Help us keep OnCuba alive here According to a note from the Agencia Cubana de Noticias (ACN) news agency, the Ernesto Che Guevara Association of Cuban Residents in China made a donation of 10,000 sanitary masks for health professionals who are fighting against the coronavirus on the island. The shipment was sent to the Cuban Ministry of Public Health (MINSAP) through the Medicuba enterprise, the Cuban diplomatic mission in Beijing confirmed. “Our congratulations and recognition to all its members, who have demonstrated during this long and painful epidemic their deep love and permanent solidarity with the homeland. Once again, among all of us, we did it,” said the Cuban ambassador in Beijing, Carlos Miguel Pereira, on Facebook. https://oncubanews.com/cuba/china-entrega-otra-donacion-de-insumos-medicos-a-cuba/ Last May 21, a donation of medical supplies from the government of the People’s Republic of China, the Yutong bus company and the Red Cross was delivered to the Cuban authorities. Before, on April 24, an airplane arrived in Havana with medical products purchased in that country with the purpose of reinforcing the capacities of the Cuban health system in the face of the coronavirus.

Help us keep OnCuba alive here Cuba reported eight new COVID-19 positive cases, and adds another consecutive day without deaths, Dr. Francisco Durán, director of epidemiology of the Cuban Ministry of Public Health (MINSAP), reported this Saturday. Havana registered all patients diagnosed with the disease on its first day of de-escalation, thus in the last 15 days it has had a total of 55 confirmed coronavirus cases, with which the Cuban capital’s rate of incidence is 2.58 patients per 100,000 inhabitants. https://twitter.com/MINSAPCuba/status/1279408072943906817?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1279408072943906817%7Ctwgr%5E&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Foncubanews.com%2Fcuba%2Fcuba-reporta-ocho-nuevos-contagiados-con-la-covid-19%2F A total of 54 persons remain hospitalized on the island, two of which are reported seriously ill. No critically ill patients are reported, according to the daily report of the MINSAP on the situation of the COVID-19 epidemic in Cuba. Four of the cases reported from the Friday report were asymptomatic, and 76 people are in isolation centers under suspicion. In his usual press conference, Durán pointed out that in the new post-COVID-19 recovery scenario that reached its second phase in most of the Cuban provinces with the exception of Havana and Matanzas, “it is when the protection measures have to be maximized, because we are already on the street, we return to activity and the risk increases.”...

Help us keep OnCuba alive here The unemployment rate in the United States fell to 11.1% after the economy added 4.8 million jobs, the government reported this Thursday. However, the recovery in the labor market could be in trouble due to a new round of closings and layoffs in the face of the new increase in coronavirus cases. Although it fell compared to 13.3% in May, it still remains at Great Depression levels. In addition, the data was collected during the second week of June, just before several states started reversing or suspending their economic reopening to try to contain a new onslaught of the virus. The news was released as the number of daily confirmed infections in the United States reached a new all-time high of 50,700, more than double from last month, according to the Johns Hopkins University count. The data was collected during the second week of June, just before several states started reversing or suspending their economic reopening to try to contain a new onslaught of the virus. The rebound, which is mostly concentrated in the south and west of the country, has caused states like California, Texas, Arizona and Florida to close again bars, restaurants,...

Help us keep OnCuba alive here The Director General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), Audrey Azoulay, this Thursday highlighted the importance of the Transcultural Project. Deepening integration within the Caribbean region and strengthening cooperation and exchanges between people, both within the region and between it and the European Union (EU), is the general objective that encourages the implementation of the project. Its geographical scope covers 17 territories in the region: Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Cuba, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Montserrat, Dominican Republic, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, and Trinidad and Tobago. Audrey Azoulay, UNESCO Director-General. With the execution of this project, for around four years the actors related to the cultural heritage and creative industries of the region will achieve a higher degree of professionalization and will generate new opportunities for socio-economic development and cultural cooperation, both within the Caribbean and between the region and the EU. To achieve this, the capacities of the cultural and creative industries will be strengthened through the establishment in Cuba of a Regional Center for Cultural Training that will promote the mobility, skills, and abilities of young people and...

Help us keep OnCuba alive here The 5,000 tons of rice donated by Vietnam to Cuba in mid-April was delivered this Wednesday to the Cuban ambassador to the Indochinese country, Granma daily reported. The delivery took place at the port of Hai Phong, located in the north of Vietnam, as a preamble to its departure for the island. The head of the island’s diplomatic mission in Hanoi, Lianys Torres, thanked the Vietnamese authorities for the donation, which she described as a “noble and solidary gesture” and a “sign of the special and historical ties between both countries.” https://twitter.com/lianystr/status/1278324506520547328?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1278324506520547328%7Ctwgr%5E&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Foncubanews.com%2Fcuba%2Fdonacion-vietnamita-de-arroz-pone-rumbo-a-cuba%2F The donation had been received symbolically by Torres on April 17, after which she met with the prime minister of that Asian nation, Nguyen Xuan Phuc. Xuan Phuc assured the Cuban diplomat that the State and the Communist Party of his country were with the island in the midst of the pandemic and confirmed the will of his government to contribute to “attenuate the rigors of the blockade and face the difficulties entailed by the presence of the new coronavirus.” https://oncubanews.com/cuba/vietnam-dona-arroz-a-cuba-durante-la-pandemia/ Cuba and Vietnam maintain strong political ties, and growing economic relations. The Indochinese country is the island’s second largest trading partner...

Help us keep OnCuba alive here With the number of hospitalized people on the rise (142), the health authorities reported eight infections as of midnight yesterday. However, no deaths from COVID-19 were reported. “The risk is in not protecting ourselves,” said Dr. Francisco Durán in his daily press conference. And he warned: “To say that there are no cases of infection in the community is not true.” Those diagnosed today are Cubans, from Havana and Mayabeque, seven of whom were related to confirmed cases, and only in one individual is the source of the infection not specified. https://twitter.com/MINSAPCuba/status/1279039329092997122?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1279039329092997122%7Ctwgr%5E&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Foncubanews.com%2Fcuba%2Fcuba-suma-ocho-nuevos-contagios-por-coronavirus-todos-asintomaticos%2F Men predominate over women (7-1) and all were asymptomatic at the time of their diagnosis. By age group, two are under 20 years old, three are between 20 and 30, one belongs to the 60 to 70 range, and two are over 80. At midnight yesterday, 131 people were under primary healthcare surveillance in their homes. Yesterday, Cuba processed 2,690 tests for a total of 178,062, of which 2,361 have been positive. Help us keep OnCuba alive here

Help us kep OnCuba alive here Havana will enter this Friday in the first phase of the post-COVID-19 recovery, with which all the Cuban territories will have begun the gradual return to normality. The island’s authorities also decreed the passage of the rest of the provinces to the second phase of the de-escalation, also starting this Friday, with the exception of Matanzas, which will do so next week. Even though the capital maintains the majority of the country’s active cases, it is showing progress in dealing with the disease, according to the Cuban government’s consideration, announced this Wednesday afternoon by Prime Minister Manuel Marrero. As pointed out by Marrero, who is quoted by official media, “the established health indicators have been generally met for seven days, even though some daily cases are reported, an issue that is part of this process.” However, in the opinion of the Cuban government, Havana “will continue to be the place where the greatest risks are concentrated, which is why Havana residents should enter this new stage with great responsibility and caution, strictly complying with the established sanitary measures.” https://oncubanews.com/cuba/la-habana-se-prepara-para-iniciar-la-primera-fase-post-covid-19/ Meanwhile, the Havana authorities recognized “the complexity and commitment” that this step represents, and explained...

Help us keep OnCuba alive here After three months serving in health institutions in Andorra, the group of health professionals that Cuba sent to combat the COVID-19 pandemic in that principality is already in Cuba. Upon arrival at José Martí International Airport, the doctors received a message from Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel, who highlighted the example given by the medical brigade “with their altruism, dedication and solidarity,” reported the Agencia Cubana de Noticias news agency. “It is one of the best ways to end the effort to discredit the work of Cuban doctors,” said the president in a telematics speech. https://twitter.com/DiazCanelB/status/1278654762469199872?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1278654762469199872%7Ctwgr%5E&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Foncubanews.com%2Fcuba%2Fen-cuba-brigada-medica-que-termino-su-mision-en-andorra%2F According to the Andorran minister of health, the work of the Cubans helped improve epidemiological indicators in that country, where no new cases of COVID-19 patients are currently being reported. Now doctors and nurses must complete a period of quarantine at La Pradera International Health Center, before heading to their respective provinces. Díaz-Canel assured the medical collaborators that after the obligatory isolation, he will have a meeting with them to have an exchange on their experiences and to count on their support to continue perfecting the national program to confront the pandemic. Cuban medical brigade that fought the pandemic...

Help us keep OnCuba alive here A few hours before Havana enters its first recovery phase and almost all the provinces pass on to the second level of the de-escalation, the health authorities reported that Cuba had five infections with the SARS-CoV-2 virus yesterday, all located in the capital and circumscribed to three municipalities. https://twitter.com/MINSAPCuba/status/1278687304429768704?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1278687304429768704%7Ctwgr%5E&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Foncubanews.com%2Fcuba%2Fen-otro-dia-sin-muertes-cuba-reporta-hoy-cinco-casos-de-covid-19%2F No serious or critical cases are reported, according to Dr. Francisco Durán, who as usual celebrated that there have been no deaths from COVID-19 today and, on the island’s transition to the “new normal,” he insisted on the need for greater individual responsibility due to the importance of asymptomatic patients in this disease. The new cases are Cubans, four of them were related to detected patients and in one the source of contagion is not specified. https://oncubanews.com/cuba/la-habana-entra-este-viernes-en-la-primera-fase-post-covid-19/ Men predominated over women (3-2) and, by age groups, two are under 20 years old and three are between 40 and 60 years. Only one person was asymptomatic at the time of diagnosis. Three patients were discharged yesterday, when 2,309 samples were collected. Thus the country has processed a total of 175,372 tests, of which 2,353 have been positive. Help us keep OnCuba alive here

Help us keep OnCuba alive here Rice production in Cuba in 2020 will fall far short of the country’s consumption needs, according to projections by the Ministry of Agriculture (MINAGRI). Of the 700,000 tons of rice the island needs to cover the regulated basic food basket and social consumption, only the “insufficient amount” of 162,000 tons will be produced, the official Granma newspaper affirmed this Tuesday. Lázaro Díaz, director of the Rice Technological Department, of the MINAGRI Agricultural Business Group, told the publication that rice production has not been as affected by the drought in 2020 as other years, and attributed its poor results mainly to the “strengthening of the U.S. economic blockade.” Díaz affirmed that Washington’s embargo “particularly affects the grain harvest due to the low availability of fuels for ground machinery and agricultural aviation, the absence of urea fertilizer, and other inputs that affect the industry’s efficiency.” The executive did not mention any possible effects from the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2018, the production of rice, one of the main dishes in the diet of Cubans, established a historical record on the island with 304,000 tons, but a year later, despite the fact that the projections “previewed a successful...

Help us keep OnCuba alive here The appearance at the end of 2019 of a new coronavirus and its rapid spread throughout the world until it became a pandemic, has put the scientific community to work with an intensity rarely observed. Although currently the main international research is focused on the search for the vaccine, the mass immunization as the only way to stop such a contagious virus, another question arises from a characteristic of the virus, or rather how each person responds to the contagion: Why do some die from COVID-19 and others don’t get to feel the slightest symptom? The answer may lie in genetics; that’s why Cuba launched a research that takes this factor into account in the response of those who suffered from the disease and those who have already been discharged. According to the director of the National Center for Medical Genetics, Beatriz Marcheco, the project includes clinical-epidemiological, laboratory, basically hematological, immunological, and DNA studies. The research began its clinical stage in early June, in the provinces of Pinar del Río, Cienfuegos and Las Tunas, as well as the municipality of La Lisa, in Havana. The study seeks to find out the blood group and...

Help us keep OnCuba alive here June is over and the Cuban health authorities reported that seven people were detected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus in the last 24 hours, in addition to an increase in hospitalized patients, whose figure amounts to 146, according to today’s report. https://twitter.com/MINSAPCuba/status/1278316447106818055?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1278316447106818055%7Ctwgr%5E&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Foncubanews.com%2Fcuba%2Fultimo-dia-de-junio-deja-en-cuba-siete-contagios-por-covid-19-todos-asintomaticos%2F The seven cases were asymptomatic, all are Cuban, six had contact with already confirmed cases and one individual contracted the disease abroad. This is a 47-year-old man, resident in the Puerto Padre municipality, Las Tunas province, who came from the United States. Three related contacts are kept under surveillance. Women predominated over men in the seven confirmed cases (4-3), and by age groups they are as follows: under 20 years, five; between 40 and 50 years, two. Four persons were discharged yesterday, and 105 were under primary healthcare surveillance in their homes. Yesterday, a total of 2,272 tests were made, with which the country has processed a total of 173,063 since the start of the pandemic in Cuba. Follow this link for the pandemic’s evolution on the island. Help us keep OnCuba alive here

Help us keep OnCuba alive A collapsed home and several damages to homes is the preliminary balance of a tornado that occurred this Sunday in the city of Palma Soriano, in eastern Cuba. The damages occurred in the former Mario Maceo Quesada wine factory and its surroundings, the local media reported. The factory, currently in disuse, lost one of its side walls while at least nine homes were affected, according to the report by the Tele Turquino telecentre in Santiago de Cuba. The damages were mainly to ceilings and walls, and there were no fatal victims, according to the Radio Baraguá station on its Facebook profile. https://www.facebook.com/LaVozDelCauto/posts/3413606388649845 We share these photos from the profile of journalist Yunis Abich Chang. This Sunday afternoon Palma Soriano.... Posted by RadioBaragua on Monday, June 29, 2020 Testimonies cited by Tele Turquino and other media tell of the speed of the evolution and force of the meteorological event, in the form of a waterspout or spiral. After its passage, the neighbors turned out in the streets to check and clean the damage caused, while local and municipal authorities visited the affected people, according to press reports. As a result of the damage, two people were evacuated...

Help us keep OnCuba alive here Cuba woke up without deaths from COVID-19 and the health authorities only registered a contagion in the last 24 hours, establishing that the results continue to be favorable, as Dr. Francisco Durán said in his daily report. https://twitter.com/MINSAPCuba/status/1277952486213660672?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1277952486213660672%7Ctwgr%5E&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Foncubanews.com%2Fcuba%2Fcuba-con-un-solo-contagio-por-covid-19-hoy-no-hubo-muertes%2F The new carrier of the SARS-CoV-2 virus is a 17-year-old from Havana, from the Cotorro municipality. He had contact with confirmed cases and was asymptomatic at the time of diagnosis. As of midnight yesterday, 101 patients were hospitalized for epidemiological clinical surveillance and 85 were under primary healthcare surveillance in their homes. Yesterday, 2,246 tests were made and the total number already amounts to 170,791, of which 2,341 have been positive since the first cases of the new coronavirus were reported. The evolution of the pandemic on the island can be followed here. Help us keep OnCuba alive here

Help us keep OnCuba alive here Japan included Cuba this Monday in a list of 129 countries with a migratory ban due to the COVID-19 pandemic, from which entry to Japanese territory will not be allowed as of July 1. Travelers of non-Japanese nationality coming from or who have been in the countries affected by the measure in the 14 days prior to arrival in Japan, will not be able to enter the archipelago. The new affected countries are Cuba, Guyana, Guatemala, Grenada, Costa Rica, Jamaica, Nicaragua, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Haiti, Georgia, Algeria, Iraq, Esuatini (Swaziland), Cameroon, Senegal, Central African Republic, Mauritania and Lebanon, the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs specified in a statement. The Japanese government had already issued an order advising its nationals to not make any non-essential trip to any of these countries due to the spread of the coronavirus pandemic. Japan has made the same recommendation for the rest of the countries that are part of its migration ban, including the United States, Spain and Italy, as COVID-19 spread. The Asian country thus increases to 129 the number of countries affected by the ban to enter its territory. Tokyo, the Japanese capital, will organize...

Help us keep OnCuba alive here “Another satisfactory day,” said Dr. Francisco Durán during the daily press conference of the Ministry of Public Health (MINSAP), referring to the fact that there were no deaths in the last 24 hours, although the number of infections rose to eight. They are Cubans, from Havana, six of whom are related to confirmed cases, and the source of infection in two of them was not specified. “They are due to two outbreaks that affect San José de las Lajas, Mayabeque, and Cotorro, Havana," the national director of epidemiology also said in reference to the increase in cases reported today. https://twitter.com/MINSAPCuba/status/1277591207657574400?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1277591207657574400%7Ctwgr%5E&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Foncubanews.com%2Fcuba%2Focho-contagios-hoy-en-cuba-por-covid-19-sin-muertes%2F There were equal numbers of men and women and six of them were asymptomatic. As for the age group, two of them are minors; two belong to the range of 20 to 39, and four qualify between 40 and 59 years. Yesterday, the country processed 2,210 tests for a total of 168,545 since the first cases of the SARS-CoV-2 virus were reported on the island; of these, 2,340 have been positive. As of midnight yesterday, the number of hospitalized patients for clinical epidemiological surveillance had dropped to 89, while only 61 people were under...

The Ministry of Public Health reported this Sunday two new cases of coronavirus, bringing the total number of infected to 2,332. Authorities confirmed 14 discharges and no deaths were reported.

The State Department document includes Cuba in a list of nations that do not collaborate in the fight against trafficking in human beings, and considers as “human trafficking” the doctors who collaborate in missions in more than 70 countries.

In the last 24 hours, 7 people were discharged. There were no reports of seriously or critically ill patients

Help us keep OnCuba alive Two members of the Cuban health delegation who arrived in Andorra to reinforce the health teams during the COVID-19 pandemic have been missing since Saturday and it is not ruled out that they have crossed the border into Spain. They are a doctor and a nurse from the island’s brigade, belonging to the Henry Reeve Contingent―specialized in confronting epidemics and disaster situations―, who traveled in March to support the Andorran Healthcare Service and who, according to government sources cited by the Agència de Notícies Andorrana (ANA) news agency, “have not returned to the hotel” where they were staying in Escaldes-Engordany. For now, according to the ANA, there is no record of any complaint being filed about this disappearance, nor is their location known, although it is not ruled out that they may have crossed the border of the Runer River in the direction of Spain. According to the Diari de Andorra, who has advanced the possible flight of both health workers and a probable request for political asylum in Spain, one of the disappeared is the military doctor and anesthetist Dariel Romero, from Havana. https://twitter.com/diariandorra/status/1276104696772661248?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1276104696772661248%7Ctwgr%5E&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Foncubanews.com%2Fcuba%2Fdesaparecen-un-medico-y-una-enfermera-de-la-brigada-cubana-en-andorra%2F The publication affirms that the missing doctor is considered “one...

Help us keep OnCuba alive In the last 24 hours, four people were diagnosed with COVID-19 in Cuba, according to the Ministry of Public Health (MINSAP), which highlights the absence of deaths from this disease in today’s report. The new cases correspond to Havana and Mayabeque, and to the municipalities of Cotorro and San José de las Lajas, respectively. https://twitter.com/MINSAPCuba/status/1276505049494061057?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1276505049494061057%7Ctwgr%5E&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Foncubanews.com%2Fcuba%2Fcuatro-casos-positivos-a-la-covid-19-en-cuba-hoy-de-la-habana-y-mayabeque%2F All had symptoms at the time of their diagnosis, a fact that has been repeated on previous days, according to Dr. Francisco Durán, national director of epidemiology. They are Cuban, two of them were related to confirmed cases and in two the source of infection is not specified. There were he same number of infections in men and women. In addition to these data, it was learned that with the nine patients discharged yesterday, 2,180 patients have already recovered from the SARS-CoV-2 virus on the island, and only one patient was reported in critical condition. Until midnight yesterday, there were 121 hospitalized people, and 91 were under primary healthcare surveillance. Yesterday, 2,103 tests were processed, and with them the country has made a total of 161,674 tests since the start of the pandemic. Of these, 2,325 have been positive. Help...

Help us keep OnCuba alive here Dr. Francisco Durán said today: “We have favorable results that can be consolidated if the measures are complied with.” He was referring to today’s information: zero deaths, two new infections in the last 24 hours and a low number of active cases: only 63 people with the disease remain hospitalized. The new infections correspond to two Cuban women, both from Havana and both in relation to previously confirmed cases, the cause of their infection. https://twitter.com/MINSAPCuba/status/1276139852912885761?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1276139852912885761%7Ctwgr%5E&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Foncubanews.com%2Fcuba%2Fcoronavirus-en-cuba-dos-nuevos-contagios-ninguna-muerte%2F As of midnight yesterday, 155 people remained hospitalized for epidemiological clinical surveillance and another 170 were under primary healthcare surveillance at home. Yesterday, 2,184 tests were made for a total of 159,571, of which 2,321 have been positive. The number of fatalities is 85. The recovered: 2,171 patients. Follow the evolution of the pandemic in Cuba at this link. Help us keep OnCuba alive here

Help us keep OnCuba alive here Cuban scientists are carrying out a study on the incidence of genetic factors in the predisposition of some people to acquire COVID-19 and develop symptoms of the disease, or not. As part of the research developed by the National Group of Genetics, specialists are processing extensive information about people who have acquired the new coronavirus to determine the role of genetics in their different clinical evolutions, Cubadebate reported. The results of the study will be made public once the investigation concludes, Dr. Francisco Durán, director of epidemiology of the Cuban Ministry of Public Health (MINSAP), affirmed during his daily appearance to report on the situation of COVID-19 on the island. Some international research indicates a certain propensity for people with type A blood to acquire COVID-19 more easily and to present complications, Durán said. The study of patients recovered from the disease will begin this week in the capital’s municipality of La Lisa, the newspaper Tribuna de La Habana reported. The director of the Center for Medical Genetics, Beatriz Marcheco, explained that the evaluation will be carried out with the consent of the patients and in close coordination with the municipal health departments. According...

Help us keep OnCuba alive here Cuba had no deaths from the new coronavirus in the last 24 hours, and health authorities have reported only one contagion, the lowest number since the first cases were reported on March 11. This does not mean that the disease has been eradicated, warned Dr. Francisco Durán, national director of epidemiology, at today’s press conference: “There may be groups of asymptomatic people who still transmit it,” he said. https://twitter.com/MINSAPCuba/status/1275776623812509696 The reported case corresponds to a 43-year-old man, a resident of Centro Habana, who is related to already confirmed cases. As of midnight yesterday, 214 patients were hospitalized and another 250 were under primary healthcare surveillance in their homes. The country has processed a total of 157,387 tests, of which 2,319 have been positive. Help us keep OnCuba alive here

Help us keep OnCuba alive here The Paris Club offered Cuba a moratorium to pay its debts contracted with that group’s member countries, according to diplomatic sources with knowledge of the negotiations, the Mexican daily La Jornada reported this weekend. “The offer requires new negotiations in the spring of 2021 on unpaid maturities, as well as the future payment scheme,” said a diplomat who spoke on request of anonymity, quoted by the newspaper. “They will also have to pay the fines for the money they owe,” said the source. https://oncubanews.com/cuba/cuba-enfrenta-pagos-cruciales-de-su-deuda-externa-sin-que-se-sepa-de-donde-salen-los-fondos/ According to La Jornada, earlier this year Cuba had requested a two-year moratorium and exemption from penalties for late payments due to the coronavirus pandemic. In 2015, the Paris Club wrote off 8.5 billion dollars of the 11.1 billion in foreign debt that the island defaulted on in 1986, plus additional charges to that amount. Cuba’s agreement with the group’s member countries included the restructuring of the debt in annual installments until 2033 and whose interests were written off until 2020. Cuba had to disburse around 80 million dollars last year, with which it paid the total debt with some of the group’s countries. The island’s biggest creditors are Spain,...