Tradition and modernity remain today as premises in the 29th edition of the Romerías de Mayo, a cultural event that will run until May 8 in the city of Holguín, in eastern Cuba.

The Washington Post recalled on Monday how the efforts led by Cuban leader Fidel Castro to develop biotechnology on the island in the early 1980s, 40 years later, have placed Cuba before the possibility of becoming the world's smallest country to develop not just one, but multiple coronavirus vaccines.