Summit of the Americas

It is a special territory of the Republic of Cuba. It is the closest point to the United States, it has 30 km of extension, of which 22 km are beaches. It is bordered to the north by the Strait of Florida, to the south by the Bay of Cárdenas, to the east by the Cayana Sabana Camagüey, and to the west by the Bay of Matanzas, its population is 26,680 inhabitants, it is a traveling population, its principal Economic area is the development of tourism and the largest labor force is dependent on it.

The Varadero beach, a major tourist destination, is located north of the province of Matanzas, on the Hicacos peninsula, in the Varadero tourist region and in the Matanzas-Cárdenas-Varadero subregion. The present landscapes of the peninsula of Hicacos are characterized by a rich diversity. Considered one of the main tourist centers of the country, it captivates by its white and fine sands, and its waters of a delicate blue, warm and transparent all the year, in which the bathers can move away tens of meters of the shore without they arrive at tompletely cover them.

Founded in 1887 as a settlement, today Playa Azul de Cuba, as it is also called, is a large city surrounded by water, located on the north coast of Matanzas, exactly on the Hicacos Peninsula, 2 hours by road from La Havana or just minutes by plane, for which it has a comfortable international airport. By sea is also possible.

The current seaside resort of Varadero continues to grow. According to recent estimates, it is estimated that it can support up to 25,300 rooms (today it is 16,000), and is Cuba's most important tourist destination, as it is home to the largest number of state-of-the-art lodges in the country, and five stars.

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It is one of the 11 municipalities that make up the province Mayabeque. Founded in 1827, it is located to the east of the province Mayabeque. The fundamental economic activity is the cultivation of sugar cane and the production of sugar, with the sugar company Héctor Molina Riaño known by the Colossus of the West.

The municipality is located to the east of the province Mayabeque. It limits to the North with the municipality of Madruga, to the South with the cove of the Broa, to the East with the municipality of Nueva Paz and to the west with the municipality of Güines.

It has a total area of 241.4 km2, which represents the 4% of the total area of the province.

Municipal head and main population settlements

The municipality San Nicolás counts on a municipal head (urban helmet) called San Nicolas de Bari that has 4 Popular Councils and 42 circumscriptions. The rise of the urbanization process is due to the creation of new communities and development zones.

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It is a Cuban factory that produces the Rum Havana Club, which historically gives the international prestige that the Cuban rum has.

When talking about the Ronera of Santa Cruz del Norte, it is thought, as a unique product, in the rum, and fundamentally, in the Havana Club. However, that industry had a stage between the 1970s and 1990s, where it worked as a great Combination of Beverages and Spirits.

The former Santa Cruz Combine of Beverages and Liqueurs produced in that period several types of rums, in addition to the varieties of Havana Club and Ron Santa Cruz. These included the Varadero, the Tropicana, the Isla del Tesoro and the Caribbean Club, destined for export; the Arecha Extra, which was also exported to Spain, Ron Exquisito, made from aguardiente de guarapo, instead of the traditional sugarcane endings and the low alcoholic Antillian Rum, destined for the reserves for the defense of the country, in case of armed aggression.

In the container workshop, bottles for rum and finished rums were bottled, which were sent to different bottlers both in the country and abroad. An example of the latter was in Canada, where it was packed Ron Carta Plata Havana Club, exported in containers.

The plant had a Production and bottling plant of liquors, with more than 30 different flavors, under the brand Havana Club. Mint, Choco Menta, Choco Nut, Cocoa, Bonbon, Diabolic, Triple SEC and Marrasquino were among them.

On the other hand, small whiskey productions of very good quality were made from fermented beer stock with the Old Havana brand for two years, in two varieties, one with red and one black label. There were also three varieties of Vodka: NATURAL, FLAVORED WITH LEMON AND TASTEED WITH ORANGE, which had as their fundamental destination the markets of Eastern Europe, while the Socialist Field existed.

In collaboration with a foreign firm, the Champagne Moet and Shandon was produced for some time, and some small experimental productions of the effervescent wines CALETA DE CHIPIONA and CALETA DE ROTILLA were made, others of lemon-flavored or orange-flavored brandy and even tests were made Of laboratory to make a brandy from the fermentation of the mango.

And, alcoholic beverages aside, there are almost unknown products of La Ronera, such as amyl alcohol, used by Suchel as a fixative in perfumery; Carbon dioxide, used by the soft drink industry, among others; The technical alcohol, which is used in the oil industry and above all else, which is currently not used, and which could become meat and milk. This is the fondation of the fermenters, which although still discarded as residual, is rich in proteins and nutrients, and therefore perfectly usable in cattle feed, according to the experience of other similar industries.

Ron Havana Club

Since 1993 the Ron Havana Club is on the conquest of the widest sectors of the international market, not without being attacked by the transnational BACARDI, of Cuban origin.

Ronera Santa Cruz currently manufactures only the Havana Club line, which includes Blanco Añejo, Light Dry, and Añejo Reserva.

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Known by its initials ANCI, it is the first national organization for the Cuban blind. The revolutionary triumph of 1959 in Cuba brought profound transformations in the economic, political and social order.

The blind population, occupying perhaps the last position on the scale of that society, would also undergo profound changes in its existence. Until that time, it had only been possible to organize themselves in small institutions that, basically in the capital, tried to nuclear small groups that with good or regular intentions tried to subsist and get ahead.

The change that began in 1959 would have to come in order to be able to aspire to an organization that would really bring them together in the whole country.

The National Association for the Blind (ANCI) adopted a structure that would allow it to reach all the blind, no matter where they were.

This explains the fact that, starting from the first hundreds of associates incorporated to the Organization during the first moments, at present more than 23,000 members can be counted on. These characteristics make the ANCI internationally considered as one of the most advanced associations of the blind.

The fundamental objective of this Cuban organization is to achieve the incorporation of the blind to social life, which is sought from the comprehensive rehabilitation of the individual. Hence, in the ANCI plans to all instances appear the incorporation to work and education, as well as the practice of various sports disciplines, access to culture and recreation.

The Cuban organization makes efforts that allow it to relate to and take experiences from other similar institutions in the international order. It is not surprising, therefore, that it is part of the concert of countries that make up the Latin American Blind Union (ULAC) and that it also appears as an active member of the World Blind Union (WBU).

It is worth mentioning that the ANCI maintains cordial relations with associations of the blind of other countries, such as those of Spain, Norway, Sweden and others of the American continent.

ANCI has contributed extraordinarily in the transformation and dissemination of the new image of the blind man in Cuba. In the past it was associated with begging, the so-called artist of the town who sang in the bus or simply sitting in an armchair in front of the radio.

The image of today is quite different: they can be found in the work of a workshop or a factory, in front of a typewriter or a computer, teaching a class or forming part of a musical group. It is also possible to recreate before a checkerboard, chess or dominoes, and likewise, at the end of a race on the athletic track or in full swimming competition.

It should be noted that in the various instances of the organizational structure of the ANCI, executive teams are mostly blind or low vision disabled, which has made possible the emergence of a large number of management boards throughout the country, And it is very significant to witness an assembly of affiliated ancestors, to observe how they can freely discuss, analyze and project the work plans that govern the life of their organization.

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It is a non-governmental social organization with its own legal and economic personality, national and permanent, with headquarters in Cuba.

It was founded on January 3, 1978 and has as fundamental objectives: to represent the Cuban deaf community, achieve greater integration into society, coordinate and channel the concerns, aspirations, interests, difficulties and needs of members to state agencies and social institutions.

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State governing body of the Tourism System, in which other entities of the country participate. In this sense, MINTUR elaborates the policy and controls its application in the entities that directly manage the properties of the sector.

Strategic Objectives

• Design and realize a more efficient commercialization of the tourist product.

• Increase and diversify a more competitive tourism offer.

• Recover and grow the hotel plant.

• Increase the level of economic efficiency of the Tourism System.

• Develop to the most advanced levels of the computer science and communication systems.

• Incorporate more foreign capital into the development of tourism.

• Extend the projection of the time horizon of the development of tourism to the year 2010, as well as adapt the organizational structures to the rhythms of development.

Structure

In order to fulfill the responsibilities assigned to it, the Ministry of Tourism adopted a light, flat and flexible structure.

The agency has two levels of leadership: the first is composed of the Minister and the deputy ministers; While the second is made up of the officials in charge of the different areas of work: Secretariat, Product Quality, Investments, Negotiations, International Relations, Legal, Development, Commercial, Informatics, Promotion and Advertising, Economic Analysis, and Administration, Staff and Charts .

It also has delegates in several territories, as a reflection of the different tourist centers in operation and development: Pinar del Río, Havana, Mayabeque, Matanzas, Cayo Largo del Sur, Cienfuegos, Sancti Spíritus, Ciego de Ávila, Camagüey , Las Tunas, Holguin, Granma, Santiago de Cuba and Guantánamo.

For the training and improvement of the personnel of the sector, in order to guarantee the professionalism, quality and efficiency in the service, the country has the National Vocational Training System of Tourism (FORMATUR), which integrates 19 schools throughout the country.