A open forum-debate in Telegram, promoted by the National Association of Cuban Economists and Accountants (ANEC), enables related professionals to comment on their criteria and experiences regarding the implementation of the task of monetary reorganization.

Cuba denounced that the US economic, commercial and financial blockade, recently strengthened by the former Donald Trump administration amidst the COVID 19 pandemic, is the main obstacle to the island’s development and it is also a flagrant violation of the human rights of Cuban women and young girls.

 The Cuban Friendship Institute (ICAP by its Spanish acronym) and the National Institute of Sports, Physical Education and Recreation (Inder by its Spanish acronym) will hold tomorrow a virtual event titled Affectations of the U.S. blockade on Cuba in sports.

 The development in Cuba of high-tech construction products with natural raw materials is part of the country's strategy to replace imports in that sector.

The opening to more than 2,000 activities of the 127 allowed to date in the exercise of self-employment (TCP), will positively impact the Cuban economy, according to Ileana Diaz Fernandez, a researcher at the Center for the Study of the Cuban Economy at the University of Havana.

The promotion and diversification of exports will be priorities to the Cuban Chamber of Commerce in 2021, Minister of Foreign Trade and Investment, Rodrigo Malmierca Díaz, who chairs the working meeting of that institution along with Deputy Prime Minister Ricardo Cabrisas Ruíz, posted today on his Twitter account.

Nearly 150 novel contributions are included in the book Resultados de los institutos cubanos de investigación, desarrollo e innovación en las tecnologías sobre azúcar y derivados (Results of Cuban research, development and innovation institutes in sugar production technology), according to specialists of the Cuban Academy of Sciences (ACC).

 The export of charcoal is emerging as a vital challenge for the Cuban economy because it is a product in high demand in international trade, says Opciones, Cuba's Economic and Financial Weekly.

The investment being carried out nowadays in the Eladio de Marcos Hernandez rum factory, located in this city, is based on the excellence of Cuban rum products and will allow international tourists to taste them as well as learn about their traditional production.

Bolivia and Cuba agreed to reinstate bilateral economic and trade relations which were cut in November 2019 after the coup that took Jeanine Añez to power in that South American nation.

The task of monetary reorganization launched in Cuba on January 1st this year reaches all social sectors and gives rise to diverse opinions, many of them related to the revision of approved procedures or regulations.

Exports will be the mainstay of the economy of the Guantánamo municipality this year, José Otero Castán, local director of economy and planning, told ACN today.

In compliance with the monitoring of policies for food production and industrial processing, the Agri-Food Commission of the National Assembly of People's Power has been checking since the beginning of this year the implementation of the 24 measures aimed at the agricultural sector in the Economic-Social Strategy and, in particular, of the Ordering Task in the Ministry of Agriculture.

HAVANA, Cuba, Feb 11 (ACN) A total of 33 million pesos will be incorporated to the subsidy assumed by the State budget for medicines for the population, in this case for the payment of 37 drugs categorized as complementary.