{"id":211504,"date":"2019-12-31T08:51:09","date_gmt":"2019-12-31T13:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/?p=211504"},"modified":"2019-12-31T08:51:09","modified_gmt":"2019-12-31T13:51:09","slug":"science-and-enterprise-revving-it-up-for-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/cuba\/science-and-enterprise-revving-it-up-for-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Science and enterprise: revving it up for 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"

For me, Havana\u2019s Playa Municipality\u2019s 25th Street begins when it intersects with 31st Street, crosses La Lisa Municipality and continues straight until it dissolves into what is still known as the San Antonio de la Ba\u00f1os thruway. The inhabitants of that city can say that they live at the end of 25th Street.<\/span><\/p>\n

25th Street could also be known as the corridor of science and technology in Cuba. No other street, anywhere else in Cuba, concentrates in its surroundings so many science and technology institutions. Around it, the Alma Mater of all of today\u2019s research centers known as the Scientific Hub of the West, the CNIC, was born many years ago.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, the Molecular Engineering Research Center, pharmaceuticals factories, the Institute of Pharmacy and Food of the University of Havana are located today starting at the Quib\u00fa River to the west and, already entering the thruway, you can see the Pedro Kour\u00ed Institute of Tropical Medicine, the Center for Advanced Science Research and the University of Computer Science (UCI). But very nearby, just about seven kilometers to the east, is the Jos\u00e9 Antonio Echevarr\u00eda Higher Polytechnic Institute.<\/span><\/p>\n

During these days when we are so worried about next year, which we know will be very hard, as much as this one, when all eyes are focused on the 2020 plan, a difficult and tense plan to meet, <\/span>a press report appeared on the last meeting of the Council of Ministers in 2019<\/span><\/a>\u2015the first with a Prime Minister\u2015where several measures were announced that although they will not have a tangible impact in the short term, they will possibly have one in the medium and long term.<\/span><\/p>\n

A decree and two resolutions published in the Official Gazette of Cuba No. 86 of 2019\u2015decrees 363 and Resolutions 286 and 287\u2015were also announced. All this is an invitation to look at the future, because that is what end of years is about: the pretext to take a peek at and imagine the future.<\/span><\/p>\n

In that last Council of Ministers, three decisions that have to do with the future came to light. They are:<\/span><\/p>\n