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More than 360 inhabitants from Las Cuevas (The Caves) a rural community in Ciego de Ávila, are benefited for the first time with the electrification of their houses by means of the national program of grid improvement.

First Vice President Jose Ramon Machado Ventura heads the Cuban delegation that will participate in the Fifth Latin America-Caribbean-European Union Summit that will take place on Friday and Saturday in Lima, Peru.

A two-day meeting to follow up on the accords of the First Cuba-Honduras Joint Commission begins Thursday in Havana, according to Granma newspaper.

Alarcón added, “We have to really achieve a quantitative and qualitative leap in food production; a leap like those that are remembered for all eternity. In our case, it must represent a great challenge to human capacity, organization, creativeness and responsibility of all the people who have something to do with food security.”

Approaches to improving the Cuban agricultural sector were reported on by the Ministry of Agriculture to the Agricultural Commission of the National Assembly, whose president has gone so far as to call this an issue of “national security.”

Cuba and Antigua and Barbuda signed on Tuesday a Memorandum of Understanding that will serve as a legal framework for the free eye-surgery program Operation Miracle that has already benefited 1,182 patients from the neighboring Caribbean nation.

Cuba requested on Tuesday that the issue of the current world food crisis be included in the agenda of the Fifth Latin America-Caribbean-European Union Summit, whose stage at the level of experts began yesterday in Lima, Peru.

The Chinese Quarter of Havana is more than a group of small and narrow streets situated in the same core of Centro Habana municipality. It is a small city with geographical boundaries in the area around the Aguila and Dragones streets.

The Cuban archipelago, which has a privileged location in the Caribbean Sea, is an ideal destination for those who want to spend their vacations in direct contact with nature and, at the same time, enjoy the country's cultural and historic wealth.

The hotel La Unión, in the central Cuban province of Cienfuegos, became the third establishment of the Encanto brand inaugurated in the country.

As fruit of the Energy Revolution and of the prevention of the leader Fidel Castro, Cuba faces with better conditions the high international prices of the fuel, said today Yadira García, minister of Basic Industry.

A favorable situation of the hydraulic resources in Ciego de Ávila characterizes the start of the rainy season. The territory stores about 850 million cubic meters of underground water.

Spanish media outlets are denouncing new actions undertaken by the United States to obstruct the improvement of relations between Cuba and Europe.

Representatives from the Cuban and Canadian Foreign ministries held official talks this week and agreed on the good status of bilateral relations between the two countries.

The 28th Tourism Fair opened with a performance by the Cuban National Ballet at the Grand Theater and on Tuesday moves to the El Morro Fortress overlooking the Havana Bay.