The production in Cuba of exclusive and last generation biopharmaceuticals is attracting the attention of the United States and the European Union.
New doors can open shortly for the Cuban pharmaceutical and biotechnological industry in very disputed as well as restrictive markets. The European Union is modifying political and commercial positions toward Cuba precisely when high-ranking officials from Washington are ratifying a special regulation for an understanding with Havana in the field of research and the production of medicines.
The Azcuba Business Group says it has sufficient sugarcane and more modern machinery to recover the growth line it lost a year before.
The Cuban sugar industry started grinding sugarcane a month ago with the declared aim of recovering the path to growth it had lost in the previous harvest. After taking off in early November with the Harlem sugar factory, in the western province of Artemisa, the 2016-2017 harvest has gradually spread to other territories and in the first week of December, 27 sugar factories were already working.
U.S. airlines resumed this week regular flights to Havana to increasingly strengthen the connections between the United States and Cuba, while visits by U.S. citizens to the neighbour to the south continue increasing.
With a Boeing 737 flight from Miami to the Cuban capital on Monday the 28th, American Airlines took the lead over the other airlines from that country that have been creating this year steady routes to several points of the Cuban geography, after 55 years of suspension.
TOKYO, Dec. 1, 2016 (IPS) – Cuba must make big changes in its economy to rapidly overcome its structural problems starting 2017, when President Raúl Castro will face the first year without the physical presence of Fidel Castro and with Donald Trump heading the United States.
