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By Laura Becquer Havana, Jun 16 (EFE).- Angel Antonio and Arlyn Torres are among the tens of thousands of Cubans who in recent months have sold virtually everything they own, incurred mountains of debt and embarked on a United States-bound journey via Central America in search of a better future. The young married couple, who …
By Laura Becquer Havana, May 20 (EFE).- From her tablet, 12-year-old Bryana Alfonso puts a mechanically animated doll through its paces using software she learned to write at a Youth Computation Club in the Cuban capital. The doll turns its head left and right, moves it arms, and even speaks on command from Bryana, whose …
By Laura Becquer Varadero, Cuba, May 3 (EFE).- The 40th edition of the International Tourism Fair, FitCuba 2022, kicked off on Tuesday after a two-year hiatus with Havana hoping to reactivate the country’s tourism sector, which plunged during the pandemic, amid an overall economy in crisis. The Caribbean country, which depends greatly on foreign currency …
Cuba, in tough battle to recover its key sugar industry 3 minutes read By Laura Becquer Havana, May 4 (EFE).- The former leader in the world sugar market, Cuba is far from recovering the huge production volumes of former years in an industry considered to be the country’s economic engine but which has not managed to take off again since it collapsed during the 1990s. Of the 156 sugar plants operating before 1959, just 56 remain and only 38 of them are processing the 2020-2021 harvest. And the 5.6 million tons of sugar collected during the year in which the Cuban Revolution triumphed, or t...