Representatives from 15 Caribbean countries are participating from today in the "Workshop on Focus and Tools for Disaster Risk Management: The Cuban Experience" taking place in this capital.

Namibia´s President Hage Geingob met with visiting Cuban deputy minister of Foreign Trade and Investment Ileana Nuñez.

The Broadcasting Convention Cuba 2015 begins today its theoretical spaces with keynote speeches such as that of the president of the Telesur television network, Patricia Villegas, a chain that is celebrating its 10 years of existence.

The work by the associations of Cuban residents in Latin America and the Caribbean has gained today new momentum after the Second Regional Meeting held in Nicaragua, in which a new action plan was agreed upon. Among the issues approved during the meeting, held in the city of Granada, about 45 kilometers of this capital, are to maintain as a priority the activities to fight for the lifting the U.S. blockade against the island, and the battle for the return of the territory illegally occupied by the U.S. government in Guantanamo, eastern Cuba.

The Cuban Foreign Ministry has issued a news release denying the presence of Cuban troops in Syria.