Havana, Cuba - Army General Raul Castro, President of the councils of State and Ministers, received Doctor Rui Maria de Araujo, Prime Minister of East Timor, who is on an official visit to Cuba.

Army General Raúl Castro Ruz, President of Cuba’s Councils of State and Ministers sent a recognition to Granma on the occasion of the newspaper’s 50th anniversary, which was delivered by Rolando Alfonso Borges, Central Committee members and head of its ideological department for the press, to Granma editor Pelayo Terry, in a simple ceremony during the staff celebration on Saturday, October 3.

Havana, Cuba - The First Vice-president of the councils of State and Ministers, Miguel Diaz-Canel, received His highness Sheik Abdullah Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the United Arab Emirates, who is on an official visit to Cuba.

The family as an example center and practice of love is the call of Pope Francisco, because the family is the backbone of society.

The family as an institution expresses the set of values of the society in which it takes place, also completing a series of norms and standards that are transmitted from generation to generation, so that the latter enriches the previous one,  changing  features of this.

Artemisa, Cuba - After completing the seventh national evaluation of the program of local production and sales of construction materials in the province of Artemisa, which was qualified of regular, it was convened to a further exploitation of its potentials.

Havana -The president of Laos, Choummaly Sayasone, who is on an official visit to Cuba, has a tight schedule that included talks with his counterpart, Raul Castro.

The Cuban president welcomed Sayasone with the relevant honors at the Palace of the Revolution, where they repeated the two countries' will to further strengthen bilateral friendship and solidarity.