Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez sent a message to Pope Francis, who was admitted in hospital on Wednesday for a respiratory infection, wishing him a speedy recovery.
The head of the Business Council between Russia and Cuba, Boris Titov, announced in Moscow that his country will sell food, chemical products and other household items to the Caribbean nation through a special commercial house.
The recent pressure from the US government on Italy against the hiring of Cuban doctors in Rome, was described as shameful, when trying to apply the economic blockade to the island extraterritorially.
Last January 12th, legislation was introduced in the House of Representatives of the US Congress which tries to prevent Cuba from being removed from the infamous list of “countries that sponsor terrorism”, in which it should never have been.