President Raul Castro highlighted the excellent relations between the Cuba and Vietnam, after being awarded with the Golden Star Order, the maximum decoration granted by that Asian country, in Havana on Thursday.

Cuba has two currencies as legal tenders, the peso (CUP) and the convertible peso (CUC), but according to facts, none of them complies with the functions of money, thus creating distortions in the national economy.

Washington D.C. will host the Arts from Cuba Cultural event May 8 to June 3 at the Kennedy Center with the participation of some 400 Cuban artists in the fields of music, dance, visual arts, movie and theater.

The Cuban Government has rejected the expulsion of Russian diplomats from several countries and called to respect the norms of international law and the letter of the UN Chapter.