The Cuban authorities have focused these days on World Breastfeeding Week, which is celebrated from August 1 to 7, sponsored by the World Health Organization and the United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef). Thus, the notes on the subject, focused on disseminating that breast milk is the best food for a child in the first months … Read more
In a press conference, the vice president of the BCC Alberto Quiñones reported that the measures will be gradually implemented starting tomorrow and this process is carried out under the principle of maintaining equality among all economic actors. He specified that the provisions issued by the Central Bank, which seek to promote the use of … Read more
AFPOne of the few private companies in Cuba, with sky-high prices NOS Nieuws•vandaag, 21:48 Soehayla Halouchi editor online Soehayla Halouchi editor online The Cuban peso has fallen in value by 50 percent in one year. This has reached an unprecedented low point: 230 pesos are only worth one dollar on the black market. Goods have … Read more
Right at the AHS headquarters, its members, the press and artists from different manifestations reviewed what will be happening at the beginning of next month as a summer option in this city, also called the cradle of Literature of the largest of the Antilles. One of the members of the Association and director of the … Read more
After the success in the bookstores of Before Night Fallsthe heterodox autobiography of Reinaldo Arenas republished in 2022, Tusquets offers readers the amazing world, considered by critics as the best Cuban novel. The deranged memoirs of the Mexican friar Servando Teresa de Mier, exiled and misunderstood, were written as an “adventure” story by a 23-year-old … Read more
The Cuban Minister of Tourism, Juan Carlos García Granda, reported Parliament this Wednesday that the island received 1,298,539 travelers in the first half of this year. Despite the frantic international campaign to present Cuba as an attractive destination, the figure represents a recovery of only 50% compared to 2019. With 500,000 visitors, Canada continues to … Read more
In the gallery El reino de este mundo, of the emblematic cultural institution, the vast work of the playwright, teacher and screenwriter, born in 1963 and a native of Sancti Spíritus, in central Cuba, was toured. The intellectuals, cultural promoters and poets Yanelis Encinosa, Ricardo Alberto Pérez, and Gertrudis Ortiz participated in the activity, organized … Read more
After three months in which US chicken exports to Cuba seemed to be in a nosedive, May brought a miraculous recovery: meat experienced a 33% increase in value and 62.4% in the number of tons imported relative to Cuba. with april. The Island bought 25,281.8 tons at 0.89 dollars per kilogram, which meant a total … Read more
(EFE).- The independent feminist platform Yo Sí Te Creo en Cuba (YSTCC) raised this Monday to 50 the sexist murders registered on the island so far in 2023 by confirming a new femicide in the province of Santiago de Cuba. This time the victim is Rafaela Yusmila Ramírez Chacón, 45, who was murdered by her … Read more
This month a room costs between 295 and 383 euros per night at the new INNSiDE Habana Catedral hotel, inaugurated last Saturday by the Spanish group Meliá in Old Havana. If the traveler prefers the “Townhouse Suite”, with 52 square meters, bed king size and a view of the bay, the price rises to the … Read more