80 years since the first one in the Cuban capital.
The First Havana Book Fair, a cultural event that is worthwhile reviewing on its 80th anniversary, now that – after the conclusion of its international chapter in La Cabaña – the fair is moving to the capital’s municipalities, was held on Prado and Malecónbetween May 20 and 27, 1937.
This article, by the famous Cuban writer, was originally published in Portuguese in Falho de Sao Paulo and is reproduced in Spanish and English thanks to an agreement with IPS Cuba.
When a journalist asks me how the future of Cuba will be and how much it will change in the next years or, in the most recent version of the same issue, how will Cuba be without Fidel, I regret the disastrous state of a journalism (or is it just some journalists?) that take writers for fortune-tellers and tries to resolve its mission in a most ordinary way. What’s curious is that questions of that type are repeated with alarming frequency in many interviews I’ve been giving a year, for several years, and although the Cuban reality has many times demonstrated its high degrees of predictability and unpredictability (all at the same time) and I my incapacity to discern the future, the persistence of the interrogation demonstrates that for those journalists what matters most is what a writer speculates than what that author writes.
The food industry is aiming at investments to expand the country’s processing capacity of agricultural and livestock productions in order to reduce imports.
The food industry is taking the lead in Cuba’s investment policy with plans that expect a strong foreign participation. The most recent steps and announcements confirm these productions as one of the sectors that the government has defined as strategic in the Long-Term Plan it is currently designing.
Many followers of the renowned Cuban writer “were in for a disappointment” when faced by the absence of the reprinting of several of his books that had been announced as part of the programme of presentations of the 26th Havana International Book Fair.
Many of the readers who follow Leonardo Padura expected to find in the recently concluded 2017 Havana International Book Fair a good (and almost only) opportunity to purchase some of the Cuban author’s best-liked works, but most of them had to again leave empty handed.
