Por: Angélica Paredes López, enviada especial

UNITED NATIONS, New York.- At Google headquarters in New York, Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez held on Monday a meeting with executives from several companies in the information and communications technology sector, interested in the potentialities of the Cuban market and the country’s development prospects.

Invited by Eric Schmidt, Vice-President of Alphabet, the Cuban President exchanged with the attendants about the development of high technologies, their role in the advancement of developing countries and the challenges for their use in a world more and more unequal.

During the meeting, Diaz-Canel highlighted that computerization of society is a priority of the Cuban Government. In that sense, he pointed out that the blockade imposed by the United States is the main obstacle to achieving the development of this area at its maximum capacity.

The Cuban President referred to the valuable human resources potential Cuba possesses to advance in this area, and to the opportunities opened up in other sectors of advanced technologies, such as biotechnology.

The meeting was attended by the main executives of Google, VaynerMedia, Connectify, Mapbox, Virgin Group, AirBnB, Revolution, Twitter, Microsoft, Bloomberg, and Crest.

Chancellor Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla, Minister of Foreign Trade and Foreign Investment, Rodrigo Malmierca and Minister of Communications Jorge Luis Perdomo Di-Lella accompanied the Cuban President.