The Ministry of Economy and Planning (MEP) approved today 96 new applications for the establishment of private MSMEs.

Along with varieties of chickpea seeds that the Turkish Agency for Cooperation and Coordination (Tika) donated to Cuba a few years ago, now agricultural equipment is being added to improve yields and grain harvests in the municipality of Taguasco, Sancti Spiritus(central Cuba), where a cooperation project with that entity is being carried out.

The president of the Correos de Cuba Business Group, Pablo Julio Pla Feria, checked the behavior of international parcel operations, which continue arriving in the country in significant numbers.

The Ministry of Economy and Planning (MEP) approved today 101 new applications for the establishment of economic actors, 100 of them private MSMEs and one a non-agricultural cooperative, which pushes up to 4,859 the number of approvals since the process began in September 2021.

“Energy production is facing a complex situation worldwide, but in the case of Cuba it is aggravated by the persistent U.S. blockade,” said Liván Arronte Cruz, Minister of Energy and Mines (MINEM), remarking that 56 of over 200 measures applied by the Donald Trump administration are still in force.

The Cuban embassy in Belgium hosted the first meeting of the "Visit Latin America" initiative, promoted by Air Europa and the specialized tourism marketing company Glenaki, and representatives from Argentina, Bolivia, Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru and the Dominican Republic, who gave an update on their tourism markets to tour operators, travel agencies and specialized media.

The mere attendance of hundreds of people at the selected Exchange Offices (Cadecas by its Spanish acronym) in the capital, where the sale of foreign currency to natural persons began today, was a favorable sign of the acceptance of this measure, long awaited by the population.

The sale of foreign currency to the population will begin this Tuesday, throughout the national territory, as part of the measures designed by the Cuban government with a view to the implementation of the foreign exchange market, announced Alejandro Gil Fernández, deputy prime minister and Minister of Economy and Planning (MEP).

Commercial flights of TAAG-Angolan Airlines destined for Cuba will resume this November, after their interruption due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Ministry of Economy and Planning (MEP) approved today 107 new applications for the establishment of economic actors, 106 of them private MSMEs and one a non-agricultural cooperative, which pushes up to 4,758 the number of approvals since the process began in September 2021.

Cuba announced new measures that substantially modify the role of foreign investment in domestic trade, in order to immediately increase the supply of goods to the population.

The maintenance of unit four of the Carlos Manuel de Cespedes Thermoelectric Power Plant (CTE by its Spanish acronym), in the province of Cienfuegos(central Cuba), began today in its final stage to contribute 120 megawatts once it is synchronized to the National Electroenergy System.

The biofertilizer and biopesticide plant in Villa Clara (central Cuba), which is in the final stage of the assembly process, is expected to start operating in the first third of next year.

Resolutions of the Ministry of Finance and Prices (MFP) and the General Customs of the Republic(AGR by its Spanish acronym) come into force today, making non-commercial imports by natural persons more flexible.