With the express commitment to identify new products and services to trade bilaterally with Cuba, the Venezuelan Pavilion was officially inaugurated today, in the context of the International Fair of Havana (FIHAV) that is taking place these days.

To have a greater presence of Chinese investors and explore new business opportunities for mutual benefit is a priority for Cuba, said Eloy Alvarez Martinez, deputy Minister of Industries (Mindus).

The US blockade against Cuba is unjustifiable and does not correspond to our historical time, said in the General Assembly of the United Nations, the representative of Venezuela to that organization, speaking on behalf of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM).

With the presence of Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez, President of the Councils of State and Ministers, the XXXVI International Fair of Havana (FIHAV 2018) was officially inaugurated in Monday in Expocuba fairgrounds.

Although Habanos S.A. cigars are commercialized in more than 150 nations, the US blockade prevents Americans from acquiring them in their own country despite their desire to smoke them, an executive of the Habanos said in this city.

If the United States lifts the unjust economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed on Cuba, we will be able to flood that market with millions of boxes of our products, said Juan Gonzalez, president of Cuba Ron Corporation and Havana Club International.

The perspectives for commercial, economic and investor cooperation focused the attention of the participants in the II Business Forum Russia-Latin America and the Caribbean, developed for the first time in this capital, within the scope of the XXXVI International Fair of Havana FIHAV 2018.

Anayansi Rodriguez, Cuba´s Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations (UN), spoke on debate on Item 138 of the agenda of the world organization entitled Improvement of the UN financial situation.

Executives and workers of the tourism sector in the Cuban province of Ciego de Avila are getting ready all hotel and extra-hotel facilities and are also in search of suppliers and other entities to face the coming high tourism season.

President Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez attended the inauguration of the Grand Packard Hotel in Havana, which marks the beginning of a new phase in the sector that is committed to the high standard segment.

Havanatur S.A. and American Airlines (AA) signed a new commercial contract, in effect from Monday, whereby the Cuban tour operator begins to sell tickets from the US airline through its more than 80 offices around the country.

By the end of 2018, the Spanish hotel chain Melia will run 34 hotels and 14,661 rooms in Cuba. The upward trend in these figures received a boost this year, after the company invested some 150 million dollars in the island.

The 2018-2019 harvest will begin next November at the Argeo Martinez sugar mill in the province of Guantanamo, announced on Sunday in Havana Julio Andres Garcia Perez, president of AZCUBA Sugar Group.

Cuba is carrying out a group of actions aimed at improving the reception, transfer and storage of goods, raw materials, food and other items, including the improvement of the port-transport-internal economy chain, and also to counteract the effects of the blockade on these operations or services.