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Artists and activists in front of the Ministry of Culture headquarters on November 27, 2020. Photo: Ismael Francisco/AP.

Cuban activists ask government for authorization to carry out “peaceful and civic” march

Playwright Yunior García Aguilera, one of the most visible faces among the artists who on last November 27 gathered outside the Cuban Ministry of Culture, this Tuesday made public a request to demonstrate peacefully, signed by a group of “about twenty citizens” and handed over to the government of Havana. “The march will be against violence, to demand that all the rights of all Cubans be respected, for the release of political prisoners and for the solution of our differences through democratic and peaceful means,” read the letter shared on social media. https://twitter.com/ArchipielagoCu/status/1440698822141775876?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1440698822141775876%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Foncubanews.com%2Fcuba%2Factivistas-cubanos-solicitan-al-gobierno-autorizacion-para-marcha-pacifica-y-civica%2F The call, released on the Facebook Archipiélago group, created by Yunior himself, is addressed to the provincial and municipal authorities of the Cuban capital and explains that the “peaceful and civic” mobilization would be held from 2:00 a.m. in the afternoon of Saturday, November 20 and would have an estimated attendance of 5,000 people. However, one of the requests of the letter is that anyone who is interested and complies with the call can join. In addition, it requests that the government protect the protesters from those who try to prevent the mobilization, as well as allowing coverage by the national and foreign press, official or independent....

Iberostar’s Parque Central Hotel, in Havana. Photo: Otmaro Rodríguez.

Iberostar hotel chain seeks to promote Cuba as safe and high-quality tourist destination

The Spanish Iberostar hotel chain is seeking to promote Cuba as a tourist destination, in the face of the upcoming high season and the reopening of the Cuban borders next November after the impasse caused by COVID-19. To do this, it announced the reopening of 16 of the 17 hotels it operates in the Caribbean country, as well as the inauguration of another in Cayo Cruz, in the northern keys of the island, in which emphasis will be placed on the quality and variety of the services and health measures to ensure the safety and comfort of guests. Iberostar’s marketing director in Havana, Alexei Torres, told the press this Tuesday that the new stage will maintain the health protocols put into practice during the pandemic, which include limited capacity, reinforcement of protection measures, enhancement of activities in open spaces and online interaction mechanisms, and the presence of a medical and epidemiological team in each hotel. Travelers, for their part, must comply with the requirements recently announced by the Cuban authorities and that will be applied as of mid-November, which make border protocols more flexible, although they require visitors to present a certificate of vaccination against coronavirus or a negative PCR...

Arrival of Canadian tourists at Cayo Coco airport, in central Cuba. Photo: Agencia Cubana de Noticias news agency/Archive.

Cuba announces it will gradually open its borders in November

Hoping for the effectiveness of its vaccines and the projection that more than 90% of the population will complete the vaccination scheme in November, Cuba is preparing the conditions to gradually open the borders as of the 15th of that month, according to the state-run newspaper Granma. In its digital edition, the newspaper reproduced this Sunday the brief note from the Ministry of Tourism by which it notified that “hygienic-sanitary protocols will be made more flexible upon travelers’ arrival, focusing on monitoring symptomatic patients and taking temperature. In addition, diagnostic tests will be carried out randomly, a PCR test will not be required upon arrival and travelers’ vaccination certificate will be recognized.” https://twitter.com/JuannCarlosGG/status/1434849170729455635?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1434849170729455635%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Foncubanews.com%2Fcuba%2Fcuba-anuncia-que-en-noviembre-abrira-paulatinamente-sus-fronteras%2F For this reason, the opening of the domestic tourist market will begin gradually, according to each territory’s epidemiological indicators, the source said. After opening its borders last October, Cuba reduced international entry since the beginning of this year due to the outbreak of COVID-19, the worst the country has experienced since March 2020, when the first three cases of coronavirus were reported. In recent weeks, infections have remained above 7,000 and deaths over 80 a day. https://oncubanews.com/cuba/cuba-recibio-menos-de-250-000-turistas-y-viajeros-hasta-mayo/ Until last May, 88 239 foreign tourists had entered the...

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