CubaPLUS Magazine

Music, films, awards, and tributes characterize the 18th Gibara International Film Festival, which opens in that eastern Cuban city on Tuesday until August 10.

Cuban wrestler Mijaín López today further secured his place among the immortals of world sport by dominating the up to 130 kilogram division of the Greco-Roman style, his fifth crown under the five rings.

The Wonder City, as Havana is known, officially declared in 2016 in the third annual contest organized by the Swiss foundation New7Wonders, has numerous historical sites and, among them, the ruins of what were the walls of the Cuban capital, are faithful witnesses of numerous past events.

Cuban Roxana Gomez stopped the clocks at 50.38 seconds and obtained this Monday her direct qualification to the semifinals of the 400 meters flat of the athletics of the Olympic Games of Paris 2024. With her best mark of the season, the Caribbean secured her place in the semis after arriving in the second position of the qualifying series number four.

Cuba will reportedly increase sevenfold the generation of energy with the use of solar radiation through a macro investment program that is part today of the program to change its energy matrix and sovereignty on this field. According to the director of renewable energy of the Ministry of Energy and Mines (Minem), Rosell Guerra, the generation of electric energy through this modality will grow by more than two thousand megawatts with after two photovoltaic solar parks projects are completed.

This August 5, the Cubanacan Group celebrates its 37th birthday with great satisfaction for having more than fulfilled its main work objectives: offering good quality services to satisfy the requirements of its clients. This year, the celebration has a special connotation because recently, in addition to the new offers presented during the last International Tourism Fair (FITCuba 2024), they have just embarked on a new Do it with C campaign, whose purpose is to raise the quality of services through motivation, performance and improvement of the management of its workers.

Cubans Noslen Díaz and Jorge Luis Alayo lost this Sunday 1-2, against Swedes David Ahman and Jonathan Hellvig, in the round of 16 of the men's beach volleyball tournament at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, and were eliminated. Díaz and Alayo were surpassed in extremis by the leaders of the world ranking, and finally gave in with a score of 11-21, 28-26 and 11-15, in an hour of action.

Que chabocha la chevecha/que che chube a la cabecha/anda chava chube y chirve/0tro bacho de chevecha (how tasty is beer, pour another glass). This is what a song popularized in the 70s of the last century by the Argentine singer Palito Ortega says, which captured the audience in Latin America and is remembered today on the International Day of that drink.

So far this year, authorities consider that there has been an increase in Canadian tourist´s entry to Cuba. The electronic bulletin “Correo Canadiense”, in its Friday edition, distributed in Havana, reports that more than 600 thousand Canadian tourists have already visited this country in 2024.

The Gran Caribe hotel group celebrates this Thursday its 30th anniversary with the certainty they have managed to offer their clients a quality service. Founded on August 1, 1994, belonging to the Ministry of Tourism (Mintur), Gran Caribe hotels currently has 45 hotels -12,123 rooms- of various categories and internationally recognized brands in the main tourist centers of the country.

Joy is one of the most positive emotions of human beings that is expressed through laughter or expressions that convey the pleasure felt by a person when receiving good news, experiencing a good event in company with friends or feeling fulfilled by some event.

Meliá Hotels International Cuba has just renewed its digital platform to offer the user a much more enriching experience, both in English and Spanish, while allowing them to capture and share the unique essence of Cuba, according to a press release this Wednesday published by the entity. Available at https://blog.meliacuba.com/es/, the Meliá Cuba Blog presents its content in very attractive formats

Cuban middleweight boxer (80 kilograms) Arlen Lopez on Tuesday defeated Kaan Aykutsun, from Türkiye, by a unanimous decision, and got his ticket to the quarterfinals of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. The two-time Olympic champion in Rio de Janeiro 2016 and Tokyo 2020, the Cuban boxer, imposed his rank in a complex fight against an opponent who debuted in these competitions.

A true friendship is a relationship so important between two people that, at times, it is much more important than that between family members. Trust, honesty and mutual support are the fundamental basis of this bond. That is why in Cuba there is a saying that says: “a good friend is worth more than a sugar mill.” This topic comes up today, July 30, when the International Day of Friendship is celebrated, proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly in 2011, with the idea that this feeling is cultivated, strengthened and inspires peace initiatives among peoples, countries and cultures in general.

The central act for the Day of National Rebellion, July 26, was held this Friday in the Plaza of the Revolution Major General Serafín Sánchez Valdivia, in the Cuban city of Santi Spíritus. In the commemoration, headed by Army General Raúl Castro, and the president of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel, Cuban vice president, Salvador Valdés Mesa, highlighted the economic and social results of the population of Santi Spíritus, hence the choice of the province of the same name as the venue for the acts for the anniversary.

Perhaps to some people it may seem impossible to paint at the bottom of the sea. But it is true, at the Punta Perdiz International Diving Center, about 11 kilometers from Playa Girón, on the southern coast of the province of Matanzas, in those beautiful seabeds you can find an art gallery and a workshop studio, where the plastic artist Sandor González Vilar is ecstatic, creating his art with fish and other marine species.

Cuba on Wednesday ratified in the voice of its highest sports authority, Osvaldo Vento, the commitment to promoting sports as an instrument of inclusion and a boost to sustainable development.

MESOL Gestión Hotelera Turística, importing entity of Meliá Hotels International, will be in charge of facilitating the management of the establishments managed by that Spanish company specialized in the Caribbean island, it was reported in Havana this Tuesday. Established at the beginning of this year, under the MESOL brand, the new institution will work numerous product lines, including food, beverages, artistic media, sporting, recreational and entertainment, lingerie, gastronomic supplies, kitchenware, cleaning items, means of protection and supplies related to the maintenance and technical services, according to the press release by Meliá Cuba.

Canada establishes itself as the first source of vacationers to Cuba, while the second position belongs to Cubans residing abroad, followed by the Federation of Russia, the United States, Germany, Mexico, France, Spain, Argentina and Italy, according to a report published by the National Office of Statistics and Information (ONEI).

The Country Brand Council was officially established this Monday, during a solemn ceremony held at the Hotel Nacional de Cuba, which also received the status of brand ambassador for being a flagship hotel facility in the largest of the Antilles. The first vice president of the Cuban Association of Social Communicators, Humberto Juan Fabián Suárez, was appointed as head of the council by the president of the Institute of Information and Social Communication, Alfonso Noya.