair compensation to our people for the human and economic losses it has suffered, said the Cuban head of state.

Artemisa, Cuba - Members of the twenty-second Brigade of Solidarity with Cuba, during their activities in the province of Artemisa, condemned the economic embargo imposed on the islandby the government of United Stated.

In the International Camp Julio Antonio Mella, the members of the brigade from Argentina, Paraguay, Brazil, Chile and Uruguay, expressed their support for the self-determination and the independence of the Cuban people.

Havana, Cuba - Cuban Revolution leader Fidel Castro met on Tuesday evening with outstanding Brazilian scholar Frei Betto.

Fidel and Frei Betto addressed several national and international issues during their meeting, Granma newspaper reported on Wednesday.

Betto also referred to his visit to the Pope last April and commented on his lectures during his current stay in Cuba.

Havana, Cuba - Cuban President Raul Castro received this Thursday afternoon Uruguay´s Vice-President-elect Raúl Fernando Sendic Rodríguez who is in Cuba on an official visit.

During the meeting both leaders addressed the excellent friendship and collaboration between the two countries and peoples, and matters of interest in the international arena.

Havana, Cuba -Vietnam´s Thai Binh Investment Trading Corp expects to build plants to produce detergent and disposable diapers at the Special Development Zone located at the Mariel Port, in western Cuba.

Thai Binh representative in Cuba Tran Thien Minh told PL news agency earlier this year about plans for the year and that the new factories will further strengthen bilateral ties between the two countries.

Nobody told me. On several occasions I witnessed each day, each medical parctice. And it not about “doing anything extraordinary," as they would say later. It is simply to fulfill the duty with the love and devotion to the profession..

They are so young that a patient could be afraid at first, but only when you watch them perform their job , any fear disappears.

In the Men medicine ward , at Ciro Redondo Garcia General Teaching Hospital in Artemisa province, Yusdelsi Sanchez Varela and Pablo Cruz Reyes, both nursing graduates, found a space to develop professionally. They assist there about 30 patients.