The banks and government have implemented measures to encourage self-employment in Cuba.
This year self-employed workers again surpassed the figure of half a million, in a reaction that coincides with the facilities of previous months for the access to credits for this sector of the economy, among other measures.
Baseball has become the principal focus of attention in a text that demystifies it and mixes it with multiple aspects of our nationality.
Presented by Leonardo Padura last February during the Havana branch of the International Book Fair 2016, Béisbol y nación en Cuba (Baseball and Nation in Cuba), by university professor Félix Julio Alfonso López, is a very valuable contribution to the history of the national sport that, though sustained by passion, is the fruit of the pressing investigative rigor and the efficacious expression that a dominating and charming narrator places on the “game’s field” beyond the nine innings.
Cuba’s International Tourism Fair confirmed the strong flow of visitors and the hosts’ interest in other countries’ capital, including that of the northern neighbour.
The tourism industry has started off 2015 at a good pace and better news for Cuba. The first months confirmed last year’s flood of visitors, while U.S. companies have achieved several of their most important business exclusives with the largest of the Caribbean islands in the field of hotels and travel.
The recognition is awarded for the first time to a Latin American.
Last May 9, Cuban writer Leonardo Padura was awarded in Italy the 2016 Apoxiomeno International Prize, a recognition given every year to figures with an outstanding trajectory in the sphere of culture, show business or sports and who have made a notable contribution in subjects related to law and order.
