The arrival to Cuba of four million foreign visitors in 2016 is putting pressure on the activity of hotels and airports.
With another record in tourist arrivals, the sights are set abroad and in the country on a Cuban sector that is the business card of an economy in a tight spot because of the national need for hard currency incomes.
The author of this article is a professor of the Javeriana University in Cali, Colombia.
CALI, Colombia (IPS) – The macroeconomic data for the close of the year provided by the Cuban government confirms the projections that Cuba would enter a recession as a result of the Venezuelan shock.
Lino Betancourt’s chronicles.
Throughout time the history of Cuban music has counted on the narrative fervour of those who have also created and interpreted it. The list of those musicians-writers is long and notable, and some of them accomplished the feat of executing, without accompaniment, a Dictionary, or an Encyclopedia, as are the cases of Helio Orovio and Radamés Giro.
Although the climate sabotages plans, the development programme the country has maintained since 2009 has made it possible to increase the cereal’s harvests.
For the second consecutive year, a persistent drought partially stopped the plans to increase rice production in Cuba, despite which agriculture continues the investment programme begun seven years ago. The aim of reducing foreign dependence for the Cuban diet’s basic foodstuff’s consumption continues among the government’s priorities.
