Cubamirex declaration

On February 27th, Cuban deputy foreign minister Carlos Fernandez de Cossio, summoned Benjamin Ziff, Charge d’ Affairs at the US Embassy in Havana to formally convey his country’s energetic protest for the granting of political asylum to Cuban citizen Ruben Martinez Machado, who hijacked a Cuban civilian airplane on October 21st, 2022.

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feriacomercial 3Photo: Luis Mario Rodríguez Suñol

With confirmation of the participation of businessmen from Canada, Spain, the Dominican Republic and Panama, details are finalized for the ExpoHolguín 2023 Trade Fair, the second most important in eastern Cuba, to be held from April 4 to 7.

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reunion covid 19Communist Party Central Committee First Secretary and President of the Republic Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez and Prime Minister Manuel Marrero Cruz met yesterday with authorities in Villa Clara, Sancti Spíritus and Cienfuegos, provinces which until recently were controlling new COVID-19 infections, but are now experiencing a dangerous increase in cases.

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jardin botanico holguin 5Photos: Carlos Rafael

The Holguín Botanical Garden (JBH), one of the regions with the greatest flora endemism on the Caribbean island, is promoting several projects to protect native plant species in eastern Cuba.

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tapia 6Photos: Alexis del Toro

Achieving the necessary productive start in the Holguín municipality of Mayarí based on the strengthening of agriculture and the optimal use of the investments associated with the East-West Transfer  undertaken here continues to be the object of analysis in this territory, to where the Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Cuba, Jorge Luis Tapia Fonseca, arrived this Saturday.

Read more Deputy Prime Minister of Cuba tours agricultural areas inf Mayarí, Holguín