The Spanish hotel chain Melia, is betting on national tourism this summer, with an “outlet” sale campaign for Cuban families. They are offering discounts for grandparents, free accommodation for children under the age of 11 and 50% off the price for children aged 11-13 years old.
I spent some weeks in Mallorca, an island which is much smaller than the Cuban province of Artemisa and which receives 13 million foreign tourists per year. You can always see 2 or 3 planes flying overhead and, in spite of such traffic, I managed to go through Immigration and collect my baggage in 30 minutes.
The Theater, set design, script, soundtrack and even the audience chosen by Trump to announce the end of the rapprochement process with Cuba couldn’t have been worse. In political communication terms, the new US president is just a caricature of Obama.
Safety is one of Cuba’s greatest tourist attractions, especially when we compare this to other countries within the region, where violent crimes have increased even above the Latin American average, which are already high enough as it is.
Cuban authorities have launched a campaign to prevent economic the opening on the island being ripe for money laundering from abroad. The owner of two successful restaurants on the Havana seafront has been the first arrested.
The Cuban Parliament has finally approved the groundwork for the reforms process put forward by President Raul Castro and his government. However, it has done so with some reserves, the most sensitive subject seems to revolve around private businesses and a consequent accumulation of wealth.
President Trump is a box of surprises, no one knows for sure what his position will be. On May 20, he declared that “cruel despotism cannot extinguish the flame of freedom in the hearts of Cubans” and a few days later he proposed to Congress to cut aid to dissidents.
For half a century, Cuba’s political communication remained exclusively in the hands of the talented Fidel Castro, a brilliant public speaker who used public squares as a platform to popularize ideas, legitimize actions and win over followers.
With all the talk about restoring the Capitolio building in Havana, it’s expected that the beneficiaries of this process – the 600 legislators who meet there – get on top of the backlog in legislation. There are laws which have been waiting in desk drawers for over a decade.
“The immigration flow has ceased,” recognized captain of the US Coast Guard, Admiral Paul Zukunft. Meanwhile, frigate lieutenant Kate Webb, explained that the number of people found on Cuban rafts intercepted in the Key West area fell from 750 people per month to just 20.
