Cuba reached a record low in infant and maternal mortality rates in 2013, according to official figures released today by Granma newspaper.
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The Cuban Revolution showed that it is possible to build a just society with advanced social, cultural and human improvements in the Third World, said today the president of the Nicaraguan Solidarity with Cuba, Fredy Franco.
Russian President Vladimir Putin today congratulated his Cuban counterpart Raul Castro on the 55th anniversary of the Revolution Victory and the National Liberation Day, according to a letter released by the Kremlin press.
Cuba is celebrating the 55th anniversary of the Revolution, which has implemented major domestic transformations since January 1, 1959, but it has also placed the small Caribbean country in the world''s vanguard.
The Cuban literacy campaign method Yo Si Puedo (Yes, I Can) started its national application in Argentina, in agrcultural communities.
A concert of young musical groups and singers for peace and for the cause of the five anti-terrorist Cuban fighters held in US prisons since 1998 was held in this eastern city, on the occasion of the seventh anniversary of the socio-cultural project…
The first group of 300 young Pakistani doctors from low-income families will graduate in Cuba in February 2014.
Isla de la Juventud municipality, in western Cuba, reported an infant mortality rate of two deaths per every 1,000 live births in 2013, the lowest in the country.
The representation of the Colombian rebel forces to the peace talks carried out in Havana today thanked individuals and organizations that praised the rebel''s announcement of an unilateral ceasefire because of the end of the year.
Doctors of the program More Doctors provide their services voluntarily to the evacuees in the town Serra, in the west of the Brazilian state of Espirito Santo, for 10 days affected by heavy rains.
Antonio Guerrero thanked the massive expressions of solidarity with the Cuban anti-terrorists, who like him, remain prisoners in the United States since 1998 for monitoring the actions of extremist groups against the island.
Cuban President Raul Castro met his Venezuelan counterpart Nicolas Maduro, who is on a working visit to Cuba, national media reported today.