CubaPLUS Magazine

Every March 14th, Cuba celebrates Press Day, in commemoration of the founding of the newspaper Patria by National Hero José Martí in 1892. Today, more than ever, the role played by the media is fundamental and extremely important in reporting the reality of the country and the entire world, in the face of falsehoods that may circulate. The history of the press dates back to Before Our Era. According to documents, it was Julius Caesar—a prominent Roman politician and military officer—who, in 59 BC, recognized the value of public opinion. He therefore compiled daily news of the most important events, thus giving rise to the Roman Diary (Diurna urbis acta).

Starting this Thursday, Cuba participates in the 48th edition of the Paris World Tourism Show with a varied offer that combines its natural beauty, culture, and history with the warm welcome of its people. The first of the four days of the event, held at the Porte de Versailles fairgrounds, began for the island's delegation with the inauguration of its stand to the rhythm of contagious Cuban popular music. Speaking with Prensa Latina, the representative of the Caribbean nation's Ministry of Tourism, Carmen Casal, considered it very important to attend the now traditional Parisian show to share the destination's benefits with an audience eager to plan vacations and experience individual and family adventures.

The Amazon rainforest, the unmissable Machu Picchu, the beaches of Cuba and the Bahamas, and Chilean Patagonia are among the attractions promoted today at the start of the 48th edition of the Paris World Tourism Show. As is traditional, Latin America and the Caribbean are participating in the general public event, which runs for four days at the Porte de Versailles exhibition center in the City of Light, this time with booths showcasing destinations in the Bahamas, Brazil, Cuba, Chile, and Peru. From Chile, the company Turismo Burgos invites French tourists to visit several glaciers and the Isle of the Dead, with different packages and lengths of stay.

Cuban Tourism Minister Juan Carlos García emphasized the country's commitment to recovering and strengthening the travel industry this Wednesday, speaking before ambassadors from Western Europe and Canada.

The National Association of Small Farmers (ANAP) is preparing for its 13th Congress, which takes place every five years, and whose delegates will discuss the main challenges facing Cuban agro-producers today in order to increase the country's food production. The conclave, which will analyse the burning issues and come up with proposals to address them, “will be an enormous challenge,” Felix Duartes, ANAP president, said during a meeting with the press at the Aristides Estevez Credit and Services Cooperative in western Havana.

Cuba is preparing today for the 16th International Meeting on Criminal Sciences and the 4th Legality, Law, and Society 2025 Event, scheduled for March 26-28 at the Havana Convention Center. According to its organizers, the biannual event, the oldest on the subject held in Latin America, will be attended by more than 350 national delegates and a yet-to-be-determined number of foreign participants. The chief prosecutor of the International Legal Cooperation Directorate of the Attorney General's Office (FGR), Patricia Rizo, announced at a press conference that prosecutors, general attorneys, comptrollers, ombudsmen, lawyers, and other professionals from related fields will be attending the event.

Empowering the new generations in the digital field is the focus of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU)’s Global Youth Summit (GYS-25), which opens in this Cuban resort on Tuesday.

Those who love quiet vacations as a way to relax, rest or receive treatments to overcome pain in different parts of the body or nervous conditions. have a new program in Cuba, thanks to the Canadian hotel group Blue Diamond Resorts, in 4 destinations in the country, specially designed for these specialties. Under the name of Vital Cuba Resonance Blu, the Canadian entity, through an agreement with the Comercializadora de Servicios Médicos Cubanos (CSMC), has highly qualified specialists to treat different physical ailments, different pains, strong or rapid heartbeats and unexplained discomfort.

Every March 8th for more than a century, International Women's Day has been celebrated -initially International Working Women's Day-, a commemoration approved at the II International Conference of Socialist Women held in Copenhagen in 1910. It was from the following year that this day was celebrated for the first time in the world as a way of defending the right to gender equality for women in all areas of social and work life.

The International Congress on Law, Abogacia 2025, is winding up in Havana on Friday with a plenary session in which renowned legal professionals will give three keynote lectures.

Six accommodations operated by Meliá Hotels International in Cuba are among the candidates for the 2025 World Travel Awards, renowned international awards that this year reach their thirty-second edition, according to information published this Tuesday by the Spanish entity. Meliá Cohíba and Meliá Cayo Coco -both five-star hotels- are nominated as Cuba's Leading Hotel, while as Cuba's Leading Resort there are two jewels of Caribbean luxury: Paradisus Varadero and Paradisus Princesa del Mar.

Cuba celebrates Hotel and Tourism Workers' Day on Tuesday, with the country's highest authorities calling for innovative initiatives to improve the sector and generate more income. Cuban Prime Minister Manuel Marrero considered this force crucial for the revival of the national economy, which is experiencing adversities due to the tightening of the US blockade.

In the context of World Seagrass Day, Cuba's Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment (Citma) in Camagüey continues today to strengthen its work for the conservation of these vital marine ecosystems in Cuba. Precisely in the country’s largest province, which occupies more than 20 percent of its beaches, this activity is essential for the environmental balance and protection of Cuba’s coasts.

Cuban culture is mourning the death of one who was an icon of popular music on the island, Paulito FG, the “smotherer of salsa.”

The traditional auction of humidors associated with the 25th Habano Festival raised 16,410,000 euros, whose destination will be the Cuban Public Health system, as was announced. The auction took place at the Pabexpo fairgrounds in Havana during the Gala Dinner that closes the Festival, which was attended by Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel and Prime Minister Manuel Marrero, the Agencia Cubana de Noticias (ACN) reported.

The electronic music festival “Women by Eyeife”, a tribute from Cuba to female creativity and for gender equality, will take place on March 7 and 8 at Fábrica de Arte Cubano, in Havana.

With celebrations held over three months for the 40th anniversary, including more than 200 exhibitions, dozens of workshops, conferences and more, the XV Havana Biennial came to an end this Friday.

The positive results from the II International Sports Fair, organized this week in the Cuban capital, are now taking up space in the sports press of the Island. "The professional phase was satisfactory due to the fulfillment of the proposed objectives," assured the digital publication Jit. Yadira González, general director of the commercial company Cubadeportes S.A., said this after the closing of the professional segment of the event yesterday.

Iberostar Selection Havana opens its doors to enjoy ¨impressive views of the city", the Spanish hotel chain announced on its Facebook social network this Tuesday. After a little more than six years of construction, the new Iberostar Cuba Hotels & Resorts hotel was finally inaugurated in the Cuban capital, bringing the number of hotels operated by the chain in Havana to 5, for a total of 20 in the country, and it is the tallest in the entire national territory with 42 floors and 594 rooms.

Cuba is attending the Anato Tourism Showcase, the most important event of the leisure industry held in Colombia, with the intention of strengthening the flow of tourists from Latin America to Cuba. This was stated exclusively to Prensa Latina by Cuban Deputy Minister of Tourism Yamily Aldama, who heads a delegation made up of 17 people representing Cuban companies and international hotel chains operating in the Caribbean nation.