Business & Economy

The government officials from Mexico and Cuba met in Havana this week for their first negotiating session for broadening and deepening commercial relations.

The Bolivian government signed a contract on Sunday with the Cuban company Tecnosime to set up a fruit juice processing plant in that South American nation’s Sacta Valley.

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko on Thursday received Cuban “reform czar” Marino Murillo, who is on a working visit to the European nation.

Cuba and China are making progress on the development of a medium-term economic agenda, said the island’s first deputy minister of Foreign Trade and Foreign Investment, Orlando Hernandez today in Beijing.

Renowned Italian fashion firms are exploring the potential for entering the Cuban market, even with lines specifically created for this country and its commercial characteristics.

Cuban Vice President Marino Murillo is on an official visit to Vietnam, where he met Thursday with Secretary General of the Communist Party of that country, Nguyen Phu Trong.

The University of Information Sciences (UCI) was “decoupled” from the Ministry of Information and Communications and is now operating under the Ministry of Higher Education (MES), according to a news items issued on Thursday.

Cuba is launching onto the international market an innovative variety of cigar, “El Petit Churchill,” according to a statement released on Monday by the international corporation Habanos SA.

Cuba’s national electric company said on Wednesday that the massive blackout that on September 9 left much of the island in the dark was caused by an operational error on the part of one of its employees