Representing the Group of 77 plus China, Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel alerted in New York on the need for urgent action to face the unsustainable foreign debt which is dragging the majority of developing nations to an economic abyss.

Organized by the Palmares Extra-Hotel Company, the Cubasol Business Group and the Ministry of Tourism, the 13th International Festival Varadero Gourmet 2023 begins today at the Plaza America Conference Center.

Exposur 2023 is a great opportunity to present projects with contributions to the National Development Plan up to 2030, said Mayra Arevich Marin, Cuban minister of communications.

Li Xi, member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and secretary of the Chinese Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, visited the Frank País García Credit and Service Cooperative (CCS) in the province of Artemisa.

An expert panel and a Scientific Workshop will be held Friday to review the structure of the Cuban State system for a prosperous and sustainable socialism.

A delegation of 14 specialists, including Brazilian technicians and politicians, exchanged with leaders of Ministry of Agriculture on the reality of the sector, and the potential for cooperation between the two countries.

Ricardo Cabrisas Ruiz, vice prime minister of the Republic of Cuba and minister of foreign trade and foreign investment, exchanged today with Roberto Alvarez Gil, head of foreign affairs from the Dominican Republic, at the Council of Ministers in Havana.

Eleven companies from eight countries have already confirmed their presence at the international fair EXPOSUR 2023 to be held on September 14 to 17 in the province of Cienfuegos, which reveals the interest aroused by this event and the chance to do business with this small but highly industrialized Cuban region.

The Cubanacan group and the Spanish chain Roc Hotels signed a new administration and commercialization contract for the management of the El Viejo y el Mar hotel, located in the Marina Hemingway complex, west of Havana.

Cuba´s Prime Minister Manuel Marrero Cruz led a working meeting to follow up, among other issues, the process of bankarization, as well as water supply and solid waste collection in the capital.

Cuban business people, experts with the Cuban Central Bank, the Economy Ministry, the UNDP, and provincial government officials have addressed, during a workshop in Havana, major hurdles facing micro, small and medium companies to access financing, which affects their development and local contribution.

 Opened by Commander-in-Chief Fidel Castro Ruz on November 27, 1988, the Ignacio Agramonte Loynaz Military Industrial Enterprise (EMI) in Camagüey(central Cuba) has fulfilled, at the end of July, more than 50 % of the production plan delivered to the military sphere, to the industrial activity and to other needs of the national economy.

The factory that produces Parranda, owned by Cervecería Cubana S.A., could in the near future replace imports of this highly demanded product in the island.