Why has ETECSA limited telephone recharges from Transfermóvil?

Why has ETECSA limited telephone recharges from Transfermóvil?

Cuba’s telecommunications monopoly, ETECSA, has limited to two the maximum number of telephone recharge operations that can be carried out from the Transfermóvil payment platform. At the same time, it has imposed a similar limitation -only two recharges in 24 hours- to operations made from the company’s official website. The company applied the restrictive measure…

Cuba to relax customs rules for non-commercial imports

Cuba to relax customs rules for non-commercial imports

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: Minister of Economy announces opening of foreign exchange market

Cuba: Minister of Economy announces opening of foreign exchange market

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…

Mexico aims to increase meat exports to Cuba

Mexico aims to increase meat exports to 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…

In one of the worst sugar harvests in history, Cuba produces only half of what was expected

In one of the worst sugar harvests in history, Cuba produces only half of what was expected

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,…

Online Stores to Buy in Cuba from Abroad

Online Stores to Buy in Cuba from Abroad

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…

How to send money to Cuba from the United States

How to send money to Cuba from the United States

Sending money to Cuba from the United States can be a complicated task. Despite being two neighboring countries and the fact that millions of Cubans or Cuban descendants live in the United States, historical differences between the two countries complicate the transfer of funds to the island. However, due to the partial dollarization of the…

Cuba gradually recovers its power generation capacity

Cuba gradually recovers its power generation capacity

Cuba’s Ministry of Energy and Mines announced on Sunday, March 20, 2022, the beginning of a process of the gradual recovery of its electricity generation capacity, affected days ago by failures in several thermal power plants. In a note published on its website, the agency said it is working continuously to incorporate the “Antonio Guiteras”…

Cuba plans to produce traffic light components on an industrial scale by 2022

Cuba plans to produce traffic light components on an industrial scale by 2022

The industrial-scale production of the first batch of national manufacturing of traffic light cabinets, control boxes and traffic light cards, which will allow achieving technological sovereignty in this area, considerable foreign currency savings and, once this work is consolidated, the development of speed radars and ethylometers, is among those planned for the second half of…

Cuba and Canadian company agree to produce fertilizers with Cuban zeolite

Cuba and Canadian company agree to produce fertilizers with Cuban zeolite

The University of Havana (UH) and the Canadian company International Zeolite Corp (IZC) signed on February 16, 2022 a contract for the production of fertilizers created by Cuban researchers, according to official Cuban media. According to a report by Prensa Latina news agency, the Canadian company would be in charge of producing the Nerea fertilizer,…