After an interruption of more than two years, Western Union has quietly resumed quietly and, on a trial basis, its remittance services from the United States to Cuba. Gabriella Fitzgerald, president of Western Union’s North American division, stated, “It is with great pleasure that we announce the resumption of our Cuba operations with an initial…

It appears that Western Union is set to resume sending remittances to Cuba. The company’s app has reinstated the option to send money to the island, media outlet Proyecto Inventario noted on Twitter. On Western Union’s website, the only remittance destination to Cuba available is the Guantanamo Naval Base, a U.S.-occupied territory in Cuba. Western…

The Cuban Executive decided to extend until June 30, 2023 the temporary tariff benefits agreed by Resolution 309 of July 15, 2021, on the exemption from the payment of taxes on the non-commercial import of food, toiletries and medicines as accompanied baggage. Published in Official Gazette No. 83, Resolution 298 of 2022 grants an extension…

The marketplace called Katapulk allows online shopping for Cuba from anywhere on the planet. Customers can place orders online to ship to Cuba using their desktop computers or mobile devices. It’s simple, just visit the Katapulk Marketplace website (www.katapulk.com). Households in provinces such as Havana, Artemisa, Mayabeque, Pinar del Río, Matanzas, Camagüey, Ciego de Ávila,…

This Thursday, August 4, Cuban monetary institutions will begin purchasing foreign currency from the population at an exchange rate of 1USDx120 CUP. This purchase will include the dollar in cash, whose entry into banks was suspended on June 23, 2021; however, in financial institutions they may only be sold and not used to recharge accounts…

One of the main measures requested by the Cuban population, especially Cubans living abroad and people traveling to other countries, is the relaxation of customs rules on products that are imported on a non-commercial basis. The most recent customs rules, established in 2014, specify the quantity of each product that a person can bring into…

Cuba’s Minister of Economy, Alejandro Gil Fernandez, announced before Parliament that the government has decided to open an exchange market for the purchase and sale of foreign currency that will operate in cash. Gil said that this is a market that will include operations of all currencies, including the dollar (despite the fact that Cuba…

During 2021 Mexico exported to Cuba more than 8,000 tons of meat products derived from chicken and pork. Mexican business producers know that the island is highly dependent on food imports and intend to take advantage of this circumstance. Jesús Huerta, president of the National Association of Federal Inspection Type Establishments (ANETIF), said that recently…

With only 52% of the 911 thousand tons of sugar planned, Cuba closed the last sugar harvest corresponding to the year 2021-2022, Azcuba’s director of Information Technology and Communications, Dionis Pérez, informed Granma newspaper. The sugar company official acknowledged that the 2021-2022 harvest did not start well and its development and behavior were not favorable,…

The online stores to buy in Cuba from abroad, managed by the portal EnviosCuba, have the particularity of offering a service based on the real and existing inventory of physical stores in each province in Cuba. Since the stores operate independently from one another, they have varying products and inventories. Likewise, although they are designed…

If you want to buy beer or malt to send to your friends or family in Cuba or you simply want to guarantee a drink during your stay on the island, you have found the right article. Here we are going to explain how to do it. Cuba, in case you don’t know, is a…