The 42nd edition of the International Tourism Fair, FITCuba 2024, will be dedicated to the Latin American and Caribbean region, will be held in the Jardines del Rey archipelago and will promote its hotel, extra-hotel and nautical attractions, Cuban Tourism Minister Juan Carlos Garcia Granda announced.

Laboratory studies, a major pillar of scientific research in the province of Holguin, are restrained by the U.S. blockade of Cuba, which has caused damages amounting to billions of dollars since 1962.

Every Wednesday, the Argentina-Cayo Coco-Havana air route will resume its flights to the Jardines del Rey tourist resort, in the north of the province of Ciego de Avila.

Cuban Minister of Tourism Juan Carlos García Granda stressed at the 41st International Tourism Fair FITCuba 2023 that hard work is under way to get this field back on its feet after the pandemic, despite obstacles and limitations.

Cuba is participating at the 6th Meeting of the Forum of Latin American and Caribbean countries on Sustainable Development, which opened today at the headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean in Santiago de Chile, the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Foreign Investment (MINCEX by its Spanish acronym) reported.

As part of the new measures for the revitalization of domestic trade in Cuba, it is planned to start this year the operation of the Joint Enterprise Gran Ferretero S.A., to install a hardware store to satisfy the demands of the domestic market.

At the Cuba-Vietnam Business Forum, held today in Havana, representatives of companies or entities of both nations signed several cooperation agreements, in the presence of Manuel Marrero Cruz, Cuban Prime Minister, and Vuong Dinh Hue, chairman of the National Assembly of that Asian country.

Without forgetting the current serious- situation with automotive transport, which includes cargo and passenger transport, a project is being developed to achieve the recovery and progressive replacement of the existing fleet in Cuba, in order to have the means to ensure the economic and social activity of the country.

Representatives of the Vietnamese Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) announced in this city the start of the third phase of the project Supporting Cuba in Aquaculture, intended to increase aquaculture production in the country through capacity building and the development of farming practices to boost food security and exports.

Cuban deputy minister of Agriculture Maury Hechavarría and Tran Thanh Nam, his counterpart from the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development of Vietnam, discussed potential joint efforts to develop Cuba’s agri-food sector at a meeting in which both officials ratified the historic ties of fraternity and friendship between the two countries and their willingness to increase cooperation in fields of common interest.

Cuba’s Energy and Mining Minister Vicente de la O Levy told local TV that the main cause for the severe shortage of fuels on the island has to do with unmet contracts by providers who are facing production problems.

The financial institution Cadeca announced today that as of next Monday, April 17, customers will have the possibility of depositing cash in dollars (USD) at all its branches in the country.

The search for creative solutions to increase food production, and the need to develop the potential of each municipality, are the major challenges of the Ministry of Food Industry (MINAL by its Spanish acronym) in 2023, said Manuel Marrero Cruz, Cuban Prime Minister.