We Cubans have lost one of our more beloved and popular heroes. Commandante Juan Almeida Bosque, was born 82 years ago, the second of twelve children of a family with modest economic resources, but high patriotic values.

Most of the 104 detainees who have died in US immigration jails since October 2003 are Cubans, The New York Times reported recently, but failed to explain why.

HAVANA, Cuba, June 24 (acn) Representatives from the United Nations and ministers from 11 countries will participate in the 7th International Convention on the Environment and Development that will take place in Havana on July 6-10, 2009.

On this episode, we talk with Elena Mora and John Bachtell, both members of the National Board of the Communist Party and who traveled this month to Cuba for meetings with the Communist Party there and with leaders of various Cuban social and cultural institutions.

La Habana, Cuba – El presidente de la Asamblea Nacional del Poder Popular (Parlamento), Ricardo Alarcón, demandó a las autoridades norteamericanas retirar las acusaciones que pesan sobre cinco cubanos presos durante más de 10 años en Estados Unidos, y encarcelar al terrorista Luis Posada Carriles.

This idea of trying to undermine the Cuban Revolution from the inside is not only typical of the new political currents up north or the Cuban counterrevolutionaries at their service.

HAVANA, Cuba, Feb 28 (acn) Seven Cuban cigar humidors were auctioned to raise funds for the Cuban healthcare system during the gala evening that brought to a close the 11th Habano Festival in Havana.

The so-called "Cuban problem" was never very important to the United States, given the size of the island and its scant economic significance relative to its size and technological-industrial development, and the financial opulence of the superpower.

Chile's President Michelle Bachelet attended the signing of a memorandum of understanding with Cuban authorities to foster biotechnological collaboration between the two countries, during a visit Wednesday to the Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology Center in Havana.

HAVANA, Cuba, Feb 9 (acn) Cuba described as very positive the results of its presentation at the Universal Periodic Review mechanism (EPR) of the United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC).

CIENAGA DE ZAPATA, Cuba, Feb 3 (acn) Actions for the protection of wetlands and to raise locals' awareness on the importance of those ecosystems are being promoted in the Zapata Swamp through a scientific and cultural program underway until February 10.

HAVANA, Cuba, Feb 1 (acn) The Havana-based Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology Center (CIGB) is currently working on 20 new projects that include the development of 40 products to treat several diseases.

HAVANA, Cuba, Jan 30 (acn) Over 4,000 Cubans infected with AIDS taking mostly Cuban-produced antiretroviral drugs, have noticeably improved their quality and expectation of life.

HAVANA, Cuba, Jan 28 (acn) Cuba has extended the therapeutic use of stem cells to several of its provinces after 511 patients have been successfully treated since 2004.

Over the course of the past nearly five decades during which successive US administrations have officially enforced an embargo against Cuba, there have been some instances where top US government officials sought to normalize relations with that island country.

The degree to which the imperial syndrome blinds the outlook of US politicians of every leaning and level can be appreciated in the present inauguration of a new government that was called to rectify the errors made by the departing administration, which have plunged the country into the worst discredit and unpopularity.

HAVANA, Cuba, Jan 12 (acn) US President-elect Barack Obama has reaffirmed his commitment the closing the prison at the US Naval Base his country illegally maintains at Guantánamo Bay, in the southeastern region of the Cuban archipelago.

Cuban President Raul Castro said Thursday that the 50 years beginning with the revolutionary victory on January 1, 1959, were the most fruitful period in Cuban history.

More than 78,000 Cubans were operated on from their eye problems in 2008, stated sources from the Ministry of Public Health (MINSAP) in Havana on Monday.

HAVANA, Cuba, Dec 10 (acn) Cuba reiterated on Tuesday its denunciation of the release in the United States of international and self-confessed terrorist Luis Posada Carriles.