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Cuba's Banco Internacional de Comercio (BICSA) and the U.S. Stonegate, based in Florida, signed an accord to set up a correspondent account, banking authorities confirmed in Havana.
The sources said that in this case, there are restrictions to consider such as the hurdles posed by the U.S. economic, commercial and financial blockade of Cuba.
Stonegate's president Dave Seleski said on Wednesday that this has been the first important accord since Havana and Washington reestablished diplomatic relations on July 20th, PL news agency reported.
Cuban President Raul Castro held a meeting Wednesday afternoon with Daniel Scioli, Governor of the Argentinean province of Buenos Aires, who is paying an official visit to Cuba.
During the meeting, both dignitaries expressed their satisfaction with the current state of relations between Cuba and Argentina, and discussed the prospects for growth for trade and cooperation in several sectors. Issues of international importance were also addressed by the visitor and his host.
Young Venezuelan members of the Movement of Friendship and Mutual Solidarity Venezuela-Cuba traveled to Havana today to participate in activities of international support for our country.
Speaking to reporters, the coordinator of the movement, Yonny Garcia, reported that 22 Venezuelans will take part in the 22nd Latin American and Caribbean Brigade that will do voluntary work in the province of Artemisa, west of the Cuban capital.
The Cuban Five have concluded a brief but intense visit to El Salvador, which was described by the president of that Central American nation, Salvador Sanchez Ceren, as “an historic moment.”
Gerardo Hernandez, Ramon Labañino, Antonio Guerrero, Fernando Gonzalez and Rene Gonzalez, accompanied by several of their relatives, carried out a tight working agenda during their stay in El Salvador, that included a meeting with President Ceren at the Presidential House.
The Cuban Five anti-terrorists arrived in El Salvador today where they were received by the parliamentarian and member of the FMLN political commission, Nidia Diaz, who welcome them at the international airport of this capital.
'Welcome to the Farabundoi Marti's land', expressed the political leader and also reiterated the happiness of the Salvadorian people who made the Cuban Five cause a flag of combat.
Experts from Mexico and Cuba begin today here the Second ATAM-ATAC Technical Meeting, to achieve a competitive sugar cane industry, with social and ecological responsibility.
The director of the Mexican Association of Sugar-producer Technicians (ATAM) and the President of the Association of Cuban Sugar Technicians (ATAC), Manuel Enrique Poy and Eduardo Lamadrid, respectively, agreed today in this capital that the event seeks to exploit technical potentialities and research of the sector in both countries.
The five Cubans who were held in U.S. prisons for fighting terrorism stated during a visit to Nicaragua that the restoration of diplomatic relations between their country and the United States is a victory of the island.
During the last day of their visit to this Central American nation, one of those fighters, Fernando Gonzalez, stated this this is a great victory of the people, " which has resisted more than 50 years of hostility and aggression by the U.S. government."
Cuba and Mongolia called today to strengthen their relations and stressed the good time these ties are going through, in the 55th anniversary of its establishment.
We are confident that Purevsuren's visit represents a major contribution to progress and the strengthening of friendship relations between our countries, the Prime minister a.i. Marcelino Medina said. He also added that it is very positive that his visit occurs in the context of 55 years of uninterrupted links between both countries.
The Cuban flag was raised today at the headquarters of the State Department as part of the actions implemented within the process of diplomatic ties restoration between the United States and Cuba.
The Cuban flag now stands alongside over 150 others, placed in alphabetical order, at the reception of the Federal body responsable for Foreign Relations.
The Cuban Medical Mission is about to mark a decade in Bolivia with over 62 million consultations and more than 83 thousand lives saved, assured today doctor Niviola Cabrera, head of the group that is still working in the country.
Almost ten years after her arrival to Bolivian land, 730 health workers attend 44 municipalities of the nine departnents, where they render 40 types of services with 30 medicfal specialities, 15 more than those rendered in 2012, when the one before last cooperation agreement was signed before Havana and La Paz.
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