Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla presented on Wednesday to the national and foreign press the report on the impact caused by the U.S. blockade policy on Cuba in the last year.

“It is a pleasure to receive you on this visit to our country, which marks another moment in the strengthening of Cuba’s relations with the United Nations Population Fund,” said the first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party and president of the Republic. , Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, welcoming Dr. Natalia Kanem, Deputy Secretary General of the United Nations Organization and Executive Director of the United Nations Population Fund, who is in Havana, at the Palace of the Revolution responding to an invitation from the Cuban Government.

A new Energy and Mines Minister and a new director of the Electric Company were appointed today following the approval of an accord by the Cuban Council of State proposed by President Miguel Diaz-Canel.

Cuba's Consumer Price Index (CPI) grew by 2.33 percent in August compared to the previous month, the National Statistics and Information Office (ONEI) reported on Friday. According to a report published, the indicator that allows knowing the average variation experienced by the prices of a basket of goods and services, representative of the population's consumption in a given period, stood at 233.03 compared to the benchmark year of 2010.