The business opportunities portfolio of the Cuban sugar agroindustry will be presented today at the XIV International Congress on sugar cane and derivatives (DIVERSIFICATION 2017).

Bolivia's Foreign Minister Fernando Huanacuni Mamani said on Monday in Havana that his country wants to strengthen economic relations with Cuba in addition to consolidating the ideology of mutual integration and with the peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean.

Construction brigades from the Ministry of Tourism have begun the reparation and remodeling of heritage installations in Villa Clara province to execute six new hotels with the E brand as a prelude to the International Tourism Fair, Fit Cuba 2018 to be held in Cayo Santa Maria.

Food deficit for pig producers, the quality and high prices of pork meat were the main topics debated on Wednesday at Mesa Redonda TV program.

Melia Hotels International chain, with 27 years of operations in Cuba, has already presence in the province of Camagüey, where it signed a contract for managing the Gran Hotel, Colón Hotel and Camagüey Hotel, three emblematic facilities of this city.

The President of the National Assembly of the People's Power Esteban Lazo and the Head of the International Department of the Chinese Communist Party, Song Tao agreed on Monday in Beijing on the high level of mutual trust between both countries.

The ministries of agriculture of Cuba and the Republic of Mozambique today signed a cooperation agreement in this capital with the purpose of developing bilateral ties in this area, as well as food security and agricultural research.

Cuban and Mexican authorities signed on Thursday in Havana, three scientific-technical and academic cooperation agreements in the health sector which will allow expanding and strengthening bilateral ties in the field.

Gaviota SA Group will expand its capacity in Varadero with the implementation of new investments, including the new Oasis and Las Nubes hotels, the latter once completed will be the highest in Cuba´s main tourist pole, with 24 floors.

The construction of hotels will begin in Villa Clara in the coming days, with the purpose of meeting an ambitious investment plan for the celebration of FIT-Cuba 2018 International Tourism Fair.

The Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) fined the American Honda Finance Corporation (AHFC) 87,255 US dollars for violating US regulations that are part of the blockade against Cuba.

The Sugar Group AZCUBA will evaluate tomorrow the results of the 2016-2017 harvest in the country, where 54 sugar mills worked, four more than last year, out of which 42 produced comparatively more sugar.

The first five-star plus hotel in Cuba, Manzana Kempinski, was inaugurated this Wednesday afternoon, with the presence of Cuban Minister of Tourism Manuel Marrero.

Cuban Minister of Tourism Manuel Marrero said the US company Expedia, the world leader in online travel bookings that already operates in Cuba, is an important space for the commercialization of the island as a tourist destination