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One million international visitors arrived in Cuba

This result is reached a few days before the start of the 42nd International Tourism Fair (FITCuba 2024), from May 1 to 5 in Jardines del Rey, dedicated to Latin America and the Caribbean and nautical products

Author:  | informacion@granmai.cu

april 29, 2024 08:04:47

Cuba is the owner of a wonderful communion of goodness that, for the tourist activity, is unparalleled. Photo: Juvenal Balán

Cuba reached, this April 26, the figure of one million international visitors received, informed Juan Carlos García Granda, head of the Ministry of Tourism (Mintur), in his account in X.
This result, he said, was achieved a few days before the start of the 42nd International Tourism Fair (fitCuba 2024), from May 1 to 5, in Jardines del Rey, dedicated to Latin America and the Caribbean and nautical products.
Previously, the National Bureau of Statistics and Information highlighted that, at the end of March, 809,238 visitors had arrived, mostly from Canada, as the first issuer, in addition to the Cuban community abroad, Russia, the United States, Germany, France, Mexico, the United Kingdom, Spain and Argentina.
Cuba aims to surpass three million visitors in 2024, a year that, according to García Granda, will see a recovery compared to 2023, and for which the conditions are in place.
On the other hand, this Monday will take place the seminar “Enhancing tourism development through innovation in community tourism”, prior to the 69th meeting of the UN Regional Commission on Tourism for the Americas, to be held on April 30.

SOLIDARITY WITH CUBA

Cuba will continue to raise the banners of peace, solidarity and cooperation with peoples

Speech delivered by Miguel Mario Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and President of the Republic, at the closing ceremony of the International Meeting of Solidarity with Cuba and against imperialism, at the Palace of Conventions, on May 2, 2024, “Year 66 of the Revolution”.

Author:  | informacion@granmai.cu

may 3, 2024 08:05:08

Díaz-Canel affirmed that Cuba continues to be a reference and a meeting place for those who aspire to a better world. Photo: Dunia Álvarez

(Shorthand Versions – Presidency of the Republic)
Dear friends, dear friends, defenders of international solidarity;
Sisters and brothers of the Cuban Revolution:
To all of you we would like to thank you for being here in Cuba.  We thank you for your participation in the Meeting, in which we share the same sentiment and the same commitment: that of human solidarity, which is also for you with your expressions, solidarity with the Cuban Revolution and with the struggle of the peoples for their true emancipation.
To celebrate International Workers’ Day, as we did yesterday in Cuba, together with representatives of the working class and solidarity movements and friends of Cuba is a great honor and a gesture of courage that our heroic people thanks you all for.
It is also an honor for the Cuban people the significant presence and participation of young people in the May Day International Brigade and in the trade union delegations that visit us (Applause).
In this Meeting, which has been held as part of the activities to commemorate International Workers’ Day, more than 1,000 delegates have participated, and 70% of them are coming to Cuba for the first time. This means that Cuba continues to be a point of reference and a meeting place for those of us who aspire to a better world; this means that the family of solidarity is also growing; and this means that in the new generations the feeling of solidarity is also germinating (Applause).
These have been days of intense days.  We recently held two days of wide-ranging debate and analysis on the exclusionary and unjust International Economic Order and also on the proposals for a much-needed New International Economic Order.
Yesterday, friends and organizations in solidarity with Cuba from Canada, Uruguay, the United States, Argentina and Ecuador were also honored and awarded. To all of them we reiterate our congratulations and our gratitude.
We also salute the work of the Latin American and Caribbean Continental Network of Solidarity with Cuba and just causes (Applause); the approval of more than 100 resolutions against the blockade in the United States; the 40th anniversary of an uninterrupted friendship with the Australian friends of solidarity, who will visit us in December of this year; and also the 30th anniversary of the Canadian Che Guevara brigade, present here (Applause).

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Tourism Economic Engine

Cuba’s tourism values within the reach of the world

42ND INTERNATIONAL TOURISM FAIR

Cuba’s tourism values within the reach of the world

FitCuba 2024, the most important professional event in the Cuban tourism sector, will be held until May 5

Author:  | informacion@granmai.cu

may 2, 2024 09:05:02

Photo: Cubadebate

The 42nd International Tourism Fair, FitCuba 2024, started on May 1st in Jardines del Rey, dedicated to Latin America and the Caribbean; an area that, in the words of Gustavo Santos, regional director of UN Tourism, could be a major multi-destination zone.
In statements to the press, the official stressed that this is a market of 500,000,000 people in which connectivity must continue to be stimulated, an aspect on which Cuba is working, and which will be reflected both in the number of visitors arriving on the island and in the country’s development.
He stressed that, with its participation in FitCuba 2024, UN Tourism shows its support to this event, considered the most important professional event of the Cuban tourism industry.
Santos stressed also that tourism is a fundamental tool for the economic growth of countries, in compliance with the 2030 Agenda; first, because it represents an activity whose resources are natural and/or cultural, as a factor of sustainability and preservation. Second, because it is one of the productive activities that is most supported by the strategic objectives of the United Nations.
He added that the organization he represents promotes accessible tourism and works to prepare the infrastructure and services “not only as a moral fact, but also as an economic fact”.
FitCuba 2024 will present a wide range of business opportunities in Cuba and the potential of the sector to tour operators, travel agencies, hoteliers, suppliers and related professionals.

Human Rights

The United States on human rights, with what morals?

The attribution that the U.S. government has given itself is so absurd that it does not even seem that they themselves believe the lies and manipulations that, using the subject, they want to apply against other countries

Author:  | internet@granma.cu

april 24, 2024 11:04:29

Photo: Satire of Moro 

Perhaps one day, when there is no longer a U.S. veto in the UN Security Council, and when the organization itself demands morality and example from those who have set out to judge the inhabitants of planet Earth, the issue of human rights will cease to be an instrument used by the Empire to justify its own violations.
The U.S. government has given itself such an absurd attribution that it does not even seem that they themselves believe the lies and manipulations that, using the subject, they want to apply against other countries.
On Monday, when Secretary of State Antony Blinken presented the U.S. State Department’s annual report on human rights, he displayed his imperial ego and went to the extreme of calling on the discredited OAS to “demand that Venezuela, Nicaragua and Cuba respect human rights”. This is a recycled argument, devoid of any real content, and a pretext for macabre inventions such as placing Cuba on the list of countries that sponsor terrorism.
This gentleman has forgotten that none of these three Latin American nations has financed or armed the Zionist regime of Israel to commit genocide against the Palestinian population.
In fact, Blinken was the first “special envoy” to arrive in Tel Aviv when Benjamin Netanyahu’s government began massacring the Palestinians 200 days ago, and he declared that “the United States supports Israel in its fight against Gaza”, where, by the way, more than 34,000 Palestinians have already died, including almost 15,000 children.
Nor are Cuba, Nicaragua or Venezuela funding the war in Ukraine, where more than half a million Kiev soldiers have been killed or wounded. There, human rights are daily flouted by the West, and Washington has turned this war into a big business for its military complex. Neither Venezuela, nor Nicaragua, nor Cuba sanction another country, much less bet on the “suffocation” of a people, as the United States has been doing against Cuba for more than 60 years.
In his report in X, Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla wrote: “The US Secretary of State is not concerned about the human rights of the Cuban people, which he is violating with measures of suffocation and extreme blockade, or those of the massacred Palestinian people. He is concerned about the rights of arms producers and their objectives of domination and plunder”.