Santiago de Cuba, June 23 (Prensa Latina) With the goal of boosting trade in the region, the ExpoCaribe 2025 International Fair, Cuba’s second trade fair, opened today in this city. This time, it will feature 35 countries and more than 300 companies.
Host Governor Manuel Falcón, in welcoming the participants, emphasized that the fair is taking place in a difficult economic situation exacerbated by the US blockade of Cuba.
He also described the urgent need to fight for peace and respect for the self-determination of peoples, the integration of Latin America and the Caribbean, and the strengthening of trade among nations as the most viable path to addressing the great challenges facing societies.
First Deputy Minister of Foreign Trade and Investment, Carlos Luis Jorge, explained that the event will facilitate the identification and consolidation of interests, combined with economic and commercial complementarity among nations in the Caribbean region and beyond.
He also thanked Santiago de Cuba and its authorities for reopening its doors, for the extra effort they have put into ExpoCaribe 2025 despite the complex situation the country is facing, and for organizing the event, which he predicted will be a success.
The Minister of People’s Power for National Trade of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Luis Villegas, called on participants and organizers to make this fair an economic engine that will drive Cuba’s development.
Villegas considered the alliances that ExpoCaribe 2025 will generate to represent an economic rebellion of the global South, a starting point for the development of trade in the region, and praised the strengthening of economic, political, and solidarity ties between Venezuela and Cuba.
The opening ceremony was presided over by Beatriz Johnson, a member of the Party Central Committee and First Secretary in Santiago de Cuba; Governor Manuel Falcón; Carlos Luis Jorge, First Deputy Minister of Foreign Trade and Investment; and Antonio Carricarte, President of the Chamber of Commerce of the Republic of Cuba.
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