Dear readers,

We begin the year wishing you all a healthy, happy and prosperous 2021; success for everyone, and that the present edition of CubaPLUS Magazine will meet your expectations.

As always in these cases, the beginning of a year is full of illusions about undertaking new projects and challenges that improve our lives in some way. Our magazine also presents topics that have not been published so far, according to the interests expressed by our readers.

In the present edition, we include interesting articles, among them a piece on the main cities of the country and their attractions; a unique museum in the Alamar neighborhood, in the east of the Cuban capital; Mil Cumbres, an especially beautiful example of Cuban nature; the history-filled Albear aqueduct, and the walls of Havana, with their remarkable heritage.

As for art, the book includes interviews with prominent Cuban and foreign musicians who plan to participate in the 20th edition of the Drum Festival, to be held in Havana from March 1st to 7th.

In the visual arts, the young muralist Pablo Rosendo, photographer Sándor Rodríguez and renowned stylist Dorian Carbonell Fernández will present their most recent image creations.

To finish off the edition, you can take a tour around the Cuban health sector, which offers an overview of its achievements and, above all, the important role it currently plays in the fight against coronavirus, including the progress made by the vaccine candidates Soberana 1 and 2, Mambisa and Abdala, the great Cuban hope to prevent the disease.

National industry, engaged in new projects to improve production and substitute imports, is also present in this volume, also while an interview with “El Zurdo de Oro” (golden left-handed pitcher) of Cuban baseball, and an always well-received cooking recipe wrap up the current edition.

All that remains is to reiterate our wish for a better year for all and to reemphasize the need to maintain appropriate sanitary measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19, which continues affecting the world despite all the efforts of the health authorities.

Cordially,

Dominic Soave

Articles in this edition:

• Cities of Cuba, full of symbols and traditions
• Albear Aqueduct, Masterpiece of Civil Engineering
• THE WALLS OF HAVANA, witnesses to history
• Mil Cumbres: Treasures of the Cuban Flora
• The Museum of Tarecos, a curious place par excellence
• SMC, Breathe to prevent and be reborn
• CNEURO, from scientific research to technological development
• BIOMODULINA ®T, health safety and efficacy
• EMCOMED La Habana, guardian of the pharmaceutical sector
• Corporate positioning, watchwords for FARMACUBA
• Don’t bathe in the Malecón because in the water there’s a shark
• Sándor Rodríguez Castro “Everything I’ve done in life has been to have fun
• Donde Dorian, constant artistic creation
• Antonio Sánchez, music is my safety and my refuge
• Manolito Simonet. “When I write a song, the first thing I want is for Cuba to dance”
• Real Maravilloso, a musical project that lives up to its name
• The life of crops
• COMETAL. “A solution within your reach”
• Proven efficiency and quality
• ESAE. Satisfaction and trust
• Giant with inextinguishable flame
• First class value
• MINERVA, at the center of your preference
• With visión 2021
• CEDAI, a company that bets on development
• INPUD. Excellence backed by more than 5 decades
• GEIQ. Quality, efficiency and modernization
• Yulieski González: the art of pitching and the combination of dreams