The first sign

The Cuban economy’s 4 per cent growth is the first encouraging result after the approval in 2011 of the process of transformations of the country’s economic model.

This year the Cuban economy grew 4 per cent as a first visible reaction to the measures adopted by the government since the start of the process of transformations called the Updating of the Economic Model. The advance, reported inmid-December at a meeting of the Council of Ministers, contrasts with the meagre gross domestic product (GDP) growths of previous years, and which had its worst moment in 2014 with a 1 per cent increase. Leer más


Cuba promotes trade at home

With the 4th Business Fair, the Cuban Economy Ministry is encouraging local enterprises to seek and plan market alternatives inside the country.


Women shoemakers hope to form cooperative

The initiative is facing bureaucratic obstacles they are fighting to overcome.


Russian oil returns to Cuba

A contract signed between the Russian Rosneft Oil Company and Cubametales is expanding the range of Cuba’s energy allies.


Tourism and culture alliance

Cuba’s International Tourism Fair placed its banners in a province with ambitious growth plans, which has its sight set on the local cultural heritage among its strengths.



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