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U.S. Sectors Focus on Cuba, Advocate Rapprochement © YEAR VIII THE Nº 19 OCT 16, 2018 HAVANA, CUBA ISSN 2224-5707 Price: avana eporter 1.00 CUC H YOUR SOURCE OF NEWSR & MORE 1.00 USD A Bimonthly Newspaper of the Prensa Latina News Agency 1.20 CAN U.S. Sectors Focus on Cuba, Advocate Rapprochement P. 4 Culture Photo Feature P. 11 The Fascinating Corner of 23 & 12 in Havana Economy P. 6 P. 13 Cuban Culture Day, A Celebration of Arts Cuba-U.S. Team Up in Biotechnology 2 TOURISM U.S. Tour Operators and Businesspeople Set Sights on Cuba Text & Photos by TinoMANUEL month, mainly in the Varadero beach resort, the country’s leading Sun-Beach HAVANA.- The growth of the tourist destination. industry and the fact that Cuba is a safe The group included 335 travel agents destination for visitors are important from 16 issuing markets of tourists and factors that make U.S. tour operators and journalists from those same countries. businesspeople focus their attention on The trip included Havana, Varadero, the Caribbean island. Holguín and Santa Clara. The number of tourist specialists The big news always is the U.S. citizens’ and businesspeople setting their sights concern over visiting the island freely, as on Cuba grows year after year, and not they can only do so by opting for the 12 only from the United States, given the categories approved by the Department increasing trend of this Cuban sector and of the Treasury. the updating of the country’s economic Despite the travel restrictions, the U.S. model. visitors currently account for the second For this reason, U.S. groups like largest issuing market of tourists to Cuba, Engage Cuba and CubaNow recently after Canada. visited the island and condemned the Cuban Tourism Minister Manuel hostile measures imposed by Washington Marrero announced that the country against Havana for more than 50 years. welcomed over 600,000 U.S. tourists The blockade –which is the term used last year, which is the reason why tour by the Cuban authorities to refer to those operators and tourism authorities from economic and commercial barriers- is that country are centering their attention condemned by the majority of the good on the Cuba trips. people who come to Cuba, as recognized All the U.S. tourist directors and by many of the tourists polled. travelers polled so far have agreed to Even a coalition of 28 tour operators say that people’s safety and the locals’ Internet and companies specialized in educational kindness, above all, make Cuba a highly trips asked last month that the U.S. travel attractive destination. PHOTOS: restrictions to Cuba be lifted, in a release addressed to U.S. President Donald Trump. The tour operators visited different places of interest in Havana and praised them all, including the recently inaugurated luxury Hotel Packard. According to press reports and official statistics, 68,000 U.S. tourists came to Cuba last June. After several months on the decline, the U.S. tourist arrivals to Cuba recovered in June, mainly due to the increase of cruise ships docking on the island. From January to June, nearly 50 percent of the U.S. visitors to Cuba came in cruise ships –compared to the 25 percent registered in the same period of 2017- according to Caribbean News, for instance. They basically came with the Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings Ltd., Carnival Corporation and Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd., which added new stopovers to their Cuba itineraries. In the meantime, Cuba’s Havanatur travel agency made a weeklong Tourist Familiarization Program (Megafam) last A Bimonthly Newspaper of the Prensa Latina News Agency SOCIETY.HEALTH & SCIENCE.POLITICS.CULTURE THE YOUR SOURCE OF NEWS & MORE ENTERTAINMENT.PHOTO FEATURE.ECONOMY HavanaReporter SPORTS.AND MORE President: Luis Enrique González. Graphic Designers: Paola A. González Publisher: Agencia Informativa Latinoamericana, Information Vice President: Hector Miranda. Chief Graphic Editor: Francisco González Prensa Latina, S.A. Editorial Vice President: Lianet Arias Advertising: Nelson Pérez Vergara Calle E, esq. 19 No. 454, Vedado, La Habana-4, Cuba. Chief Editor: Luis Melian Circulation: Commercial Department. Telephone: (53)7838-3496 / 7832-3578 Translation: Dayamí Interian/ Yanely Interián Printing: Imprenta Federico Engels Fax: (53)7833-3068 E-mail: [email protected] CUBA-U.S. 3 Cuban Residents in the U.S. & their Homeland By MiaROMAN NEW YORK.- During a meeting with Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel, several generations of Cuban residents in the United States ratified the deep affection they still have for their homeland. On September 28, the Cuban Permanent Mission at the UN, welcomed Cubans from all across the US (including Florida, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, California, Louisiana and Minnesota) to hear an important message from the Cuban president: “we count on you. We are Cuba.” The strengthening of bonds between the Caribbean island and their nationals abroad continues and is irreversible, said the head of State, who dedicated time from his busy agenda at the UN General Assembly to meet with fellow countrymen. Among the Cuban residents present in the meeting was Mariana Gastón, who arrived in the United States with her parents in 1961 and for decades has been an activist in favor of Cuba-emigration links. Another participant was Isabel Díaz, who is the young granddaughter of PL Cubans and has never visited the island; yet, she claims to be more Cuban than North-American. PHOTO: “I think this is a moment of hope amid the desperate situation we are all going through with this U.S. “My generation still feels that we are connected with Among the participants at the meeting were three president,” stated Gastón alluding to the White House the Cubans who live there, even though we do not know generations of Cubans such as Cuban-born Emelia chief, Donald Trump. our culture as much as we would like to,” stated the girl Gutiérrez, her daughter Irene and her granddaughter The New York-based activist, who is one of the from New Jersey. “I would love to know our people, our Isabel Fernández, both from Florida. founders of the Antonio Maceo Brigade (1977), told The country,” she added. “I am very proud that we were invited; I have my roots Havana Reporter that those who have always wanted “to For his part, Florida resident Max Lesnik said it was and I know that my roots will not die anymore because I be part of our homeland” feel accepted. very kind of Díaz-Canel to have met with emigrants in the have sown them in my daughter and my granddaughter,” Commenting about the fact that Cuban residents United States in the course of his agenda at the UN. This is Gutiérrez told The Havana Reporter. abroad can participate in the ongoing consultation on proof that Cuba is an inclusive and not a confrontational Her daughter noted she feels as Cuban as the the draft Constitution, Gastón said it means recognizing nation, he added. nationals who live on the island. the possibility of dialogue. Lesnik said the Cuban president’s presence in the United Meanwhile, Susanna Kohly said: “I have visited the Meanwhile, Díaz noted that after having listened to States, like the historic leader of the Cuban Revolution Fidel island more than 20 times. Being a Cuban-American the speech by the Cuban president, she feels optimistic Castro and the first Secretary of the Communist Party of has helped me be part of the history and origin about greater unity between the Cubans who live in the Cuba Raúl Castro had done before, once more validates the of my family. I want to connect with them and with country and those abroad. meaning of Martí’s phrase: “With all and for the good of all.” my past.” Blockade against Cuba Comes Before UN General Assembly By WaldoMENDILUZA HAVANA.- On October 31 the UN General Assembly will vote on a new draft resolution to end the U.S. economic, commercial and financial blockade against Cuba; an initiative that will certainly have strong support, as has been the case in earlier years. Since 1992, the main deliberative organ of the United Nations –the only one that brings all 193 member States to the same table- has been supporting similar resolutions, which in the past three years had the support of 191 countries. At the end of September, heads of State, prime ministers and foreign ministers from Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa, Asia, Europe and Oceania used the 93rd session of the UN General Assembly as a platform to demand the end of a siege in force for nearly six decades. Internet The presidents of Bolivia, Venezuela, Mexico and Namibia, the prime ministers of Barbados, Jamaica PHOTO: and Vietnam and the foreign ministers of Burkina Faso, Nicaragua, Russia, Trinidad and Tobago and Tuvalu, commitment in the world are replaced by imposition During his first visit to the United Nations, Díaz-Canel spoke among others, called for an end to the blockade which, and unilateral measures with a markedly extraterritorial with local authorities, congress people, business executives, according to the Cuban government, has caused character and without the consent of the UN Security actors and Cuban residents in the United States. The support accumulated damages estimated at more than $933 Council. for good relations between neighboring countries prevailed billion. In addressing the UN General Assembly in New York, in those meetings, without the hostility shown by President Bolivia strongly and openly condemns the “illegal, Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel explained that the Donald Trump since he took office in January 2017. inhuman and criminal” economic and financial blockade, U.S. blockade poses the main obstacle to the country’s “Good neighbors do not build walls; let culture help stated President Evo Morales.
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