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.

In the event that Title III of the Helms Burton Act is applied, the European Union (EU) has endowed itself with antidote legislation, a Council regulation that ensures the protection of its citizens and entrepreneurs, Alberto Navarro, EU ambassador to Cuba, explained in Havana.

Cuba and Angola need to expand their economic and trade relations to the level of those existing in the political and diplomatic fields, senior officials of the two countries said in a meeting held in Luanda, capital of the African country.

The Italian banking company UniCredit Group joined the entities of several countries punished by the U.S. government for allegedly violating sanctions imposed by Washington against Cuba and other countries.

Cuba has so far received 1,612,371 foreign visitors, an increase of 5.15% over the same period last year, according to data presented on Friday to members of Parliament by the Minister of Tourism, Manuel Marrero.

The Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical Industries Group, BioCubaFarma, reported 315 million dollars in revenues in 2018, and was granted 116 new patents abroad, according to its director Eduardo Martínez.

With a high nutritional value and acceptance in the foreign market, sea cucumber is one of the exportable lines of the Empresa Pesquera Industrial La Coloma (Epicol) of Pinar del Río, for greater income to the national economy.

Sandra Eva Lomelí, professor at the University of Guadalajara, discussed the possibility of applying in Cuba the design of a system of costs for small and medium enterprises, in the last session of the XVI Cuban congress of women economists and accountants.

Businessmen from Cuba and Slovenia laid the foundations to increase their trade in a Business Forum in sectors that are key to the economies of both countries.