Cuba's Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez said that the U.S. government, in its desire to create greater tensions and increase hostility, is placing obstacles in the way of the upcoming UN vote against the blockade.

The President of the Councils of State and Ministers, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, received the President of the Republic of Panama, His Excellency Juan Carlos Varela Rodríguez, on Monday afternoon, during an official visit to Cuba.

Havana - Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel on Tuesday received Russian Vice President Yuri Borisov, who is the co-chair of the Bilateral Inter-Governmental Commission for Economic-Commercial and Scientific-Technical Collaboration.

Artemisa - The University of Computer Sciences (UCI) of Cuba is working on projects and business opportunities in the Mariel Special Development Zone (ZEDM, in Spanish).

Artemisa, Cuba - Provincial Assembly of People's Power in its V ordinary session of the III mandate discussed issues such as : insufficient systems to population´s attention, specialists´incapacity in charge of this task , weak follow-up to repeated complains , partial solutions to long time problems and lack of conciliation of provincial entities and their municipal counterparts.

Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel will hold meetings with the highest authorities of Russia, China, Vietnam, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and Laos during his official visits to those countries, from November 1 through the 12.