Cuba received 1,17 million visitors coming from the United States in the year that has just concluded, which represents a 119 percent increase regarding 2016, according to a tweet published by Josefina Vidal, General Director for North American country of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in her Twitter account.
Of the whole group, 619.523 are North Americans meaning a 217 percent increase regarding the previous year, while the remaining feature, 453.905, corresponding to Cubans residents in the United States representing a 138 percent increase.
Those figures have been reached after the re-establishment of the bilateral relationships in July, 2015, after which both countries return to normality in a new stage. Nevertheless, the economic, commercial and financial blockade policy imposed by Washington against the biggest island of The Antilles still persists putting restrictions to its citizens to travel freely to Cuba.
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