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The World Supports Cuba Atypical National and Rejects the U.S YEAR XI NO 7 JUL 5, 2021 HAVANA, CUBA ISSN 2224-5707 Price: 1.00 USD / 1.20 CAN Cuba The World Supports Cuba Atypical National and Rejects the U.S. Blockade Uprising Day P. 4 P. 3 Health & Science World Sports Abdala and Soberana 02, World Economy: For Glory in Bets Against COVID-19 Certainties and Tokyo 2020 Uncertainties P. 5 P. 9 P. 15 2 TOURISM Strives to Recover the Tourism Industry García recalled that all visitors undergo a Before the spread of the pandemic, PCR test upon entry to the Cuban territory, tourism was Cuba’s second official source where there are several safe destinations for of currency income – behind the provision tourists, such as Varadero, Cayo Coco, Cayo of professional services abroad – and Santa María and Cayo Largo, he affirmed. contributed about 10 percent of the Gross The health protocol in place establishes that Domestic Product (GDP). travelers coming to Cuba need to show a The country hoped to welcome over 4.5 negative PCR test – conducted 72 hours before million international visitors in 2020 and their arrival, maximum – and undergo a second revert the 9.3 percent decrease of 2019, test when entering the country, on the border. when 4.2 million tourists traveled to the Tourists should then spend quarantine in a island – 436,352 less in comparison to 2018, hotel until they test negative in a third PCR according to official data. test, which is conducted five days after their An internationally renowned health arrival. Cubans can choose between staying system, in addition to several vaccine at a paid hotel or a free, state isolation candidates against COVID-19, consolidate center, where they also have to wait for the Cuba’s recent bet to recover its tourist Varadero, one of the destinations for tourists in Cuba. PHOTOS: Prensa Latina. result of the third test. industry. For the past few weeks, Cuba has reported As Minister Juan Carlos García has highlighted, By FranciscoMENÉNDEZ totally closed to tourism in April because of over one thousand daily cases of COVID-19. Cuba is one of the few destinations that has a COVID-19. The country suspended commercial and doctor, a nurse and an epidemiology expert The Cuban National Statistics and Information charter flights in April 2020, to stop the in each hotel facility. HAVANA.-Cuban authorities make great Office informed that the abovementioned spread of the disease, and reopened its The country also created the ‘Tourism, more efforts to recover the tourism industry in figure represents 918,386 visitors less in airports in October 2020. hygienic and safe’ certification, which is spite of the COVID-19 pandemic and under comparison to the previous year. Since January, the number of flights granted by a commission composed of the strict health protocols in hotels already in The report indicated that more than half the coming from the United States, Mexico, ministries of Heath and Tourism and which operation, especially those located at the tourists who have arrived to Cuba in the course Panama, the Bahamas, Haiti, the Dominican is essential to start operating, in addition to Varadero and Jardines del Rey resorts. of this year (33,592) are Russians, followed by Republic and Colombia have reduced to being a guarantee for visitors, the minister Official reports indicate that 64,712 foreign Cubans resident abroad, Germans, Spanish and the minimum. concluded. tourists visited the island in the first four Canadian. months of 2021, which represents six The island closed for the first four months of percent of the 983,099 who did over the 2019 with a 7.2 percent increase in relation to year of 2020. the first four months of 2018. These figures differ even more from those Of the 1.9 million tourists received in 2019 in of the last pre-pandemic season (2019), the said period, over 650,000 were Canadians when Cuba welcomed over 1.9 million – 10 times more than this year because of international visitors. the restrictions imposed by Canada, which The number of international visitors to Cuba suspended flights to the Caribbean. decreased by 94 percent from January to At present, Cuba receives four flights a week April 2021 – Cuba’s high tourist season – in from Russia; thus, every day of the week, comparison to those who arrived in 2020. there are over 2,400 Russian tourists, stated January and February 2020 witnessed a Cuban Minister of Tourism Juan Carlos García, normal arrival of tourists, but March was who participated in the MITT 2021 Tourism seriously affected and the country was Fair held last March in Moscow. Key Coco, in Jardines del Rey. SOCIETY.HEALTH & SCIENCE.POLITICS.CULTURE ENTERTAINMENT.PHOTO FEATURE.ECONOMY SPORTS.AND MORE President: Luis Enrique González Art Direction: Anathais Rodríguez Publisher: Agencia Informativa Latinoamericana Information:Vice President: Moisés Pérez Mok Graphic Designers: Fernando Fernández Tito Prensa Latina, S.A. Editorial:Vice President: Lianet Arias Chief Graphic Editor: Francisco González Calle E, esq. 19 No. 454, Vedado, La Habana-4, Cuba Editorial Director: Mariela Pérez Valenzuela Assistant Staff: Yaimara Portuondo Telephone: (53)7838-3496 / 7832-3578 Chief Editor: Ilsa Rodríguez Santana Advertising: René García Fax: (53)7833-3068 E-mail: [email protected] English Editor: Mitra Ghaffari Circulation: Commercial Department Translation: Dayamí Interian/ Yanely Interián Printing: Prensa Latina CUBA 3 Atypical National Uprising Day The group known as Generation of the Centenary attacked the Moncada Garrison. PHOTOS: Prensa Latina. By MassielMATOS The homage also comes in times when, for the first time since 1959, historic leadership is not ruling the country, after it was agreed HAVANA.- Cuba marks its National Uprising Day to transfer responsibilities during the PCC on July 26, without the regular masses usually in Congress last April. attendance. Thus, it is up to new generations, headed by the Three months after the 8th Congress of the First Secretary of the PCC, Miguel Díaz-Canel, to Communist Party of Cuba (PCC), which marked a preserve that legacy and lead the country’s future generational change in the country’s leadership, in the middle of complex circumstances. Cubans recall the feat of a group of young people In a context marked by COVID-19 and the led by Fidel Castro, that in 1953 rose up against the tightening of the U.S. blockade, the government government of dictator Fulgencio Batista. is seeking alternatives to mitigate the impact of Inspired by the ideas of National Hero José Martí and Washington’s hostile policy and face the effects of the year marking the 100th anniversary of his birth, the pandemic with its own resources. the group known as Generation of the Centenary “We are not satisfied with keeping the country’s attacked the Moncada Garrison, the second most potential forces to just survive. We hope to important military fortress at the time. resist ingeniously, without renouncing to our Although the action failed in terms of strategy, the development plans,” pointed out Díaz-Canel, who event was a political victory because it marked is also the President of the Republic. the beginning of a new period in Cuba’s pro- Examples of that are the five vaccine candidates independence process, which finished on January being produced in the country to fight COVID-19, 1, 1959 with the revolutionary triumph. thanks to which the entire Cuban population will Each year Cubans celebrate the event with be immunized this year, local health authorities mass public gatherings headed by the country’s sustained. leadership. However, these celebrations have been Amid these circumstances, Cuba welcomes the moved to virtual spaces due to the pandemic. celebration of the aforementioned day, which For this 68th anniversary and for second will always be great motivation, as stated by consecutive time, the acts regularly held in public the Cuban president during the last public act plazas to recall the Moncada events will, once again, in 2019 in Bayamo, the capital of the eastern be replaced by initiatives on digital platforms. Province of Granma. The celebrations have been moved to virtual spaces due to the pandemic. 25 CUP, For 4 News Headlines per day for just $25.00 CUP / month, Send an SMS with the letters PL to 8100 4 CUBA-U.S.A The Cuban minister called for an end to to the damages caused in the previous The World Supports Cuba and manipulation, discrimination and the period, amount to a total of 9,157.2 million obstacles to relations between Cubans dollars, from April 2019 to December 2020. living in the United States and their relatives The damages accumulated over more than Rejects the U.S. Blockade in Cuba, the country they were born in. 60 years of application amount currently Many people pragmatically say, even to 147,853.3 million dollars. If depreciation By IbisFRADE within the U.S. government, that the of the dollar against the value of gold in blockade should be lifted because it is an the international market is considered, the anachronistic and inefficient policy that blockade has caused quantifiable damages HAVANA.- Once again, the world supported has not and will not meet its objective, the amounting to more than one trillion Cuba in its demand to put an end to the minister highlighted. 377,998,000 dollars. blockade imposed by the United States, High representatives of different nations Since the beginning of this year, several as the United Nations General Assembly condemned, at the General Assembly cities around the world have welcomed approved a resolution demanding that the debate, the increase of the hostile policy solidarity actions and , marches in rejection unilateral policy be lifted. and the unilateral coercive measures that of the U.S.
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