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President Raul Castro paid tribute to heroine Melba Hernandez, who died on Sunday, March 9, and whose ashes are at the headquarters of the Ministry of Revolutionary Armed Forces.
The president of the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP), Kenia Serrano, today urged the struggle for the release of the island''s anti-terrorist fighters unjustly imprisoned in the United States to be taken up as an "urgent cause."
Cuban Business Group LABIOFAM and the Agricultural Marketing Authority of Zimbabwe signed in this capital a memorandum of understanding for cooperation in this sector.
Melba Hernandez, Heroine of the Republic of Cuba and member of the Cuban Communist Party (PCC) Central Commitee died in this capital yesterday evening.
President Raul Castro is stressing the economic importance the Mariel Economic Zone represents for the country, in the province of Artemisa, west of Havana.
UN Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights, Flavia Pansieri, received here today Adriana Pérez, the wife of Gerardo Hernández, one of the five anti-terrorist Cuban fighters unfairly held in US prisons.
The delegates to the 9th Congress of the Cuban Women´s Federation (FMC) which ran till Saturday, acknowledged Revolution leader Fidel Castro as the main promoter of the achievements of the Revolution and of their organization.
The British daily The Guardian published on Saturday a letter signed by members of parliament and unionists protesting the decision of London to deny an entry visa to Cuban anti-terrorist fighter Rene Gonzalez. The list of signatures supporting the letter is headed by those of lawmaker Diane Abbot, of the Labor Party and the general secretary of the National Union of Teachers, Christine Blower.
The 9th Congress of the Federation of Cuban Women (FMC) begins today with the participation of 373 delegates representing the whole country at the Havana''s Conference Center, to debate issues related to the role of women in the society.
Convincing testimonies by experts and victims of terrorist actions against Cuba marked the beginning today here of the works of an international commission investigating the case of the Cuban antiterrorist fighters unjustly condemned in the United States.
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