United Nations - Strategic and prestigious Cuban industries such as that of biopharmaceuticals are currently facing huge damages due to the US blockade, denounced Cuba's mission to the UN.

Cuba contributes a lot worldwide in Orthopedics and Traumatology and despite the blockade imposed by successive U.S. governments for almost 60 years, there is international recognition of medicine and particularly in this branch, Dr. Sergio Quintero Hernandez, president of the Mexican Federation of Schools of Orthopedics and Traumatology, said in Havana.

Havana - The president of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel, today evoked the example of Argentine-Cuban revolutionary Ernesto Che Guevara after the 52nd anniversary of his fall in combat.

Miguel Diaz-Canel, President of the Councils of State and Ministers, ratified the high level of political exchanges between Cuba and Russia, after official talks with Dmitri Medvedev, Prime Minister of that Eurasian nation, country Cuban president announced to visit late this month.

Havana - The United States intensified in the last year its persecution of the banking and financial operations of Cuba with entities linked to the island, an official report recorded here.

Havana - Cuba gradually recovers productive activities after facing a temporary shortage of fuel due to actions by the US blockade, Economy and Planning Minister Alejandro Gil said on his Twitter account.