The United States government included the Cuban company Cubametales in the list of those sanctioned on the island, this time because of its links with Venezuela.

The process of Cuban cigars, from the seedbed to the rolling of the cigar, is one hundred percent natural and has the technology necessary to do so, said in Havana Justo Luis Fuentes Diaz, president of the business group TabaCuba.

Miguel Diaz-Canel, President of the Councils of State and Ministers, said that the new economic measures recently approved to strengthen the Cuban economy will only succeed if the people make them their own and support them.

Alejandro Gil Fernandez, Minister of Economy and Planning, said that the wage increase in the budgeted sector and among pensioners need not lead to an increase in the price of goods and services in the hands of companies and the non-state sector.

The certainty that Cuba is an attractive and safe place for foreign investment, and of great potential, was ratified with the constitution of the mixed company Proxcor S.A., the result of the merger between the Slovak group Proxenta and the Cuban Corporación Alimentaria S.A. Coralsa, an association that will be dedicated to the production of sweets, jams and other food products.

The 15th International Congress on Sugar and Derivatives (DIVERSIFICATION 2019) will kick off this Monday at Cuba's National Hotel, where nearly 400 Cuban and foreign specialists from 21 countries are expected to attend.

Manuel Marrero Cruz, Minister of Tourism, expressed confidence in the country's union leaders to mobilize members in the common goal of mitigating the effects of the Helms-Burton Act and the recent measures approved by the U.S. Government, orchestrated in order to affect the progress of the Cuban leisure industry.

The number of self-employed workers in Cuba was 595,559 at the close of the first quarter of the year, 14,731 more than those reported in December 2018.

The XVI Feria Expocaribe, which meets in this city, will celebrate today the event of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) The Caribbean first, in the context of the economic and trade integration of the region.

Cuban experts presented in the capital Hotel Nacional a broad portfolio of investments on the island and explained legal and tax issues to a delegation of British businessmen who attend a forum that concludes this Wednesday.

European Union (EU) Foreign Ministers are meeting this Monday in Luxembourg to discuss the bloc's response to the United States to protect European investments in Cuba after the Trump administration activated the application of Title III of the Helms-Burton Act.

Representatives of foreign companies accredited in Cuba learned today, first hand, the support of the authorities of the country in the face of possible demands that may arise in the context of the economic sanctions that from the United States target Cuba.

As part of the working session in commissions of the VIII Congress of the National Association of Economists and Accountants of Cuba (ANEC), which began on Wednesday in Havana, the context of local development in Cuba was analyzed.

Alejandro Gil, Minister of Economy and Planning, told the delegates and guests at the VIII Congress of the National Association of Economists and Accountants of Cuba (ANEC), that in the midst of the tense scenario of the national economy it is necessary not only to consider resistance but also the possibility of developing the country.