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HAVANA, March 3rd Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel recently announced the country’s most sweeping market liberalization in decades. Read more

03/03/2021/by Havana Live

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Could Cuba’s Covid Vaccine Break Big Pharma’s Grip on Production?

HAVANA, March 2nd. The worldwide Covid vaccine rollout has gone anything but smoothly, with only a handful of countries able to immunize even 10% of their populations yet with a first dose. Two primary causes of this have been rich nations…

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Our Failure to Comply with “Stay-at-Home” Nears a Year

HAVANA, March 1st It seems that COVID-19 is gaining momentum, and these past twelve months confirm this, and it won’t stop until the entire population gains immunity. Figures are growing at an alarming rate. Dr. Francisco Duran, the national…

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EU ambassador in hot water over Cuba letter

HAVANA, March 1st. The EU has asked its ambassador to Cuba to explain why he signed an open letter asking the US to stop being "hostile" to Havana. "In the context of the mentioned letter, we have requested the ambassador to come to Brussels…

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Cuba surpasses for the 1st time 100 COVID-19 monthly deaths

HAVANA, Feb. 27 Cuba surpassed 100 COVID-19 related deaths in a month for the first time, the country's Ministry of Public Health reported on Saturday. With 102 fatalities from COVID-19 so far, February has already become the deadliest month…

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Cuba approves animal welfare law after civil society pressure

HAVANA, Feb. 27th (Reuters) Cuba has approved a long called-for decree on animal welfare in what some rights activists are hailing as an unusual triumph of civil society in the country where animal sacrifice and cock and dog fighting remain…

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Cruise companies sued under Title III of the Helms-Burton Act

HAVANA, Feb. 27th Four cruise companies sued under Title III of the Helms-Burton Act for allegedly trafficking in stolen property by using Havana docks are discussing settlement. This according to a mediator's report for each suit…

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Large-scale production of Abdala, one of its four COVID-19 vaccines starts in Cuba

HAVANA, Feb. 26th Cuba began industrial production of the Abdala COVID-19 vaccine candidate to ensure the doses required in the third phase of clinical trials, Cubadebate reported. The president of BioCubaFarma, Eduardo Martínez, announced…

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Cuba launches entrepreneurship initiative to empower homemakers during pandemic

HAVANA, Feb. 26 Delbis Utria, who resides in Havana's Arroyo Naranjo district with her husband and adolescent son, opened a community-based laundromat after leasing two washing machines from the government. Like her, dozens of homemakers…

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Foreign investment can have business options with local companies

HAVANA, Feb. 26th The eighth edition of the Portfolio of opportunities for foreign investment in Cuba for 2021, aims to incorporate, among its options, the businesses identified by companies subordinate to local government structures. As…

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Third phase of trials of Soberana 02 vaccine to start in March in Havana

HAVANA, Feb. 25th The third phase of clinical trials of the Soberana 02 COVID-19 vaccine will start in Havana next month, executives of the Finlay Vaccine Institute (IFV) confirmed this Wednesday at a meeting of the Provincial Defense Council…

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Cuba reports lowest number of coronavirus infections in last 21 days

HAVANA, Feb. 25th The 670 infections from the SARS-CoV-2 virus reported until midnight this Tuesday represent the lowest figure in the last 21 days, according to Dr. Francisco Durán in his daily televised appearance. “Although the figure…

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Political isolation of Cuba for 60 years protected its native flora and fauna

HAVANA, Feb. 24th The political and economic isolation that Cuba has suffered in the last 60 years protected the island from invasive species, which is considered an ecological find, according to research published by the journal Frontiers…

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Ocean Networks to Connect the Caribbean countrys with Submarine Cables

HAVANA, Feb. 23th American telecom development firm Ocean Networks Inc has begun building a submarine cable system linking Panama to the US state of Florida. The cable system, nicknamed Caribbean Express, will run between Palm Beach, Florida,…

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Havana lives under the siege of the new coronavirus

HAVANA, Feb. 23th In recent weeks, Havana has become the epicenter of the contagion of the new Coronavirus in Cuba, where authorities are fighting a third outbreak of the COVID-19 which started in January. In the city, where just over two…

Transtur posibilita la renta de autos eléctricos en Cuba

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Transtur makes electric car rental possible in Cuba

HAVANA, Feb. 22 The state-owned company Transtur recently announced the incorporation of electric cars for its car rental services in Cuba. According to information disseminated through social networks, it seems that the company is betting…

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Two Cuban Rappers Collaborate With Miami Based Musicians

HAVANA, Feb 22, 2021 (Reuters) A group of Miami-based Cuban musicians, including reggaeton duo Gente de Zona, have teamed with two Cuba-based rappers to launch an impassioned anti-government anthem that has gone viral. Gente de Zona,…

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More than a thousand coronavirus infections in Cuba, number rises again

HAVANA, Feb. 22nd The SARS-CoV-2 virus contagions in Cuba once again exceeded a thousand yesterday, with 1,039 cases, the highest number after that registered on February 1, according to information from the Ministry of Public Health (MINSAP). Most…

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How Cuba’s artists took to the kitchen to earn their crust in lockdown

HAVANA, Feb. 21st Not far from Havana’s Plaza de la Revolucion, where Che Guevara stares out nine stories high from the side of Cuba’s Ministry of the Interior, Julio Cesar Imperatori perches on the edge of a table in the kitchen of a shuttered…

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Meet the Cuban hotel owners turning to farming for survival

HAVANA, Feb. 20th In the tropical town of Vinales, in the west of Cuba, restaurants and lodges stand empty. 80 per cent of the population rely on tourism as their main source of income, so the pandemic has brought this town’s budding economy…

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La Tropical, the beer brand that “moved” some Cuban gardens to Miami

HAVANA, Feb 20 (EFE) After more than two decades of "odyssey" to recover the brand and the original formula of La Tropical, The first and most recognized Cuban beer, dating from 1888, the Miami businessman Manny Portuondo ended up “in the…

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The Cuban Who Built a Plane in His Garage

HAVANA, Feb. 19th Housed in the basement of a building in Havana, Adolfo Rivera’s garage may appear normal at first glance, but upon closer inspection, a half-built plane rests on the floor amid tools, cables and empty coffee cups. Rivera…

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Cuba readies regulatory laboratory for transgenic foods

HAVANA, Feb. 19th Cuba will have its first regulatory laboratory for transgenic foods, belonging to the National Institute of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Microbiology (INHEM), in Havana. The purpose of the installation is to monitor nationally…

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Three new decree-laws approved but animal welfare’s still pending

HAVANA, Feb. 19th The Council of State of the Republic of Cuba approved this Tuesday three new decree-laws “in compliance with its legislative work,” according to the island’s National Assembly. The approval took place during a session…

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Coronavirus Vaccine Nears Final Tests in Cuba

HAVANA, Feb. 17th People wait in line for four hours to buy detergent in Havana. Cuban pharmacies are out of pain medication. There are national bread shortages. And yet the Cuban government says it is on the brink of extraordinary scientific…

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Economists predict historic inflation in Cuba

HAVANA, Feb 17. The monetary reform undertaken by the Cuban government amid the global economic crisis and the coronavirus pandemic will sink the real value of short-term workers' wages between 15 and 50 percent, according to an analysis…

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Optimism as Cuba set to test its own Covid vaccine

HAVANA, Feb. 16th (BBC) Some of the equipment at the Finlay Institute of Vaccines in Havana might be considered outdated elsewhere in the world but the science taking place behind its white-washed walls is cutting edge. Researchers…

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Music Video Features Collaboration Between Musicians in Havana and Cleveland

HAVANA, Feb. 15th Elkarnal Decuba, a rapper who lives and works in Havana, has collaborated with a few Northeast Ohio-based musicians for his new music video for the tune “Que Bonito Es el Amor.” “This love song is inspired by pride…

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Official document reveals chaos and disorder in Trump’s response to “sonic attacks” in Cuba

HAVANA, Feb. 14th According to a recently declassified report, mismanagement and lack of coordination dominated the response of the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump to the alleged “sonic attacks” that affected the health…

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Support Cuba’s emerging market economy by ending the blockade

HAVANA, March 3rd Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel recently announced the country’s most sweeping market liberalization in decades. The reforms are desperately needed: Cuba’s already stagnant economy has contracted 11 percent during…

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Large-scale production of Abdala, one of its four COVID-19 vaccines starts in Cuba

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Cuba launches entrepreneurship initiative to empower homemakers during pandemic

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Foreign investment can have business options with local companies

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