reunion covid 19Communist Party Central Committee First Secretary and President of the Republic Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez and Prime Minister Manuel Marrero Cruz met yesterday with authorities in Villa Clara, Sancti Spíritus and Cienfuegos, provinces which until recently were controlling new COVID-19 infections, but are now experiencing a dangerous increase in cases.

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Achieving the necessary productive start in the Holguín municipality of Mayarí based on the strengthening of agriculture and the optimal use of the investments associated with the East-West Transfer  undertaken here continues to be the object of analysis in this territory, to where the Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Cuba, Jorge Luis Tapia Fonseca, arrived this Saturday.

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The development of an appropriate diet based on local agricultural production is a benefit that, according to Jose Alejandro Vedias, a sixth-grader at the Raul Gomez Special School, was provided by the project "Act Differently," run by the World Food Program (WFP) in Holguín.

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Cubamirex declaration

On February 27th, Cuban deputy foreign minister Carlos Fernandez de Cossio, summoned Benjamin Ziff, Charge d’ Affairs at the US Embassy in Havana to formally convey his country’s energetic protest for the granting of political asylum to Cuban citizen Ruben Martinez Machado, who hijacked a Cuban civilian airplane on October 21st, 2022.

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The Holguín Botanical Garden (JBH), one of the regions with the greatest flora endemism on the Caribbean island, is promoting several projects to protect native plant species in eastern Cuba.

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