Beginning in 2025, Cubans Who Want To Travel to China Will Not Have To Pay for a Visa

The high cost of tickets between both nations, around $1,500 per person, discourages travel 14ymedio, Havana, December 28, 2024 — The Chinese Embassy in Havana announced this Friday that Cubans who wish to travel to the Asian country will be exempt from paying the fees of the visa procedure from January 1. Payment will be … Continue reading “Beginning in 2025, Cubans Who Want To Travel to China Will Not Have To Pay for a Visa”

Cuba Receives Help From Japan in Addition to Deliveries From the European Union, Russia, Brazil and the UN

Japan donated mats, water purifiers, tents and blankets to the victims of Artemisa 14ymedio, Havana, 30 November 2024 — After two hurricanes, two earthquakes and a long season of blackouts, the Cuban regime has done what it does best: ask for help left and right. The Government’s hand remains open and extended to receive international … Continue reading “Cuba Receives Help From Japan in Addition to Deliveries From the European Union, Russia, Brazil and the UN”

Cuba Will Remain Without Electricity at Least Until Saturday

UNE announced the “total disconnection” of the Electrical System The Antonio Guiteras power plant had scheduled maintenance, but it did not last until the scheduled date With the country in darkness and the economy paralyzed, Marrero says that Cuba “is not yet in a bottomless abyss” 14ymedio, Havana, 18 October 2024 — The Cuban Ministry … Continue reading “Cuba Will Remain Without Electricity at Least Until Saturday”

Diaz-Canel Inaugurates a Cuban-style ‘Hello President’ Program

14ymedio, Madrid, 22 March 2024 — “A big movement is beginning, like the one that was made in the Energy Revolution,” Cuba’s Minister of Energy and Mines, Vicente de la O Levy announced in the first edition of the program Desde la Presidencia, a kind of Cuban “Hello President,” with Miguel Díaz-Canel as host and … Continue reading “Diaz-Canel Inaugurates a Cuban-style ‘Hello President’ Program”

In the Midst of Daily Blackouts, Cuba Organizes a Renewable Energy Fair

14ymedio, Havana, 16 June 2022 — The Cuban population’s weariness of a summer without power grows and jumps from social networks to the streets. If Tuesday was a day of protest for the university residents of Camagüey, on Wednesday came the banging on pots through the streets of Manzanillo, in the province of Granma. The … Continue reading “In the Midst of Daily Blackouts, Cuba Organizes a Renewable Energy Fair”

Work Suspended in ‘Non-essential’ Companies to Limit Blackouts in Cuba

14ymedio, Havana, 15 May 2021 — After hundreds of complaints in the social networks, Cuban authorities announced this Friday that the electrical blackouts in recent days are due to breakages in plants in Matanzas and Havana and that they are working on the problem. Directors of the Ministry of Energy and Mines said on The … Continue reading “Work Suspended in ‘Non-essential’ Companies to Limit Blackouts in Cuba”