Intense precipitations are mitigating in Cuba the effects of the strong drought in 2015, but they are due to a climate alteration that has damaged the tuber and vegetable crops.
After a year of severe drought it seems difficult that the rains are being cursed, but the intense precipitations with which 2016 began in Cuba have gotten here at an extremely untimely moment for agriculture. Recent press reports confirm damages in important crops for the Cuban families’ table as well as for the sugar agribusiness.
Twenty-five years is a young age for a person, but it has another connotation when it’s about a character that lives in the pages of books. And in 2016 the indescribable, disturbing and popular Mario Conde, the main character – until now – of eight of Leonardo Padura’s novels, is precisely turning 25 in a cycle that we will try to tour in a very tight way.
Netherlands Foreign Trade and Cooperation Minister Lilianne Ploumen headed a business delegation that explored business alternatives in Havana and presented a new joint venture of Unilever and Suchel.
The creation of a joint venture in the Mariel Special Development Zone (ZEDM) and the agreement to expand trade and economic ties brought to a perfect end the three-day visit of a Dutch delegation to Cuba, headed by Netherlands Foreign Trade and Cooperation Minister Lilianne Ploumen.
Marked by the name of the famous ballerina, the emblematic installation starts a new stage.
The Grand Theatre of Havana reopened its doors after a long period dedicated to its restoration. By agreement of the Council of State of the Republic it has been named Alicia Alonso. While for this it was taken into account that it was about the greatest international artistic figure that has steadily performed on its stage for more than half a century, the work of the ballerina also decisively had an influence in favour of its conservation and greater glory.
