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).

The President of Costa Rica was awarded the Corresponding Foreign Academic degree by the Cuban Academy of History.

Costa Rica´s President, Luis Guillermo Solis, will give a master lecture today at the Main Lecture Hall of the San Geronimo College at the University of Havana on the history of the ties between his country and Cuba.

A string of 4,195 small islands, cays and islets scattered between the Atlantic Ocean and Caribbean Sea form the archipelago, but the largest and most important is the Island of Cuba, which resembles a huge alligator floating in the clear waters.