Havana, January 7, 2020. Cuba's average annual temperature in 2019 was the highest since 1951, reaching 1.1 degrees Celsius above the average for the period 1961-1990, reported the Institute for Meteorology today.

Last year was extremely hot, with positive anomalies in all months, particularly in February, April, May, June and October.

According to specialists at the Weather Center of the Institute of Meteorology, the hottest months were June, July, August and September, with average temperatures above 28 degrees.

Havana, January 7, 2020. President Miguel Diaz-Canel reiterated Cuba's solidarity with Australia today, where bushfires have caused the loss of six million hectares and the deaths of about twenty people.

The president tweeted that what has happened in Australia is a result of climate change.

In another message, he pointed out that while all living species are fleeing the hell of Australia's bushfires, the US is adding fuel to another terrible fire by placing the world on the brink of war, referring to the tensions between the United States and Iran.

Havana, January 6, 2020. President Miguel Diaz-Canel on Sunday denounced the actions taken by the Caribbean Professional Baseball Confederation (CPBC) to prevent Cuba from participating in the upcoming Caribbean Series.

Cuban sports are also attacked by the empire, Diaz-Canel wrote on Twitter.

On Saturday, the Cuban Baseball Federation (FCB) issued a communiqué informing that Cuba was marginalized from that event, scheduled from February 1-7 in Puerto Rico, due to pressure from the United States.

The members of the Austria-Cuba Friendship Association (ÖKG, by its German initials) and the staff of the Cuban Embassy in this country celebrated the 61st anniversary of the Triumph of the Cuban Revolution at "Habana Club", the headquarters of the solidarity organization.

Islamabad, January 6, 2020.  Today afternoon, the Pakistan-Cuba Social Forum in coordination with the Embassy of Cuba in Pakistan and with the support of the Pakistani-Cuba Doctors Association celebrated the 61st Anniversary of the Triumph of the Revolution.

Cubaminrex, 4 January 2020. A beautiful, difficult year is behind us; a challenging year ahead. In the transition from one to the other, in days of resistance and victory, yesterday, today and tomorrow, encouraging us is the image, the example and the work of José Martí.

The Ambassador of Cuba took part in the activities organized by the Fatah Palestinian National Liberation Movement in the Arab Republic of Egypt on the occasion of the 55th anniversary of the Palestinian Revolution.

In the highest and most sacred part of Cuba, where nothing impure can touch it, is Jose Marti. In it inhabit the keys of our growth, of the liberating eagerness, of the detachment and of the surrender towards others. They are the keys to the encounter with ourselves.

Havana, January 4, 2020. The Helms-Burton Act aims to internationalize the US blockade against Cuba, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs notes this Saturday.

On Twitter, the Cuban Foreign Ministry denounced that Washington employs coercive measures against third countries under that legislation.

The Ministry adds that the goal is to hinder investment and commercial relations with Cuba.

The text emphasizes that Washington intends to submit sovereign States with an Act that supports the economic, commercial and financial blockade against Cuba.