CubaPLUS Magazine

The iconic Cuban Rum, Havana Club, is participating in the International Fair of Havana, FIHAV 2024, which opened its doors this Monday, showcasing the excellence, versatility and dynamism of its broad portfolio, which evokes a renewing approach to the richest Cuban cultural traditions. Profundo, Spiced and Smoky will be the protagonists of this Fair, together with the founding rum 7 Años, a living expression of Cuban culture that is reinvented to provide, in each sip, the exquisite essence of Cuban Rum, says a press release from the entity.

Havana Club, the rum of Cuba, strengthened its seal of excellence worldwide, by achieving another 7 awards in international competitions, bringing the total number of awards obtained this year to 50 and a total of 510 since 1994. According to a press release from the entity, these recognitions, in addition to corroborating the indisputable quality of the brand's rums, place it as the most awarded in Cuba, and among them the Premium and Super Premium 1 rums stand out.

The extra-hotel company Palmares celebrates its 20th anniversary this November 1st with the certainty of having managed to satisfy the requirements of its clients, both national and foreign, in terms of recreation and gastronomy. With 17 branches throughout the country – three in the Cuban capital – this company has 678 establishments that include restaurants, cafes, bars, nightclubs and institutions for the practice of sports tourism, with around 1033 options, mainly located in vacation destinations.

As they say in good Cuban, the Royalton Hicacos hotel in Varadero is ready for the “party” because it already has all the conditions created for a good high season starting on November 1, not only in terms of logistics, but also because of the good omens regarding the number of clients who will come to this facility to vacation in the coming months.

For Canadian tourists, Cuba is the main Caribbean destination, which is evidenced by the fact that for more than 30 years, Canada has been and continues to be the main source market for the island. An example of this is that up to last July Cuba received 622,128 Canadian vacationers, 42.52% of the total international visitors who arrived in the country in that period, according to figures from the National Office of Statistics and Information (ONEI).

The Cuban Institute of Cinematographic Art and Industry (ICAIC) announced on social media the end of the filming of the documentary "Mijain", dedicated to five-time Cuban Olympic champion Mijain López. According to the information, this exciting project is a co-production of ICAIC and D’Alma Film, with the support of the National Institute of Sports, Physical Education and Recreation (INDER) and Cuban Television.

Artists from over 15 countries will share stage as of this Monday at the 28th International Ballet Festival Alicia Alonso, which Cuba celebrates until 10TH NOVEMBER.

Varadero, Cuba's main sun and beach destination, is ready for the high tourist season (November-April), which is about to begin and where most of the hotel facilities have been renovated, both in terms of amenities and services.

The launch of new projects under a strategy focused on urban tourism will revitalize the sector in the Cuban city of Matanzas in order to exploit its potential. According to the website www.radio26.cu, the city plans to carry out projects focused on urban tourism and nature on a small scale next year, in order to open spaces and offers for the enjoyment of both locals and visitors. The recovery of important pedestrian crossings such as Calle del Medio, Narváez, the urban historic center and Calle Laborde in the Versalles neighborhood, stand out among the actions to be carried out in line with the declaration of the city of Matanzas as a tourist destination.

The International Jazz Plaza Festival 2025, from January 26 to February 2, 2025, returns to celebrate its 40th edition with new musical and visual arts features, according to its organizers. One of the great surprises is the poster made especially for the contest by the renowned Cuban painter Zaida del Río, National Prize for Visual Arts 2023, whose originality lies in the fact that she is the first woman to distinguish this festival with her work, it was announced at a press conference.

The Association of Tour Operators and Travel Agencies of Slovakia (SACKA) selected Cuba as the venue for its annual review of tourism activity developed during 2023, an occasion that will enable more than 70 participants in the travel sector of that Central European nation to become familiar with the Cuban destination as a “new product” for the coming 2025.

Cuba is reportedly boosting the use of photovoltaic solar energy, and is carrying out two projects since early 2024 to add 1,000 megawatts in two years to the national power grid, looking at adding the same amount of generation by 2031. Alfredo Lopez, general director of the state-run energy company Union Electrica (UNE), told Granma newspaper that there are 26 photovoltaic solar parks in several stages of construction in all Cuban provinces, which represents a huge effort by the State.

Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel today urged businessmen from around the world to invest in the country's agricultural sector, during a virtual appearance at the IV World Food Forum. Body: A Cuban television report reviewed the president’s participation in the international event that began this Monday in Rome, capital of Italy, where it will be held until next Friday.

The Transcultural program, implemented by UNESCO and funded by the European Union (EU), inaugurated this Monday in the Cuban capital the sixth round of cultural training courses related to the conservation, management and promotion of heritage. In the workshops, taught in Spanish with interpretation into English, 70 young creators and students from the Caribbean are trained in the specialties of mural painting conservation, marble work, preservation of documentary archives, design of small businesses in heritage tourist destinations and management of historic centers.

Dr. Gertrudis Rojas Dorantes, a scientist at the Center for Molecular Immunology (CIM) in Cuba, and Dr. Maren Schubert, group leader of the Biotechnology and Medical Biotechnology departments at the Technical University of Braunschweig (TUBS) in Germany, are working on a new form of treatment that could be more effective for the treatment of gliomas, advanced esophageal cancer and squamous cell carcinomas, among other types of cancer.

Cuban Prime Minister Manuel Marrero evaluated the preparation of the important 40th International Fair of Havana (FIHAV 2024) scheduled to take place next November, a press report indicated this Friday. The note from the Granma newspaper indicates that a few weeks before the start of the Fair (November 4-9), the participation of over 700 Cuban and foreign companies is projected. These assessments appeared during an examination of the preparations for the largest trade fair in the country and the Caribbean and Latin American region, led by Marrero.

A large business delegation will represent Russia at the 40th Havana International Fair, FIHAV-2024, Sputnik reported on Friday. The news agency informed that representatives from more than 50 countries will take part in FIHAV-2024, scheduled from November 4 to 9, and a pavilion will showcase the development potentialities and commercial interests of the Cuban provinces.

All of eastern Cuba is an explosion of colors that the traveler receives all at once, which is a pleasant surprise, especially in Bayamo, a city that has much to show. This city is particularly attractive this Thursday because it marks 156 years since the beginning of the wars of independence against Spanish colonialism, and the moment of the emergence of Cuban nationality. Bayamo is the capital of the province of Granma, in the southeast of Cuba, whose fame rises with the blow of nature, sea, mountains and a history that contributes to original sites of revolutions, to the point of constituting the epicenter of Cuban nationality.

The Cuban Culture celebrations begin on Thursday, and it will last until October 20 with a wide program of activities, dedicated this year to the 120th anniversary of the birth of writer Alejo Carpentier and to art instructors. Havana will kick off these activities with the screening of the documentary Comunidad (Community). The film, a premiere by Cuba’s National Folkloric Ensemble.

This humanized monoclonal antibody received new medical registrations in China last February, for use in carcinomas of the pancreas, head and neck, and nations such as Japan, South Korea, Indonesia, Canada, India, Brazil and Germany have conducted clinical research with this Cuban product in different cancer locations. Created by the Center for Molecular Immunology (CIM), this drug obtained in 2002 the sanitary registration granted by the Center for State Control of Medicines, Equipment and Medical Devices for the therapy of advanced tumors of the head and neck in adults, after demonstrating its action of blocking the epidermal growth factor, a highly valuable target in Oncology.