A declaration rejecting the almost 50-year-old US economic blockade of Cuba, which was recently approved in the Summit for Unity of Latin America and the Caribbean held in Mexico, began to circulate in the United Nations today as an official document.

Warmly welcomed by the audience everywhere it has performed, Cuba’s Lizt Alfonso Ballet Company is presenting its pieces Elementos, Fuerza y Compás and Tablao, in a tour of over 20 Canadian cities.

US anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan sent greetings to the five Cuban antiterrorist fighters who remain unjustly imprisoned in the United States since 1998.

Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez speaks today during the second day of sessions of the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland.

Members of the Henry Reeve Cuban medical brigade for emergency situations left for Chile this Tuesday to help in areas struck by the earthquake and tsunami that have affected large territories of this South American nation.

Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez met on Tuesday in Geneva with the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navanethem Pillay.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez described this Monday in Cancun, Mexico, the need for the integration of Latin American and Caribbean peoples as urgent and a life or death issue.

Brazilian President Luis Inacio Lula da Silva will arrive in Cuba on Tuesday for a working visit, at the invitation of Cuban President Ral Castro.