Habanos S.A. incomes grew five per cent in 2016 due to the recovery of the European market and more sales to tourists in Cuba.
The 19th International Havana Cigar Festival, dedicated to three of the national brands with the greatest tradition in the specialised markets – H.Upmann, Montecristo and Quai d’Orsay – started early this week with the news confirming tobacco as one of the sectors that maintains dynamism in the Cuban economy.
The National Ballet of Cuba’s first dancer, who recently passed away in Madrid, interpreted as no one else the role of the Bride in Antonio Gades’ Blood Wedding, among other many dance feats.
When evoking Marta García the first images that come to my mind date back to the mid-1970s. She, who had just reached the level of first dancer of the National Ballet of Cuba, was dancing in the old Principal Theatre of Camagüey the role of Swanilda in a production of Coppelia which the Camagüey troupe, directed by JoaquínBanegas, had just premiered. At the time I was beginning to approach the world of ballet and I didn’t have too many elements to judge what I was seeing on stage, but what I saw in that function had a powerful effect on me. Marta irradiated energy, self-confidence, without losing the histrionic grace that the character required.
Conversation with a “Marielito” who doesn’t bear a grudge because he was expelled from his country, but neither is he prepared to erase his past.
It was in early May 1980 when the police came to his home in Centro Habana with the order that he had to leave the country. At the time EloyGuzmán was 29 years old and had never thought about immigration. In Cuba, despite everything, he was happy.
Climate change in the Caribbean is causing shorter cycles in the return of droughts, lasting for longer periods of time.
With a significant reduction in precipitations, it is confirmed that drought is one of the conflicts that today most strains the country’s economy and the life of many persons. The expansion of the territories affected by this climatic disaster, less published but equally damaging like a cyclone, has made it necessary to draw up a programme of urgent measures in the country.
