When efforts are used for the same cause and knowledge is used to support it, the results can be encouraging. It is what happens when science is used in favor of agriculture in our country. In the case of combat against pests and crop diseases it is necessary to join efforts and above all to ensure the survival of the plantations.

Havana - Cuban President, Raul Castro, will pay an official visit to France on February 1- 2, complying with an invitation from his French counter part, Francois Hollande, Deputy Foreign Minister, Rogelio Sierra, said.

Artemisa, Cuba - The working class in the province of Artemisa was called to raise with greater efficiency the food production and the services to the population, during the annual balance of the Provincial Committee of the Workers' Central Union of Cuba.

Army General Raul Castro, President of the councils of State and Ministers, held a meeting on Sunday night with representatives of the delegations of the Colombian government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia - People's Army (FARC-EP) present in Havana at the peace negotiating table.

Petiónville- Cuba has assumed the rotating presidency of the Association of Caribbean States (ACS), in the framework of the 21st ordinary Meeting of the organization's Council of Ministers, which is holding sessions in the suburb of Petiónville of the Haitian capital.

"Cuba is not only sun and beach. It's much more than that. It's history, nature, legend, a peculiar sense of living. A destination for every wish."

(Osmany Cienfuegos Gorriarán, October 1994)