CubaPLUS Magazine

The city of Santiago de Cuba is making final preparations for the 44th Caribbean Festival, a week-long celebration that will infuse the eastern Cuban city with music, color, and dance from July 3rd to 9th. The city will once again transform into a vibrant hub of Caribbean culture, hosting its traditional Fiesta del Fuego, a festival that showcases popular traditions from across Cuba and the wider Caribbean region.

For 46 years, the CPI has played a pivotal role in facilitating journalistic coverage by coordinating media access and providing essential resources to foreign press outlets accredited in Cuba.

This type of tourism doesn't just encompass traveling to attend live sporting events. In recent years, the concept has expanded to include tourists traveling to participate in a sporting event, especially marathons and races.

The city of Enghien-les-Bains, in the Paris Region, will host its traditional Caribbean Festival next week, an event where Cuba and its music will be a highlight, according to cultural promoter Carmen Mayans.

The Spanish hotel chain Iberostar reiterated its commitment to Cuban tourism this Thursday and confirmed plans demonstrating this strategy. A message distributed during the 18th International Seminar on Journalism and Tourism (June 16-20, Havana) reaffirmed its plans to collaborate with the recovery of the travel industry in this country. Iberostar indicated that it is leaning towards growth in the urban segment, with the new star of its portfolio located in the capital, Havana.

Two emblematic figures of athletics, Cuban high jumper Javier Sotomayor and Brazilian volleyball player Giba, will be honored this Wednesday as Ibero-American sporting legends.

The Latin American news agency Prensa Latina celebrates its 66th anniversary today, with pride in having always defended "tooth and nail" the truth about this small island and the peoples of the world, despite all the campaigns against it by the major information monopolies, supported by numerous governments. Today, despite the manipulations of these entities, Prensa Latina continues "in the trenches" defending the rights and just causes of the oppressed, especially those of our Latin America and the Caribbean.

The father is an indispensable figure in every family. While often seen as simply the one who provides for the household, he is, along with the mother, responsible for raising the children, including their education, nutrition, and other needs, contributing to their development at every stage of life.

With an agenda focused on concrete results, President Lula da Silva will host leaders and representatives from the Caribbean and Latin America this Friday in Brasilia at the Brazil-Caribbean Summit.

Cuba expressed its interest in strengthening ties with Canadian airline WestJet during a meeting between President Miguel Díaz-Canel and the company's CEO, Alexis von Hoensbroech, the Presidency of the Caribbean nation reported.

A recent report from the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) showed progress in voluntary blood donation in Latin America and the Caribbean, although inequalities and challenges persist.

Cuba's Minister of Transportation, Eduardo Rodríguez, has announced the rehabilitation of Abel Santamaría International Airport in the central city of Santa Clara, currently considered the third most important airport in the country.

Cuba's beaches are once again capturing the attention of tour operators and travel agents due to recent rankings that highlight their beauty and upkeep. Reports from the press, including those from Granma, emphasize this novelty and reflect a preference previously noted on other occasions.

The 20th Ernest Hemingway International Colloquium, scheduled to take place in Havana from June 25 to 28, will commemorate the legacy and presence of the renowned American writer in Cuba, announced the Organizing Committee. Likewise, the event promises to be a platform for exchanging information among specialists and institutions related to the museum that bears his name, as well as for discussing recent studies about his life and work.

Cuba, with its leisure industry destinations, has been present since Tuesday and will remain until June 15 at the 5th International Tourism Forum “Travel,” held in the Russian capital. This event, where the Caribbean nation showcases its tourism offerings for the summer season as well as the upcoming winter, combines forum sessions designed as a business communication platform between the Slavic state and companies from various sectors, with the inaugural Russian Tourism Festival aimed at a domestic traveler audience.

An unprecedented increase in sargassum is currently affecting much of the Caribbean, from Puerto Rico to Guyana, including the Mexican coasts—a phenomenon that is causing concern among the region’s scientific community.

Cuba’s First Vice Premier, Inés María Chapman, called on Monday at the Third United Nations Conference on the Oceans for scientific cooperation and public commitment to the protection of marine ecosystems.

Under the name La Redonda, Cuba boasts a lagoon spanning 5 square kilometers, located north of the city of Morón in the central province of Ciego de Ávila. This lagoon is renowned for its unique scenic beauty, owing to its distinctive geographical shape—hence its name—and is surrounded by lush vegetation, including mangroves, oaks, coconut trees, guano palms, guácimas, and yanas, an endemic tree species of the island.

There is a saying that goes, “small town, big hell,” but on this occasion, I prefer to say, “small town, great artists,” which perfectly describes Florida, in the province of Camagüey, home to the Carbonell family—four generations of whom have dedicated themselves to the visual arts.

Carlos Acosta, Director of the Birmingham Royal Ballet (BRB) and Cuban-born dancer, was honored with a Lord Mayor’s Award, a distinction that celebrates outstanding contributions to the city, the dancer announced on his Facebook profile.