Artemisa, Cuba - The Tobacco Research Institute, located in San Antonio de los Baños, received the National Recognition award for the results achieved in the 2018 Socialist Emulation.

Artemisa, Cuba - Managers of the Business Unit of Aqueduct and Drains in the municipality of San Cristóbal work to improve the supply of drinking water to the population.

Artemisa, Cuba - Directors of the municipality of Guanajay honored the textile women workers of the Luis Enrique Alvarez Business Unit who participated in the making of the school uniforms.

Artemisa, Cuba - The Lazaro Peña Tobacco Company, located in San Antonio de los Baños, is getting ready for the Tobacco Planting Campaign, to begin in October. According to Vladimir Andino Ruibal, 639 hectares have been programmed to be planted during the upcoming campaign, distributed in 10 Cooperative Production Units, 2 Agricultural Production Cooperatives and 2 Credit and Service Cooperatives, located in the province of Artemisa.

Miguel Diaz-Canel, President of the Councils of State and Ministers of Cuba, announced short-term organizational measures to mitigate the impact on the population of the shortages of oil effects by the intensification of the U.S. blockade against Cuba.

The President of the Councils of State and Ministers, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, received on Tuesday afternoon comrade Hoang Trung Hai, member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of Vietnam and secretary of the Party in Hanoi, invited by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba.