French companies will expand and manage Cuba’s largest airport in order to assimilate the strong growth in passenger traffic.

The agreements with two renowned French companies to modernise Havana’s José Martí International Airport will meet the urgent needs of the travel and tourism industry, and give continuity to recent steps to expand cooperation between Cuba and France. Early this month the Cuban authorities granted to Bouygues Batiment International and Paris Airports the right to respectively expand and manage the Cuban capital’s airport.

From that now peaceful German city, the author of “La novela de mi vida” takes us back to important figures and moments in History that no human being should forget.

A congress of German and Latin American Hispanicists have allowed me to visit for the first time the city of Weimar and the hours I spent walking through its now peaceful streets. Contemplating its buildings and going to museums and prodigious libraries have left in my retina and my mind, like few times in my stays in other parts of the world, the tenacious aftertaste of having been in History.

With the upcoming opening of a cooperation office in Havana and a 231-million-euro fund, France aims to increases its investments in Cuba.

France agreed to create in Havana an office to increase its investments in Cuba as part of another sign of the mutual interest in speeding up the economic rapprochement between both countries. The agreement to open the representation of the French Development Agency (AFD) was signed on Friday July 29 in Havana by Cuban Foreign Trade and Investments Minister Rodrigo Malmierca and officials from the agency.

The capital’s government adopted control actions in response to the hike which occurred in early July in the prices for private transportation.

Tensions in prices and services have affected private transportation in Havana after the government approved measures to regulate energy consumption. In early July, the Council of Ministers cut the expenses of the electricity programme and the allocation of fuel to the State’s entities for the second semester. A first reaction was the increase in the prices for the taxis known as “boteros” or “almendrones”.