In the face of the growing hike in the prices for agricultural and livestock products, it is the State’s responsibility to rectify the market flaws, but not neglecting to study the productive value of the chain and its different links, the assessment of costs and profits and the analysis of the barriers that hinder the productive process in a strategic sectors like that of agriculture.
The growing tendency of food prices in the domestic market is sensitively manifest in the retail market, with economic, social and political implications. This tendency is based on an insufficient national production of agricultural and livestock products, which do not meet the demand.
The United States Patent and Trademark Office recognised Cuba as the legitimate owner of a trademark that was in a legal dispute with the Bacardi firm.
The legal battle for the Havana Club rum entered with the current year in what seems to be its end after an almost two-decade-long litigation. In mid-January the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) granted Cuba the registration and rights of the famous trademark which was in dispute with the Bacardi family. But the Cuban side as well as the rival rum maker, established in Puerto Rico, have given signs that they won’t stay with their arms crossed.
The Cuban tourism minister promised loyalty to the traditional partners of the leisure industry after announcing that his country is open to investments by U.S. companies.
During his tour of Spain, Cuban Tourism Minister Manuel Marrero Cruz announced in mid-January that his sector is open to U.S. investments, but reiterated loyalty to its European partners. His statements came at a time when trips by U.S. citizens to Cuban cities and beaches have shot up, a strong rapprochement by U.S. airlines, hotel chains, cruise companies and other companies to Havana is observed, and the interest of the European competition to expand business with the Caribbean nation is simultaneously increasing.
Leonardo Padura, in Miami on his way to several U.S. universities where he will give lectures, this Tuesday Jan. 19 made a memorable stop in the Spanish Cultural Centre of this city in southern Florida: because he got to the conference room accompanied by Mario Conde in all the possible forms: from the books to the film image the character will soon have thanks to the trailer of the TV serial “Las cuatroestaciones” (The Four Seasons), passing through the “materialisation” of the character played on the screen by Jorge Perugorría and the vision of his transcendence collected in the documentary written and directed by LucíaLópezColl (yes, Padura’sLucía, the one he dedicates all his books to) whose provisional title is Escribir y vivir en Cuba. Conversaciones con Leonardo Padura (Writing and Living in Cuba. Conversations with Leonardo Padura), which on this
Leonardo Padura, in Miami on his way to several U.S. universities where he will give lectures, this Tuesday Jan. 19 made a memorable stop in the Spanish Cultural Centre of this city in southern Florida: because he got to the conference room accompanied by Mario Conde in all the possible forms: from the books to the film image the character will soon have thanks to the trailer of the TV serial “Las cuatroestaciones” (The Four Seasons), passing through the “materialisation” of the character played on the screen by Jorge Perugorría and the vision of his transcendence collected in the documentary written and directed by LucíaLópezColl (yes, Padura’sLucía, the one he dedicates all his books to) whose provisional title is Escribir y vivir en Cuba. Conversaciones con Leonardo Padura (Writing and Living in Cuba. Conversations with Leonardo Padura), which on this occasion had its preview….
