The importance of linking agricultural production with proper distribution as a means to counter the current high prices in the sector, was highlighted yesterday by Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, a member of the Political Bureau of the Party Central Committee and first vice president of the Councils of State and Ministers.

Delegations from Cuba and the United States concluded today three days of talks in this capital on hydrography and nautical charts, as part of the process of bilateral rapprochement activated a year ago.

Cuba´s National Hydrualic Resources Institute (INRH) made investments in 2015 to habilitate nets, reservoirs, pumping stations and others, which will benefit more than half a million people.

Cuban Foreign Minister, Bruno Rodriguez, attends today the ceremony where the peace delegations of the Colombian government and FARC-EP will sign the agreement on the victims of the armed conflict. Cuba and Norway are the guarantor nations of the peace talks that started in Havana in November 2012 between the Colombian government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia-People's Army (FARC-EP), to end the internal armed conflict in that Andean nation.

In line with changes being applied to the national education system in Cuba, Special Education is undergoing an extensive improvement process, looking to perfect comprehensive education for students with special and learning needs, with a key focus on diversity, noted Dora Laborí Kindelán, a special education methodologist from the Ministry of Education (Mined).