The Cuban ambassador to Brussels denounced on Monday the double standard of the European Parliament which called a session Tuesday to debate the political situation and human rights in Cuba.

If the European Parliament decides to discuss Cuba, the debate should also include the mass, flagrant and systematic violation of human rights of all the Cuban people by the immoral and criminal US blockade of the island, read he statement presented by the diplomat according to the website of the Cuban Foreign Ministry.

A few hours before the 60th anniversary of the Ministry of the Interior (MININT), Army General Raúl Castro Ruz and the First Secretary of the Communist Party, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, led the ceremony on Saturday commemorating the official constitution of that institution, on June 6, 1961.

In a letter to all its troops and read by Minister Major General Lázaro Álvarez Casas, Army General Raul Castro described the MININT as  "an indispensable bulwark of the Cuban Revolution."

The international corporation Habanos S.A. celebrated in Beijing 20 years of successful operations in China and a continuous expansion within one of its main markets in the world and the main one in Asia.

The representative of the company in the Asian Giant , Omar León, told Prensa Latina that the last two decades have been hard work, because at first there was not much knowledge about the culture of the product and the different brands.