Artemisa, Cuba - This week a Carahata Diana 2001 will start traveling through the rails from La Conchita, in San Cristóbal, to the locality of Aguacate at south of the municipality of Candelaria, covering a distance of 42 kilometers, a new option for the transportation of passengers.

This engine rail car has a similar frame of a bus Diana; with capacity for 26 seated passengers and 14 not seated; and for the entire stretch the full fare is 1.30 pesos. This tour will take place three times a day at a speed of 40 km / h.

On a day like today, we Cubans mark a new anniversary of Granma cabin cruiser landing and the resumption of struggles for the definitive independence of the people of Cuba.

This way, 58 years ago the 20th-century “mambises”, the so-called Ejercito Rebelde (Rebel Army) would write a new national and modern epic when they re-took the pathways leading to the Sierra Maestra in eastern Cuba and faced the powerful military machinery of Fulgencio Batista's regime, which received the unconditional backing of the US Government.

San Antonio de los Baños, Artemisa, Cuba - Saving other human beings lives is a mission that deserves much praise, that would not be enough to devote a comment to this topic. A few months ago a group of health workers in our town devote their efforts to stop a new virus that threatens the lives of humans: Ebola and many other staff prepare Venezuela to contribute in the fight against this scourge.

These health professionals, 115 in total, are distributed in different nations of the world such as Brazil, Sierra Leone and Liberia, the two latter on the African continent. Most of them left their families to go to unknown lands, at risk to their own lives, to stop the epidemic since its inception has claimed the existence of more than five thousand people.

Havana, Cuba - Cuban President Raul Castro welcomed at Havana´s International Airport the last group of athletes from the victorious sports delegation that participated at the 22nd Central American and Caribbean Games.

The Cuban President was accompanied by first vice- president Miguel Diaz-Canel and other government officials, Granma newspaper reported on Tuesday.

Havana, Cuba - Army General Raul Castro, President of the councils of State and Ministers, met on Tuesday afternoon with Denis Sassou Nguesso, President of the Republic of Congo, who is on an official visit to Cuba.

During the meeting, the two heads of state spoke about the development of the fraternal bilateral bonds -marking their 50th anniversary this year-, and ratified their willingness to continue expanding and strengthening them. Likewise, they tackled topics on the international agenda, particularly the challenge the Ebola epidemics represents for African nations.

Today low birthweight is considered one of the most important causes of perinatal morbidity and mortality, and is one of the most useful indicators for evaluating the results of prenatal care, the prospects for child survival and health during the first year. On the theme chatted with Mariela Polo,  pediatrician at Ivan Portuondo teaching Hospital.