At the House of Photography in Azerbaijan, the exhibition "Havana 500 years" was inaugurated, a photographic exhibition of the photojournalist, Vladimir Molina Espada, which highlights the architecture of the capital of all Cubans on the five hundred anniversary of its foundation.

In her speech of welcome, the director of the center, Amina Malikova, mentioned that it is an honor for the Administration of the Historical and Architectural Reserve of Icherisheher, in the Old Baku, to open its museums so that Cuba shows its cultural, historical and architectural charms .

Kingston, Jamaica, 16 April 2019. Lisa Hanna, a member of the Parliament of Jamaica and spokesperson for Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade of the People's National Party, visited the Embassy of the Republic of Cuba and had a cordial exchange with Ambassador Mrs. Inés Fors Fernández.

Nassau, 16 April 2019. In a cordial meeting at the Embassy of the Republic of Cuba in The Bahamas, the Ambassador-Designate of Chile, Excmo. Mr. Francisco J. Bernales paid a courtesy call on the Cuban Ambassador, Ismara Vargas Walter. They both exchanged about topics of common interest, in a pleasant atmosphere.

In June, 1996, mere months after the U.S. Congress passed the Helms-Burton Act to tighten the screws on Cuba’s economy, Canada became the first country to publicly say “no” to Washington’s plan.

Back then, Ottawa announced it would introduce new legislation to blunt the bully-boy impact of Title III – an extra-territorial section of that law that prohibits non-U.S. companies from “trafficking” in what the United States claims is American property confiscated after the 1959 Cuban revolution – and threatened to take the United States to international arbitration.

NIGERIA, April 15, 2019. On April 13, a press conference was held to officially announce the celebration of the VI Continental Conference of Solidarity with Cuba, based in the city of Abuja, Nigeria and the establishment of the 7 commissions that will take the process forward until its culmination on September 27 next.

Ottawa, April 12, 2019.–The 23rd edition of the Ottawa Latin American Film Festival, organized by the Canadian Film Institute, was officially opened this Friday in the Alma Duncan room of the Art Gallery of the Canadian capital and will run until next May 1st.

In this edition, Cuba will present on Thursday, April 18, the film Nido de Mantis (Mantis´ Nest) with the presence of outstanding Cuban actor Luis Alberto García, one of the central characters of the film.

By Larry Moonze, The Mast, 15 April 2019. CUBA is expected to install a Prime Minister and other executive members before the end of the year in accordance with the new Republican Constitution. Communist Party of Cuba First Secretary Raul Castro says mandated at the beginning of 2020, are the election of provincial governors and vice-governors, and the designation of superintendents by municipal assemblies.

Eswatini, April 16, 2019.- From the Kingdom of Eswatini, the 21 cooperators that make up the Cuban medical brigade in this country in the southern cone of Africa, join the worldwide demand for the release of our colleagues, doctors Assel Herrera and Landy Rodríguez, Cuban doctors kidnapped in the county from Mandera, Kenya, where they fulfill an internationalist mission.

New York, 16 April 2019. Cuba attended today the thematic meeting on the selection and appointment of the Secretary-General and other executive heads held within the framework of the Ad Hoc Working Group on the Revitalization of the Work of the UN General Assembly.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Cuba Chancellery reiterates Cuba's firm commitment to the postulates of the Proclamation of Latin America and the Caribbean as a Zone of Peace

On April 15, the so-called Lima Group meeting in Santiago, Chile, adopted an interventionist declaration on Venezuela that points to Cuba within a group of countries whose support for the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela supposedly causes a negative impact on our region.