A meeting was held in Havana to deepen in the difficulties caused by the economic, commercial and financial blockade of the U.S. government in the communications sector.

Only during the first half of this year, 1,680,485 people from Latin America, the United States and Europe traveled to Cuba, announced the National Statistics and Information Office (ONEI by its Spanish acronym).

The recovery of the economy continues being the main battle to be fought in Pinar del Rio, said today Yamile Ramos Cordero, member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) and first secretary of that political organization in the province.

Elio Rodriguez Perdomo, Cuban deputy foreign minister, spoke today at the opening ministerial panel of the first Preparatory Committee for the 4th International Conference on Financing for Development, which is being held in Ethiopia.

The National Office of Statistics and Information (ONEI by its Spanish acronym) announced in Havana that in the January-May period, 1,474,853 people from Latin America, the United States and Europe traveled to Cuba.

Cuba Ron Distribuidora received today the Most Efficient and Productive Collective status, at the Solidarity Hall of the Habana Libre Hotel in Havana.

Cuban economy counts on 11 thousand 350 new micro, small and medium companies, along 71 cooperatives, including 11 thousand 46 private businesses, 233 state-run companies.

The preliminary draft of the Policy for the Law of the Socialist State Enterprise will be analyzed today by the Permanent Working Commissions as a preview to the 3rd Ordinary Period of Sessions of the National Assembly of People's Power (ANPP) in its 10th Legislature.

 Increasing the local food output to meet the people’s demands and securing the export-derived income program are top priorities for the second half of 2024 in Cuba.

The negative impact caused by the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the United States on Cuba, in the specific case of the construction sector, is very strong, said Liana Maria Sosa Hernandez, director of the company in this city.

A number of enterprises in the province of Holguin are already applying the postulates of circular economy, one of the guidelines underpinning a local governance system based on science and innovation.

A mini-plant with the capacity to process 100 pots of ice cream in eight hours is being built as part of the socio-economic impact works being carried out in the municipality of Vertientes in the Cuban central-eastern province to celebrate the National Rebelliousness Day.

A group of products highly in demand among the Cuban population, and imported by economic actors, will have from today regulations on their maximum retail prices, by allowing them up to 30 % of commercial margin of profit.

The limitations for the manufacture of wheelchair rubber systems stand out among the effects of the economic, commercial and financial blockade of the United States against Cuba on the social integration programs for school-age children in the Cuban eastern province of Holguin.