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Canadian Tourists Are Shunning Cuba

Canada-Cuba tourism has taken a major hit in early 2025. The number of Canadian tourists to Cuba dropped by 30% in the first quarter.

President Diaz-Canel proposes a direct flight between St. Petersburg and Havana to relaunch Russian tourism.

A friend of ours still living in Cuba, recently wrote to us, nearly in tears, because his phone fell to the ground and the screen shattered.

In five years, pork production has dropped by 95%, pasta 92%, rice 82.4%, yogurt by 81.2%, coffee 65.6%, ice cream 62% and flour 60%.

Airbnb has indefinitely suspended both payments and services on the island, offering no clear explanation to those hosts affected.

In the midst of the ruins, the constant shouting of a seller seemed to awaken a neighborhood where the crisis has imposed a slumber.

Unions demand the repeal of Law 462 concerning the Social Security Fund and denounce the recent memorandum with the USA.

The regulation allowing travelers to bring in certain products duty free will remain in effect until next September 30, 2025.

The process that takes the grain from the fields to the table doesn’t end with the harvest. The farmer must dry it and pass it through a mill

According to official statistics, state bread production in Cuba has fallen by 34 percent over the past six years.