Solo en América Latina y el Caribe 83,4 millones de personas están en riesgo de caer en condiciones de pobreza extrema y hambre este año, según un informe de la CEPAL y la FAO. La entrada Cuba quiere producir más alimentos para reforzar su soberanía se publicó primero en IPS Cuba.

His official name is Alexandr Seriogin, but he likes to be called Castro. This 57-year-old Russian claims to be Fidel’s son and feels a bit Cuban. With the pandemic, he learned that some of his “compatriots” from the island were in precarious situations and decided to honor his surname and the land of his alleged …

Help us keep OnCuba alive In its first day under new restrictive measures to stop the advance of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, Havana continues to report most of the new contagions in Cuba, 46 yesterday, to which are added the three deaths of the day. The victims were a 65-year-old man, described as “homeless,” and two …

Havana is subject to the most restrictive measures imposed by the Cuban government for at least 15 days since the beginning of the pandemic, which include a curfew as of 7:00 p.m., the prohibition to leave the city and hefty fines for non-compliance. The authorities affirm that the rebound in coronavirus cases in the capital …

Except for Havana―the epicenter of the COVID-19 epidemic on the island―and a few other towns, Cuba returned to the classrooms this Tuesday amid a second wave of coronavirus infections after more than six months of an unprecedented early closure. With a mandatory mask and received by health workers at the entrance, hundreds of thousands of …

Cuba has successfully dealt with the pandemic outside of the capital, Havana, where new cases continue to be reported.

His characters Nereida and Cristinito entertain hundreds of thousands of followers on his Facebook, Instagram and YouTube pages, where he publishes videos with puns, gibberish, double meanings and jokes that touch on current, very serious topics. Since the pandemic began, his contents have multiplied on the Internet: “Our mission was to amuse people and entertain, …

The prestigious Marriott hotel chain announced this Monday the closure of its operations in Cuba, after the U.S. administration of Donald Trump refused to renew its license to operate on the island. “We can confirm that starting tomorrow (Tuesday) Marriott will no longer be operating the Four Points by Sheraton in Havana,” Kerstin Sachl, the …

Cuba allocated only 5% of its investments to agriculture in 2019, economist Pedro Monreal warned this weekend, citing data from the Statistical Yearbook published by the National Office of Statistics and Information (ONEI). “The vulnerabilities of Cuba’s economic structure, aggravated by the recent crisis associated with the pandemic, impose an urgent review of investments,” Monreal …