After several years in project, the tetralogy of Las cuatro estaciones (The Four Seasons) will get to the silver screen.
When 25 years ago Cuban writer Leonardo Padura created Mario Conde he never imagined that “so many nice things” would happen to him with this character. Now, the author of the famous tetralogy Las cuatro estaciones is expecting the leap to cinema of his most popular novels.
Cuban cigar sales went up four per cent in 2015, despite heavy obstacles faced by the world.
The 18th International Havana Cigar Festival concluded in the Cuban capital with an auction of Premium cigars and humidors that collected 865,000 euros. This time around the festival was dedicated to the 50 years of the Cohiba trademark. The meeting showcased arts and marketing to establish, in a difficult global situation, the position of one of Cuba’s traditional exports.
With the best economic growth of recent years, the Cuban economy closed 2015 with key agreements to reorganise its international financial ties, reactions in tourism and signs of change if the normalisation of relations with the United States advances. But the process of updating the economic model has still not met important goals.
In Cuba, 2015 was a year that passed through foreseeable paths after the global surprise caused, at the close of the previous year, by the announcement made by presidents Raúl Castro and Barack Obama. The imminence for the first time of the possible end to an era of bilateral entrenchment, which had reached very bitter and aggressive tones, came as a shock to many persons worldwide.
A commercial bank from the Asian giant granted Cuba financing lines to purchase railroad coaches and tractors to back rice production.
An important Chinese bank, the Exim Bank, gave Cuba credits for the purchase of equipment and inputs that will guarantee two of the economic programmes prioritised by the largest of the Caribbean islands in recent years: the development of the railroad system and rice production. The signing of the financing agreements took place on Monday, February 22 in Havana with the participation of high-ranking officials of the Cuban government and the Asian giant’s institution.
