CubadebateHolds a meeting with officers and staff from the Cuban Ministry of the Interior and the Revolutionary Armed Forces where he handed down diplomas to acknowledge the work carried out in food production. He speaks about the incremental growth of world’s population, the climate change, the crisis caused by the increasing shortage of water and the international conflicts impacting the rise in commodities. Under these conditions he highlights the importance of improving food production yielding, the use of science in the reproduction and development of livestock.

Holds a four hour long conversation with nineteen cheese masters who attend a training course at the Cuban Ministry of Food Industry’s Research Institute in Guatao town.

He is decorated with Public Health Order in its Ighest degree Grad by the Bolivia’s Minister of Social Welfare and Public Health in a ceremony held in the Palace of the Revolution.

Fraternal meeting between comrade Fidel and Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez Frías, where they talked about previous meetings.

He delivers a speech during the ceremony for the 40th anniversary of the Cuban National Revolutionary Police, where he said: "You know very well that this system, this government, this Revolution has never sustained itself by the force of arms; it has sustained itself and prevails because of the force of its ideas, and the fairness of its cause ".