Juan Carlos González Pérez, director of the Tobacco-Based Business Unit (UEB), predicts a favorable outlook for tobacco growing on the Isle of Youth, based on the use of new technology that ensures the quality of the seedlings.

The Iyooyoo travel agency in the municipality of Shanghai, east China, will represent Cuba in the 2020 calendar through a photograph of a street in Havana with several old cars.

The agricultural sector in Cuba is working to achieve food security through local food production and import substitution, Gustavo Rodriguez Rollero, minister of the sector, said today.

The 2020 Budget Law reaffirms the social character of the Cuban Revolution, but given the financial restrictions, it is necessary to achieve the highest incomes to guarantee the quality of life of the population and the economic development of the country, Meisi Bolaños Weiss, Minister of Finance and Prices, asserted Tuesday.

Amidst the limitations, and thanks to the people' efforts, it is estimated that the Cuban economy will not decrease in 2019, Alejandro Gil Fernandez, Cuban Minister of Economy and Planning, told MPs of the National Assembly of People's Power (ANPP) today.

Varadero will have 1,000 more rooms by 2020, once the investments in the two hotels being built in the Oasis and Los Tainos areas, respectively, are completed, Ivis Fernandez, delegate of the Ministry of Tourism (Mintur) in Matanzas, affirmed.

Salvador Valdes Mesa, 1st Vice President of Cuba, analyzed by videoconference with directives of the provincial and municipal administration councils of the country, among other issues, the insurance plan to celebrate the 61st anniversary of the triumph of the Revolution.

Cuban Ministry of Communications (MINCOM) approved, so far, more than 3.100 licenses to operate private data networks or wireless data networks for natural persons, representing 71 percent of the licenses requested.

Representatives of the ProCuba and ProPanama, entities responsible for investment and trade promotion in their respective countries signed a collaboration agreement.

Representatives of the Ministries of Tourism of Cuba and Turkey held a program of exchanges and activities in Istanbul with directors of tourism business organizations and Turkish Airlines.

The administration of President Donald Trump continues the persecution of financial entities linked to the Cuban government, as confirmed by an announcement from the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) on the penalty to two insurance companies.

The President of the Republic of Cuba, Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez, began a working day with exchanges with Argentine businessmen, who ratified their interest in expanding economic-commercial and investment ties.

The Mongolian Minister of Agriculture, Food and Light Industry, Mr. Ulaan Chultern, visited the Cuban Biorat factory of LABIOFAM S.A. Business Group, in Cantho province, Vietnam, where he signed a MOU.

Cuba´s President Miguel Diaz-Canel received Mr. Dante Mossi Reyes, executive president of the Central American Bank for Economic Integration (CABEI), who is in the Caribbean island on the occasion of the Dialogue Table for Financing Development Projects in Cuba, which run for two days in Havana.