© YEAR VIII THE Nº 20 OCT 29, 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 An Attractive Business Opportunity P. 2 Large U.S. Delegation Takes Part in Havana’s Ballet Festival P. 7 Photo Feature Economy Sports P. 11 P. 13 P. 15 Hotel Segundo Frente: An Unmatched Cuba’s Private Sector Also Hurt by Baseball: Cuba's Top Teams Advance Experience in Eastern Cuba U.S. Blockade to Second Round 2 CUBA FIHAV 2018: An Attractive Business Opportunity By MariaJuliaMAYORAL FIHAV will also include the 3rd Foreign Investment additional immunotherapy treatments developed in Forum, whose content will be enriched by the experience Cuba for different kinds of tumors. HAVANA.- The Havana’s International Fair (FIHAV 2018) gained in the two previous editions, Hernández Guillén The company’s short-term objective will be to will exhibit new possibilities to do business with Cuba, a said. conduct scientific and clinical research, while the country that aims at attracting foreign direct investment The 2017-2018 portfolio for foreign capital businesses potential export of medications to the United States has (FDI), accessing foreign markets and leading technology includes over 450 projects (156 new), amounting to to await endorsement from the agency responsible for to bolster national development. more than 10.7 billion dollars, MINCEX stated. the regulation of drugs in the U.S. The event, in which all sectors of the economy In relation to FDI, the projects targeted towards FIHAV 2017 was attended by 3,400 exhibitors from participate, is “an excellent business opportunity for the Mariel Special Development Zone (ZEDM) - which over 70 nations and agreements were signed on that new companies that are pushing into the market and counts on favorable tax incentives endorsed by the occasion with companies from Russia and the Czech for those that are already established” in the country, national legislation - stand out. Republic, among other countries, MINCEX said. said Minister of Foreign Trade and Investment (MINCEX) This year, the new clients of the site include In spite of the economic, commercial and financial Rodrigo Malmierca. the Italian-Cuban joint venture Vidrios Mariel S.A, blockade imposed by the United States, events such as According to the organizing committee, the composed of the Nelson Servizis.r.l and QuimiS.A. FIHAV are proof of the increasing international interest 36th edition of FIHAV – to take place from October Trading Company, whose initial work will be a modern in doing business with Cuba, whose economic and social 29 to November 2 – will welcome businesspeople packaging plant directed towards the canning and development model is undergoing a deep updating and specialists of all sectors of the Cuban economy, beverage industries. process, minister Malmierca noted. in addition to a big and wide-ranging international Another recently-endorsed exhibit. initiative at the ZEDM includes the One month before the start of the fair, over 23,000 first Cuban-American Biotechnology square meters had already been reserved by national Company - Innovative Immunotherapy and foreign companies for their exhibition stands, Alliance, S.A. – composed of the chairman of the Chamber of Commerce, Orlando commercial branches of the Cuban Hernández Guillén, told The Havana Reporter. Molecular Immunology Center and Guillén explained that most of this area was reserved the Roswell Park Comprehensive by traditional partners, such as Spain (five pavilions, Cancer Center, from the United States. including that of the Basque Country), Russia, China, This scientific collaboration Italy, France, Germany, Canada, Venezuela, Mexico, foresees the conduction of research South Korea and Japan. and the development of new The official added that representatives from different medications against cancer, which chambers of commerce are expected to attend the fair, could prolong and improve the as well as authorities from other entities that foster the survival of thousands of U.S. patients. commercial activity. Innovative Immunotherapy Havana’s International Fair will be an appropriate Alliance, S.A will boast products such PL occasion to launch the forthcoming Expocaribe Fair, to as CIMAVax-EGF - a medication used be held in the eastern Santiago de Cuba province. against lung cancer - as well three PHOTO: 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] 3 4 CUBA-U.S. Performing Arts: A Link Between Cuba & the U.S. “I did it at a time of patriotic crisis, By Fidel.A.MANZANARES when the United States was sending hundreds of young people to the CAMAGUEY.- A review of the history of Cuba, Afghanistan war, in 2003. So, I thought particularly of the conflicts related to the Spanish- about my grandparents and the events Cuban-American War that took place at the end of the related to the Peter Pan operation,” 19th century, marked the opening of the theoretical noted the playwright, who added that event included in the program of the National Theater her greatest successes are related to the Festival, held at the beginning of October in Camagüey, history of her parents’ native country. when the book Becoming Cuba was presented. Alberto Sarrín, who translated the According to Melinda López, the book’s author and book into Spanish, highlighted the a professor at the University of Boston who was born in writer’s ability to narrate those events in the United States from Cuban parents, the text “describes simple terms. the way the nation is conceived, from the perspective of “That’s the case of the sorrowful family feelings and conflicts, amidst a debate between atmosphere surrounding the Peter Pan loyalty and the way the past is seen.” operation, in which the church was The presentation of the book, included in the 17th involved in complicity with the U.S. edition of Cuba’s most important performing arts’ event, government and the Cubans living abroad, focused on the idea of the debt we have toward our with the purpose of separating thousands relatives, and the cultural and historical values of both of kids from their families in Cuba after the countries. triumph of the Revolution, in 1959,” he said. “The work conceived for the theater covers key López approached history from the topics that range from the Taíno language and its legacy interpersonal relationship, with great to Cuban people, to the clash between capitalism and precision. We go “beyond politics; we other ways to see the world,” editor Lilian Manzor said approach the human essence. I thought during the presentation. of writing about Cuba for the U.S. people, An exchange of opinions between specialists, who are eager to know about this country. LeandroPEREZ playwrights, the media and the audience gathered at For that reason, all the love I put into the the Santa Cecilia Conference Center was held as part research was essential,” she noted. PHOTO: of the panel Una isla, el teatro: 20 años (An island, the In addition to staging plays in the theater: 20 years) – which dealt with the links between main venues of the city – declared a World Heritage Site The most prestigious Cuban playwrights gathered artists from Cuba and the United States. – the National Theater Festival also offered the audience in the city of Camagüey in October as part of an event “I tried to write about history and its relation to Cuba the possibility to enjoy different exhibits, such as that fostered interaction with the audience, who were from the perspective of the U.S. people, and I did it from Deshaciendo capas de polvo en el peso del olvido, with able to discover the motivations, aesthetic vision and the bottom of my heart. support from the Cuban theater’s stage design. challenges of each of the creators. The News of Cuba & More at Your fingertips for more news about Cuba & Latin America: plenglish.com We want your feedback! Write to us: [email protected] HEALTH & SCIENCE 5 Prevention & Control of Hospital Acquired Infections, One of Cuba’s Strengths antibiotics, said Zambrano, who is also the By ReinaMAGDARIAGA head of the Program for the Prevention and Control of Healthcare-related Infections. HAVANA.- The monitoring and control of “If we do not solve the problem of nosocomial infections is an indicator of the antibiotic resistance, by the year 2050 quality of healthcare in any country, as it about ten million people are estimated ensures the safe treatment of its patients. to die every year from infectious diseases Contagious diseases are a public health that will not be curable with the antibiotics problem on the national and international we have today,” the specialist warned. levels, as they are associated with According to Zambrano, pharmaceutical increasing death and morbidity rates and transnational companies are not interested higher costs, both for hospitals, patients, in developing new medicines to treat their families and society in general. microorganisms because the investment Taking this into consideration, the is long and costly and they will make little idea of having nurses specialized in the profit. Therefore, the best way to cope supervision of infectious diseases was first with antibiotic resistance is by preventing conceived of in Cuba in the 1960s, with infectious processes.