The Mexican airline Aeromar will increase to five its weekly flights to Cubaand will connect the Cancun-Varadero route with two frequencies as of June 1, as announced on Tuesday by the country’s Secretary of Tourism, Miguel Torruco.
“We are not leaving empty-handed, we have put a grain of sand for the exchange between both peoples,” he told Eph the Mexican official in the context of the International Tourism Fair of Cuba (FitCuba) that began this Tuesday in the Varadero resort.
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Torruco stressed that this air connection is an example of his country’s interest in the Caribbean island market and of “the close friendship between our countries.”
The Mexican-owned company -founded in 1987- currently flies three times a week, Tuesdays, Fridays and Sundays, to the José Martí international airport in the Cuban capital.
About the next visit to Havana of the mexican presidentAndrés Manuel López Obrador, the owner only announced that it will bring “pleasant surprises”.
Cuba and Mexico have maintained uninterrupted diplomatic relations for 117 years, although with ups and downs, especially during the term of right-wing Vicente Fox (2000-2006), the agency recalls. Eph.
The subsequent return of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) to the presidency, led by Enrique Peña Nieto (2012-2018), improved bilateral ties and with the arrival of Andrés Manuel López Obrador to power, these relations have taken on a new impetus that will be reinforced with his visit to Cuba on May 7.
The Lopez Obrador’s visit It is part of a tour that includes stops in El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala and Belize, to address the issue of the migratory wave in the region.
The Mexican head of state would thus return the three visits that his Cuban counterpart, Miguel Díaz-Canel, has made to Mexico: at his inauguration in 2018, the next in 2019, and the last in 2021, to attend the CELAC summit and the celebrations for the Independence of the North American country.
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