Cuban President Raul Castro met the Mexican Foreign Minister Patricia Espinosa, ratifying their common intention to boost bilateral relations.
The ALBA Foreign Ministers meet here Saturday during the 8th Summit of the organization focused on revising previous term of office and analyzing measures for relaunching this regional integration mechanism.
After five years of its creation, the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA) has strengthened as a mechanism of social and economic integration, but also as a regional referent for its political leadership.
Challenges and opportunities for Latin American and Caribbean countries will center debates of the eighth ALBA  Summit, to take place December 11-14 in this capital.
Mexican Secretary of Foreign Relations Patricia Espinosa is to arrive in Cuba on Thursday, to fulfill an official invitation by this country''s peer Bruno Rodriguez.
Recent exchanges of Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez with leaders of Lao, Vietnam and Japan reiterate the high priority the Caribbean country grants to its relations with Asia, Granma newspaper reported Wednesday.
Cuban Parliament President Ricardo Alarcon stated that the rise of solidarity worldwide and the stance by US President Barrack Obama could release the five Cuban anti-terrorist fighters unfairly imprisoned in that northern nation.
Cuban Communist Party Political Bureau member Leopoldo Cintras Frias stressed Tuesday in this capital the unshakable friendship between the peoples of Cuba and Angola, started by historic leaders Antonio Agostinho Neto and Fidel Castro.

Fernando Gonzalez and Ramon Labañino, who are two of the five Cubans imprisoned in the United States for more than 11 years, will receive on Tuesday new sentences thanks to a broad international solidarity movement that struggle for their cause…
Trinidad and Tobago Foreign Minister Paula Gopee-Scoon starts Tuesday an official visit to Cuba, according to a report by "Granma" newspaper.
Salvadoran Vice President Salvador Sanchez is concluding Monday his four-day visit to Cuba, in which he ratified his country's interest to deepen trade with this Caribbean island.
Army General Raul Castro paid a posthumous homage on Monday to more than 2,000 Cuban internationalists fallen in Africa, buried simultaneously in the Tribute Operation.