Greater financial autonomy and the strengthening of contracting are among the main impacts of the new legal rules aimed at updating the functioning of agricultural cooperatives, which will enter into force next November.

The third International Salon for Restaurants, Hotels and Tourist Services HostelCuba 2019, was inaugurated on Tuesday at the Pabexpo Fairgrounds, with the participation of 120 exhibitors from 18 countries.

The Council of Ministers of the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group, ACP, approved during its 109th session a new Resolution against the economic, commercial and financial blockade applied by the United States of America against Cuba.

A new lawsuit was filed Monday in Miami, Florida, against several Cuban tourism companies under Title III of the controversial Helms-Burton Act, activated by the current U.S. government as part of its policy toward the island.

The First Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs of Cuba, Marcelino Medina González, and the Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania, Neris Germanas, presided over the first official Interchancellery talks that are held between the two countries, within the framework of the working visit carried out by the Cuban diplomat to this nation.

Ricardo Cabrisas, Cuba´s Vice President of the Council of Ministers, met Mr. Richard Raši, Deputy Prime Minister of Investments and Informatization of the Slovak Republic, who is in Cuba on a working visit.

The modern multipurpose terminal at Guillermón Moncada Port, in Santiago de Cuba, is ready for its inauguration in the current month of May, with which it will be able to receive ships of up to 10.8 meters (m) draught and up to 13 meters in a second stage.

The II Trade Convention Cuba 2019, which will be inaugurated this Monday in this capital, has the objective of achieving feasible proposals that have a positive impact on the sector and can soon be implemented.

Although the new provisions of the Donald Trump administration are aimed at hitting the development of tourism in Cuba, tour operators have flocked to Cuba like never before, said Adamis Pérez Rodríguez, director of Promotion and Public Relations at the Gran Caribe Hotel Group.

The rains that have affected different territories and the continuous breakdowns of the sugar mills that have prolonged, beyond what was expected, the period of execution of the harvest are among the main causes that have influenced the fulfillment of the plan of the current sugar harvest in the country, reports Granma newspaper.

At a time when attempts are being made to impose isolation and confrontation, we propose unity, fraternity, solidarity, and peace through tourism, said the Cuban Minister of Tourism Manuel Marrero at the opening of the International Tourism Fair, FITCuba 2019.

Cuba reached two million visitors today, coinciding with the start of the International Tourism Fair, FITCuba 2019, despite the recurrent defamatory campaigns and the resurgence of the economic, financial and commercial blockade imposed by the United States.

Some 79,925 new registrations have been reported in Cuba since the entry into force of the changes to self-employment on December 7, according to Mary Blanca Ortega, head of the National Office of Tax Administration (ONAT).

The Cuban government rejected this Wednesday the US State Department's announcement to activate Title III of the Helms-Burton law, which allows the establishment of lawsuits against foreign companies that manage assets nationalized by the Revolution.