After great anticipation built up over recent days, the 7th Summit of the Americas finally began on the evening of Friday, April 10, in Panama City - brining the 35 countries of the region together for the first time.
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US President Barack Obama has described the historic thaw in US-Cuba relations as a "turning point".
Obama was addressing 34 other regional leaders, including Cuba's very own Raul Castro, at the Summit of the Americas in Panama.
Panama holds today two summit meetings in the presence of the most disadvantaged population from Latin America and the Caribbean, and the governments ruling the destinies of their citizens.
The executive secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin American and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Alicia Barcenas, stated today that Cuba is an exception in the continent, because access to education is a right for everyone.
The historic leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro, has managed to build a social protection system with recognized achievements worldwide, despite being a country with low resources, intellectual Salim Lamrani stated today.
The U.S. State Department has sent the White House a recommendation to remove Cuba from the U.S. list of countries that supposedly sponsor international terrorism.
Venezuelan delegates to the Forum of the Civil Society, organized by the Organization of American States in Panama, withdrew from the meeting in solidarity with Cuba.
Jorge Rodríguez, vice president of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela, reported that 3,039,567 signatures from the Cuban people have been collected in just five days, representing the greatest demonstration of the love and respect a country…
Cuban representatives attending the forums parallel to the Seventh Summit of the Americas in Panama said today they will expose their reality and provide in those spaces their country''s experiences in several spheres.
Panamanian social organizations denounced today that Venezuelan and Cuban counterrevolutionaries aim to use the Panamanian nation as a platform to plot against those nations during the 7th Summit of the Americas.
Equatorial Guinea's President Teodoro Obiang Nguema recognized Cuban ambassador Pedro Doña for actively participating in the implementation of a surveillance and control program of Ebola epidemics, it was reported here today.
The decision to invite Cuba to the Summit of the Americas had a massive support, Panamanian Foreign Minister Isabel de Saint Malo said in an interview to the local newspaper La Estrella de Panama releases today.