CubaPLUS Magazine

The discussion and the exchange of experiences will approach the days of the symposium Leonardo Acosta in memoriam of the 33th International Festival Jazz Plaza, program which began its sessions in the Cuban Art Factory of this capital.

In the presence of the Cuban minister of tourism, Manuel Marrero, was officially inaugurated in this city, declared Humanity’s Cultural Heritage, the hotel La Calesa, belonging to the brand Encanto (Charm) and to the Cubanacan group.

The Cuban pianist Roberto Carlos Cucurucho Valdes announced that he will launch in concert his disk Con los pies en mi tierra, as part of the 33 International Festival Jazz Plaza 2018’s program.

The relationships between Cuba and the World Foods Program (PMA) are strengthened with specific actions of cooperation, as the contingency assistance which made available different resources to the Island disposal after the whip of Irma hurricane, last September.

The Spanish’s hotel chain Melia Hotels has just begun operations in four new hotels in Cienfuegos and Camaguey provinces, this way the company strengthens its presence in the Cuba’s main destinations.

With the arrival of the opening flight of Caribbean Airlines to Cuba, the capitals of both countries were connected, which will contribute to the strengthening of the bilateral relationships and a higher integration among the Caribbean countries.

Cuba’s National Prize of Music 2017 was awarded to Jose Luis Cortes "el Tosco" (the rough), in recognition of his rich artistic career and contributions to the Cuban culture.

The Cuban vice Minister of health, Alfredo González, stood out the country’s achievements reached by the medicine sector during 2017, in a ceremony for the national day of the Science held in this capital.

The leading ballet dancer of the Cuba’s National Ballet (BNC) Claudia Garcia models today the leading role of Kitri in the classic Don Quijote which represented for the first time.

Artists of seven countries will compete in the Cuba’s IV Young Arena International Circus Festival that will take place here on March 6 - 9, the president of the Organizing Committee, Sergio Suárez highlighted.

Scores of visitors to the restaurant next to the San Pedro de la Roca del Morro Castle succumb in to temptation of taken a photo close together the ex-Beatle Paul McCartney who visited this place 18 years ago.

Artists from Cuba and the other six countries meet in this city during the XIII Mural Painting International Meeting, InterUs, that will be carry out up to January 27.

An homage to the outstanding Cuban intellectuals Joel James, Armando Hart and Fernando Martinez becomes the symposium which began in Santiago de Cuba consecrated to the first of them, founder and director of the Caribbean House.

The director of the Cuba’s National Theater of Puppets and Marionettes (Guiñol), Armando Morales, received the National Prize of Theater 2018 for his noteworthy work during more than 50 years in the art of the stage.

The increase of the number of tourists who visit Camagüey is proportional to the increase of the operations in the International Airport Ignacio Agramonte which received 250 thousand passengers from several destinations in 2017.

The Cuban multi-instrumentalist Bobby Carcasses will take on responsibility for the opening of the 33 International Festival Jazz Plaza, set for January 16 – 21 this year at the Havana city, event organizers confirmed.

The tourism guides comment in the eastern Cuban city of Baracoa that the island’s rivers have not much flow, but in their surroundings you can enjoy a particular beauty. That is an ever present feature in this country’s region, extremely typical and traditional territory.

An expansion of its potentials for the Cuban medicine and abroad, undergoes the Dalmer Laboratories S.A., one of the Cuba’s exporter leaders in this field, his director, doctor Rafael Gamez explained.

With a beginning of a very encouraging year for the Cuban tourism, travelers from all over the world have a lot to see with an extremely particular sculpture in the east city of Baracoa, the sculpture of Pelu.

Since the first months of 2017 different surveys and discussions of documents have been carried out and analyzed one way or another by more than a million 600 thousand citizens, about the implemented transformations which will going ahead in the country. Just as stated Marino Murillo Jorge, the head of the implementation and development committee for the updating of Cuba’s economic guidelines, held on December 21, 2017 which was previously approved in the last Cuba Communist Party’s Congress.