Cubaindustria 2016 confirmed the national intention of creating alliances with companies from other countries, especially Russia and China.

According to its decision of reorienting, modernising and developing one of the principal activities of its economy, Cuba materialised business deals and projects with companies from other countries during the Cubaindustria 2016 Convention and Fair. Russia, China and European nations like Italy led the alliances in a space in which companies from 29 nations, including the United States, participated.

The sale of high-consumption goods shot up in Cuba after the price reductions implemented starting April.

As a first reaction, the sale of those products whose prices the Cuban government lowered a few months ago grew by 50 per cent. Officials from ministries and commercial chains gave the information during a TV programme, Mesa Redonda (Roundtable), to analyse the measures applied in the so-called hard currency collecting shops.

New or already old challenges surround the nonagenarian entity, where a group of intellectuals continue their work passionately, and even furiously, for the language of Cervantes, Quevedo, Martí and Lezama to not become stagnated or jargon.

On the second Monday of every month it is usual to see a group of Cuban intellectuals enter in mid-morning the San Gerónimo University School. They attend a regular meeting of the Cuban Academy of the Language which, this year, is celebrating nine decades of existence. It is one of the longest standing cultural institutions with a sustained trajectory in the country that has survived many crises but without ever interrupting its work.

As part of the programme to give greater participation to renewable energy sources, Cuba agreed the construction of power generating plants based on waste from sugar production.

With the agreement to build power generating plants based on sugarcane biomass, Cuba has taken another important step in its programme to transform the national energy matrix. The works, which will start this year as was announced by the Azcuba Corporation, will be a new change of direction for the country’s traditional sugar agribusiness.