HAVANA, Cuba.- Cuba’s Prime Minister Manuel Marrero said that despite the upsurge in the U.S. blockade, foreign-invested businesses are being realized, aimed at economic development.

In leading a meeting where they reviewed the energy program and productions of the food industry for tourism were, Marrero highlighted that this kind of agreements is one of the Government’s priorities, in order to achieve the proposed economic objectives.

At the meeting, the foreign investment program was evaluated in several sectors of the Cuban economy: joint ventures, hotel construction, railway modernization and the Ferronickel Project in Moa, among others.

The Prime Minister analyzed the current state of investment in wind and photovoltaic farm programs, bioelectric and small hydroelectric plants, among other projects.