Havana - The second secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC), Jose Ramon Machado Ventura, and Tran Thanh Man, a member of the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam, highlighted in Havana the ties between the two countries.

Havana - Resistance in malaria parasites will focus debates at the International Antimicrobial Resistance Conference, from the laboratory to the clinic, in the presence of delegates from about 15 countries.

José Ramón Machado Ventura, Second Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba, presided over the national act of decorations of the Committees for the Defense of the Revolution (CDR), which took place within the scope of the IX Congress of the organization.

Washington -The Fourth Day Against the US Blockade Against Cuba continues today with its presence in the US Congress, where activists already participated in meetings Tuesday to express themselves in favor of the end of that policy.

London - Cuban deputy minister of Foreign Relations, Ana Teresita Gonzalez, held talks today in this capital with David Maxim Triesman, British parliament member and Co-president of Initiative Cuba.

Santiago de Chile - Prominent Chilean journalist Marcel Garces questioned on Monday the persistence of the U.S. economic blockade against Cuba, which he considered ''an act of war against a sovereign country and a dignified people.''