Cuba reaches lowest infant mortality rate in its history – four per 1,000 live births
Maintaining infant mortality rate below five per 1,000 live for the 10th consecutive year is reason enough for Cuba to celebrate.
But even more extraordinary is that the country has achieved the lowest rate in its history in 2017, four per 1,000 live births
Preliminary data, made available to Granma by the Medical Records and Health Statistics Directorate, indicates that 114,980 births took place, 1,892 less than in 2016, and 465 babies under a year of age died, 32 less than in 2016, the lowest number on record.
Celebration in Thailand for the 59th Anniversary of the Triumph of the Cuban Revolution
Organized by the Embassy of Cuba in Thailand, on December 29, 2017, a solemn and joyful celebration took place in Bangkok for the 59th Anniversary of the Triumph of the Cuban Revolution, on January 1, 2018, and the advent in 2018 of the 150th Anniversary of the beginning of the War of Independence of the largest of the Antilles.
Emotional meeting with friends from Thailand and other countries, amazed with their first visit to Cuba or who plan to visit the largest of the Antilles soon
Emotional meeting with friends from Thailand and other countries, amazed with their first visit to Cuba or who plan to visit the largest of the Antilles soon
Cuba is the only Caribbean nation with an Embassy based in Bangkok.
Celebrating the Day of the Educator with Thammasat University
56 years ago, the Literacy Campaign inspired and led by the Commander in Chief Fidel Castro Ruz freed Cuba from illiteracy. Today, Cuban educators maintain their commitment to the Revolution and to Fidel's ideology.
In the photo, evaluating ways of cooperation with representatives of the Faculty of Liberal Arts of the University and promoting participation in the 11th. International Congress on Higher Education "University 2018", which under the motto "The University and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development" will take place in Havana, Cuba, from 12 to 16/2/2018.
DECLARATION - Sixth Caricom-Cuba Summit St. Mary’s, Antigua and Barbuda, 8 December 2017
We, the Heads of State and Government of the Caribbean Community and the Republic of Cuba, meeting in St. Mary’s, Antigua and Barbuda, on 8 December 2017, on the occasion of the Sixth CARICOM-Cuba Summit and in commemoration of the forty-fifth anniversary of establishing diplomatic relations among the independent states of CARICOM and Cuba and the fifteenth anniversary of CARICOM-Cuba Day.