Havana - Cuban President, Raul Castro, met with his Salvadoran peer, Salvador Sanchez Ceren, occasion in which the two statesmen verified with satisfaction the good progress of bilateral relations.

According to Granma newspaper, during the meeting yesterday afternoon, the statesmen also discussed the prospects of expanding cooperation.

Artemisa, Cuba - In the first six months of the year the province of Artemisa reports the occurrence of 184 traffic accidents, 19 less than the same period last year.

The decrease in the accident rate in the territory is due to the increase of the vigilance and patrolling of the agents of the National Revolutionary Police, with emphasis on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays.

The inclusion of women in the development process of the country is one of the larger social phenomena that occurred during these years of Cuban Revolution. Women are real stars of the transformations taking place in our nation's economic and social political order.

Since the establishment on August 23rd, 1960, women are in the Federation of Cuban Women (FMC) organization to battle for the full exercise of women's equality, through its incorporation in production, education, culture , defense and other activities; to achieve away the vestiges of discrimination that they occupy, by their virtues and merits, the place where belongs.

The Federation of Cuban Women since its foundation promotes programs aimed at achieving the full realization of equality of women in all areas and levels of society. The creation of the Focus Houses on Women and the Family is a space of confluences with the aim of providing assistance to people who need to know how to keep family life as the main social nucleus where different problems arise and conflicts affecting the behavior of those who comprise mainly children and the elderly. In the  55th anniversary process of FMC talked with Omaria Suárez Chávez, member of the Secretariat attending the House and prevention tasks.

The 22nd Latin American and Caribbean Brigade will conclude its visit to Cuba on August 7, after intense days of exchanges with social and productive sectors, which began on July 22 in several of the country’s provinces.

In Artemisa, they visited the Mausoleum to the Martyrs of the villa and spoke with members of the Non-Agricultural Cooperatives (CNA) El Ruanda and El Millar, where they delved into the feasibility of the new form of economic management.

Artemisa, Cuba - Specialists from the Management of Science, Technology and Environment in Artemisa, work to eradicate the pollutant sources which are decreasing in the territory, according to the Council of the Provincial Administration.

The pig farming in urban areas, the proliferation of garbage dumps and the generation of solid and liquid wastes by state institutions are among the 52 causes of the development of harmful sites.