CubaPLUS Magazine

The Granma Chestnuts conquered their second consecutive crown in the Cuban Baseball Championship, when they win in seven games to Las Tunas team, four victories against three.

The president of the American promoting trip Organization toward Cuba, Insight Cuba, Tom Popper, reiterated that to travel to the island is legal and safe, a fact on which many North American don’t have a total clarity.

Cuban Music Institute convened to the XV International Festival and Guitar Contest in Havana which is set for next April 22-29, in this capital.

The famous Cuban bar-restaurant " Floridita " will open its franchise in a central place of the Mexico’s capital in the first half of the year very close to the popular Basilica de la Virgen de Guadalupe (Basilica of the Guadalupe virgin).

An equestrian statue’s replica of Cuba’s National Hero, Jose Marti placed in New York, was unveiled in Havana to pay him tribute in the 165th anniversary of his birthday.

A general representation agreement subscribed Sony ATV Music Publishing and Musical Recordings and Editions Company (EGREM), to consolidate the promotion and commercialization of the Cuban music.

The Cuban writer Rafael de Aguila won the Casa de las Americas’s Literary Prize 2018 in the story form with his work Todas las patas en el aire, the organizers of the contest announced.

THE XXVIII Cuban Congress of Pediatrics closed its doors after several days of scientific exchange among more than 400 participants from Latin America, Europe and the United States.

Turkey’s Minister of Tourism and Culture, Numan Kurtulmus, visited the Cuban stand in the International Tourism Fair and Oriental Mediterranean Trips (Emitt), informed diplomatic sources to Latin Press.

Cuba attends the 22th edition of the International Tourism Fair and Oriental Mediterranean Trips (Emitt) which is hold in Istanbul, Turkey, with the participating of more than a thousand exhibitors from 85 countries and representatives of 600 tour operators from 105 nations.

The cooperation between Cuba and Canada to face the climate change is magnificent, the Americas Region’s environment specialist of the Ministry of Global Agenda from that North America country, Moreno Padilla highlighted.

A workshop about climate change and its main consequences for life on earth, sessions in Havana focused on subjects as resilience and mitigation, among the most significant.

The 27th edition of Cuba’s International Book Fair, set for February 1-11 will have the participation of 40 countries and more than 400 foreign guests, its organizers announced.

The specialized tobaccos shop La Estrella, in Camaguey city, which should become in the first Cigar House in this province, is next to the opening, with the constructive works already in completion phase

In Cuba there is a natural park which has a lot of history and attracts every year visitors from all over the world, in particular European, place that this 2018 already have on it the looks of countless travelers.

The International Convention Calixto 2018 began in this capital with the attendance of delegates of more than 15 countries to updating themselves about the scientific results in public health at national level and abroad.

The 14th Gibara’s International Cinema Festival will be carried out this year during the first week of July, in an exceptional circumstance, due to the parliamentary elections process and the beginning of the IX Legislature that will happen in April.

The Union publishing house, representing the institution that brings together to the Cuban writers and artists (UNEAC), announced great variety of titles and events to offer in the International Book Fair, set for February 1-11.

Kono y Los chicos de Cuba was one of the participant groups in the 33th edition of the international Festival Jazz Plaza which close in this Caribbean country. In exclusive interview to Latin Press, Haruhiko Kono, director of that grouping made up by five artists, commented about his experience and the significance that he confers to this meeting celebrated every year in the biggest island of the Antilles.

The all-stars of the Cuban’s music Buena Vista Social Club will perform 11 concerts in Latin America countries with its principal figures, Eliades Ochoa and Barbarito Torres, two of its members announced.