The necessity of making use of technology available within the country to maintain and repair roads, to prevent further deterioration, including possible local strategies that can be implemented on short order, allowing communities to address their own issues, was a key point made by the President during a recent meeting to evaluate the country’s highway program.

Havana - The improvement of the system of territorial and urban planning and land management, the special plan for the development of the Varadero beach resort, and the results of the recently concluded sugarcane harvest were the subject of discussion of a recent meeting of the Council of Ministers.

Washington - Cuban ambassador to the United States, Jose Cabañas, reiterated on Sunday that Cuba is a safe country for diplomats and travelers from all over the world and urged the Donald Trump Administration to stop using the health issues reported by US diplomats as a pretext to impose more unilateral coercive measures against the Caribbean island.

Havana - President Miguel Diaz-Canel has described Secretary of State Mike Pompeo as “ignorant of the history and principles of the Cuban Revolution” by proposing a negotiation that suggests treason and denial of the dignity of the people of the island.

Havana - Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel has denounced on the social network Twitter that the president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, is again lying with vulgar slanders about the island’s participation in the Mais Medicos—More Doctors program.

The recent regulations on the prices of products and services of high demand are not arbitrary, but respond to studies on their behavior in previous months and territorial conditions, said Lourdes Rodríguez Ruiz, deputy minister of Finance and Prices of Cuba.