Havana, Cuba - Cuban Revolution leader Fidel Castro exercised his right to vote at the municipal elections underway in Cuba to elect the delegates at the Municipal Assemblies of the People´s Power.

Fidel sent his ballot, properly folded and inside an envelope, that was deposited in a ballot box at 12, 40 PM in a polling station located in the Havana´s municipality of Plaza de la Revolucion.

Havana, Cuba - At seven sharp this morning, 24,646 polling stations scattered throughout Cuba opened their doors to allow over eight million Cubans to exercise their right to vote at the municipal elections.

The polling stations will remain open till six pm, announced the National Electoral Commission (CEN by its Spanish acronym). The voting process started with the singing of the national anthem and the reading of an official communiqué issued by the CEN.

Artemisa, Cuba - This Sunday, from 7:00 o'clock in the morning 108 electoral colleges in the municipality of Bahia Honda opened their doors to welcome more than 32 000 voters who exercise their right to vote.

At that time and simultaneously in all mass media of the country was heard the National Anthem, which was sung at each Electoral College to give the opening to these partial elections.

San Antonio de los Baños, Artemisa, Cuba - The Science and Technology Movement is active in the territory manifested through the Forum or scientific events recently developed in various institutions or sectors of the territory.

For example, the Sport Science and Technology Forum was successful in the Chess Academy, where teachers of different sports showed about ten works to provide useful solutions to problems related to their sector. Proposals for recreational games to learning Karate and exercises to enhance the appreciation of the shooting were featured in the game.

On a day like today, 54 years after our victory in in Playa Giron (Bay of Pigs), the Cuban people will exercise the sovereign right to choose, at the grass root level, the public servants in our country, as the Constitution of our Republic establishes.

For nearly 560,000 people in Camaguey summoned to go to the polls on April 19, this day will be a genuine expression of our participatory democracy, foreign to proselytist campaigns and tactics designed to manipulate the public opinion, that have nothing to do with our reality.  

Havana - The historic leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro, urged young people to draw from the glorious past lessons that make them grow today.

It is very important that they have done that journey, not a matter of curiosity but knowledge that is good you to have, said in a telephone conversation with members of Detachment 70th anniversary of Fidel entry to the University of Havana.

They made since last April 11 a touring by important sites called Conquering history.