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23 May, 2017 Cuban Foreign Minister Talks with Paraguayan formel President Lugo

Havana, Cuba.-Cuban Foreign Affairs Minister, Bruno Rodríguez, received today the formel president and Paraguayan senator Fernando Lugo, who visits Cuba as part of a Paraguayan parliamentary delegation. The website of the Cuban Foreign Ministry reported that Rodríguez and Lugo talked about topics of the international agenda and on the current challenges faced by Latin America […]

22 May, 2017 Those Who Have More Must Pay

Actions to try to reduce inequality between the rich and the poor in Latin America and the Caribbean were discussed this Monday at the eleventh International Meeting of Accounting, Auditing and Finances, which meets in the Convention Palace of Havana until next Wednesday

22 May, 2017 Agostinho Neto´s Widow Recognizes Cuban Contribution

Maria Eugenia Neto, widow of Angolan leader Antonio Agostinho Neto, today highlighted in Havana the contributions of Cubans to the liberation of the African country, who sacrificed their lives thousands of kilometers from their homeland.

22 May, 2017 Cuba Answers to Controversial Message from Trump

The Cuban government described as “controversial” and “ridiculous” the message of the “poorly advised” President of the United States, Donald Trump to the Cuban people on May 20, local media reported today.

22 May, 2017 Solidarity Meeting in Namibia Will Honor Fidel Castro

The Ambassador of the Republic of Namibia in Havana Jeroboam Shaanika said that it is an honor for his country to host the fifth Continental Meeting of Solidarity with Cuba, as Cubans deserve it for the help given to Africans throughout these years

22 May, 2017 Cuba to Be a Gateway to America with Gran Hotel Manzana Kempinski

Havana, Cuba.-We are very pleased that the gateway to the Americas is Cuba, Xavier , general director of the Gran Hotel Manzana Kempinski, which receives today its first customers in the Cuban capital, said. Destribats told at a television news program that to build the first five-star hotel in Cuba is part of Kempinski’s philosophy […]

19 May, 2017 China Helps to Develop Cuban Coconut Industry

Chinese company AVIC Intl Project Engineering Company, works in Baracoa in the technological installation and start-up of a factory for the processing of fiber and organic substrate coconut.

19 May, 2017 Thinking and Doing a Better Trade

The First Trade Convention constituted a space for debate and exchange of knowledge and experiences, which should be reversed in order to offer better service and protection to consumers, Mary Blanca Ortega, Cuban minister of the sector, said in Havana

19 May, 2017 Homage to Jose Marti on the Anniversary of his Death

Floral offerings from Cuban President Raul Castro Ruz, the Council of State and Ministers and the people of Cuba were deposited this Friday morning in the Mausoleum to national hero Jose Marti in Santiago de Cuba Cemetery.

19 May, 2017 Raul Received Special Envoy of Angola

Cuban President Raul Castro Ruz received this Friday the Special Envoy of the President of Angola, His Excellency Joao Manuel Gonçalves Lourenço, minister of National Defense and vice-president of the Popular Movement of Liberation Part

19 May, 2017 Cuba Encourages National and Foreign Investments in Mariel

Havana, Cuba.-Cuban enterprises will now be able to take more advantage from the opportunities for businesses in the Special Development Zone of Mariel (ZED) in the west of Cuba, said Ana Teresa Igarza, ZED general director Thursday. ‘Up to now, foreign companies are ahead as users of ZED, but we are also interested in investments […]

19 May, 2017 Cuba: Business Fair Faciliates Exchange

Havana, Cuba.-The 4th Business Fair of Cuba, is a sample of the possibilities giving the chance for direct exchange among Cuban enterprises to facilitate work among the Cuban economic actors. The 4th Business Fair of Cuba is being held in Expocuba (Havana) up to May 25, with 300 entities -262 of them state companies, 15 […]

18 May, 2017 Cuba Encourages National and Foreign Investments

The Director General of the Mariel Special Zone of Development Ana Teresa Igarza remarked this Thursday that Cuban companies could take more advantage of the advantageous business opportunities in the enclave

18 May, 2017 Regional Customs Will Strengthen Coordination

The 34th session of the Multilateral Convention on Cooperation and Mutual Assistance between Customs Directorates of Latin America, Spain and Portugal, inaugurated today to strengthen coordination between those bodies at the regional level.

18 May, 2017 The Cuban Industry Must Support Tourism

It is imperative to move the national industry based on tourism, deputy Prime Minister of this sector Alejandro Gil said today in the Fourth Business Fair that meets in Expocuba.

18 May, 2017 Homage to Jose Marti in Eastern Cuban province

Cuba.-A representation of inhabitants of Jiguani, on behalf of the people of Cuba, will attend tomorrow in Dos Rios the ceremony dedicated to the 122nd anniversary of Jose Marti´s fall in combat, in that place in the province of Granma.

18 May, 2017 Cuban Companies Interact in Havana Business Fair

Havana, Cuba.-The 4th Business Fair in Cuba continues today its exhibition at Expocuba capital fairground, a scenario where Cuban companies participate in identifying potentialities with the country”s economic players. The event will take place from May 10 to 25, and there are about 300 participating entities, of which 262 are from the state, 15 joint […]

17 May, 2017 Special Status as a Social Educator to Havana Historian

Dr. Eusebio Leal, Historian of the city of Havana, received this Wednesday the special condition of Social Educator, due to his outstanding humanist conviction in the formation of the new generations, and the rescue of the patrimony and identity of the Cuban nation. Enrique Jose Varona University of Pedagogical Sciences granted the award as a […]

17 May, 2017 Puerto Rican Independence Fighter thanks Cuban Support

HAVANA, Cuba.- Puerto Rican independence leader Oscar Lopez Rivera thanked Cuba and its people for all the support given to the campaign for his freedom, achieved definitively this Wednesday, Prensa Latina agency said. During a phone talk with Fernando Gonzalez, president of the Cuban Institute for Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP), Lopez Rivera confirmed he […]